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Barack Obama is a president whose legislative record, speeches, and the way he has run his campaign reveal, I think, a very even temperament, a very sound judgment, and an intelligent pragmatism. Prudence is a word that is not inappropriate to him.

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Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.

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Conservatism is rooted in doubt about the ultimate questions of life. No one has the answers. So government should not force answers upon people.

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Donald Trump is unfit to the extent that if he were CEO of a major company he would be thrown out immediately.

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Fear is that thing that keeps one up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone.

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Fundamentalism is at odds with secular democracy's very premise, that religion should be restricted to the private sphere.

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Fundamentalism is concerned not with the individual conscience, but with God himself. The individual surrenders himself to God entirely as the premise of every action he commits and every decision he makes.

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Gay culture is a culture of friendship before it is a culture of desire or a culture of subversion or a culture of pain.

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Homophobia is really fear... it's not hatred, it's fear. It's fear of the truth about ourselves.