“For conservatives, seeing is believing; for liberals, believing is seeing.”

— George Will

Column, August 24, 2008, "Little Rhetoric Riding Hood" http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/will082408.php3 at jewishworldreview.com. <br class="br">2000s

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