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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 10:37 AM

    I'm very frustrated

    There's a guy in my neighborhood who rides his bike sans muffler down my street. I want to kill him.

    So, now you're telling me I have to (1) get a high-level federal job (2) verify that this jerk is an Arab or Palestinian, before I can go to his house and slaughter him with his family?

    Very unfair. This is not the America I grew up in.

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