As Roderick Long has remarked: “How much lunacy can you pack into a single sentence?” The line quoted below written by Thomas Friedman in the New York Times takes the cake. It’s worth posting again here. (Thanks to Sheldon Richman for first bringing this to our attention.)
“I want to take time on this Thanksgiving to thank God I live in a country where, despite so much rampant selfishness, the public schools still manage to produce young men and women ready to voluntarily risk their lives in places like Iraq and Afghanistan to spread the opportunity of freedom and to protect my own.”
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