“He tells me that he ‘absolutely loved’ Johnny Cash, ‘Folsom Prison Blues’ being a new favorite.”
“The people most likely to misreport high levels of giving were those who said faith was very important to them and those who attend services more than weekly.”
“In 2012, some have difficulty remembering when all Americans knew that our future rides on the backs of organized labor.”
“Why not cut out the middle man and just borrow the money from the Fed ourselves?”
“You shall not abuse a needy and destitute laborer, whether a fellow Israelite or a stranger in one of the communities of your land.”
“Anybody can be on any side of this desk at any time. … We all struggle. And that is why this agency is here, OK?”
“[Ayn Rand’s] theories are works of fiction. Her works of fiction are theories, and bad ones at that. Should the Republicans actually win in 2012, we might need to study her in the academic world. It would be for the same reason we sometimes need to study creationism.”
“Of course, if someone has lost their home, telling them to ‘go home and call 211’ isn’t exactly a compelling suggestion since most of us don’t have multiple homes.”
“But, quite plainly, Mitt Romney has no intention of saying anything that his audience doesn’t want to hear, and what he thinks his audience wants to hear is that America is great, and the only reason everything isn’t hunky dory is that we are led by a man who doesn’t understand that America is great.”
“How, you may ask, did the Party of Lincoln become home to right wing radicals? The answer is, they were invited.”
“It’s about an evangelical takeover of the GOP, but also in turn a takeover of evangelicalism by political conservatism.”
“On Monday, Michael Bayly, the director of Catholics for Marriage Equality, noticed a spike in requests for the group’s lawn signs, which read, ‘Another Catholic Voting No.'”
“For about one-fourth the cost, such nonviolent, low-level criminals could be rehabilitated in community-based programs aimed at curing their addictions to alcohol and drugs.”
“Remember, the only kind of criticism that doesn’t make you a better writer is dishonest criticism. That, and someone telling you that you have weird shoulders.”
“In the time it takes me to ____________, Mitt Romney makes $____________.”
“Mega-church downsizes, cuts non-essential members”
“Matthew Paul Turner Is Afraid of Snakes”
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