"I always mentally cross my fingers and keep a slight mental reservation whenever “left” and “right” crimes are too glibly associated in the same breath. Yet now, it is those on the Left who have come to offend and irritate me the most, and it is also their crimes and blunders that I feel myself more qualified, as well as more motivated, to point out."
January 1, 1970
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