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Hillary Clinton may have lied about her emails, but Donald Trump lies about everything.

To anyone other than an adamant social conservative, Pence is shockingly unreasonable. But he is also shockingly hypocritical.

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We are a segmented society, living in our individual bubbles.

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There is only so much chaos a nation can stand.

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A presidential candidate needs a slogan.

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If every senator looks into the mirror and sees a future president, then every president looks into that same mirror and sees himself on Mount Rushmore.

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Churchill had a marvelous way with words, and greatness accompanied him like a shadow, but in certain ways, he was a 19th-century man wandering, confounded, in the 20th.

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The concept of cultural appropriation is nothing less than an intellectual fence: Keep out.

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Our country undergoes periodic episodes of extreme intolerance and fear of foreigners, refugees in particular. Not only were people of Japanese descent placed in internment camps during World War II, but so were some Italians and Germans.

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There was a time when an ordinary American could close the door and keep the world at bay. Now the world comes elbowing in every time you go online.

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Much worse than the unavoidable inefficiencies of large government is the failure to fund the government we need.

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Polanski is a great film director - although the much-acclaimed 'Chinatown' has a muddled script - but his true talent is to make fools of his friends.

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Say what you will about Donald Trump, he cares. He cares about things I don't, and he has some awful ideas, and he is an amoral man in so many ways. But, in contrast to Obama, his emotions are no mystery.

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I am not a German bitter-ender. I am, though, a German never-forgetter.

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It has become commonplace to call Trump a reality TV star. That is said as an aspersion, the way Ronald Reagan was called an actor. But Reagan's acting experience, his ability to talk to the camera and not yell to the hall, is what helped make him such a good politician. It is the same with Trump.

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Something about the Clintons sets the GOP to howling at the moon.

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Heroism is a matter of choice.

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Maybe the best example of the unmuscled hero is Humphrey Bogart in 'Casablanca.' Bogart was 15 years older than Ingrid Bergman, and it did not matter at all. He had the experience, the confidence, the internal strength that can only come with age.

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I agree that sometimes Michelle Obama can come across as angry - and anger is discomforting. We venerate that empty word, closure, wanting to seal off the pain of the past and refusing it admittance to the chirpy present. This, of course, is nonsense.

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Trump lies when confronted with the truth, since any crack in his narcissism might spread like an Ebola of the soul, and he would deflate like one of Macy's balloons on the Friday after Thanksgiving.

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Pence is not a man to look a gift horse in the mouth. He's got his eye on 2020.

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It takes a willful disregard of history to appreciate how white Southerners could look at the Confederate battle flag and see states' rights or a way of life or a tradition - and not one human being whipping another, which was a common occurrence.

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Hillary Clinton may have lied about her emails, but Donald Trump lies about everything.

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Trump critics such as myself have been accused of living in a bubble. On the contrary, it is Trump's supporters in the 1 percent who breathed their own fumes.

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Most men, I think, wonder about their courage. How would they act in combat? Under torture?

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Private enterprise cannot rebuild the nation's infrastructure or keep our research institutions vibrant. Government must do what only it can do.

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It has become increasingly difficult for states or the federal government to apply the death penalty. But why even try? Nothing is accomplished, and while the chances of making a mistake are now diminished - DNA can prove guilt as well as innocence - life in prison is a worthy substitute.

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Iran may or may not be the existential threat to Israel that Netanyahu insists it is. But a lessening of U.S. support for Israel certainly would be. With an indifferent America, Israel would become a lonely, frightening place.

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Opposition to social change is but one pillar of contemporary Republicanism.

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Hillary Clinton looms over the Democratic Party like Evita from her balcony.

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Trump's juvenilia stands in stark contrast to Obama's measured words.

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I don't know if history will adjudge Barack Obama a great president, but he has been a necessary one.

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Leaving aside handguns and hunting weapons, what's the justification for possessing an AR-15-style weapon?

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The fact is that the United States does not need Israel. Our special relationship was not forged, as it was with Great Britain, in two world wars, not to mention a common language and, in significant respects, culture. It is based on warmth, emotion, shared values - and, not to be dismissed, a potent domestic lobby.

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What's the justification for a semiautomatic weapon with a magazine of 30 rounds?

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We need a national service that throws us all together, the urban with the rural, the Fox News types with the MSNBC crowd. That way, Americans can get to know Americans and learn - as previous generations did - that we are all Americans.

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Among the things I know is that Trump voters were played for suckers.

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