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  • Apparently leaving his pet political scientist off the panel is an example of IPCC perfidity.

    Cue Whining Stage Right EliRabett 2010

  • This is not surprising, since people are so regularly provoked by the inhumanity and perfidity of our private insurance system.

    Harold Pollack: Is There a Future for Private Health Insurers? 2008

  • Invoking such "lessons" unfairly paints those with different views as modern-day Chamberlains, unable to perceive the intractible perfidity of a determined enemy, and thus frames the debate in narrow and destructive terms wherein the only appropriate response to a problem is sanction and force, and all who think otherwise are weak, or cowardly, or both.

    When lazy thinkers apply the “lessons of Munich” Stephen Retherford 2008

  • Cedarford is a regular poster here who is known for two things, really long posts, and the ability to tie everything back to the perfidity of the Jews.

    The wild speculation that Sarah Palin is not the real mother of the new baby she presents as her own. Ann Althouse 2008

  • Invoking such "lessons" unfairly paints those with different views as modern-day Chamberlains, unable to perceive the intractible perfidity of a determined enemy, and thus frames the debate in narrow and destructive terms wherein the only appropriate response to a problem is sanction and force, and all who think otherwise are weak, or cowardly, or both.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Stephen Retherford 2008

  • It may be true that the scumbags who run the Democratic Party -- execrable people like Hoyer and Pelosi -- may use their power to kill important bills in Congress, and to underwrite Bush and Cheney, but to call efforts by someone like Kucinich to at least expose the perfidity of those leaders "laughable" is a libel.

    Dennis Kucinich: Standing Tall in the House as Cheney Impeachment Bill Advances 2007

  • Indeed, as Françoise, by contact with myself, had enriched her vocabulary with fresh terms, but had adapted them to her own style, she said of Albertine that she had never known a person of such ‘perfidity,’ who was so skilful at ‘drawing my money’ by play-acting

    The Captive 2003

  • It just went to show that if you insisted on phoning home, you damn well better make sure you didn't get a wrong number and inadvertently agitate some perfidity.

    Jed the Dead Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1997

  • War after war was brought on by personal encounters and incidents, and carried on with perfidity and cruelty.

    Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians Elias Johnson

  • And the next they suffered was from the malice, perfidity and lust of an extraordinary appearing person, who they called That-tea-ro-skeh, who was finally driven across the St. Lawrence, and come to a town south of the shores of Lake Ontario, where, however, he only disguised his intentions, to repeat his cruel and perfidious deeds.

    Legends, Traditions, and Laws of the Iroquois, or Six Nations, and History of the Tuscarora Indians Elias Johnson

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