{"id":98,"date":"2007-09-22T10:23:32","date_gmt":"2007-09-22T17:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/22\/strange-bedfellows\/"},"modified":"2007-09-24T05:35:09","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T12:35:09","slug":"strange-bedfellows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2007\/09\/strange-bedfellows\/","title":{"rendered":"strange bedfellows"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h1 style=\"margin: auto 0in 4.5pt\"><font size=\"5\" face=\"Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/la-oe-dalmia20sep20,0,2369677.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail\">Going protectionist over a fantasy highway<\/a><\/font><\/h1>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\">Xenophobes see a threat to U.S. sovereignty in a Texas freeway project that would ease trade with Mexico.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"color: black\"><\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 8.5pt; color: #666666; font-family: Arial\">By Shikha Dalmia and Leonard Gilroy\u00a0 September 20, 2007 <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Courier New\">With respect to conservatives, each one of the following <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ad_hominem\">ad hominem abusive<\/a> adjectives was used in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/la-oe-dalmia20sep20,0,2369677.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail\">above linked story<\/a>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Courier New\">paranoid, <\/font><font face=\"Courier New\">isolationist, <\/font><font face=\"Courier New\">jihad, <\/font><font face=\"Courier New\">sinister, <\/font><font face=\"Courier New\">xenophobes, <\/font><font face=\"Courier New\">apoplectic, <\/font><font face=\"Courier New\">paranoid rantings, <\/font><font face=\"Courier New\">protectionist fringe, <\/font><font face=\"Courier New\">hysterical, <\/font><font face=\"Courier New\">atavistic, <\/font><font face=\"Courier New\">ideologues of fear<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Courier New\">This article is about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usconvoy.com\/\">Ports to Plains<\/a>, a subject in which the <a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/trw-logo.jpg\" title=\"TRW\">TRW<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abe21.net\/subpage6.html\">claim\u00a0expertise<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Courier New\">Necessity makes for strange bedfellows though.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>The above authors are affiliated with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.org\/\">Reason Foundation<\/a>, a group of Libertarians that a couple of TRW Democrats would probably find disagreeable.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font face=\"Courier New\">As for Dalmia and Gilroy of the Reason Foundation, their opinions might be more persuasive without the ad hominems, and with\u00a0a\u00a0lot more &#8220;reason.&#8221;\u00a0 <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going protectionist over a fantasy highway Xenophobes see a threat to U.S. sovereignty in a Texas freeway project that would ease trade with Mexico. 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