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From: The Washington Times
Date: 19961014
Author:Parisi, Peter

In George Orwell's classic novel, "Animal Farm," after the animal uprising that threw off the yoke of patriarchal Farmer Jones, the ruling-elite pigs established a radical-egalitarian barnyard regime.

But over time, as the pigs took more and more perks and privileges for themselves, it became necessary for them to amend their 7th Commandment - all animals are equal - to read that all animals were indeed equal, but that some animals were more equal than others.

In like fashion, those who cheered the loudest at the Supreme Court's radical-egalitarian ruling in June that ...

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