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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 06:53 PM

    First belly laugh

    of a very dispiriting day, Glenn, when you responded:

    I should also note that it hurts my feelings when you say these mean things about what I'm writing and, through the pain . . .

    I laughed so hard my clown nose flew off behind the monitor and fell off the desk.

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