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To: Enduring Freedom
"I don't really like to think of it as a murder. It was terminating Tiller in the 203rd trimester . . . I am personally opposed to shooting abortionists, but I don't want to impose my moral values on others."

OMG. That ranks up there with the best of Mencken or Twain. Ann Coulter is an American classic. We are so proud of her. Export her everywhere!

32 posted on 03/20/2010 10:26:27 AM PDT by montag813
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To: montag813
That's gold, Jerry, gold!


40 posted on 03/20/2010 11:03:47 AM PDT by Enduring Freedom (Socialists are not inspired by success and achievement - they are diminished in its presence.)
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To: montag813
OMG. That ranks up there with the best of Mencken or Twain.

Ann Coulter is an American classic. We are so proud of her.

Export her everywhere!

See also, from dictionary.reference.com:
po·lem·ics[puh-lem-iks, poh-]

–noun(used with a singular verb)

1.the art or practice of disputation or controversy

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Word Origin & History

polemic

1638, "controversial argument or discussion," from Gk. polemikos "warlike, belligerent," from polemos "war."

Meaning "one who writes in opposition to another" is attested from 1680.

"The worst offense that can be committed by a polemic is to stigmatize those who hold a contrary opinion as bad and immoral men." [John Stuart Mill, 1806-73]

And, from en.wikipedia.org:
Noted polemicists

One of the most famous polemicists was the Frenchman Voltaire;

along with other classic English-language polemicists, including Jonathan Swift, Thomas Paine, Oscar Wilde and Ambrose Bierce.

Contemporary American polemicists include...

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...Ann Coulter


50 posted on 03/20/2010 5:23:25 PM PDT by RonDog
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