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  • The fight-back will be ferocious, and, like the inspiring fight against super-rich tax-dodgers, it unites people from the Tory shires with amazing left-wing activist groups like 38 Degrees that are organizing thousands of people to protest.

    Johann Hari: David Cameron Is Selling Off All England's Forests -- and Starting to Drill, Baby, Drill Johann Hari 2011

  • The fight-back will be ferocious, and, like the inspiring fight against super-rich tax-dodgers, it unites people from the Tory shires with amazing left-wing activist groups like 38 Degrees that are organizing thousands of people to protest.

    Johann Hari: David Cameron Is Selling Off All England's Forests -- and Starting to Drill, Baby, Drill Johann Hari 2011

  • I wish it wasn't the case, but it's true: people would have much less time for Tea Parties and Glenn Beck if there wasn't so much fear out there about the fate of the nation, and a more defiant fight-back being mounted by Democrats.

    Laura Flanders: The F Word: It's the Economy, Not the Bloggers Laura Flanders 2010

  • The fight-back will be ferocious, and, like the inspiring fight against super-rich tax-dodgers, it unites people from the Tory shires with amazing left-wing activist groups like 38 Degrees that are organizing thousands of people to protest.

    Johann Hari: David Cameron Is Selling Off All England's Forests -- and Starting to Drill, Baby, Drill Johann Hari 2011

  • But it was a particular kind of coverup, one that sought to protect Weiner with a bogus fight-back blame-Breitbart campaign that relied on the sort of partisan tribalism that's infected too many voters and politicians since, take your pick, the 2000 election, the Clinton bimbo coverup, the Bork hearings, the disputed McCloskey recount of 1984, or the Nixon administration.

    Pawlenty of Nothing James Taranto 2011

  • I wish it wasn't the case, but it's true: people would have much less time for Tea Parties and Glenn Beck if there wasn't so much fear out there about the fate of the nation, and a more defiant fight-back being mounted by Democrats.

    Laura Flanders: The F Word: It's the Economy, Not the Bloggers Laura Flanders 2010

  • I wish it wasn't the case, but it's true: people would have much less time for Tea Parties and Glenn Beck if there wasn't so much fear out there about the fate of the nation, and a more defiant fight-back being mounted by Democrats.

    Laura Flanders: The F Word: It's the Economy, Not the Bloggers Laura Flanders 2010

  • But it was a particular kind of coverup, one that sought to protect Weiner with a bogus fight-back blame-Breitbart campaign that relied on the sort of partisan tribalism that's infected too many voters and politicians since, take your pick, the 2000 election, the Clinton bimbo coverup, the Bork hearings, the disputed McCloskey recount of 1984, or the Nixon administration.

    Pawlenty of Nothing James Taranto 2011

  • I wish it wasn't the case, but it's true: people would have much less time for Tea Parties and Glenn Beck if there wasn't so much fear out there about the fate of the nation, and a more defiant fight-back being mounted by Democrats.

    Laura Flanders: The F Word: It's the Economy, Not the Bloggers Laura Flanders 2010

  • The fight-back process against our attempts to create a perfect body shape can also show up as abnormal cravings for forbidden foods.

    Gabrielle Bernstein: How to Address an Eating Disorder Gabrielle Bernstein 2011

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