Stand Up and Take It Like an American (Sometimes you pay a price for your beliefs) PEGGY NOONAN

opinionjournal ^ | 11/29/2002 | PEGGY NOONAN

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Stand Up and Take It Like an American In a free society, sometimes you pay a price for your beliefs.

1. The continuance of the new patriotism which is marked not by a tinny boastfulness but by an intellectually and emotionally experienced fidelity to and respect for the founding ideas, documents and assumptions which have guided us since we declared our independence from the mother country 226 years ago.

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So that's what I think. If I have offended you or you disagree with me, press the reply button at the end of this piece and feel free to tell me what a jerk I am. I can take it. It's the price an adult pays.


Peggy Noonan

LOL
SHE MUST BE A FREEPER!

[SpencerRoane]

He went to high school in Houston.

[johnny7]

I like her, Coulter, Schlussel, Sowell, Williams and of course, Rush.

Conservatives act with their brains... liberals act by emotions... socialists/marxists act upon orders.

[boris]

"So that's what I think our culture is losing and wants to get back: The old stoic sense that you pay a price to stand where you stand. This, ultimately, is the story not only of all adults who fully take part in the world but of America itself. It is the story of all political and personal heroism (here's to you, Pilgrims); it is the story of all progress (here's to you, fighters of the Civil War) and the story of all hope (a final tip of the hat to you, Martin Luther King Jr.; and another to you, Ronnie). The great question, as Diana Trilling once said, is how high a price you'll pay, how much you'll suffer. That's a question we all answer every day by the way we live our lives."

Very nicely done. IMHO the reason we lost it is that we have been under a Gramscian cultural attack for most of a century. Look at the lawyers, media and educators--they are the ones who systematically turned us into a nation of crybabies.

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P.S. A kid once asked me what I thought the major difference between a grown-up and a child was. I replied: "Being grown up is to accept pain now to prevent more pain later." I am not sure this is a comprehensive definition--but I think it is at least part of it.

--Boris

[nicmarlo]

NO!! (darn). Also, Rush said he's not allowing free hook up links anymore...you have to pay. And I'm not paying, lol. Maybe someone else has the audio....he was playing it for the past week and a half. It's a riot, meek. I hope someone can get it to you!

[nicmarlo]

Hey, meek, has the "Clinton Talkin' Trash" show been "trashed?" I haven't heard anything lately about it going forward (thank goodness).

[Pliney the younger]

When God Blessed Peggy with her special gifts. He Blessed us as well!

Pliny, the younger

[nicmarlo]

Let's pick on adults. Let's pick on Tom Daschle

I liked that one, too. She's got a way with words, that's for sure.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

Peggy Noonan ,Ann Coulter,Laura Ingraham,Katherine Harris,Lynne Cheney ,our First Lady and many other conservative women, are more fearless and forthright than any male in the Democrat Party. They are also ladies in every sense of the word-possessing beauty,charm,grace and intellect. A force to be reckoned with!

[isasis]

ping interesting reading

[olliemb]

Wow!!1 a disputatious world. What a remarkable woman--she says things so succinctly and we all get her point. Big time. Thanks for the read.

[johnny7]

I agree... they are a welcomed voice.

But I wonder, who else reads them but us?

How many suckermoms, blacks and hispanics read WSJ or JWR? Few if any.

How many are on FR? Ditto.

[SuziQ]

If you hold a controversial position you will draw controversy and its cousins: denunciation, dislike, etc. It's the price you pay. And unlike Tom Daschle, I pay it without a taxpayer-funded security team to keep me safe.

Interesting that Peggy brings up her hate mail. She's not whining about it; she's making fun of those who whine about theirs. I love it!

Frankly, I hope Tom Daschle keeps it up. It will just serve to turn against him, millions of Americans who have had the scales fall from their eyes since 9/11. I believe that is why the Repubs. did so well in the most recent elections. I hope those newly elected Repubs. will understand this and govern accordingly.

[MeekOneGOP]

So you have to PAY for Rush's website now? Oh, I didn't know that. Sigh.....

[MeekOneGOP]

Hey, meek, has the "Clinton Talkin' Trash" show been "trashed?"

Yeah, I think it's dead....

[beckett]

Priceless! Really laughed out loud.

[freesia2]

Thanks! :)

[friendly]

Peggy Noonen's razor sharp wit has just administered a surgically precise castration to Tiny Tommy. When is the petite weasel, this total failure, going to ever step down?

I cannot tolerate his little whiney girlie man passive aggressive whining one more second. What a hypocritical, lying wussy boy. He makes decent people want to chunky barf hurl.

(LOL)

[paulklenk]

Dear Peggy,

I checked. He is standing up. It's just a little hard to tell.

Still being,