Trying not to be a coward — that’s the essential assignment of freedom.

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If it turns out to be Lincoln vs. Baker, people are going to learn the difference between a pragmatic centrist Democrat and a real conservative Republican.

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Pressure for uncompromising purity from the left on Democrats is getting almost as intense as the pressure for uncompromising purity from the right on Republicans.

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I’m thinking the charter school advocates are altogether too willy-nilly and that charter school foes are altogether too defensive.

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Most likely she’ll vote most unhappily to proceed to consider a bill that she wishes for all the world the Senate wouldn’t proceed to consider.

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She says, "I told Harry -- Majority Leader Reid -- that he could pass the Finance Committee bill, but . . ."

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We’ll not get anything in the way of new health care policy unless the liberal base is allowed to put a few herbs and spices into the stew.

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A year after his historic election, Barack Obama stands revealed as something less than the transformative president he aspired and was intermittently projected to be.

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This is a party I simply must poop. This is our inferiority complex rearing its meek and insecure head again

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It’s about the hilarious joy of littering the neighborhood landscape with orange shards, thrilling kids of all ages, by which I mean to include those even older than I.

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