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historic; inarguable
''Historic'' is a big part of the news. Any claim otherwise is ignorant of American history. Sometimes you're sharp and clear; other times you're so muddled it's difficult to imagine your column issues from the same mind.
Posted to Fighting Words by Ber on November 11, 2008
Vintage Hitchens destroys Gov Palin's remains
Mr Hitchens warns us of his ire with the 2 year campaign in his 1st sentence which goes far from being soured gastric juices. A manufacturing chemist who works daily with the most toxic compounds will identiy the composition of Mr Hitchins's 1st sentence for us shortly. I wish to be enlightened. Sarah Palin's remains, political & earthly, ...
Posted to Fighting Words by larry278 on October 28, 2008
Hitchens at the Hoover Institution?!!
Hitchens's rhetorical question/title is an ad hominem attack. (''Why is McCain Still Beating His Wife?'' ) His use of ''dusky'' reminds me of Richard Brookhiser's phrase ''Numinous Negro.'' (I mean that in a bad way.) Why is Hitchens flaccid, facile, and infuriated? The notion that we should all remember a single line from one of Obama's ...
Posted to Fighting Words by btraven on September 24, 2008