American - Journalist | 1958 -
Expressing truth is hard work.
Timothy Noah
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Capitalism can't deliver decent health care.
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Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.
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The advantage of a market-based national defense is obvious: Every citizen would receive an individualized amount of military protection, based on the value each of us placed on defending the homeland.
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Bottom line: A market approach to national defense would give us a lousy national defense.
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Within the narrow confines of Permanent Washington - the journalists, lobbyists, and congressional lifers who are the city's avatars of centrism and continuity - Ford is considered the beau ideal of American leadership.
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What if an asteroid were to strike planet Earth? What could we possibly do to prevent it? However many guys we have working on this problem, it can't possibly be enough.
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The only agency of the federal government with a more demoralized workforce than Homeland Security is the Small Business Administration, a notorious turkey farm that should have been abolished years ago.
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The Bush administration got a lot of things horribly wrong in its disaster response to the New Orleans flood, and it deserves almost all of the bitter recriminations hurled its way.
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It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought.
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An orthodox belief in big government's inefficiency cannot coexist with an orthodox belief in private industry's inability to compete with big government.
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Cable television and the Internet have created an unending demand for information, and there simply isn't enough truth to go around.
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