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LiberalAndProud

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4. Galbraith was a brilliant man with a brilliant legacy. His pithy observations are timeless.

Reply to hfojvt (Original post)

Thu Mar 20, 2014, 12:03 PM

Mar 2014

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

"Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."

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Fred Phelps (or NOT) [View all] hfojvt Mar 2014 OP

Lotta replies and recs on this one, too... TreasonousBastard Mar 2014 #1

LOL... SomethingFishy Mar 2014 #3

I agree Cirque du So-What Mar 2014 #2

Galbraith was a brilliant man with a brilliant legacy. His pithy observations are timeless. LiberalAndProud Mar 2014 #4

that first one is so spot on hfojvt Mar 2014 #5

You haven't been reading the recent ACA threads? LiberalAndProud Mar 2014 #6

You should have posted about John Kenneth Galbraith's CAT. progressoid Mar 2014 #7

he was a cat person? hfojvt Mar 2014 #9

I don't know but apparently Krugman is! progressoid Mar 2014 #10

Counting this one? Is it 19 more or 20 more? FSogol Mar 2014 #8

Thanks for starting yet another Fred Phelps thread JustABozoOnThisBus Mar 2014 #11

there's a missing airliner? hfojvt Mar 2014 #12

Juanita Jean has the best idea as how to respond to this death-Ignore Phelps Gothmog Mar 2014 #13