Sad day for liberty
This assassination of Benazir Bhutto is a sad day not only for Pakistan, but for the forces of liberty worldwide. She had the inate ability to bring positive change to an area too long ruled by fundamentalist forces. Her death, doubtless caused by Islamic extremists (read: fundamentalists) will set back the clock of progress by years.
Had she lived, and played an active role in the governing of Pakistan, positive changes would probably have followed. In every nation that has had a female as the head of government, progress has followed; case in point - Golda Meir in Israel, Margaret Thatcher in England.
What this tragedy underescores is that extremism such as practiced by any religion is a hinderance to liberty.
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One Big Ass Mistake, America
"Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."
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