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Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single Democratic primary. I’ll predict that right now.
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Of course there are different forms of conservatism. I would say just analytically that the Republican Party is more thoroughly conservative and the Democratic Party is more thoroughly liberal today than has been the case for most of modern history.
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The trouble with politics and political coverage today is that there's too much liberal bias.... There's too much tilt toward the left-wing agenda. Too much apology for liberal policy failures. Too much pandering to liberal candidates and causes.
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He has a competent person, I think who will be confirmed as HHS secretary, Congressman Tom Price.
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Iraq's always been very secular.
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I think there was a moment in the middle part of the century into the 60s, 70s when at least elite journalism claimed to be non-partisan. You can go back and look at it and wonder about how non-partisan it was.
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For all the talk about the bitterness and the partisanship in American politics, is it really that bitter and partisan? Think of American history. Think of Joseph McCarthy. Think of the New Left. Think of [George] McGovern. Think of [Ronald] Reagan. Think of George Wallace. We've had an awful lot of real extremism on both wings.
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The average GOP presidential vote in these last five elections was 44.5 percent. In the last three, it was 48.1 percent. Give Romney an extra point for voter disillusionment with Obama, and a half-point for being better financed than his predecessors. It still strikes me as a path to narrow defeat.
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Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
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I don't really believe that people read just the stuff they agree with.
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That's always been the case in America there's been a big spectrum in how much people are interested in American politics.
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It's been an unusual election [2016].
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The ObamaCare premiums, the numbers started moving away from Hillary Clinton he moment there was a problem with.
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If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit.
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Whenever I hear anything described as a heartless assault on our children, I tend to think it’s a good idea.
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In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.
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People used to complain in the 50s and 60s and even in the 70s when I was in school, studying political science, that if only we could have two political parties that presented a choice, but there were all these liberal Republicans and there were all these southern Democrats who are conservative so people just don't have a clear choice.
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Having defeated and then occupied Iraq, democratizing the country should not be too tall an order for the world's sole superpower.
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American power should be used not just in the defense of American interests but for the promotion of American principles.
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Republicans can also point to an alternate path. They can draw upon genuine experts to explain what should be done.
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