(1)  “[B]orrowing shields the public from the direct costs of war and in turn reduces opposition to it.”

(2)  “Supreme Court justices get more liberal as they get older.”

(3)  Recycling ordinary trash makes little practical sense. (The author analogizes recycling with religion; but that’s unfair to religion, which in fact does have practical functions that go beyond just feeling good about oneself.)

(4)  “Alabama, which eagerly joined in the recent push to require voters to provide state-issued identification to cast a ballot — a.k.a. Voter ID — will close 31 state driver’s license offices, leaving the residents of 28 out of 67 counties without a place to obtain the most common form of ID. The counties most deeply and directly affected are those with populations so overwhelmingly black that in Alabama, they have long been referred to as the ‘black belt.’”

(5)  What does probability mean?