If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.
Michael KinsleyOne answer is that the towns elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this.
Michael KinsleyIf sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.
Michael KinsleySo the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.
Michael KinsleyIs there any other democracy where the voters are as spoiled as they are in the United States? Especially, of course, in certain states, such as Iowa and New Hampshire, where the old joke is literally true about the citizens who say they haven't yet formed an opinion about a candidate because they've only met the fellow a few times.
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