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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (230610)	9/1/2013 9:39:59 AM
From: neolib	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 542213

Which right wing Think Tank would you suggest is worth reading? The simple fact that setting them up was a premeditated act to obtain results consistent with ideology is a pretty broad hint of trouble. Yet that is exactly what happened. Irving Kristol had the bright idea, and apparently was either to dumb to understand it posed a problem, or was happy to ignore the problem because it was a means to an end he desired. The world is what it is, our desires that it should be some other way don't change that. We can in fact in some cases change it to be what we desire, but that requires effort. We don't just get to declare that evidence shows it is what we desire, when it clearly doesn't.

To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (230610)	9/1/2013 12:57:00 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542213

I have been reading right wing writings for 50 years and it is almost all simplistic, vapid and wrong headed thinking. I cannot even remember a single right wing writer that has anything worthwhile to say or that I learned anything from. If you know one let me know. As I have mentioned in the past, there are no conservative intellectuals with any merit, and it is logical as the right wing has no sophisticated viable philosophy that an intellectual can defend. Week after week I watch conservative's being torn apart on the Bill Maher show. They always retreat with an awkward smile as they cannot defend their positions.