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Thursday, September 13, 2007 12:00 AM

Jamie Kirchick's fantasies of the grave Muslim threat

Right-wing warmongers invent domestic threats to justify their agenda of wars and expansions of government power.

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  • Thursday, September 13, 2007 06:45 AM

    this is annoying for a number of reasons

    but one of them is the knee-jerk statement about the "liberal PC police." Um. Kirchick's entire point is based on the comments of a professional nag. One might even say that Donohue is the "Catholic PC police." But his response is OK, while the supposed liberal weenie reponse is not?

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