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Semantics

Posted by Chris on July 10, 2006 at 12:08 pm.

Civil war:

civil war, n.
A war between factions or regions of the same country.

Not a civil war:

Two bomb blasts in a Shi’ite neighborhood killed 12 [people] and wounded dozens [of people], while gunmen ambushed a commuter bus in a Sunni district and shot dead seven people. Militiamen, believed to be Shi’ite, fought gunbattles in a southern […]

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You Know, You Just Might Have Something

Posted by Chris on June 21, 2006 at 11:20 am.

One of the Democrats’ biggest handicaps is their lack of flair for disingenuous marketing. What do you call legislation which dramatically increases government power at the expense of freedoms our Founding Fathers secured with their blood? Why, that’s the Patriot Act, of course! A reduction in air quality standards which permits the […]

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