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It is good to encounter a conflict in which I'm still in full sympathy with Rand Paul.
His father was more the kick-ass type, though.
This is a quote from a memoir by Dorothy Wordsworth, reflecting on a trip she took with two famous poets, her brother, William Wordsworth, and their similarly gifted companion, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. We sat upon a bench, placed for the sake of one of these views, whence we looked down upon the waterfall, and over the open country ... A lady and gentleman, more expeditious tourists than ourselves, came to the spot; they left us at the seat, and we found them again at another station above the Falls. Coleridge, who is always good-natured enough to enter into conversation with anybody whom he meets in his way, began to talk with the gentleman, who observed that it was a majestic waterfall. Coleridge was delighted with the accuracy of the epithet, particularly as he had been settling in his own mind the precise meaning of the words grand, majestic, sublime, etc., and had discussed the subject with William at some length the day before. “Yes, sir,” says Coleridge, “it is a maj...
It is curious, isn't it: politicians will waffle over fundamental constitutional principles and questions when confronted with argument over thorny issues and, consequent utility in taking an opposing view? It has long seemed to me that Mr. Paul's (the younger) party of choice has not been staunch defender of free speech. Or, association. Or much of anything else that challenges a conservative status quo. Contextual reality changes things.
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