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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 09:04 AM

    I'm losing my mind

    I call it newsweek.com and then I link to Time.com. Oh well, they've always seemed the same to me> :)

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