The Arabiya interview had some troubling aspects, an undercurrent of hardness running through the feel-good rhetoric, the mailed fist beneath the velvet glove:
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Under the reign of multiculturalism, Americans have been undergoing for decades, if in slow motion, what the historian Thomas Molnar once described as "the collapse of the old order, ... Molnar, a refugee from Communist Hungary, ... The chief form this verbal terror takes in contemporary America is anti-racism. Now most people,
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Mailed fist - English Idiom Definition ... Someone who rules or controls something with a mailed fist is in absolute control and tolerates no dissent. A mailed fist in a velvet glove is used to describe someone who appears soft on the outside, but underneath is very hard.
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So this little thread at global warming piqued my interest (note, BTW, how the poor dear septics don't even bother trying to edit the page any more, having been crushed so often by the Mailed Fist): I'm a sceptic now, says ex-NASA climate boss says The Register.
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Register | Login | Help ... Showtimes & Tickets ... IMDb > "By the Sword Divided" The Mailed Fist (1985)
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Mailed Fist in Lizard-Skin Glove: Lizardian Alternative to Individual Health-Insurance Mandate ... I call it the mailed fist in the lizard-skin glove approach: ... Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Mailed Fist in Lizard-Skin Glove: Lizardian Alternative to Individual Health-Insurance Mandate:
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And any American national anthem has to take cognizance of that, of being the mailed fist of the West and its culture and liberal democracy. It's a hard thing to be, and unsettling that liberal democracy has to rely on the mailed fist to keep the world safe for itself.
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whether Israel has won in any real terms ... Its response to the arrival of a Hamas government in Gaza and the West Bank, and the militarily insignificant attacks of its armed supporters, has been the thud of the mailed fist. The credulous political leaders who led Israel into the war will no doubt claim to have won it.
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2. Fist of Truth : The knight steps forward, making an opening in the opponents guard, and cracks a mailed fist into the opponents face. Although this pass only inflicts half damage, the foe must pass a Constitution check at -4, or be stunned in the following round, losing all attacks.
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