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[...] if memory serves, he was defending Stalin even as Stalin was readying a massive genocide (maybe all genocides are massive) against Russia's Jews after World War II. Not long ago, some poor soul wrote a play called Angels in America in which Mrs. Ethel Rosenberg, the atom spy for Stalin, was a heroine, a saintly, angelic figure. Mr. Bush, and welcome not to a desert on the map, but a garden of unwavering affection and respect and support for you in a world of compromises. [...] in the ads and in the odd, tiny little corner of existence called "real life" there is happiness, prosperity, enthusiasm.
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America Bipolarized
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I AM ON AN AMERICAN AIRLINES FLIGHT from Miami to LAX. Wow, this is a long, long flight. I read the New York Times, then the Wall Street Journal. Then I thought about what I see around me and I marvel.In the Times, aside from my column, there is one story after another of gloom and doom and catastrophe. Except in the arts pages, where there are stories about great artistic triumphs-but many of these supposedly are evoked by the collapse of liberty and d...See the full content of this document
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