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“The free lunch is the essence of modern liberalism.”

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Charles Krauthammer, an American renowned columnist, was born on March 13, 1950. He is known for his profound political analysis and unique insights, having won the Pulitzer Prize. more

“The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing from public discourse any and all opposition. The proper word for that attitude is totalitarian. It declares certain controversies over and visits serious consequences from social ostracism to vocational defenestration upon those who refuse to be silenced.”

“The results of the Great Society experiments started coming in and began showing that, for all its good intentions, the War on Poverty was causing irreparable damage to the very communities it was designed to help.”

War Helping Community Results Poverty Intention Experiments Damage Good Intentions Irreparable Great Society War On Poverty

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“An oil crisis looms, prices are spiking - and our president is extolling algae. After Solyndra, Keystone and promises of seaweed in their gas tanks, Americans sense a president so ideologically antipathetic to fossil fuels - which we possess in staggering abundance - that he is utterly unserious about the real world of oil in which the rest of us live.”

World Real President Promise Crisis Oil Abundance Fuel Gas Real World Fossils Tanks Fossil Fuel Staggering Seaweed Keystones Algae

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“It doesn't take a genius to see what happens when the entitlement state outgrows the economy upon which it rests. The time of Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, Spain, the rest of insolvent social-democratic Europe — and now Detroit — is the time for conservatives to raise the banner of Stein's Law and yell "Stop." You can kick the can down the road, but at some point it falls over a cliff.”

States Happens Law Social Economy Genius Europe Raises Democratic Disappear Kicks Spain Greece Cliffs Entitlement Detroit Down The Road Banner Portugal Cyprus

Author:Charles Krauthammer

“I spent the whole time battering people I liked and singing with my arm round people I loathed.”

People Whole Arms Singing Rounds Battering

Author:Billy Connolly

“I decided to stop drinking while it was still my idea.”

Stills Ideas Decided Drinking Stop Drinking

Author:Billy Connolly

“For me, it's about the desire to win. My audience becomes a crowd of wild animals and I have to be the lion-tamer or be eaten.”

Desire Winning Animal Audience Crowds Lions Wild Animal Desire To Win

Author:Billy Connolly

“We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans -- convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution.”

Helping America Evolution Convinced Foreigners Incomplete

Book:It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future

Source: It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future

“You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these awful critical eyes, or you can just say, "The hell with you! I know what I'm doing. If you don't yet, it's because you haven't given me an attentive reading.”

Ifs Knows Two Eye Choices Reading Given Hell Havens Criticism Critical Awful Reform Panic Frantic Glare Two Choices

Author:Saul Bellow

“There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.”

Life Kind Form Emptiness

Author:Saul Bellow

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