"GOP shoves massive tax hike down middle-class voters' throats."

"Dishonorable mention goes to The Hater Within, aka the irrational voice inside you that say you suck, which usually falls into this quadrant."

"At the beginning he had me confused, but by minute two I knew that I shouldn't have other Gods."

D.C. is "trying our best to become the 51st state, but being the District of Columbia, the nation's capital, should be enough."

"Drinking McDonald's coffee will not keep you from reading the London Review of Books, last I checked."

"In short, the debt apocalypse has been called off."

"Criticism of this character would have, and surely should have, revealed Hitchens’s book for what it is … if it hadn’t been published in The FARMS Review of the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young University."

"It was embarrassing — not for Gaines-Turner, who handled the pressure and condescending questions with grace — but for the members who showed how unwilling they were to use this hearing to actually listen and learn rather than just hear themselves talk."

"Walgreens may decide as soon as August to renounce its 'corporate citizenship,' become Swiss only in name, and slash its tax rate from 31 percent to 20 percent."

"Let's face it: There used to be something tragic about even the most handsome fifty-six-year-old man."

"The story of the U.S.-led destabilization of Central America began in 1954."

“He certainly believes the Bible and is interested in these issues. He’s doing his thing, I’m doing mine.”

"One intermediate step would be to replace our regressive system of relying on tax deductibility with a flat tax credit that would give every American a 28 percent tax credit for savings, regardless of income. But why should we stop there?"

Steve Thorngate

The Century managing editor is also a church musician and songwriter.

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