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I said a prayer to the God of hosts to defend the right, protect those who are fighting for justice and for freedom, and strike the tyrants who blaspheme His name. This is language I would not ordinarily use, but this is no ordinary moment. From the struggle in Tehran depends much of our future.

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Those who have the privilege to take up arms for freedom are more than conquerors, because they have already risen above their tyrants. The only thing that can defeat free people is their own surrender; no enemy have ever been given the ability to break a free man's soul.

In 1821, as the first of the revolts against Austrian rule shook Italy, Alessandro Manzoni, the greatest Italian writer of the time, wrote an enthusiastic ode about the liberators. Ill led and divided, the rebels failed, and two generations were to pass before Italy was united and free; Manzoni lived to see it, but many brave men must have died in ( Read more... )

A year or more back, a meme asked me in which period I would rather have been born in.( Read more... )

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One of the more sickening events of the last few days was Candidate Kerry shouting to a mindlessly cheering audience: "I am John Kerry, and I am - reporting - for - DUTY!!" Forget that there are doubts about his supposed heroic record; forget that this Vietnam vet, who is now using his record as an officer to promote himself as a super-patriot to ( Read more... )