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There's No Such Thing as Building a Business
The ridiculous outcry over "You didn't build that" calls to mind the hysteria that greeted Margaret Thatcher's comment, "There is no such thing as society".
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The ridiculous outcry over "You didn't build that" calls to mind the hysteria that greeted Margaret Thatcher's comment, "There is no such thing as society".
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The quarrel among conservatives over the Supreme Court's rulings on health care reminds me of the saying about academics: Their fights are so bitter because so little is at stake.
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It's refreshing to see a conservative like Brooks cast the argument for free enterprise in terms of opportunity.
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Overall a good result, and a refreshingly intelligible rationale from Chief Justice Roberts
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The Affordable Care Act isn't well-liked -- because, inexplicably, the administration has made no effort to sell it.
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Chris Christie is impossible to dislike, and Bruce Springsteen owes him a beer.
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I would have been less disappointed with Obama's Cleveland speech if it hadn't been trailed so elaborately as a big event.
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Democrats have two excuses: the Republicans' enormous money advantage, and the sense among many voters that the election should not have been called in the first place.
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Speaking of snobbery and rednecks and so forth, I enjoyed this piece by Chris Pepus from In These Times: "What's the Matter with Bill Maher?"
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He's backing Democrat Tom Barrett all the way. It could make all the difference.
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Friday's jobs numbers and Bill Clinton's comment about Romney's "sterling" work in private equity don't cause me to revise my opinion that Obama is losing
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The Hill reports that the Obama campaign is struggling to come up with a good campaign theme. How about "The Audacity of Despair"?
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Stanley Fish says it's all right to criticize Rush Limbaugh for calling Sandra Fluke a slut but let it pass when Ed Schultz calls Laura Ingraham a slut.
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The supposedly foundational choices that the Republican party is pitching to voters are a fraud, I argue in a column for Bloomberg.
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Question is, why can't they? Take a few pointers from Rick Santorum, I advise, or if that's too hard, maybe Bruce Springsteen.
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The State of the Union was far too long, but what made me wince was the emphasis on outsourcing as the greatest threat to American prosperity.
James Fallows on Jerry Brown's second chance. Plus: the mystery of the second skeleton, how gay couples are getting marriage right, the end of the retail salesperson, and more.
