[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Solzhenitsyn: "A World Split Apart"

[William McKinley]

I am going to have to post that speech as its own thread. This is a fine tribute, but the speech itself needs to be rolled out periodically.

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[risk]

Stephan [Solzhenitsyn] took the wrong side in some environmental controversy. By “wrong,” of course, I mean anti-hard green, as Peter Huber might say. One of his opponents chided, “Didn’t he learn anything from his father?” Stephan retorted, “Yes — mainly that the truth isn’t always popular.”

The price people pay for limited environmentalism ping.

[McGavin999]

Solzhenitsyn would have been pleasently surprised if he could have seen America after 9-11. The simple truth is, this country is very spiritual, it's just not worn on our sleeves. The courage shown by the firemen and policemen in NYC gave way to the courage of the young men and women who marched forth to sacrific for this country. The number of men and women who fell to their knees before Almighty God would have surprised him.

[Valin]

Oh how I recall how the usual suspects got up on their hind legs and bleated their (severe) disapproval of this speech.
To be fair he recieved flames from the right also for pointing out that "the west" was not necessarily heaven on earth.

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Post of the day?

[Valin]

Consider yourselves flagged.

[headsonpikes]

bttt

[arasina]

“The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party, and of course in the United Nations.”

That's one more reason I'm proud of our "Cowboy" president. He has restored COURAGE in our country.

[Valin]

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