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hi tony!

why, those evil lefties...never know what they're up to next!

to think they've forced healthcare on some poor loser americans.

i had to work hard for my healthcare insurance! 

those losers need to figure it out for themselves the way i did!

they should be forced to work at least 21 hours/day! 

they need to save for their own eventual illness and stop expecting us to bail them out!

how unAmerican can they be!

i'm sick and tired of the trayvon martins of the world! 

attempting to save his skittles and iced tea! how nervy!

if it weren't for that nice george zimmerman blowing him away with a single shot thru trayvon's heart, he'd be alive today and we don't need that!

the likes of trayvon and other blax should be on notice! 

don't even think of taking a short cut thru a white neighborhood...george will get you! 

g'bye punk! you won't be ordering any more Skittles!

Skittles is clearly a white man's snack! 

more for us good and pure christian white folk.

we need to remain vigilant! we need to keep the trayvon martins of america down! 

i hope his killing serves as a message to all dark-skinned americans! we're not gonna take it any more!

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This tongue-in-check email was sent to Tony Perkins recently. Am I not evil? heh, heh, heh! 

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“When the Washington Post telephoned me at home on Valentine's Day 1989 to ask my opinion about the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwah,* I felt at once that here was something that completely committed me.

*Arabic word meaning "opinion."

It was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved.

In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying, and intimidation.

In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual, and the defense of free expression.

Plus, of course, friendship—though I like to think that my reaction would have been the same if I hadn't known Salman at all.

To re-state the premise of the argument: the theocratic head of a foreign despotism offers money in his own name in order to suborn the murder of a civilian citizen of another country, for the offense of writing a work of fiction.

No more root-and-branch challenge to the values of the Enlightenment (on the bicentennial of the fall of the Bastille) or to the First Amendment to the Constitution, could be imagined.

President George H.W. Bush, when asked to comment, could only say grudgingly that, as far as he could see, no American interests were involved…”
                                                   ―Christopher Hitchens