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Tribal exceptionalism

Alan from NJ Wrote: Oct 12, 2009 11:58 AM

All the prizes given were meant to encourage paths of peace. This last one does not, because it further strikes at the economic strength of the USA. We,as descendants of the 'Greatest Generation' should remind the Europeans that the chief language, rules, and way of life, for them all and Britain, would be German. Our ability to generate wealth, along with bloodshed, saved them.

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Tribal exceptionalism

Roman Polanski and Barack Obama: One is a rapist and the other awinner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Could any two men be more different? And yet they are similarly blessed — with a certain kind of attention.

The moist eyeballs and loud applause come from their respectivesupporters . . . two groups not all that dissimilar. And the manner ofthat attention says a whole lot about what it means to be human.

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The story was big newslast week. Filmmaker Polanski trekked to Switzerland to accept anaward, but was waylaid at the airport, nabbed for a crime to which...

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