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  • Cheney and his mad neocon jacobin friends are playing a diferent game, tho.

    Quote of the Day: "Surge" Is Opposed By...Ollie North! 2009

  • In 1832, the word bousingot formed the interim between the word jacobin, which had become obsolete, and the word demagogue which has since rendered such excellent service.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Somehow I can see very few on the jacobin left who would have considered the baby a "life of value".

    Governor Palin de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • He arrived in Paris became a jacobin and was a supporter of Robespierre.

    Archive 2008-02-03 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • One message I think Catholic men and women need but will not be forthcoming from the jacobin faction.

    Governor Palin de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Second as many of those who favor the jacobin style democracy, if I don't agree with you then I am guilty f some unpatriotic misstep.

    Archbishop Censures Clinton Stop de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • He arrived in Paris became a jacobin and was a supporter of Robespierre.

    François Joseph Westermann de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • I do not know what jacobin church this fellow goes to but I have never seen a priest who gets uncomfortable to speak his mind on pro-Life issues.

    Archive 2008-07-20 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • I do not know what jacobin church this fellow goes to but I have never seen a priest who gets uncomfortable to speak his mind on pro-Life issues.

    Catholic critics ask Pope to lift contraception ban de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • In consequence, that journal became, and for many years continued, 'anti-ministerial, yet with a very qualified approbation of the opposition, and with far greater earnestness and zeal, both anti-jacobin and anti-gallican.

    The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 James Gillman

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