# Monday, August 10, 2009
By: Joe Huffman Monday, August 10, 2009 10:52:39 PM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00) ( Current News | Politics | Quote of the Day )

In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.

Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary
[I was reminded of this by what our Speaker of the House recently said:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi turned the health care debate up a notch Monday, penning a column along with her top deputy that questioned the patriotism of those disrupting town hall meetings to air their complaints. 

--Joe]

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