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| Democrats, Kavanaugh, and ‘The End of Civilization' |
| 2018-09-20 |
| [NR] If they get away with this, the only decent people in politics will be decent progressives. Judge Robert Bork used to tell a prescient and darkly humorous story about watching Clarence Thomas’s Senate confirmation hearings ‐ etched in pre-hashtag history as the "Thomas‐Hill hearings," in homage to Anita Hill’s role as the Left’s heroic accuser. At the time, Thomas was a judge of the same eminent D.C. Circuit federal appeals court on which Bork had served. As he viewed Thomas’s "high-tech lynching" in horror, Bork recalled, a friend of his, the iconic Irving Kristol, approached and asked him what was happening. "The end of civilization," the judge sadly quipped. "Of course it is," Kristol deadpanned. "But it’ll take a long time. Meanwhile, it’s still possible to live well." It was a poignant story coming from Bork. A scholar of great breadth, the late judge was a man from another time: a patriot who’d enlisted in the Marines at 17 during World War II and been called back to duty when the Korean War broke out, even as he embarked on a legendary life in the law. In 1987, four years before the Thomas‐Hill hearings, the slide from civilization he so lamented ‐ the slouch toward Gomorrah ‐ had started when he himself was mugged by Senate Democrats. This libelous character assassination, derailing Bork’s nomination by President Reagan to the Supreme Court, had been led by Ted Kennedy. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #5 and every one supports democrats. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2018-09-20 15:17 |
| #4 Want to save the forests from becoming junk mail pulp? Want to make "news" back into news? Want to get companies back to product and not divisive PR organs for one side or another. Want to get the NFL back to doing football and nothing else and Nike back to shoes? Then... consider revisiting some tax write offs. 1) get rid of the advertising tax write off! 2) get rid of IRS depreciations on players 3) get rid of special tax breaks for sports teams, sites, events and promoters. 4) get rid of special mailing rates for junk mailings and for politicians. Each one of these special rules erase a bit of your taxes that could be erasing the national debt and by not doing so also raise the cost of debt servicing to the US gov. (BTW your debt.) |
| Posted by: 3dc 2018-09-20 15:16 |
| #3 the only decent people in politics will be decent progressives |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-09-20 02:19 |
| #2 The couldn't find a black woman this time. Blasey Ford looks loonier after even a cursory examination. Grassley is "old school." He gets what's going on. Borking has not worked since Bork, and don't say a word about Moore who had obvious problems. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-09-20 01:46 |
| #1 RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA |
| Posted by: newc 2018-09-20 01:01 |