Saturday, February 24, 2007
Selwyn Duke: Toward a More Savage Nation
The Shill Media are offering up the usual pabulum about presidential contenders, disgorging reportage about the vapid and venal that’s more soap opera than scoop. With mock surprise they speak of the presidential aspirations of Rudy, Lady Macbeth and Brokeback Obama, as they treat platitudes and political sloganeering as if they were less empty than the minds that regurgitate them. But amidst the din of this much-ado–about-nothing quest for copy, the media have missed – perhaps quite conveniently – the only truly scintillating story of the 2008 election. Radio talk show host Michael Savage is mulling a run for the White House.
I’m sure many would say I was wasting words on wishes, as Savage is the darkest of horses. But there’s a very good reason to welcome his entrance into the race, and I’ll discuss this in a moment. First, though, let’s take a peek into the life of the effervescent commentator.
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Friday, February 23, 2007
The Inconvenient Truth About Al Gore by Suzanne Fields
There's nothing like a celebrity sing-a-long to get the global warming juices boiling. Al Gore, the vice president who became a midway barker, has the greatest show on earth, maybe even the universe. He's offering a day of 'Live Earth' concerts during the summer that will include musical artists and 'thought leaders' such as Cameron Diaz, Snoop Dog and Enrique Iglesias. Hea-veee, as the kids used to say.
The carnival show will reach more than a million spectators with an additional 2 billion watching on television screens. Kevin Wall, who produced world tours for Madonna, is in charge and says he aims for coverage throughout the world, maybe even the solar system. 'Two billion sets of eyeballs,' he tells The Washington Post, 'and we'll hand the mike to Al Gore.'
The ex-veep is poised to take home one or maybe two Academy Awards for his documentary, 'An Inconvenient Truth,' and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. This could put him in the league with Obama and Hillary. He says he's not running for president in '08, but that may be because he wants to be president of the Earth, or at least the Whole Earth Catalog. Who wants to spend a winter in New Hampshire talking about the heat somewhere else?
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Pre-emptive Surrender by Jacob Laksin
Henryk Broder, one of Germany’s few contrarian journalists, recently wrote a book decrying the weakness of the free West in the face of Islamic fanaticism. Tongue firmly in cheek, he called it: Hurra, Wir Kapitulieren, (Hurray! We're Capitulating). Broder was primarily addressing Europe’s political class. But if the machinations of the Democratic Congress last week are any indication, the tendency toward gleeful submission before enemy forces cannot be dismissed as an exclusively Continental phenomenon.
Exhibit A in this tendency was the passage on Friday of the “non-binding” House resolution condemning President Bush’s strategy of boosting troop levels in Baghdad. If Democrats had the courage of their antiwar convictions, they would have taken a page from their predecessors in 1973 and exercised the power of the purse to deny any further funding for the war effort. But this would require principle, however misguided, and Democrats are primarily interested in political posturing.
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Thursday, February 22, 2007
Western Resistance: Radical Islam And The Left - Europe's Black Red Alliance - Part 2
In February 2002 former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher published an article entitled 'Islamism is the new Bolshevism'. In this, she wrote: 'Islamic extremism today, like bolshevism in the past, is an armed doctrine. It is an aggressive ideology promoted by fanatical, well-armed devotees. And, like communism, it requires an all-embracing long-term strategy to defeat it.'
Her analogy is both prescient and historically accurate. Many early Bolsheviks made common cause with Islam. The philosopher Bertrand Russell visited Russia in 1920. A year later, his impressions were published in a book, 'Theory and Practice of Bolshevism'. He wrote: 'Christianity and Buddhism are primarily personal religions, with mystical doctrines and a love of contemplation. Mohammedanism and Bolshevism are practical, social, unspiritual, concerned to win the empire of this world.'
Russell also observed: 'Bolshevism combines the characteristics of the French Revolution with those of the rise of Islam.' He was naively optimistic about Bolshevism in these years before Stalin's purges, noting also that: 'Marx has taught that Communism is fatally predestined to come about; this produces a state of mind not unlike that of the early successors of Mahommet.'
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Immigration By The Numbers
Roy Beck's celebrated demonstration of the population consequences of current U.S. immigration policies has entertained and shocked ... all audiences across the country. This video is packed with the facts and analysis that make moral and practical sense of a complex and highly contentious issue.
The Truth About Jihad - Dhimmification
We have all heard it before from one talking head or another that Jihad is just an internal spiritual struggle in Islam and not a struggle for world dominiation of Islam. Apologist often say this or that Jihad is a struggle between Muslims and not the greater world domination under Islamic rule. Belief in this is akin to an adult believing in Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy. It is a fiction, that unlike the aforementioned fictions, is a dangerous belief that erodes the backbone needed to fight this threat. This line is put out by so-called moderate Muslim groups like CAIR and their cronies as an attack on the resolve of western peoples.
The Qu’ran and other Islamic texts clearly spell this out. The Qu’ran tells Muslims to fight the unbelievers.
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More Americans killed by illegal aliens than Iraq war, study says -- GOPUSA
Illegal aliens are killing more Americans than the Iraq war, says a new report from Family Security Matters that estimates some 2,158 murders are committed every year by illegal aliens in the U.S. The group says that number is more than 15 percent of all the murders reported by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the U.S. and about three times the representation of illegal aliens in the general population.
Mike Cutler, a former senior special agent with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (the former INS), is a fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies and an advisor to Family Security Matters (FSM). He says the high number of Americans being killed by illegal aliens is just part of the collateral damage that comes with tolerating illegal immigration.
'The military actually called for the BORTAC team, ... the elite unit of the Border Patrol, to be detailed to Iraq to help to secure the Iraqi border,' Cutler notes. 'Now, if our military can understand that Iraq's security depends in measure on the ability to protect its border against insurgents and terrorists, then why isn't our country similarly protecting our own borders?' he asks.
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Gates of Vienna: Running Scared in Red House #2
After numerous tries to post the response below to a comment left on one of our recent posts on Jamaat ul-Fuqra by someone named “Jason” I gave up the attempt. Blogger Comments do not seem to be functioning - at least with our present dial-up situation.
Instead, here are his remarks and my response, converted into a post (which you will see if Blogger itself is working).
First of all, we don’t get many Jason-types on Gates of Vienna, though I know other conservative blogs are plagued with them. The vitriol and lack of coherence in these kinds of remarks always amazes me. People like Jason seem to break out in an angry rash when they run across something which lies outside their particular viewpoint or experience. The response is inevitably reactive, insulting and sneering.
Jason’s comment is a cut above some of the remarks I’ve seen. At least his excretory insults are confined to urine; most of them are more fecal in nature. These tirades bring to mind a child I knew, who, when very angry at some perceived personal injustice, would stamp his foot and retort, “pee, poop, piss, damn!” This crowning insult would be delivered in a very loud, angry voice. The adult interlocutor was supposed to be devastated by this “argument,” but sometimes it was hard to keep a straight face.
With that, let me present Jason, in full flower:
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The Salt Lake Shooter and Sudden Jihad Syndrome by David M. Huntwork
If you only read the news as reported by the Main Stream Media, you would never know that we had just recently experienced another Jihad style attack by a Muslim on American soil.
On Monday, Feb. 12th, one time Bosnian refugee Sulejmen Talovic (age 18) walked into the Trolley Valley shopping mall in Salt Lake City and in a six minute rampage killed five people and severely wounded several more. The dead were identified as Jeffrey Walker, 52, Vanessa Quinn, 29, Kirsten Hinkley, 15, Teresa Ellis, 29, and Brad Frantz, 24.
My initial (blogged) reaction was:
“Any guesses as to whether he's a Muslim or not? I may be going out on a limb here, but I sense another follower of Allah and the Religion of Peace.... And might I add that this is a great example of how having a large section of the population allowed to conceal carry is a good idea.”
Sure enough it turns out Sulejmen Talovic was indeed a Muslim and that little nugget of information has fueled a firestorm of speculation among bloggers and unleashed accusations of ‘cover up’ directed towards the Main Stream Media and law enforcement investigators. The media showed an interesting and obvious reluctance to initially disclose, let alone discuss, eighteen year old Talovic’s religious persuasion.
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Misplaced Faith By William Anthony Hay
Although many observers predicted that religion would enter a pattern of terminal decline in the 20th century, events took a different course. Religion not only revived but found expression in unexpected forms. The theologian Paul Tillich noted the way in which people invested worldly things, especially politics, with transcendent meaning. In a 1937 speech, Winston Churchill described communism and Nazism as 'non-God religions' that aimed to reignite old religious wars. In 'Sacred Causes,' Michael Burleigh tracks the fate of religious and secular forces in the 20th century, registering their collisions and their effects on the culture we live in today.
By undermining European stability, Mr. Burleigh notes, World War I created a space for radical alternatives to the bourgeois norms that had gone before. He shows how the Protestant middle classes in Germany, for instance, distanced themselves from their churches, viewing traditional religious observance as the remnant of a discredited past. Science and culture, along with militant nationalism, filled the role that churches had once played, and the pattern replicated itself beyond Germany. A traditional outlook gave way to cultural pessimism, intensifying throughout the 1920s.
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March of the Lemmings by Dana Joel
Remember the headlines last summer, spurred by the release of Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth, warning that massive amounts of Antarctica’s ice sheets are melting, threatening to raise sea levels 20 feet worldwide and wipe out Antarctica’s emperor penguins and polar bears? Remember the alarming reports that Greenland’s glaciers are shrinking so rapidly that a third of Florida and the lower part of Manhattan could be swept away within the next 200 years?
Well guess what? The long awaited Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report summary released this month threw some badly needed cold water on that over-heated hype. According to the IPCC, based on the work of 2,500 scientists around the globe, Antarctica’s ice sheets will “remain too cold for widespread surface melting” and “is expected to gain in mass due to increased snowfall.”
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Pre-emptive Surrender by Jacob Laksin
Henryk Broder, one of Germany’s few contrarian journalists, recently wrote a book decrying the weakness of the free West in the face of Islamic fanaticism. Tongue firmly in cheek, he called it: Hurra, Wir Kapitulieren, (Hurray! We're Capitulating). Broder was primarily addressing Europe’s political class. But if the machinations of the Democratic Congress last week are any indication, the tendency toward gleeful submission before enemy forces cannot be dismissed as an exclusively Continental phenomenon.
Exhibit A in this tendency was the passage on Friday of the “non-binding” House resolution condemning President Bush’s strategy of boosting troop levels in Baghdad. If Democrats had the courage of their antiwar convictions, they would have taken a page from their predecessors in 1973 and exercised the power of the purse to deny any further funding for the war effort. But this would require principle, however misguided, and Democrats are primarily interested in political posturing.
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Gays: The worst is yet to come By Norman Liebman
Tim Hardaway is a former star of the NBA who pay oversized people obscene sums of money for demonstrating a proficiency at stuffing an inflated cowhide bladder through an embroidery hoop. Hardaway has gone from sports icon to liberal pariah. He has fallen under the scourge of political correctness, that suffocating hypocrisy that is stifling the American culture, for his temerity in saying he doesn’t like homosexuals. (Conceivably Hardaway doesn’t like the flavor pistachio either, but in the liberal community the penalty for that is less severe.)
It is rumored Tim withdrew from the team under the threat that management was considering replacing the Coach with a choreographer which Hardaway would find difficult to explain to his fans. Equally, he was apprehensive that in due course the NBA in a placatory gesture to the Gay and Lesbian Community might insist he change his name from Hardaway to Softaway, the motivation for which is not particularly ambiguous.
Hardaway is learning in today’s America you’re not allowed to dislike anyone who falls under the protective aegis of the ACLU’s list of acceptable genders, hues, or its virtual Baskin Robbins list of ethnic flavors. It is expected, under the ACLU’s legal badgering, the Supreme Court inevitably will be obliged to hand down a landmark decision establishing the inalienable right of any boy to grow up to be a woman driver.
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Democrats to Place US Troops in National Guard Border Position
The US National Guard has been insanely prohibited from using its weapons against armed drug dealers and others at the US-Mexico border. They have been warned that they are to only provide support for the US Border Patrol. This dictate came from the US government and, presumably, the Mexican government as well. Now, Democrat leaders are planning to apply this policy to US troops fighting terrorists in Iraq.
In an attempt to usurp and end the Executive branch of government’s Constitutional powers and ability to wage wars, Democrats are planning to issue legislation that would take all US troops out of a combat role and place them into the tenuous and hazardous position of a ‘support role’—only. Note: We presume this attempt to seize power from the President of the United States only applies to Republican presidents.
The ubiquitous Senator Carl Levin (D-MI), who is now Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is leading the Democrats’ charge against our troops—from the Senate side. Levin announced the Democrat plan to place US troops in additional harm’s way on Chris Wallace’s FoxNews Sunday. Remember that it was just a few days ago that now leftist anti-war Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) announced his “plan” to stop congressional support and funding of US troops, when he told the leftist anti-war coalition MoveCongress.org: “They [our troops] won’t be able to continue. They won’t be able to do the deployment. They won’t have the equipment, they don’t have the training and they won’t be able to do the work. There’s no question in my mind…. we’re going to stop this surge!”
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The Illegals Invasion - October Sun Films
A truthful documentary showing the people that deal with the Illegal Immigration Invasion upfront and on a daily basis. Watch what the mainstream media WILL NOT show you.
The new-age faith of the hysterics By Wesley Pruden, Washinton Times
The good news is that we were supposed to all be dead by now, done in by SARS, AIDS or bird flu. The bad news is, now we can be cooked medium-rare by global warming.
Or not. The jury on global warming is still out -- the jurors are snowbound -- and this seriously frustrates the folks who imagined they had the jury well rigged. (Al Gore comes to mind.)
Global warming has become the catechism of a new-age religion, with Mr. Gore as its topmost prelate, entitled to cassock, miter, incense and hot holy water. Anyone who dissents risks a session on the rack, as we have lately seen in calls for punishing "deniers." President Chirac of France, eager to poke a finger in the eye of an American, even proposes a Europewide "carbon tax" on anything imported into Europe from nations that have not signed the Kyoto treaty, i.e., the United States.
So intense has the zealotry become, in fact, that a holy man from a long-established rival faith issued a warning over the weekend from Australia, where he observed that a NASA satellite reckons that the bottom half of the globe is not warming at all. Thickening ice caps at the South Pole suggests it might even be cooling.
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Steve Jobs Takes on the Teacher Unions By Jay Greene, New York Sun
Steve Jobs has guts — enough guts to speak his mind about what he thinks is wrong with public education even at the risk of harming his business interests.
In a speech on Friday, the chief executive officer of Apple and Disney honcho declared: "I believe that what's wrong with our schools in this nation is that they have become unionized in the worst possible way."
The problem with unionization, Mr. Jobs argued, is that it has constrained schools from attracting and retaining the best teachers and from dismissing the less effective ones. This, in turn, deters quality people from seeking to become principals and superintendents. "What kind of person could you get to run a small business if you told them that when they came in they couldn't get rid of people that they thought weren't any good? Not really great ones because if you're really smart you go, ‘I can't win,'" Mr. Jobs said. He concluded by saying, "This unionization and lifetime employment of K-12 teachers is off-the-charts crazy."
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Why George Orwell Matters - Christopher Hitchens
Published in 1949, George Orwell’s 1984 remains vitally important in 2004. Orwell’s harrowing account of a possible future continues to ... all » fascinate and challenge readers, and the questions it raises about civil liberties, human rights, and war are more relevant than ever.
Happiness Is a Moral Obligation By Dennis Prager
For much of my life, I, like most people, regarded the pursuit of happiness as largely a selfish pursuit. One of the great revelations of middle age has been that happiness, far from being only a selfish pursuit, is a moral demand.
When we think of character traits we rightly think of honesty, integrity, moral courage, and acts of altruism. Few people include happiness in any list of character traits or moral achievements.
U.S. actor Will Smith gestures during a news conference for his film 'The Pursuit of Happyness' in Tokyo January 19, 2007. The film opens in Japan on January 27. REUTERS/Kiyoshi Ota (JAPAN) But happiness is both.
Happiness -- or at least acting happy, or at the very least not inflicting one's unhappiness on others -- is no less important in making the world better than any other human trait.
With some exceptions, happy people make the world better and unhappy people make it worse. This is true on the personal (micro) and global (macro) planes.
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The Cloning of the American Mind & "Gays" By Devvy Kidd
Political Correctness: The Cloning of the American Mind is a short but very precise book published back in 1992 by David Thibodaux, Ph.D., English professor, University of South-western Louisiana. Dr. Thibodaux hit it right on the mark. In a relatively few pages (212), he succinctly chronicled the foundations of the disease called 'political correctness,' how it will destroy America's moral foundation, educational excellence in this country and how it can be corrected.
One of the most obvious issues for cloning the American mind is promoting sodomy and other deviant sexual behavior. The American people have been under a barrage of the most sophisticated propaganda and brainwashing techniques ever seen outside Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union. One should remember that promoting homosexuality as 'normal, natural and healthy' is listed in the top goals of the Communist Party. The underlying agenda is the destruction of a real family (a mother and father) and marriage between one man and one woman. Communism can only exist in a Godless society and that's why this big push to destroy Christianity in this country and make the word of God something to deride and manipulate for the latest 'tolerance' issue. Cloning the American mind to reject all social values that have held this republic true since the Pilgrims landed is the number one goal of political correctness.
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The War Within Islam By Christopher Hitchens
See how the Christians love each other!" This used to be the secular response to the fratricide between Catholics and Protestants, let alone the schisms within the Catholic Church and the vicious quarrels between different schools of Calvinism. (When the Baptists of Danbury, Conn., wrote to Thomas Jefferson, asking for his assurance against persecution and generating his famous "wall of separation" response, it was the Congregationalists of Connecticut of whose intolerance they were apprehensive.)
Within Islam, these lines of division are many times more acute. Ahmadi Muslims are considered impossibly heretical by most other followers of the Prophet, and Ismaili Muslims are looked upon askance in many quarters as well, but the rivalry between Sunnis and Shiites (which also conceals numerous poisonous rifts between different interpretations and leaderships in both camps) has become one of the most toxic phenomena in the world today. On Web sites that offer advice to the devout, Sunnis and Shiites ask their imams and ayatollahs whether it is permitted to take the life of a member of the other sect. On American campuses, Muslim student groups now shun one another on a confessional basis. Throughout the Arab and Persian media, moods of excommunication and denunciation are vocally expressed. Almost every day in Iraq, as has been well-reported, a mosque is blown up or a religious procession shredded by other Muslims. As is less well-reported, the same thing happens in Pakistan almost every week. And it is waiting to happen in other countries, too, as the Alawite sect that runs Syria (Alawism being a splinter of Shiism) gets ready for another confrontation with the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood, and as Sunni minorities in Iran become restive at the increasingly sectarian character of the Shiite dictatorship.
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Sunday, February 18, 2007
GOP Dissatisfaction - It is Time to Elect the Base By Daniel Muniz
The Republican rank and file constantly complains that the party in general and the president in particular should have listened more to its base if they wanted to keep control of Congress. Conservative editorials and talk show hosts have echoed this complaint but the party seems destined to repeat the same errors especially when it continues to choose many of the same big spending, flip-flopping politicians for its leadership.
I have personally felt that many of these complaints are hollow because the party needs to start electing people who are actually part of the base in order for real change to happen.
For example, George W. Bush is the standard bearer of the Republican Party not because he is a solid conservative but because he is electable. And the same can be said of too many Republicans who hold elected office but have absolutely no vision of conservatism or of how to reform our bloated bureaucratic government.
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Sudden Jihad Syndrome INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Terror: It looks like the Muslim teen who opened fire on shoppers in a Salt Lake City mall is yet another case of "sudden jihad syndrome," a condition in which normal-appearing American Muslims abruptly turn violent.
Taken together, this and other cases add up to an invisible jihad inside America. But don't tell that to the FBI. The politically correct bureau does everything it can to avoid recognizing the obvious Islamic factor in these heinous crimes.
Sulejman Talovic, an 18-year-old Bosnian Muslim immigrant, was loaded with enough ammo to "inexplicably" kill dozens of victims — and he would have, if an alert off-duty cop hadn't returned fire and stopped him. Talovic still managed to methodically murder five and wound four others with a shotgun.
Witnesses say it was an act of coldblooded violence aimed at random victims — something otherwise known as terrorism. According to the Salt Lake Tribune, Talovic attended Friday prayers at a mosque about a block from the mall.
Yet the FBI saw no religious motive, and quickly ruled out terrorism. Nor could it find anything to indicate terrorism in several other Muslim-tied cases since 9/11, including:
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WorldNetDaily: Diss a 'gay'? Go to jail! By Bob Unruh
Two Christians in Australia have been indicted for criticizing Islam, and another for criticizing Zionism. A filmmaker has been threatened with arrest for using the word "homosexual" rather than "gay." Now a German priest faces jail time for publicly criticizing abortionists, and in Holland, "fornicators" and "adulterers" are protected classes and cannot be criticized.
All courtesy of the concept of federal "hate crimes" legislation, which unless defeated soon could be mandatory in the United States, warns a rising chorus of critics.
"All that matters are the delicate feelings of members of federally protected groups," said Michael Marcavage, director of RepentAmerica.com "Truth is not allowed as evidence in hate crimes trials. … A homosexual can claim emotional damage from hearing Scripture that describes his lifestyle as an abomination. He can press charges against the pastor or broadcaster who merely reads the Bible in public. The 'hater' can be fined thousands of dollars and even imprisoned!"
All this, he noted, to attack incidents that according to the FBI's 2005 Uniform Crime Report make up on one-fifteenth of 1 percent of all crimes.
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Letter to a Stupid Atheist By Mary Grabar
Dear Sam Harris:
I hope you don’t mind that I’ve adapted the title of your bestselling pamphlet bound between two hard covers and foisted on to an ignorant public as a book. Of course, I am referring to your pretentious Letter to a Christian Nation.
A Christian reads the Bible during Christmas mass in a church in Baghdad December 25, 2006. REUTERS/Namir Noor-Eldeen (IRAQ) In this little polemic you take the liberty of directly addressing those like me who believe in the divinity of Christ and in the truth of Bible. Your primary charge against me is holding thoughts and beliefs that do not square with yours. You do show some mercy and leniency toward those you deem moderate and liberal—those vaguely Unitarian, who believe Christ was a cool dude, with some nice ideas, who would have gone to peace marches--but not much more. I take your upbraiding personally, as I think you intend.
My letter is addressed also to those who fall into the category you do. I have seen them—biologists with visibly rising blood pressure at college debates, writers of angry rhetoric in “humanist” magazines, bitter middle-aged men still chasing skirts, and one college sophomore who stands out in my memory among the hundreds of students I have taught over the years.
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