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#1. Christianity is the fastest-growing religion in the world; Islam is the second. It's spreading in Asia, Africa, and South America. So the world is in a kind of religious revival, and the atheists are totally flummoxed. They thought they were winning, and now they see that they aren't.

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#2. What Obama is about, in my opinion, is he is a Global redistributionist. He's pursuing reparations but it's not racial reparations. It's global reparations for the sins and conquest of colonism.

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#3. The allegation of some progressives that America is an evil empire is not simply wrong - it is obscene.

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#4. In the progressive narrative, America is to blame, and the first offenders were the Founders themselves. The progressive conclusion is that the founding was "defective," setting up the progressive agenda to replace and move away from founding principles, what Obama called the "remaking" of America.

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#5. I'm completely Americanized - I have an American accent, an American wife - but a residue of me is foreign.

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#6. If the supply of virtue is insufficient in a free society like America, it is almost nonexistent in Islamic societies because coerced virtues are not virtues at all.

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#7. Whenever a Gujarati or Sikh businessman comes to a Republican event, it begins with an appeal to Jesus Christ. While the Democrats are really good at making the outsider feel at home, the Republicans make little or no effort.

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#8. Liberal Christians are distinguished by how much moral and intellectual ground they can concede to the adversaries of Christianity.

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#9. We remain the custodians of the idea that wealth should be obtained through

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#10. Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.

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#11. Capitalism satisfied the Christian demand for an institution that channels selfish human desire toward the betterment of society. Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

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#12. America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.

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#13. The Trail of Tears has gone down in American history as cruel and infamous. It certainly was, although its actual perpetrator was not "America" but rather the Jackson Democrats.

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#14. If Obama came by his liberalism in the faculty lounge, then sure, he can see it hasn't worked, and he can modify it. But if Obama got his formative ideas when he was very young, and if they are the result of his traumatic relationship with his father, then they are built into his psyche.

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#15. Bill Ayers, Frank Marshall Davis, Edward Said, Roberto Mangabeira Unger, and Jeremiah Wright. This is a group I've previously called Obama's founding fathers.

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#16. Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history.

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#17. Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

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#18. Life after death is the elephant in the living room, the one that we are not supposed to notice.

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#19. In reality, at the end of World War II, America imposed democracy at the point of a bayonet on Japan and Germany, and it has proved a resounding success in both countries. The problem with liberals is that they never give bayonets a chance.

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#20. Freedom is a school of responsibility for human beings.

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#21. Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.

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#22. Do you believe in the existence of Socrates? Alexander the Great? Julius Caesar? If historicity is established by written records in multiple copies that date originally from near contemporaneous sources, there is far more proof for Christ's existence than for any of theirs.

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#23. Moreover, the way the Jackson Democrats treated the Indians was not an aberration. Rather, it was only the beginning of a long subsequent Democratic Party history of dispossession, cruelty, bigotry, and theft.

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#24. Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression.

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#25. What I've realized is that a film operates both on the intellectual and emotional levels, and if you can find a way to tell a riveting story and draw ideas out of that, it's very powerful.

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#26. With capitalism and prosperity came something new: the idea of progress. This is the notion that things are getting better and will continue to get better in the future.

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#27. The American dream is shrinking because some of our leaders want it to shrink. Decline, in other words, has become a policy objective. And if this decline continues at the current pace, America as we know it will cease to exist. In effect, we will have committed national suicide.

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#28. O.K., if the desire to knock America off its pedestal, to redistribute American income to other countries, to shrink America's footprint in the world, makes you anti-American, then Obama is in fact anti-American.

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#29. Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

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#30. All the figures who upheld and defended American slavery - Senators John C. Calhoun and Stephen Douglas, President James Buchanan, Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney, architect of the Dred Scott decision, and the main leaders of the Confederacy - were Democrats.

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#31. The main point of the Klan's orgy of violence was to prevent blacks from voting - voting, that is, for Republicans. Leading Democrats, including at least one president, two Supreme Court justices, and innumerable senators and congressmen, were Klan members.

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#32. '2016' is based on an experiment: what if you let Obama do it himself? That experiment is necessarily limited because I'm not factoring in a Republican House, a Supreme Court or the tug of public opinion.

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#33. A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.

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#34. There are some who invoke separation of church and state - to try to get the government out of the business of morality - but this is antithetical to what the founders wanted. The founders wanted to keep theology out of government so that government could focus on the proper business of morality.

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#35. Tocqueville writes that, for Americans, religion must be regarded as the first of their political institutions.

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#36. Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.

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#37. Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

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#38. Christianity teaches that this life is not the only life, and there is a final judgment in which all earthly accounts are settled.

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#39. I thought of myself as a revolutionary, committed to overturning the whole system of empire.1 BILL AYERS, PUBLIC ENEMY

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#40. For many people, the reluctance to embrace Christianity is as practical as it is intellectual. They want to know what the benefits of Christianity are, or what's in it for them.

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#41. 'War on terror' is a misnomer. It would be like calling America's involvement in World War II a 'war on kamikazism.' Terrorism, like kamikazism, is a tactic.

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#42. But perhaps God's purpose in the world (I am only thinking aloud here) is to draw his creatures to him. And you have to admit that tragedies like this one at Virginia Tech help to do that!

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#43. Young men are obsessed with their dads, and they remain obsessed if the dad is not around. Remember that there was a lot of discussion about how George W. Bush might have invaded Iraq to atone for the failures of his dad.

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#44. Thus the rigid North-South interpretation of the Civil War conceals - and is intended to conceal - the active complicity of Democrats across the country to save, protect, and even extend the peculiar institution.

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#45. We can stay in Afghanistan and stabilize the situation, or we can get out and win, or we can get out and lose.

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#46. Capitalism encourages entrepreneurs to act with consideration for others even when their ultimate motive is to benefit themselves.

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#47. Other countries have been founded by 'accidents of force.' America is a creation of thought.

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#48. Liberty is the essential precondition for achieving virtue ... In order to exercise virtue, we need to have the ability to choose freely.

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#49. Whenever the government is involved, there is an element of coercion.

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#50. I am not a creationist as the term is usually understood. I believe that the earth is billions of years old and the universe even older. I do believe that God is the creator, but that's a completely different thing. I've written in defense of evolution and made arguments that are based on evolution.

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#51. I want to give Michael Moore a run for his money.

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#52. I don't want reporters to talk to me because I'm a revolutionary and if it got out that I'm basically friendly with Obama it would hurt Obama.

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#53. Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.

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#54. During the Reagan years the left fretted about "two hundred billion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see." What were annual deficits under Reagan became monthly deficits under Obama. In less than eight years, Obama has doubled the national debt.

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#55. There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one of the criminals who have been executed over the years has ever killed again.

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#56. I believe the most compelling explanation of Obama's actions is that he is, just like his father, an anti-colonialist.

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#57. This point seems counter-intuitive, given the amount of conspicuous vulgarity, vice, and immorality in America. Indeed some Islamic fundamentalists argue that their regimes are morally superior to the United States because they seek to foster virtue among the citizens.

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#58. C.S. Lewis said that conscience is nothing more than the voice of God within our souls; the bridge that links the creature to the creator

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#59. The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians.

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#60. I really want to move to a country where the poor people are fat.

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#61. The free society does not guarantee virtue any more than it guarantees happiness. But it allows for the pursuit of both, a pursuit rendered all the more meaningful and profound because success is not guaranteed: it has to be won through personal striving.

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#62. In all ages of the world, some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue.1 - Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on Labor, 1847

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#63. Obama remains frozen in his father's time machine. His anti-colonialism is the anti-colonialism of Africa in the 1950s: state confiscation of land, confiscatory taxation, and so on. My anti-colonialism is the anti-colonialism of India in the 21st century.

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#64. All the criminals do their work on the screen, which people can see. Politicians work behind the screen, which the public can't see.1 - Gang leader Chotta Shakeel, in Suketu Mehta, Maximum City

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#65. For me, victory isn't measured by winning in the traditional sense.

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#66. America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated.

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#67. My wife, Dixie, is evangelical Christian. We met in the Reagan White House, when she was a student intern. We're members of the Horizon Christian Fellowship Church.

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#68. What was distinctively Western was not slavery but the moral crusade to end slavery.

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#69. The real divide was between the Democratic Party as the upholder of slavery and the Republican Party as the adversary of slavery.

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#70. While profit remains the final goal, entrepreneurs spend the better part of each day figuring out how better to serve the needs of their actual and potential customers. They are operationally, if not intentionally, altruistic.

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#71. Most of the debates I've participated in have been on Christian college campuses or on secular campuses; so, largely before a student audience.

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#72. I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.

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#73. for Alinsky, democratic politics is basically a mechanism of legal extortion, justified by appeals to justice and equality. A

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#74. Atheism, not religion, is the real force behind the mass murders of history

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#75. I love America, but I chose America.

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#76. Barack Obama II is born in the Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu. His birth is recorded in two local newspapers.

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#77. In philosophy seminars, the choice is usually between good and evil. In the real world, however, the choice is often between a bad guy and a worse guy.

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#78. If you want to understand what is going on in the White House today, you have to begin with Barack Obama.

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#79. I want to create the largest archive of great God debates in existence: a Web site that becomes a great resource for both Christians and atheists.

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#80. Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did.

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#81. America is a new kind of society that produces a new kind of human being. That human being - confident, self-reliant, tolerant, generous, future-oriented - is a vast improvement over the wretched, servile, fatalistic and intolerant human being that traditional societies have always produced.

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#82. The effect of capitalism is to steer human selfishness so that, through the invisible hand of competition, the energies of the capitalist produce the abundance from which the whole society benefits.

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#83. Well, the taxes that everyone else is paying are supporting lots of programs that were in place prior to Obama's new spending. So new spending has too be paid for by new taxes, or by eliminating existing tax breaks. And Obama wants that burden to be borne exclusively by the rich.

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#84. Iraq is part of a legitimate American effort not to have democracy everywhere but to have democracy somewhere.

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#85. Publicly inconsolable about the fact that racism continues, these activists seem privately terrified that it has abated.

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#86. Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.

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#87. I think, with Obama and the progressives, you've seen a massive expansion of big government, and it's all based on a moral premise. The moral premise is that wealth is theft. And I don't just mean the wealth of America, I mean, your wealth, my wealth.

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#88. I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.

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