[Retain Mike]

I appreciate the opportunity to review my files, and read my copy of his address regularly.

[Bommer]

Our intellectual elite today has only the courage of bullies. They can jump on individuals who dare to depart from their absurd and contradictory dogmas, calling them vicious names and doing all they can to silence them. But they haven't the courage of their own convictions.

Ahh what better truth then thier own Messiah doing it: Obama Campaign Threatens Jihad Against TV Stations That Air Weathermen Ad

[Candor7]

The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party and of course in the United Nations.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Would that liberalism truly died with Chamberlain. Thanks to the ranks of Western ivory tower academe, it is too alive and well this day.

Its plenipotentiary instruments have even invaded the Republican Party to the point where it wanted us to take such mavins as Giuliani seriously, and acted directly with the MSM to covertly subvert men like Duncan Hunter and Tom DeLay.

Our now leftist oriented legal profession holds as its icons, Orwellian Utopians like Ronnie Earle of Texas? ( I say this because he had to shop there grand juries to indict DeLay, and notice how that trial is NOT going forward?)

Lets pray that such weakness will not be our undoing, and that we have enough seed available to plant a new crop of courage, when the time comes. As it shall.

[PGalt]

Solzhenitsyn is dead. His messages did not die with him.

Exactly. RIP, sir.

[George Smiley]

people who count themselves as intellectuals but give no evidence of any ratiocination beyond repeating the slogans of groupthink.

Old Orson sure knows how to turn a word...

[sionnsar]

Nobody Was Listening

Some of us were, even then, but... this engineer was never one of the "elite."

[Tolik]

Orson Scott Card - PING  [please freepmail me if you want or don't want to be pinged to Orson Scott Card political articles]

Links: his articles discussed at FR: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/k-orsonscottcard/browse  and archived here (it is a must go place for all new to OSC political writing): http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/index.html

His fresh articles appear in the Rhinoceros Times, Greensboro, NC: http://www.rhinotimes.com/greensboro/  (before being posted permanently on his The Ornery American website). Read his books/movies/and everything reviews: http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/ 

His "About" page: http://www.hatrack.com/osc/about.shtml

[Cacique]

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[aquila48]

Thanks for the post....

I read the whole speech - a lot to reflect on, especially as we decide the direction of our country!

[RKBA Democrat]

Excellent article. I am and remain an opponent of Sen. McCain. But OSC has some words of wisdom worth listening to.