Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative Wallace and the uberliberal McGovern - found themselves in the same Democratic Party in 1972.
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STEVEN WRIGHT My mother is from another time - the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that's what she lov... STEVEN WRIGHT Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time... I think I’ve forgotten this b... STEVEN WRIGHT Back then it was nothing like today. So you'd go to the bowling alley. We bowled and you could b... STEVEN TYLER My wife and I had decided not to let anybody take pictures of our home because it was just the last ... STEVEN TYLER My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. STEVEN WRIGHT I performed adequately at school, but in comparison to my older brother, who set the record for the ... STEVEN CHU My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced ... STEVEN CHU