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Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:00 AM

America then and now

It's now commonplace for our political and media elites to explicitly renounce the principles of justice which the U.S. long led the world in advocating.

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  • Thursday, January 8, 2009 12:32 PM

    Kitt

    I'm pretty sure that it was an Electro sock puppet post.

    Agreed.

    Shouldn't there be a limit to the number of sock puppets one user can have? You would think the techies would have figured this one out by now.

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