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If I was an alien walking around looking at the empirical evidence all around me, I would gather that Trump's running away with this thing. And that Hillary's not even in this race.

Bill Mitchell who, despite an appearance of self-parody, is not an alien as far as we know. 

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What vision do Hillary Clinton and her party offer the people? They want … an America that doesn't stand out. They want an America that is ordinary. There's kind of a gloom and grayness to things. In the America they want, the driving force is the state. It is a place where government is taken away from the people, where we are ruled by our betters, by a cold and unfeeling bureaucracy that replaces original thinking. It is a place where the government twists the law and Constitution itself to suit its purposes. It's a place where liberty is always under assault—where passion, the very stuff of life, is extinguished. That is the America that Hillary Clinton wants. And if given control of Washington—if given control of Congress—it is the kind of America she will stop at nothing to have.

Speaker Ryan

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Conservatism—or at least what used to be called conservatism until about seven months ago—understands that government should be smaller wherever possible and modest in its goals. That not every problem can be remedied by government. That when governments attempt to impose remedies, they often do so clumsily and ineffectually. And that even well-meaning legislative remedies can cause unintended downstream effects.

Jonathan V. Last

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When you hear politicians talking about "tax incentives" for this or that, they are talking about rewarding companies and people for doing what the government wants them to do. How strange it is, then, that the same politicians turn around and demonize those who accept tax incentives.

Eric Felten on criticism of Trump’s tax statements 

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Trump's answer: Only he can fix it. His vision of the presidency is an American strongman working on behalf of the little guy, who by implication cannot take care of himself. At one point Trump criticized Clinton for not mentioning the phrase "law and order." But where, from Trump, was any talk about liberty, or the Constitution, or limited government? Nowhere, of course— because these are not values that are central to his way of thinking.

Jay Cost

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On ABC's This Week, Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway was more willing than other surrogates to discuss the birther issue. Asked why Trump promoted "a lie" for five years, she replied, "you're going to have to ask him."

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I'm totally unconcerned about her health. To begin with, as everyone knows (or should know) Hillary Clinton is immortal. That's why she drinks the blood of a unicorn every morning at sunrise. I'm sorry, what did you think Huma's real job has been all these years?

Jonathan Last

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"When there's only one option, that's not a marketplace, it's a monopoly." — Senator Barrasso

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Facebook needs reminding of a basic civil rights principle, which is, as the law professor William Van Alstyne once put it, that "individuals are not merely social means; i.e., they are not merely examples of a group, representatives of a cohort, or fungible surrogates of other human beings; each, rather, is a person whom it is improper to count or discount by race."

Terry Eastland on Facebook’s hiring process

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