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During the Blair-Brown decade social concerns - what kind of society we have become - have gradually replaced economic worries. People fear that we have become an increasingly fragmented, boorish, more violent society. Andrew Neil

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Most children of the underclass are born out of wedlock; relationships are fleeting and unstable (which ensures that what is born into the underclass stays in the underclass). This is a world in which there are almost no worthwhile male role models, which is a disaster when boys turn to youths. Andrew Neil

With each step away from communist constructivism to Hayekian capitalism, China has been richly rewarded. Andrew Neil

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I haven't got a family. I live to work. Andrew Neil

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On the far left, just as there is on the far right there is a dislike of Israel, not just a dislike, a hatred of Israel. Andrew Neil

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I don't say for a moment that the far right is no longer a problem. We have seen the neo-Nazi nutters in Charlottesville in America. Andrew Neil

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Muslims are not our enemy. Andrew Neil

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When I went up to Glasgow University in 1967, student life was dominated by 13-hour debates on Fridays, when one of the student political clubs would form the 'government' for the day and attempt to push through a piece of legislation, which the other clubs either supported or opposed. Andrew Neil

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The English are a tolerant bunch and, outside elements of the London elite, never much minded the rise of the Scottish Raj: after all, we were British, well-educated, reasonably cultivated and spoke with clear, classless accents. Andrew Neil

The tar sands has changed Canada in the same way the fur trade has changed Canada. Andrew Nikiforuk

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Oil has allowed us to think about economics as though energy doesn't matter. Andrew Nikiforuk

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What slavery really demonstrated was that we don't really know how to use energy wisely and that we can be incredibly abusive and barbaric. Andrew Nikiforuk

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Much of the U.S. Midwest is already running on bitumen. Do we want to extend this addiction? And at what cost? Or should we set other goals and say one to two million barrels of oil a day from the tar sands is all we really need to make the transition? Andrew Nikiforuk

The tar sands boom has become the world's largest energy project, the world's largest construction project, and the world's largest capital project. Andrew Nikiforuk

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The destructiveness of the tar sands is not inevitable. But Canadians and Albertans have become too tolerant of the politicians who compromise the nation's energy security as well as the next generation's future. Andrew Nikiforuk

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When governments run on petro dollars or petro revenue instead of taxes, then they kind of sever the link between taxation and representation, and if you're not being taxed, then you're not being represented. Andrew Nikiforuk

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I like to say that a 'Times' editorial presents a strong opinion based on reality. Andrew Rosenthal

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It's getting hard to keep up with all of the news from Washington - witch hunts, conspiracy theories and Republicans tearing each other apart over who is ideologically pure and who is apostate. It's a real set of carnival sideshows. Andrew Rosenthal

The right of free speech cannot be parceled out based on whether we want to hear what the speaker has to say or whether we agree with those views. It means, quite often, tolerating the expression of views that we find distasteful, perhaps even repugnant. Andrew Rosenthal

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I read on my iPad. But honestly, I prefer print. Andrew Rosenthal

Honestly Read Print iPad Prefer

Joe Cocker never sounded forced. Crazy, perhaps, but not forced. Andrew Rosenthal

Crazy Joe Never Perhaps Forced

I can still remember the first time I heard a Beatles song. It was the fall of 1964, my second year in an American school after my family moved back from overseas, and I was standing on the corner of 64th street and First Avenue with my friend Larry Campbell. Andrew Rosenthal

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I long ago lost track of the number of times the Obama administration has assured everyone that its vacuum-cleaner approach to electronic surveillance does not threaten the privacy or the rights of Americans. Andrew Rosenthal

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The big thing in favor of doing an editorial on the front page is that it would be a powerful signal of how concerned we are about guns. Andrew Rosenthal

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