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Is There a Predator Drone Near Gainesville? or “If that don’t fetch ‘em then I don’t know Florida”

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Brian M Downing If you’re looking for insight on Terry Jones and his mission of burning the Koran and getting the Islamic world to despise us even more than it already does, I recommend HL Mencken.  The caustic essayist of the early twentieth century was a great writer and a Read More …

Fundamentalism on the Frontier, or Terry Jones Meets the Mohammedans

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Brian M Downing Their moral passion spent most of its force in self-accusing, self-denial and self-scourging. They began by howling their sins from the mourners’ bench; they came to their end, many of them, in the supreme immolation of battle. – HL Mencken While thinking (more) about Terry Jones’s efforts Read More …