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John Podhoretz

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    All conservatives are bilingual we have to be. We speak both liberal and conservative. But liberals are monolingual - they don't have to be anything else. They speak liberal, and are completely ignorant of the conservative tongue.

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    All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth.

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    America may be in a dour condition, but it is not going to elect a dour president.

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    America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.

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    As a matter of policy, increasing taxes on the most economically productive group, which already generates 60 percent of the nation's federal revenues, during a sustained period of economic doldrums is a wretched idea.

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    As a member of the Mormon church, Romney is instructed to tithe 10 percent of his income. That's in keeping with most charitable giving: Religious institutions get about one-third of all contributions, according to 'The American' magazine.

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    Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.

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    By keeping most tax rates at present levels, Obama and the Democrats will claim that they have championed tax cuts for the middle class.

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    Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre.

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    Comedians and impressionists used to be two different showbiz animals entirely, but now there's no such thing as a comedian who doesn't do impressions.

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    Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.

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    Electoral contests have nothing but polls, which is why people have grown so obsessed with them; we're desperate for an objective rendering of what is happening and what may happen.

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    Every great political campaign rewrites the rules; devising a new way to win is what gives campaigns a comparative advantage against their foes.

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    For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion.

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    Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

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    Hurtling the Pentagon into an unprecedented budgetary meltdown is horrifically irresponsible. Obama doesn't care. This is war - not against the Taliban, but war against the GOP. He has Republicans on the ropes, and that's a victory he savors and desires - unlike Afghanistan, where he seems only to want to turn tail.

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    I don't feel alienated from American culture, but I understand people who do.

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    If you want to know why Republicans and conservatives are in a political crisis, you need only consider the fact that the Right's deeply held view now boils down to this: Taxes should not go up on the wealthy, and your health benefits should be cut.

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    I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.

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    Imagine his delight after it 'leaked' that he will propose raising taxes on the wealthy by $320 billion over the next 10 years, including increases to the capital gains and inheritance taxes.

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    In 2013, there were 6,261 black homicide victims in the US — almost all killed by black civilians.

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    Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president.

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    In the Democratic primary in 2008, the Obama team devised a strategy to use the caucuses and a complicated system of awarding delegates in the state primaries to sneak up on Hillary Clinton and establish a lead Obama never surrendered.

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    Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?

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    It has never made any sense to argue that, unique among the people of the world, Arabs are more concerned on a day-to-day basis about the treatment of people they don't know than they are about how they're going to put food on their own tables, or whether their sons will ever find a job.

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    I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.

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    I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop.

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    I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

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    Many people crave security and stability rather than risk-taking, and that doesn't make them any less American. They are the workers rather than the job creators, and all societies need both.

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    Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for ludicrous artistic posturing - and now to something very close to parody.

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    Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.

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    Newt Gingrich never received more than 100,000 votes in his life. He'll never be president.

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    Nixon in 1968, unlike Obama 2008, was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet, in 1972, he won what, in some measures, was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.

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    Nixon was an awful president in many ways, including in some of his foreign-policy choices. But he left no doubt that foreign policy and America's leadership in the world outside its borders was of paramount importance to him.

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    Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.

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    Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him.

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    Obama is talking to voters as though he is their boss, or their principal, or their father. He is not any of those things. He is their employee. And employers don't like it when their employees yell at them - even if their employees have it right.

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    Obama lost his ability to push his agenda through Congress when he received what he himself called a 'shellacking' in the November 2010 elections. That shellacking was primarily the result of massive policy overreach when he had a Democratic Congress in his pocket.

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    Obama's coalition would have consigned him to the political margins as little as 12 years ago, but the nation's demographic changes are moving far more quickly than most Republicans anticipated.

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    Obama's explanation for the slowdown in economic growth is that the public sector is hurting, and that's where Washington must step in and act.

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    Obama's presidency hasn't been dedicated to achieving economic growth in the short term, or about creating jobs.

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    Obama's victory in November 2008 was a historic political accomplishment.

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    Our compulsive hunger always to know first, speak first and decide first has only been amplified by the fact that we can now all participate instantly in a virtual version of a national cocktail-party conversation on Twitter, Facebook and blogs.

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    Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

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    Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

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    Romney has adopted almost every position conservatives want their candidate to espouse: He's pro-life, he wants to repeal ObamaCare, he wants to cut taxes and cut the federal budget, and he wants an unapologetic foreign policy dedicated to the proposition that this too will be the American century.

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    Romney is a good, intelligent, extraordinarily generous man who put on a great fight. But he didn't understand the country or the people he sought to lead, and that is why he lost.

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    Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else.

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    She needs to seem tough, and whatever Hillary's weaknesses, tough is a pretty good word to describe her.

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    Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.