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Members of the middle class do not have to worry about falling off $250,000 sailboats because they don't have $250,000 sailboats to fall off of.

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If Obama succeeds in turning health insurance and funding for college into universal entitlements, he will have expanded Washington's obligations on the scale of an LBJ or an FDR.

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Americans are defined by a history of immigration in pursuit of freedom and opportunity. We are more individualistic, enterprising, and protective of liberties that most Europeans do not expect, such as owning guns, working 70-hour weeks, or appreciating nature as it goes by at 60 mph on a snowmobile.

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Founded in rebellion against colonial tyranny, our country is naturally suspicious of government intrusion, interference, and snooping. European systems, by comparison, grow out of a tradition of the state providing social benefits for workers that stretches back to Bismarck and Germany in the 1880s.

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Within half an hour of posting a piece on 'Slate,' I get a direct, often hostile and personal, response from readers.

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I think part of the reason anyone goes into journalism is to get a response to what they write.

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Online, you can't be scooped. If you are scooped, it's no one's fault but your own.

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The most important newspapers in this country need to exist. Our democracy needs them. Life as we know it would be unthinkable without them.

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Writing that's native to the web is different in ways that are crucial but subtle enough that you can miss them if you conceive of your audience as reading a printed product.

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In practice, conservatives are no less inclined than liberals to adopt superior stances or to tell people how to live their lives.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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