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Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.

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Jonah Goldberg
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: March 21
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Jonah Jacob Goldberg
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Not reassuring when weathermen say 'Today will be terrible but don't worry it won't be as terrible as tomorrow or Friday.
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[Libertarianism] is about curbing state power to let people be and do what they want. Liberalism is about using state power to make people do and be what liberals want. And that makes all the difference in the world.
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Progressivism was a sister movement of fascism, and today's liberalism is the daughter of Progressivism.
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Look, I think liberals have reasonable gripes with Fox News. It does lean to the right, primarily in its opinion programming but also in its story selection (which is fine by me) and elsewhere. But it's worth remembering that Fox is less a bastion of ideological conservatism and more a populist, tabloidy network.
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I'd like to know why sociologists can't decide whether movie sex and violence has any effect on children, but there's a universal consensus that even a glimpse of a Camel will force children to become lifelong smokers.
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Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.
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Liberals are Nazis, and Nazis are liberals. And if you don't agree with me, you're a Nazi too.
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Science is wonderful at explaining what science is wonderful at explaining, but beyond that it tends to look for its car keys where the light is good.
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Free trade has been proven, time and again, as a reliable path to economic development. It pushes the public and private sectors alike toward greater accountability and transparency. It lifts people out of poverty, and while it can force unsettling changes on a society, those changes prove to be worthwhile in a very short time.
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In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life.
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I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.
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John Kerry is a sphincter. Okay, that's a bit juvenile.
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If you write for the critics, only the critics will read you.
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If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil.
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The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.
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You can see why the Marxist left would resist the idea that Hitler was a revolutionary. Because if he was, then either Hitler was a force for good, or revolutions can be bad.
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