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Timothy Noah
Timothy Noah
American Journalist
Born: 1958
About Care Class Government People You
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In removing the friction involved in paying bills, electronic billing has substantially increased the friction involved in not paying them. Timothy Noah
Increased Involved Removing Friction Substantially Them Paying Billing Electronic Bills
In shuttering Yucca Mountain, Obama makes it extremely likely that nuclear power in the United States will continue its long, slow, and extremely welcome death. Timothy Noah
Death Welcome Will Slow Long Power Extremely States Obama Likely Makes Continue Mountain United United States Nuclear Nuclear Power
On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details. Timothy Noah
Financial Rest Financial Crisis Crisis Destroys Jobs Details Wall Wall Street Just Them Creates Washington Street Here
The promise of Obama's presidency, in many people's minds, is partly that America will move toward becoming a post-racial society. It's pretty clear, though, that we aren't there yet. Timothy Noah
People Will Society Presidency Minds Though Promise Obama Pretty Clear Toward Partly Becoming America Move Many
Capitalism can't deliver decent health care. Timothy Noah
Health Capitalism Care Deliver Health Care Decent
Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country. Timothy Noah
Wonderful Country Live Markets Glad Wonderful Things Which Capitalist Many Why Things
The advantage of a market-based national defense is obvious: Every citizen would receive an individualized amount of military protection, based on the value each of us placed on defending the homeland. Timothy Noah
Protection Value Citizen National Military Every Defense Would Advantage Obvious National Defense Placed Us Homeland Each Based Amount Receive Defending
The Bush administration got a lot of things horribly wrong in its disaster response to the New Orleans flood, and it deserves almost all of the bitter recriminations hurled its way. Timothy Noah
Way Bitter Response Administration Horribly Wrong Almost Almost All New Disaster Got Lot New Orleans Bush Bush Administration Flood Deserves Orleans Things
It never fails to astonish me how cheaply a politician can be bought. Timothy Noah
Me Politician Astonish Never Cheaply Bought Fails How
An orthodox belief in big government's inefficiency cannot coexist with an orthodox belief in private industry's inability to compete with big government. Timothy Noah
Government Big Industry Inefficiency Private Big Government Cannot Inability Belief Coexist Compete Orthodox
Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition. Timothy Noah
Blame Lose Rule Thumb Democrats Opposition Candidate Republicans
The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is that it's impossible to achieve all three at the same time. Timothy Noah
Time Problem Impossible Achieve Three Simpler Fairer Same Pro-Growth Same Time Tax The Problem With Wanting Tax Code Code
The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain. Timothy Noah
Presidency Ought Remain Clinton Blot Sudan Bombing
There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods. Timothy Noah
Best Communism Defeat Way Hooked Citizens Best Way Goods Cuba Get American Growing Consensus
Without the three-fifths rule, there wouldn't have been a Constitution of the United States - not one that governed the American South, at any rate - because the South wouldn't have ratified it. Timothy Noah
Constitution Rule States Constitution Of The United States Rate Because Without Governed Been South American Any United United States
One of the enduring mysteries of America's occupation of Iraq is why a nation that so little relishes peacekeeping nonetheless refuses to turn the job over to the United Nations. Timothy Noah
Job Mysteries Nation United Nations Over Occupation Nonetheless Iraq America Nations Refuses Enduring Little Turn Peacekeeping United Why
If the 1992 and 2000 elections were any guide, third-party candidates are death on the mainstream parties with which they're most naturally aligned. Timothy Noah
Death Guide Aligned Mainstream Most Parties Were Any Candidates Which Elections Naturally
Washington culture has always had a difficult time acknowledging untruth. Timothy Noah
Time Culture Difficult Had Always Acknowledging Washington Difficult Time
Whenever a Kurd wants to measure the depth of some foreign leader's commitment to Kurdish autonomy, he listens for one particular word. That word is 'federal.' Anyone who will say he favors Kurdish federalism can be counted a friend of the Kurds. Timothy Noah
Commitment Word Will Leader Say Favors Some Federal Counted Federalism He Particular Foreign Kurdish Kurds Friend Listens Whenever Anyone Wants Autonomy Depth Measure Who
Various people have explained why Henry Kissinger is a bad choice to run an investigation into what went wrong on Sept. 11. He's a liar. He's an apologist for corrupt regimes. Timothy Noah
People Liar Run Bad Corrupt Kissinger Various Investigation He Wrong Regimes Explained Choice Sept Henry Why
If one does not wish to take the word of journalists, human rights groups, and the United Nations that Iraq conducted a deliberate campaign to eradicate the Kurdish population, there's always the word of the Iraqis themselves. Timothy Noah
Rights Word Wish Human Rights United Nations Deliberate Take Journalists Does Always Eradicate Kurdish Iraq Campaign Iraqis Human Nations Themselves Groups Population United
You can be president of the United States and have the best, most bipartisan-seeming idea in the world. But if it doesn't have a constituency, you might as well be town clerk of Toad Suck, Arkansas. Timothy Noah
Best You World President States Idea Arkansas Town Most Clerk Well Might Toad Suck United United States
Politicians have such large egos that it usually takes them an inordinately long time to grasp when they've become a pathetic joke. Timothy Noah
Time Long Joke Long Time Become Politicians Inordinately Takes Pathetic Egos Them Large Grasp
There is no better example of social and economic policy discussion as an idle pastime for the rich than the World Economic Forum at Davos. These guys make the millionaire schmoozers at the Aspen Ideas Festival look like short-order cooks. Timothy Noah
World Better Millionaire Example Rich Guys Economic Economic Policy Like Ideas Look Make Policy Idle Pastime Festival Than Discussion Social Aspen Forum Cooks
Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality. Timothy Noah
Freedom Equality Presidents About Talk Democratic Republican
President Obama seems to think that you win by demonstrating that you're a more reasonable person than your opponents. It didn't work too badly, I'll grant, as an electoral strategy in the 2012 election. Timothy Noah
Work You Win Election Strategy Think Too President President Obama Obama Seems More Badly Opponents Demonstrating Than Person Electoral Your Grant Reasonable
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