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…associational ad hominem attacks remain the left’s favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents.

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(I)f France’s righteous bloviating against war makes them your Dashboard Saint of International Integrity, it’s either because you are sand-poundingly ignorant of how the world works or it’s because you think France’s self-interest is more important than America’s. If the former applies to you, read a book. If it’s the latter, maybe you should move there along with Alec Baldwin, Robert Altman, and the rest of the crowd who promised to leave a long time ago. But whatever you do, don’t call France’s position principled, because that just insults us both.

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(I)t is simply wrong to confuse cowardice with appeasement. Cowardice is a failing of character. Appeasement is a failure of policy. Stalin appeased Hitler when he signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Stalin was an evil character, to be sure. But cowardice really isn’t the first word that comes to mind when thinking of Stalin ‘ that word is “sexy.” I’m kidding, I’m kidding.

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(J)ust to clarify: If you go into every situation saying there’s absolutely nothing worth fighting over, you will inevitably end up on a cot sleeping next to a guy named Tiny, bringing him breakfast in his cell every morning, and spending your afternoons ironing his boxers. Or, in the case of the French, you might spend your afternoon rounding up Jews to send to Germany, but you get the point.

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(T)he most important reason American leftists love France is that French elites say bad things about America. French intellectuals call us racist, stupid, imperialistic, simplistic, etc. ‘ and that alone is proof of their intellectualism. So long as you call America “racist,” you could add that an enema is as good as a toothbrush and some professor of “communications theory” would applaud.

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[A] country without a word to describe its love for what is best within it is a country ill-equipped to defend what is best within it.

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[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say.

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[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.

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[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition.

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[Libertarianism] is about curbing state power to let people be and do what they want. Liberalism is about using state power to make people do and be what liberals want. And that makes all the difference in the world.

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Quotes by Jonah Goldberg

Jonah Goldberg

…associational ad hominem attacks remain the left’s favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents.

[A] country without a word to describe its love for what is best within it is a country ill-equipped to defend what is best within it.

[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say.

[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.

[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition.

[Libertarianism] is about curbing state power to let people be and do what they want. Liberalism is about using state power to make people do and be what liberals want. And that makes all the difference in the world.

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