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Republicans, Zealots and Our Security (Liberals Losing It Alert)
New York Slimes ^ | 7/24/2011 | Nicholas Kristof

Posted on 07/24/2011 11:13:14 AM PDT by mojito

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.

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

We tend to think of national security narrowly as the risk of a military or terrorist attack. But national security is about protecting our people and our national strength — and the blunt truth is that the biggest threat to America’s national security this summer doesn’t come from China, Iran or any other foreign power. It comes from budget machinations, and budget maniacs, at home.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: kristof; liberalgoon; newyorktimes; nicholaskristof; republicans; security; zealots
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To: W. W. SMITH

The Jews were put into camps. Then most of them were murdered. So, I think they’ll round us up and put us in fema camps first. Along with those who protested simply because of hunger. Then they’ll make us disappear a little at a time.

Now, if you’re like me, I’ll skip the camps and “volunteer” to go ahead and “die for the cause”.


21 posted on 07/25/2011 7:52:06 AM PDT by Terry Mross (I'll only vote for a SECOND party.)
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The way things are now, I will not die of natural causes. I will die as a free man fighting tyranny!
22 posted on 07/25/2011 9:11:43 AM PDT by W. W. SMITH (Islam is an instrument of enslavement)
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