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2017-06-16 Home Front: Politix
SPENGLER: The Lawyers' Civil War
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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-06-16 16:30|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top

#1 The mutiny has burned its bridges on the beach, and its perpetrators will risk everything to make it succeed.

The correct term is "burned its boats on the beach".
Posted by Pappy 2017-06-16 18:46||   2017-06-16 18:46|| Front Page Top

#2 I think ol' Speng was deliberately stirring his metaphors. I laffed. No word from Cortez on the subject.
Posted by SteveS 2017-06-16 19:28||   2017-06-16 19:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Whatever the outcome, the legitimacy of a political system designed to be litigious and oppositional will be called into question
US Chief Justice Roger Taney, 1857, on the human rights of black slaves in the USA: "they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect"
I wonder if/when a US high court decision will some day soon result in the US electorate coming to believe that the US justice/political system has no jurisdiction that they are bound to respect.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-06-16 23:03||   2017-06-16 23:03|| Front Page Top

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