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Duty & Honor

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

It’s been said that courage is is doing your duty despite being afraid.
Cowardice, by the same token, is dereliction of duty out of fear.
By those definitions what is about to transpire in Congress over the next several weeks is cowardice.
Before I explain that, let’s get a few things straight:

When the White House asks for […]