spectator.co.uk - 11/6/2008
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So the answer to my question turned out to be yes, America really was going to do this. A historic moment indeed. The hyperbole for once is not exaggerated: this is a watershed election which changes the fate of the world. The fear however is that the world now becomes very much less safe ...
blatheringsblog.com - 11/5/2008
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blatheringsblog.com —
‘I call on all Americans, as I have
often in this campaign, to not despair of our...
present difficulties, but to believe, always, in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here. Americans never quit. We never ...
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let freedom ring
ladieslogic.com - 11/5/2008
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ladieslogic.com —
I yield the floor to Logical Lady Twila
Brase (from the inbox today). Dear Friends, Allow me...
to share some good news with you today. As I stepped out of my car to walk into CCHC's office, something caught my attention on the top of a nearby ...
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The Flag Still Stands.
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Liberty evicted, now homeless
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Melanie Phillips
mourns US election results:
What this election tells us is that America voted for change because America is in the process of changing – not just
demographically by becoming less white and more diverse, but as the result of a culture war in which western civilisation
is losing out to a far-left agenda which has become mainstream, teaching American children to despise the founding values of
their country and hijacking discourse by the minority power-grab of victim-culture.
(...) ...
Freedom now stands alone: The suspension of reason and its replacement by thuggery
¡No Pasarán! —
The fear however is that the world now becomes very much less safe for all of us as a result [of] a watershed election which changes the fate of the world writes The Spectator's Melanie Phillips (gracias para Luís Afonso). Those of us who have looked on appalled during this most frightening of presidential elections – at the suspension of reason and its replacement by thuggery -- can only hope that the way this man governs will be very different from the profile provided by his influences, ...
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