September 2009
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How the world really is
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I read today that 9/11 shocked us from a complacent naivete and awakened us to the way the world really is. The idealists, this editorial asserts, believe in a world of hope and reconciliation while the realists know that the world is a terrifying place full of dreadful people seeking to destroy everything we care about. The realists know that we always need to be vigilant because...
“To the Republicans … we should work together to address any legitimate concerns...”
– President Barack Obama
Think he’ll get any takers?
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I hope so, and if not, I’d really like to know why not?
Who was the congressman who had the, um, audacity...
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Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC). The incident has already made his Wikipedia page, along with the link to the section of H.R. 3200 titled “No Federal Payment For Undocumented Aliens.”
Representative Wilson also brought you such memorable quotes as,
[I find it] just inconceivable and truly incorrigible that in the midst of the war, the Democratic leaders would be conducting guerrilla warfare...
