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  • Despite its sheer "fringiness," I have to confess to a certain affinity for Richard Hoagland's idea that the ridge is an artificial construction.

    Archive 2006-09-01 Mac 2006

  • But really, you and Matt are measuring fringiness in different ways.

    Matthew Yglesias » Straw Manned 2010

  • Meanwhile, it's typical to hear hardcord fringiness on the right being celebrated a "gutsy."

    TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2011

  • Meanwhile, it's typical to hear hardcord fringiness on the right being celebrated a "gutsy."

    TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2011

  • Weigel didn't just deconstruct conservatives for the Post, but was also presented twice recently by National Public Radio as a wise man assessing the fringiness of conservatives.

    NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias 2010

  • I have no doubt that this was a religiously motivated political assassination. and charged) someone with the crime, and while the official stance at the moment is that they don't know the motive, Scott Roeder (the alleged shooter), has a nutso fringiness.

    Polimom Says 2009

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