Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?
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Just a little too suggestive of how she might want to testify.
Is Hollywood so out of touch it thinks Stone's version of 9/11 is what America is clamoring for? After 'Alexander,' at that?
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The conflict is that he works for one of the giant corporations that he covers - CNN - and that corporation has made his career
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It takes more to make a scandal in Hollywood than Jared Paul Stern. Hollywood has looser ethical guidelines. People get gratuitous [movie] producer contracts just to keep relationships going and they don't pretend there are no conflicts of interest. Nobody makes any bones that it's a mad scramble for sex, power and money.
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You give up a lot of control. It requires an enormous amount of trust.
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People have to eat and it's good to have a last-resort dole they can turn to.
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I'm fortunate to make any money as a blogger.
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I've often been accused of spending more time and energy criticizing my fellow Democrats than criticizing Republicans.
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An ignorant person with a bad character is like an unarmed robber, but a learned person with a blog is a robber fully armed.
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If Americans are reluctant to go on the dole that's because they have a healthy work ethic.
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Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.
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One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.
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I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.
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I'm not anti-immigration.
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