Just as each citizen is entitled to vote and to participate on an equal footing in our civic life, each is also expected and required to manage his or her own financial affairs.

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But a year in politics is equal to a century in normal life.

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Mr Major, who preaches the equal opportunities for which his own life is a conspicuous advertisement, has far to go if ever he is to impose that vision on a deeply conservative country.

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It is equal parts inside look at food and inside look at the personal life of the chefs profiled.

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Trying to make life fair through federal taxation is like asking Ernie to eat all the extra licorice until they are equal lengths.

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If you believe, like Obama, that politics is what brings the social compact to life, then the only way to build an equitable society is to make sure everyone has an equal say.

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For politicians and commentators to make the similarly politically correct--and vacuous--suggestion that individuals shouldn't profit from quality information is part and parcel with the wrongheaded notion that individuals should be made equal in all walks of life.

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