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Tuesday, January 6, 2009 12:00 AM

The Israel rules

America's support of the Gaza attack proves once again that our mythical image of Israel has blinded us to its faults -- a myopia with devastating consequences for both countries.

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  • Tuesday, January 6, 2009 06:27 PM

    To leftists, the real enemy is civilization itself

    "Where's a good anthrax producer when you really need one?"

    Notice how, in any ethnic clash, leftists always come down on the side of the demented suicidal primitive, and against the civilized? When I was young, the leftists I went to college with favored Pol Pot over the intellectuals he massacred. Today it's Mugabe over the displaced farmers and jihadist terrorists over the people who have won half the Nobel Prizes ever awarded.

    Why don't they all just surrender to the nearest carjacker and get the hell out of the way of those of us trying to build an actual society?

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