Essays to the Contrary

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  • MARK TWAIN'S PERSPECTIVES ON MORMONISM

    Mormon History  MARK TWAIN’S PERSPECTIVES ON MORMONISM Note: All quotations are from the book titled “ROUGHING IT” written by Samuel L. Clemens. In the summer of 1861, he accompanied his brother Orion on the overland stage coach out west who had just been appointed the secretary of the Nevada Territory. “I am not given to…

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  • Saudi Shame on Islamic World

    Finian Cunningham http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/08/17/256681/saudi-shame-on-islamic-world/#.UDA-md3vrkV 19 Aug 2012 As the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) concludes its emergency summit in Mecca this week with the suspension of Syria, its member states should now consider amending the body’s name – to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation with United States Imperialism (OICUSI). For the OIC stands as a violation…

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  • Obama & McCain; An American Obituary

    In 1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinborough, had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years prior: “A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time…

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  • NETANYAHU AND OLMERT'S DEEP SECRETS (Romney Included) by Barry Chamish

    www.barrychamish.com       We begin with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s mostly unknown ties to Mitt Romney:       Romney and Netanyahu were brought together by a new endeavor, the Boston Consulting Group. Each had been approached to act as a corporate advisor for the firm. Romney was a recent honors graduate from Harvard with dual degrees in…

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