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We have a revolutionary history to honor and uphold. Which was what Nelson Mandela did. He reminded us of that which we need to be reminded, over and over again, about our own best selves.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: About Again Best Did He History Honor Mandela Need Nelson Nelson Mandela Our Over Own Reminded Revolutionary Selves Uphold Us Which

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In the year of our Lord 2010, the voters of the United States elected the worst Congress in the history of the Republic. There have been Congresses more dilatory. There have been Congresses more irresponsible, though not many of them.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: Been Congress Elected History Irresponsible Lord Many More Our Our Lord Republic States The History Of Them Though United United States Voters Worst Year

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The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the closet, a mysterious rustling in the teeming underbrush of the conservative Id.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: Always Barney Closet Conservative Faith Find Frank Id Marriage Monster Mysterious Republicans Shadow Wall

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If you offer athletes stipends, then you're into pay-for-play, and that's the ballgame. People should realize that, and they should realize that amateurism never has been a sustainable model for a sports-entertainment industry. It wasn't in tennis. It wasn't in the Olympics. And it's not in big-time college sports.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: Athletes Ballgame Been Big-Time College Industry Model Never Offer Olympics People Realize Should Sports Sustainable Tennis Then You

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One of the great changes wrought by the increased public awareness of Alzheimer's - and thank you, Nancy Reagan, you wonderful tough old dame, you - is that people in the early stages of the disease are now speaking out while they still have the capacity to do so.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: Alzheimer Awareness Capacity Changes Dame Disease Early Great Increased Nancy Now Old Out People Public Reagan Speaking Stages Still Thank Thank You Tough While Wonderful Wrought You

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The murder of John Kennedy in broad daylight in the streets of an American city remains, to me, an unsolved crime.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: American Broad City Crime Daylight John Kennedy Me Remains Streets

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At the time of his death, John Kennedy had a national security establishment that was a writhing ball of snakes.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: Ball Death Establishment Had His John Kennedy National National Security Security Snakes Time

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Paul Ryan hasn't lacked for a job since he left college as the golden child of Wisconsin Republican politics, riding his family connections into a job with then-Senator Bob Kasten.

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Topics: Bob Child College Connections Family Golden He His Job Left Paul Paul Ryan Politics Republican Riding Since Wisconsin Ryan

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As he enters his final term, with the elegiac music playing out there in the distance, Barack Obama will use the history that he has come to embody and, perhaps, even to fulfill, as part of a larger project that never will be completed but only finished, over and over again.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: Again Barack Barack Obama Come Completed Distance Embody Even Final Finished Fulfill He His History Larger Music Never Obama Only Out Over Part Perhaps Playing Project Term Use Will

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I judge the jobs I've had in this business by the places they took me, and by that standard, there simply has been nothing to match 'The National Sports Daily.'

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: Been Business Daily Had Jobs Judge Match Me National Nothing Places Simply Sports Standard Took

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: December 28th, 1953

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