People often refer to Dubai as the Hong Kong of the Gulf, but it's really more like Vegas.
Tucker Carlson
Children born with Down Syndrome are not vegetables, nor are their lives demonstrably not worth living.
To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.
Most of the time, you can beat a woman in an argument.
Trump is, in part, a reaction to the intellectual corruption of the Republican Party. That ought to be obvious to his critics, yet somehow it isn't.
Children with Down Syndrome are not monsters, but uncommonly gentle human beings who can and do lead full lives.
It is nice to be around people who think differently than you. They challenge your ideas and keep you from being complacent.
Apart from its dangers, much of Iraq isn't very interesting to look at. The landscape is flat and dun colored. The dirt just beyond the highway is littered with hunks of twisted and mangled metal, some of it the detritus of wars, some of it just unclaimed junk. The countryside looks muddy and broken.
I am really only interested in new information, not freelance opinion. I don't really care what you think off the top of your head.
I feel like I've known Hunter S. Thompson for most of my life. I first encountered him in 1981, when I was 12.
Certain Arabs love Dubai because it's not at all like where they live. Certain others hate it for the same reason. When you hear an Osama bin Laden sympathizer rant about the decadence and hypocrisy of the Arab ruling class, you can be certain he's picturing a nightclub in Dubai.
I'm not much of an economic conservative, and I'm not conservative at all on foreign policy.
I have no way of knowing how people really feel, but the vast majority of those I meet couldn't be nicer. Every once in a while someone barks at me. My New Year's resolution is not to bark back.
One area of liberal phenomenon I support is female bi-sexuality.
You can look different but have the same values. That's not diversity; it's conformity.
It is increasingly important to be open-minded.
Although virtually all Republicans campaign on fiscal restraint, how many actually care about it deeply?
I try to tell the truth.
Intelligence is not a moral category.
The one thing I'm convinced George W. Bush is good at is bipartisanship. It's clearly something he enjoys personally.
Some white people are privileged, some aren't. Some black people are, some aren't. It's strikes me as, by definition, a racist attack in that it's making a generalization - a negative one - based on skin color.
If you want another world war, run up unsustainable debts.
American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn't seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.
The second you feel a political imperative, it destroys your art.
People who listen to NPR are forever thanking the hosts for 'sharing,' or 'initiating a dialogue,' or 'taking the time to explain this very important issue.'
Senator McConnell is by all accounts a decent person. He's pretty conservative, too.
I do think - I'm sure I'm the lone voice in saying this - that Iran deserves to be annihilated. I think they're lunatics. I think they're evil.
I like bow ties, and I certainly spent a lot of time defending them.
In politics, reform never comes before crisis.
It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?
Pat Buchanan has written and said a number of things that are widely understood to be hostile to Jews and to Israel.
I don't care what anybody thinks.
I am not insecure about being a journalist.
If it was up to the U.N., Saddam Hussein would still be killing his own people.
I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.
Journalists typically don't carry weapons, even in war zones, for fear of compromising their status as neutral observers. If you're armed, the theory goes, other armed people will consider you a target.
What bothers me is the lack of self-awareness. I don't know if I have ever met a group less self-aware than political reporters.
I only want to debate people who are more powerful than I am.
Trump could teach Republicans in Washington a lot if only they stopped posturing long enough to watch carefully.
People say you become more cynical as you get older. That hasn't been my experience.
America is secure because we can afford the strongest military in history. Once the U.S. economy is no longer dominant, we are no longer safe, and the world becomes chaotic.
The unhappy truth is, learning is hard.
The rapid growth of prenatal testing has had some undeniably positive effects: A woman who knows she will bear a child with a handicap can plan to deliver in a hospital equipped for risky births. And many couples prefer the opportunity to prepare psychologically for the work of raising a disabled child.
It's normal for people, especially politicians, to expect rewards in return for favors.
The second you think that all your good fortune is a product of your virtue, you become highly judgmental, lacking empathy, totally without self-awareness, arrogant, stupid - I mean, all the stuff that our ruling class is.
The average Liberian, it turns out, does not share the same assumptions as the average black Methodist minister from Chicago.
I'd been in journalism about two weeks when I realized I would do just about anything to avoid writing, and over the years, I have.
The tax code is becoming steadily more progressive, which shouldn't surprise anyone who understands power politics. It's always easier to force sacrifice on an unpopular minority than it is to ask the majority to pony up.
Pat Buchanan likes to fight. But only on TV.
In the Nation of Islam, Akbar Muhammad is a big deal.
