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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 09:18 AM

    Tim O'Brien

    Please excuse me, but I can't help but post this video.

    He gets into some political lyrics. My personal favorite part is when he says, "Well, I'm afraid of that gay marriage. Ohhhhhhhhh". That's at around 2:30 in the vid.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mpub4qnEBg&feature=related

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