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| Against Despair | |
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| jon-nyc | Oct 28 2013, 05:17 AM Post #1 |
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Cheers
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Excellent post-mortem on the shutdown from NRO. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/362303/against-despair-ramesh-ponnuru-rich-lowry |
| In my defense, I was left unsupervised. | |
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| Red Rice | Oct 28 2013, 06:09 PM Post #2 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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The new breed of Republicans need to understand that making a series of Last Stands holding the economy hostage is hardly an effective way to advance your agenda. |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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