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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Sunday, July 24, 2011

Nick Kristoff Redeems The Times Op-Ed Page

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/opinion/24kristof.html?_r=2


IF China or Iran threatened our national credit rating and tried to drive up our interest rates, or if they sought to damage our education system, we would erupt in outrage.
Damon Winter/The New York Times
Nicholas D. Kristof

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Well, wake up to the national security threat. Only it’s not coming from abroad, but from our own domestic extremists.

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