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"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." --C.S. Lewis

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:: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 ::

Mark Steyn has a pithy update on Air America:

What's wrong with Air America? Well, the trick for Democrats is to be like WTWK's reception in Vermont -- distorted and fuzzy. Distorted and fuzzy are the twin pillars of effective leftie strategy. Remember that favorite statistic of Bill Clinton, that 12 "kids" a day are killed by guns. When you examine the data, it turns out five-sixths of those 11.569 grade-school moppets are young adults between 15 and 19, many of whom are engaged in convenience-store hold-ups, drug deals and other activities, which, though potentially lucrative, have a tendency to go awry. But fuzziness (the inevitable invocation of "the children") makes the distortion difficult to question. And that's how the left advances its agenda -- muffling ruthless partisanship in fluffy talk.

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