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Americans don't like powerful figures who punch down, that is, who pick on someone less powerful and less able to speak for themselves than they are.
Mark Shields
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Mark Shields
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 25
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Mark Stephen Shields
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The stated objective and the mission of Vladimir Putin's Russia is to destabilize the North Atlantic Alliance.
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Mitt Romney was the man who stood up to Donald Trump early, hard, never wavered.
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Big money buys access in Washington, and access purchases influence. It is as simple as that. And they have basically given a green light, a further green light, after Citizens United, to the biggest money to have the bigger voice in our politics, and to sound out and drown out the voice of just ordinary citizens.
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The advantage that hospitals have over other institutions is that hospitals are community-based. You can't outsource your work you can't move your emergency department to Pakistan.
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George W. Bush in 2000 went to private financing for the nomination, but he accepted public funding in the general. And, quite frankly, so did - it was broken in 2008, when Barack Obama decided he wasn't going to do that.
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