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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 02:10 PM

    tommy

    I will defend anyone who gets trashed by Glenn - which has happened at least twice in the past week or two - this seems unprofessional, uncalled for. Why be so discourteous to someone who is curious enough to join in a conversation and possibly provide another point of view?

    -- tommy1733

    If you insist on defending pathological liars such as Shooter you're wasting your time. Or you would be if you weren't just entertaining yourself by pretending that a pathological liar adds anything to the conversation. One should, as they say, choose their battles. You won't be taken seriously if you're going rest your reputation on being all high and mighty about 'defending anyone who gets "trashed" by Glenn', no matter how idiotic or dishonest that person was or is.

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