German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship. |
Getting out the Beautiful Women vote is supposed to be a nonpartisan exercise, but there's a decidedly blue-state cast to the endeavor. |
Great teachers transcend ideology. |
HBO has 28 million subscribers, small stuff compared to TBS, which can be seen in 88 million homes. |
Hitler's appeal to greed and sloth, to increase German prosperity without requiring Germans to work for it, led into the Holocaust because confiscating Jewish property seemed to make sense to the greedy. |
Hollywood and the recording industry argue that current law permits the copying of songs and movies, and sharing them on the Internet. This enables young people to grow up learning how to steal. |
I visit Berlin occasionally to visit family, and the economic problems are quickly evident even to the casual visitor. |
If any of the beautiful people plan to vote for the president, they usually keep their secret to themselves. |
Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time. |
It's a cliche of punditry that Republicans are the Daddy Party and the Democrats are the Mommy Party. The metaphors are out of date. We must look at the Republicans as the Adult Party and the Democrats as naughty children sent to sup at the children's table. |
It's easier to make fun of a first lady than for a first lady to have fun. The scrutiny is ferocious. |
It's long been a cliche in Washington that if you hang a lamb chop in your window, guests will come. |
It's not very hip to consider the plight of single women who yearn for something so old-fashioned as men,. |
It's the liberals, not the conservatives, who reveal sloppy and cliched thinking now. They hang out with like-minded politically correct dogmatists, rarely bumping against anyone who doesn't look and sound just like themselves. |
John Paul Sartre became a hero in literature, philosophy, sociology and political science even though his popularity largely depended on his politics, and he was wrong on the most important issues of his time, championing Marxism in spite of the tyranny it spawned. |