July 24, 2011

GOP Zealots Threatening America's Security

Nicholas Kristof, New York Times


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IF China or Iran threatened our national credit rating and tried to drive up our interest rates, or if they sought to damage our education system, we would erupt in outrage.

Well, wake up to the national security threat. Only it’s not coming from abroad, but from our own domestic extremists.

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