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Murray Kempton

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  • Shoot the wounded

    editorial writers ever do is come down from the hills after the battle is over and shoot the wounded.” -Attributed to Murray Kempton, among many others. THAT took longer than expected. Who ever thought Newt Gingrich would have made it into darned near May   from Arkansas Online Read more »

  • Why the NRA pushes ‘Stand Your Ground’

    real name: vigilantism.” On guns, Bloomberg is strong and everyone else is feckless, to paraphrase the late columnist Murray Kempton writing about an earlier mayor. Okay, not exactly everyone else. Bloomberg’s partners in the group Mayors Against Illegal Guns   from The Washington Post Read more »

About Murray Kempton

Murray Kempton (December 16, 1917 - May 5, 1997) was an important American journalist who was a significant presence on the political left for many years.

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