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	<title>Comments on: Are We On The Same Planet?</title>
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		<title>By: drpedro</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/07/07/are-we-on-the-same-planet/#comment-39183</link>
		<dc:creator>drpedro</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jul 2006 03:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>heheehhehe....no, you won&#039;t offend my relatives...but you can certainly offend me (difficult, but possible)

And it would be more accurate to that &quot;it is perfectly ok for you to say that&quot; because you aren&#039;t standing in front of me.....in which case it might not actually be &quot;perfectly ok&quot; unless you have always WANTED to see what your teeth taste like....  ; )

And of course, it would be a bit more difficult for me to take umbrage with your statements were they actually true.

So, if we have someone who was on at least some level corrupt, it doesn&#039;t seem beyond the pale to reference the aforementioned corruption whether they be dead or alive....
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>heheehhehe&#8230;.no, you won&#8217;t offend my relatives&#8230;but you can certainly offend me (difficult, but possible)</p>
<p>And it would be more accurate to that &#8220;it is perfectly ok for you to say that&#8221; because you aren&#8217;t standing in front of me&#8230;..in which case it might not actually be &#8220;perfectly ok&#8221; unless you have always WANTED to see what your teeth taste like&#8230;.  ; )</p>
<p>And of course, it would be a bit more difficult for me to take umbrage with your statements were they actually true.</p>
<p>So, if we have someone who was on at least some level corrupt, it doesn&#8217;t seem beyond the pale to reference the aforementioned corruption whether they be dead or alive&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: Homer</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/07/07/are-we-on-the-same-planet/#comment-39182</link>
		<dc:creator>Homer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2006 22:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>They&#039;ve declared war, Oliver. They are fighting a war against basic decency.

Shall we defend decency, or shall we let their war progress towards their outcome?
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They&#8217;ve declared war, Oliver. They are fighting a war against basic decency.</p>
<p>Shall we defend decency, or shall we let their war progress towards their outcome?</p>
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		<title>By: Rex Mundane</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/07/07/are-we-on-the-same-planet/#comment-39181</link>
		<dc:creator>Rex Mundane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2006 22:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Don t worry so much Rex, they can t defend themselves, but they won t get their feelings hurt either&amp; if they re dead&amp; &lt;/blockquote&gt;
Oh, never thought of it like that... hm...
Pedro, I thought you might like to know that every deceased female in your family line was a cheap whore, and every male a drunken goat rapist. And its perfectly okay for me to say that, because they&#039;re feelings specifically cant be hurt, on account of them being dead whores and goat-rapists, putting them in certainly no position to moralize at me, and since their feelings arent hurt, you have no reason to find this problematic, and have to accept it at face value.
Wow... that is some wonderful, sensible logic you use there to defend slurs against the memory of a dead woman there, and so much fun to apply elsewhere. Good for you.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Don t worry so much Rex, they can t defend themselves, but they won t get their feelings hurt either&#038; if they re dead&#038; </p></blockquote>
<p>Oh, never thought of it like that&#8230; hm&#8230;<br />
Pedro, I thought you might like to know that every deceased female in your family line was a cheap whore, and every male a drunken goat rapist. And its perfectly okay for me to say that, because they&#8217;re feelings specifically cant be hurt, on account of them being dead whores and goat-rapists, putting them in certainly no position to moralize at me, and since their feelings arent hurt, you have no reason to find this problematic, and have to accept it at face value.<br />
Wow&#8230; that is some wonderful, sensible logic you use there to defend slurs against the memory of a dead woman there, and so much fun to apply elsewhere. Good for you.</p>
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		<title>By: drpedro</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/07/07/are-we-on-the-same-planet/#comment-39180</link>
		<dc:creator>drpedro</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Jul 2006 04:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rex says
&quot;Are you honestly so soulless that you need to continue to go after those with no voice to defend themselves?&quot;

Don&#039;t worry so much Rex, they can&#039;t defend themselves, but they won&#039;t get their feelings hurt either...if they&#039;re dead......
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&#8220;Are you honestly so soulless that you need to continue to go after those with no voice to defend themselves?&#8221;</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t worry so much Rex, they can&#8217;t defend themselves, but they won&#8217;t get their feelings hurt either&#8230;if they&#8217;re dead&#8230;&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: QuakerinaBasement</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/07/07/are-we-on-the-same-planet/#comment-39179</link>
		<dc:creator>QuakerinaBasement</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 23:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Malkin is accused of contributing to the suicide.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Really? By whom?

The posts I&#039;ve read on the subject specifically say she probably &lt;em&gt;didn&#039;t&lt;/em&gt; contribute to it.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Malkin is accused of contributing to the suicide.</p></blockquote>
<p>Really? By whom?</p>
<p>The posts I&#8217;ve read on the subject specifically say she probably <em>didn&#8217;t</em> contribute to it.</p>
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		<title>By: framefan</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/07/07/are-we-on-the-same-planet/#comment-39178</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 18:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oliver, when Ken Lay gets the same consideration after his untimely death, maybe then you will have a point.  Until then I have to press the B.S. alarm button.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oliver, when Ken Lay gets the same consideration after his untimely death, maybe then you will have a point.  Until then I have to press the B.S. alarm button.</p>
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		<title>By: JWG</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/07/07/are-we-on-the-same-planet/#comment-39177</link>
		<dc:creator>JWG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Are you actually arging though that this minor figure is worthy of attack after&lt;/blockquote&gt;
Cripes...Malkin is being criticized for NOT saying anything afterward. How is this getting turned into the opposite?
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>Are you actually arging though that this minor figure is worthy of attack after</p></blockquote>
<p>Cripes&#8230;Malkin is being criticized for NOT saying anything afterward. How is this getting turned into the opposite?</p>
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		<title>By: JWG</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/07/07/are-we-on-the-same-planet/#comment-39176</link>
		<dc:creator>JWG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>BTW, notice the lack of logic from the left in this argument? Malkin is accused of contributing to the suicide. In order to demonstrate that the woman had other problems besides phone calls from Malkin readers, people must point out her other issues. As soon as those issues are noted, people are accused of being &quot;soulless&quot; for bringing up her other problems.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BTW, notice the lack of logic from the left in this argument? Malkin is accused of contributing to the suicide. In order to demonstrate that the woman had other problems besides phone calls from Malkin readers, people must point out her other issues. As soon as those issues are noted, people are accused of being &#8220;soulless&#8221; for bringing up her other problems.</p>
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		<title>By: drpedro</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Quaker it looks to me like she was behind the wheel when she was &quot;driven&quot; to suicide.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Quaker it looks to me like she was behind the wheel when she was &#8220;driven&#8221; to suicide.</p>
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		<title>By: Rex Mundane</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/07/07/are-we-on-the-same-planet/#comment-39174</link>
		<dc:creator>Rex Mundane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Look, I&#039;ll grant that if she did commit suicide its likely she had a psychological predisposition toward it, which doesnt necessarily make it the fault of the people who were harassing her and sending death threats that it happened. Are you actually arging though that this minor figure is worthy of attack after, so damn soon after her unfortunate end? Are you honestly so soulless that you need to continue to go after those with no voice to defend themselves?
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Look, I&#8217;ll grant that if she did commit suicide its likely she had a psychological predisposition toward it, which doesnt necessarily make it the fault of the people who were harassing her and sending death threats that it happened. Are you actually arging though that this minor figure is worthy of attack after, so damn soon after her unfortunate end? Are you honestly so soulless that you need to continue to go after those with no voice to defend themselves?</p>
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		<title>By: Rex Mundane</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/07/07/are-we-on-the-same-planet/#comment-39173</link>
		<dc:creator>Rex Mundane</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 17:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Seperate issue, she didnt comment at first, and i will be willing to agree that perhaps it wasnt necessary to, it cant really be proven that the harassment she incited against the woman caused her suicide in any way. The issue though is that once this was brought to her attention, she (and drpedro, to whom I was actually specifically referring) attacked the deceased, calling her a corrupt-o-crat. Its interesting to note actually that she says if she had commented on her passing, it would have been in the context of an attack anyway.&lt;blockquote&gt;If I had said anything, his ilk would have jumped all over me for not having the compassion to keep quiet about her various scandals and corruptocrat ways and let her loved ones mourn in peace.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
She&#039;s saying right there, if she had commented on her tragic suicide, it would only have been to bring up the alleged scandals again. Classy, am I right?
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Seperate issue, she didnt comment at first, and i will be willing to agree that perhaps it wasnt necessary to, it cant really be proven that the harassment she incited against the woman caused her suicide in any way. The issue though is that once this was brought to her attention, she (and drpedro, to whom I was actually specifically referring) attacked the deceased, calling her a corrupt-o-crat. Its interesting to note actually that she says if she had commented on her passing, it would have been in the context of an attack anyway.<br />
<blockquote>If I had said anything, his ilk would have jumped all over me for not having the compassion to keep quiet about her various scandals and corruptocrat ways and let her loved ones mourn in peace.</p></blockquote>
<p>She&#8217;s saying right there, if she had commented on her tragic suicide, it would only have been to bring up the alleged scandals again. Classy, am I right?</p>
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		<title>By: JWG</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/07/07/are-we-on-the-same-planet/#comment-39172</link>
		<dc:creator>JWG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 16:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;after she was driven to suicide&lt;/blockquote&gt;
Is that your diagnosis? Other people were at fault for her poor mental health? Classic leftist crap. It&#039;s always someone else&#039;s fault for an individual&#039;s actions.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>after she was driven to suicide</p></blockquote>
<p>Is that your diagnosis? Other people were at fault for her poor mental health? Classic leftist crap. It&#8217;s always someone else&#8217;s fault for an individual&#8217;s actions.</p>
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		<title>By: frameone</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/07/07/are-we-on-the-same-planet/#comment-39171</link>
		<dc:creator>frameone</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 16:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;If you claim the sky is green and I say it s not, that doesn t mean I approve of hurricanes.&quot;

Yes, because we hate Florida. After 2000 we became obectively pro-hurricane. Did you not get the memo?
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;If you claim the sky is green and I say it s not, that doesn t mean I approve of hurricanes.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yes, because we hate Florida. After 2000 we became obectively pro-hurricane. Did you not get the memo?</p>
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		<title>By: SaveFarris</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/07/07/are-we-on-the-same-planet/#comment-39170</link>
		<dc:creator>SaveFarris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 16:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>More &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.proteinwisdom.com/index.php/weblog/entry/20640/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;hate speech&lt;/a&gt; from the right ... er, not so much.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>More <a href="http://www.proteinwisdom.com/index.php/weblog/entry/20640/" rel="nofollow">hate speech</a> from the right &#8230; er, not so much.</p>
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		<title>By: QuakerinaBasement</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/07/07/are-we-on-the-same-planet/#comment-39169</link>
		<dc:creator>QuakerinaBasement</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 16:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;So I don t see an integrity issue here. Or do you condone the kind of nepotism that the dean was practicing ollie? &lt;/blockquote&gt;

Classic, Peed&#039;. If OW points out that it&#039;s unseemly to criticize the woman after she was driven to suicide, that &lt;em&gt;obviously&lt;/em&gt; means he excuses--no, no &lt;em&gt;supports&lt;/em&gt; all of her bad deeds.

If you claim the sky is green and I say it&#039;s not, that doesn&#039;t mean I approve of hurricanes.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>So I don t see an integrity issue here. Or do you condone the kind of nepotism that the dean was practicing ollie? </p></blockquote>
<p>Classic, Peed&#8217;. If OW points out that it&#8217;s unseemly to criticize the woman after she was driven to suicide, that <em>obviously</em> means he excuses&#8211;no, no <em>supports</em> all of her bad deeds.</p>
<p>If you claim the sky is green and I say it&#8217;s not, that doesn&#8217;t mean I approve of hurricanes.</p>
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		<title>By: frameone</title>
		<link>http://www.oliverwillis.com/2006/07/07/are-we-on-the-same-planet/#comment-39168</link>
		<dc:creator>frameone</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 16:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>sorry that should say: &quot;Yes it does ...&quot;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>sorry that should say: &#8220;Yes it does &#8230;&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Bushwacked</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bushwacked</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;Nobody hates like a compassionate progressive.&lt;/i&gt;
Here we go again.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Nobody hates like a compassionate progressive.</i><br />
Here we go again.</p>
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		<title>By: Dugger</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dugger</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nobody hates like a compassionate progressive.  Why? Maybe because they are sure they are morally and intellectually superior and can&#039;t stand to see the &#039;rubes&#039; standing in the way of their ideas - which will surely bring near Utopia.

Dugger  &quot;I hate President George W. Bush. There, I said it. I think his policies rank him among the worst presidents in U.S. history. And, while I&#039;m tempted to leave it at that, the truth is that I hate him for less substantive reasons, too....&quot;  Chait
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nobody hates like a compassionate progressive.  Why? Maybe because they are sure they are morally and intellectually superior and can&#8217;t stand to see the &#8216;rubes&#8217; standing in the way of their ideas &#8211; which will surely bring near Utopia.</p>
<p>Dugger  &#8220;I hate President George W. Bush. There, I said it. I think his policies rank him among the worst presidents in U.S. history. And, while I&#8217;m tempted to leave it at that, the truth is that I hate him for less substantive reasons, too&#8230;.&#8221;  Chait</p>
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		<title>By: Bushwacked</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bushwacked</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;I think that this &quot;pressure of public opinion&quot; language is a recognition by Saddam that the &quot;anti-war&quot; movement is objectively on his side, and not neutral.&lt;/blockquote&gt;
According to Mr. Reynolds, the left is an ally of Saddam Hussein.  You wouldn&#039;t have believed that a few years ago.  See any flaming liberals &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;?
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>I think that this &#8220;pressure of public opinion&#8221; language is a recognition by Saddam that the &#8220;anti-war&#8221; movement is objectively on his side, and not neutral.</p></blockquote>
<p>According to Mr. Reynolds, the left is an ally of Saddam Hussein.  You wouldn&#8217;t have believed that a few years ago.  See any flaming liberals <a href="http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/" rel="nofollow">here</a>?</p>
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		<title>By: Another Rovian Conspiracy - St Wendeler</title>
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		<dc:creator>Another Rovian Conspiracy - St Wendeler</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 14:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Chancellor Commits Suicide - Blame Michelle Malkin...&lt;/strong&gt;

It&#039;s a sad story, for sure. But it&#039;s even sadder when the folks at the American Prospect, OliverWillis, and Reason use it to score political points against Malkin....
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<p>It&#8217;s a sad story, for sure. But it&#8217;s even sadder when the folks at the American Prospect, OliverWillis, and Reason use it to score political points against Malkin&#8230;.</p>
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