QUOTE OF THE DAY….From the book jacket of Jonah Goldberg’s forthcoming Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning:

The quintessential liberal fascist isn’t an SS storm trooper; it is a female grade-school teacher with an education degree from Brown or Swarthmore.

Quite so. Up against the wall with all of ’em.

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