I must say that the Katrina ...

I must say that the Katrina response does help me better understand the situation in Iraq. The best bet is that the president doesn't actually know what's happening there, is cocooned from reality, has no one in his high-level staff able to tell him what's actually happening, and has created a culture of denial and loyalty that makes fixing mistakes or holding people accountable all but impossible.
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When I was about eight, I asked my mother if it was true that God knows everything about you. When she answered yes, I said, "Then there's no hope for me, Mum.
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In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and imposing speech codes on everyone else, your ability to argue coherently - let alone entertainingly - inevitably wanes.
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What I love about the Internet and what I try to do on the issues is insist upon the ability to have bad taste if one wants.
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I think there were two great gay Americans obviously, and that was Abraham Lincoln and Walt Whitman.
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When Bush says that Abu Ghraib was the work of a few, he forgot to mention that he was one of them.
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