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Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.
An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading... →
Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested... →
Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as... →
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get... →
When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.
A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not... →
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics... →
Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.