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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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For all the huffing and blowing we get about rugged individualism, the American spirit and the American experiment always have had at their heart the notion that the government is all of us and that, therefore, the government may keep things in trust for all of us.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: About Always American American Spirit Blowing Experiment Get Government Had Heart Individualism Keep May Notion Rugged Spirit Therefore Things Trust Us

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We owe each other a debt and we owe each other an obligation, and because of these fundamental American imperatives, there are things that we own in common with each other, and that we are obliged to protect for our posterity. The water. The trees. The wild places in the land. We lose sight of these truths sometimes.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: American Because Common Debt Each Fundamental Imperative Land Lose Obligation Obliged Other Our Owe Own Places Posterity Protect Sight Sometimes Things Trees Truths Water Wild

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There is a barbarism in the American soul, and we must protect some of it by law. To root it out is to endanger our lives on the one hand, and our liberty on the other.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: American Barbarism Endanger Hand Law Liberty Lives Must Other Our Our Lives Out Protect Root Some Soul

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According to the people who dearly would love to throw him out of office, Barack Obama was elected to be 'above politics.' He wasn't elected to be president, after all. He was elected as an avatar of American tolerance. His attempts to get himself reelected imply a certain, well, ingratitude.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: Above According After American Attempts Avatar Barack Barack Obama Certain Dearly Elected Get He Him Himself His Imply Ingratitude Love Obama Office Out People Politics President Throw Tolerance Well Who Would

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It is now an article of absolute faith among Republicans that 'the government' is an entity separate from 'the American people,' which they say the same way that the old Jesuits talked about 'the mystical Body of Christ.' It is now an ironclad commandment of conservative orthodoxy that 'the government' is something parasitic and alien.

~Charlie Pierce

Topics: About Absolute Alien American American People Among Article Body Christ Commandment Conservative Entity Faith Government Jesuits Mystical Now Old Orthodoxy Parasitic People Republicans Same Say Separate Something Talked They Say Way Which

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That we are to stand by the President right or wrong is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

~Charlie Sheen

Topics: American American Public Morally Only President Public Right Stand Wrong

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Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't?

~Charlie Sheen

Topics: American Core Did Excess Foundation Look Lot Male Position Pursued Sure Things You Young

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A lot of Americans do not have an appreciation for our history. They do not understand the Constitution, why we have these norms. And at some point, yes, the media has some responsibility, but so does the public.

~Charlie Sykes

Topics: American Appreciation Constitution Does History Lot Media Norms Our Point Public Responsibility Some Understand Why Yes

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White liberals face this cognitive dissonance: if they decide that America is ready for a black president and back Obama, they would also be forced to surrender or at least modify decades of convictions about American bias.

~Charlie Sykes

Topics: About Also America American Back Bias Black Cognitive Convictions Decades Decide Face Forced Least Liberals Modify Obama President Ready Surrender White Would

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