Michael Kinsley
Michael Kinsley
Michael Kinsleyis an American political journalist and commentator. Primarily active in print media as both a writer and editor, he also became known to television audiences as a co-host on Crossfire. Kinsley has been a notable participant in the mainstream media's development of online content...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth9 March 1951
CountryUnited States of America
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This agreement with America Online will introduce millions of additional people to the fastest way to get smart about the news and events of the week.
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are unlikely to devote a continuous half-hour or more to any one site the way you might read a traditional paper magazine in one sitting.
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The equal protection clause was a handy tool because just about anything the government does or doesn't do can be framed as treating people unequally.
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The most embarrassing thing (in the Times' package) is that (Miller's editors) told her to stop writing about that but she kept writing about it, anyway.
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The Internet beat TV and print to this story, and ultimately forced it on them, for one simple reason: lower standards.
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A gaffe is a politician inadvertently telling an inconvenient truth.
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There is a deadening conformity in the culture of cyberspace in which we don't intend to participate.
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If hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue, piousness is virtue paying tribute to itself.
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Americans don't want leadership. They want alchemy.
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So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.
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It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.
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In those days, the late 1970s, one of the leading politicians was a soon-to-be uncle by marriage of Arnold Schwarzenegger, named Ted Kennedy.
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The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals.
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Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.