Howard Phillips - the passing of a "prophet"

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I am not familiar with this man. But in reading the commentary, the author mentions a lot of good points to consider.

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A Prophet Has Fallen: Howard Phillips

By Wallace Henley , Special to CP

April 23, 2013|8:02 am

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Howie's understanding of political philosophies and strategies was inexhaustible. His insights at times stunning.

Howie's searing intellect easily consumed the rich banquets of sophistries offered up by Harvard – where he had been president of the student council. Yet Howie's intellectual palate was far too discerning to swallow everything Harvard shoved down his gullet. Neither extreme of Left nor Right sat well on his stomach.

But neither did bland centrism. Howie knew the Constitution is not a document enshrining dreamy platitudes and elastic clichés, but commitment to universal principles arising from Judeo-Christian values. In fact, when Jewish Howie embraced Christ, he became a living, breathing "Judeo-Christian."

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Howard Phillips knew well the dangers of Rightist extremes. Howie loathed racism and discrimination, and all the other cancers that frothed in bloodstreams ranging from Hitler to the Klan. As a Jew, he would have been hated by the soldiers of the rightist heresies.

But Howie knew the secret current establishments work hard to keep hidden. Right-wing extremists are the "usual suspects," but the Left hides in the shadows, preaching "liberation" and all the other savory promises to an increasingly gullible, unthinking public.

If you don't believe that, consider how quickly Leftists sought to link at least the possibility of the Boston bombings with "right-wing extremists. ...

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Howard Phillips' passing is a massive loss in a world where a celebrity whose millions have been made putting a round object through a net runs off to North Korea to "hang out" with the leftist beast who sustains hell-on-earth. Or where sometimes faux-conservative media titillate online readers and TV viewers with "Pop Tarts" and their escapades.

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