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Patrick Jake O'Rourke (/rʊərk/; born November 14, 1947), known as P.J. O'Rourke, is an American political satirist and journalist. O'Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute and is a regular correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard, and frequent panelist on National Public Radio's game show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!. Since 2011, he has been a columnist at The Daily Beast.

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It's the squares who know how to fly the fighter planes and operate the missiles and the bombs and work the M-16s. Liberals would still be fumbling with the federally mandated trigger locks.

Federally, Funny, Humor, Mandated, Squares, Work

A nation with a goofy foreign policy needs a very serious policy of defense.

Defense, Nation, Needs, Serious

I think Michael O'Donoghue felt he'd said what he wanted to say. In fact, nobody thought we could spin it out long enough to make a book.

Book, Fact, Long, Spin, Thinking

The question nowadays is not what makes government work. The question is how do we make it stop.

Government, Government Work, Make, Question, Stop, Work

A woman should dress to attract attention. To attract the most attention, a woman should be either nude, or wearing something as expensive as getting her nude is going to be.

Attention, Dresses, Nude, Should, Woman

Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.

Interesting, Television, Thoughtful, Violence, World

A dugout is much superior to a conventional manufactured canoe because you can get soaking wet without bothering to capsize it.

Boat, Funny, Manufactured, Sailing, Soaking, Wet

Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise.

Deliberation, Move, Moving, Noise, Sloth, Sloths

On Michael Moore TV show, when he went to the home of the guy who invented the car alarm and set off all the car alarms on the block. . . pretty funny.

Block, Guy, Home, Invented, Pretty, Tv Shows

The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to collectivists, to people who believe that wealth is best obtained by redistribution, and that message is clear and concise. . . Egalitarianism is sinful; it's also cowardly.

Believe, Cowardly, Egalitarianism, Obtained, People

Normally, the job sucks but work is kinda fun, because you see your friends and flirt with girls and stuff.

Flirt, Fun, Girl, Jobs, Stuff, Sucks

From National Lampoon, you go directly to Saturday Night Live, because it's a lot of the same people.

Night, People, Saturday, Lampoon, Live

I bought my first house because of Animal House.

Animal, Bought, Firsts, House

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

Brief, Character, Death, Failure, History, Office

Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett.

Dozen, Group, Groups, Like, Looks, Lyle

The motorcycle is a device created by the team of God and Darwin to rid the world of useless young males.

Males, Motorcycle, Rid, Team, World

The principal feature of American liberalism is sanctimoniousness. By loudly denouncing all bad things — war and hunger and date rape — liberals testify to their own terrific goodness. More important, they promote themselves to membership in a self-selecting elite of those who care deeply about such things. . . . It's a kind of natural aristocracy, and the wonderful thing about this aristocracy is that you don't have to be brave, smart, strong or even lucky to join it, you just have to be liberal.

American, Goodness, Loudly, Smart, Strong, War

Veal is a very young beef and, like a very young girlfriend, it's cute but boring and expensive.

Beef, Cute, Food, Girlfriend, Veal

I didn't see any NRA officials killing babies in Waco.

Babies, Baby, Gun, Killing, Officials

There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.

Comedy, Dies, Men, Sooner, Thing, Women

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