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The horn of dilemma of energy politics is what really drives concern about this energy in this country, at the gut level for most people, is high gas prices. And if you really want to fight global warming and try to reduce our carbon emissions, the cleanest, easiest, most rational way to do it would to make the price of gas even higher through very stiff gas prices.
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Rich Lowry
#Country
#Fighting
#People
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A flag doesn't cause someone to sit in a prayer meeting for an hour, and then stand up and shoot people.
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Rich Lowry
#Prayer
#People
#Flags
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Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive.
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Rich Lowry
#Party
#Political
#Principles
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Yes, this is 21st-century America. Where we have better means to treat mental illness than ever before, but choose to let the insane people decide to get it or not.
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Rich Lowry
#Mean
#America
#People
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There is simply no substitute for forceful American leadership. Sometimes the best way to get allies is to be willing to forge ahead alone.
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Rich Lowry
#Way
#Allies
#Sometimes
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Almost all political campaigns involve falsity and playacting.
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Rich Lowry
#Political
#Campaigns
#Falsity
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Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation.
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Rich Lowry
#Likes
#Naked
#Advantage
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Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.
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Rich Lowry
#Voters
#Bills
#Conservative
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Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.
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Rich Lowry
#Fighting
#Usa
#Machines
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There is no appeasing Putin. Frankly, there is no directly stopping him, either. It is only possible to raise the costs to him of his war, including the military costs. If we won'€™t provide military materiel to Ukraine now, we deserve the contempt with which Putin regards us.
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Rich Lowry
#War
#Military
#Ukraine
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If you think the country is a bastion only of nasty tendencies and racism and oppression, that is anti-American.
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Rich Lowry
#Country
#Thinking
#Racism
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When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn't go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks.
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Rich Lowry
#Mom
#Dad
#Nice
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Parents are the most likely to be victims of the violence of their mentally ill children.
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Rich Lowry
#Children
#Parent
#Violence
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France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.
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Rich Lowry
#America
#France
#Matter
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You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy.
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Rich Lowry
#Penguins
#Example
#March
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In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.
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Rich Lowry
#Energy
#Restless
#Certain
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There's no wobble in Bush. If anything, the opposite. Right after hello, the next words out of his mouth are: I've never been more convinced that the decisions I made are the right decisions.
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Rich Lowry
#Opposites
#Decision
#Mouths
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Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates.
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Rich Lowry
#Presidential
#Three
#Als
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John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly.
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Rich Lowry
#Order
#John Kerry
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No matter the good news anywhere else, these nuke-hungry rogue states will provide grounds for bad-mouthing Bush foreign policy.
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Rich Lowry
#News
#Politics
#Nukes
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Peter Beinart excoriates the doughface liberals who during the Cold War put anti-imperialism before anti-totalitarianism and demanded total moral purity on the part of the United States, thus opposing any action in the real world to resist Soviet expansionism. If the Democrats were, as he advocates, to return to the Trumanesque anti-totalitarian liberalism that held sway in the party from roughly 1947 to 1972, the party and the country would be better off.
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Rich Lowry
#Country
#Real
#War
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Comedians still make fun of Bill's out-of-control appetites, but with Hillary, the mockery is about how she lets nothing be out of control.
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Rich Lowry
#Fun
#Comedian
#Bills
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It is Hillary's lot in life not to be able to fake it well.
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Rich Lowry
#Fake People
#Able
#Wells
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Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.
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Rich Lowry
#Running
#Presidential
#Conservative
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Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.
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Rich Lowry
#Class
#Psychology
#Abnormal
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We believe in the power of 21st-century international norms. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes in the power of lies and brute force, and implicitly asks, in the spirit of Josef Stalin, 'How many divisions do international norms have?'
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Rich Lowry
#Lying
#Believe
#President
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Clinton's fakery was so deft and deeply ingrained that it was impossible to tell where it ended and the real Bill Clinton began. This constituted a kind of political genius.
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Rich Lowry
#Real
#Political
#Genius
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The debate over troop levels will rage for years; it is...beside the point.
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Rich Lowry
#Years
#Levels
#Debate
