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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 02:43 PM

    Tommy

    The reason commenters laugh at Shooter and are snide to him is because he has always been the same way to them. His posts are practically fact-free (and really argument-free); his only purpose is to come in here and laugh at the libtards, not attempt to engage in a serious discussion. For example, if I were to seriously ask Shooter why he compared "killing twenty Jews by rocket" to "[killing] twenty Arabs by interrogation," when the Israeli incursion into Gaza has killed far more than 20 Arabs (and I suspect more than 20 have been killed in our illegal interrogations, if you add them all up), he would not give a serious answer. (Most likely, he would not answer at all.) He is not here to have a discussion. He is here to disrupt.

    He is a troll.

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