October 28, 2012

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‘Dead’ Brazilian Turns Up At His Own Funeral

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/dead-brazilian-turns-own-funeral-101222753.html

[ASND wonders how someone would manage to work out the timing like that.]

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Would you hire this woman?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2222914/Female-contortionist-brings-new-meaning-term-flexible-working-incredible-calendar-shoot.html

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World’s Narrowest House Opens in Warsaw

http://www.reuters.com/video/2012/10/23/worlds-narrowest-house-opens-in-warsaw?videoId=238632662

[Yes, you have to see it to believe it.]

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I gotta keep breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise.  Who knows what the Updates could bring in?

Obamanomics Update:

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“In only four years since 1963 have annual new-home sales come in below 400,000 units. Barack Obama was president in each one of those years: 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012.“

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/10/two-year_high_home_sales_among_the_worst_on_record.html

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“Green” Jobs Update:

“President Obama’s green jobs training program, which was part of his stimulus, has failed on most key jobs measures, according to a new internal audit that found it was training workers who already had jobs that didn’t need green energy skills, and was failing to place new enrollees in jobs once they finished the training…  Only 38 percent of those who have completed training got jobs based on it, and only 16 percent kept jobs for at least six months…“

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/26/audit-green-jobs-stimulus-program-wastes-cash/

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Obamacare Update:

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Barack Obama / Obamacare menu tree.]

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10 Things About Obamacare That Just Don’t Make Sense

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/10/18/10-things-about-obamacare-that-just-dont-make-sense/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email;utm_campaign=FHCP

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Media Bias Update:

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“If this had been writing a book about Paul Ryan he would have been on every [mainstream media] morning show.”

http://video.foxnews.com/v/1926862044001/bias-bash-angry-tell-all-on-vice-president-biden

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[Liberal Democrat Bob] Beckel: Network Anchors Overwhelmingly Democrat, But ‘Doesn’t Make Difference At All’

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2012/10/24/beckel-network-anchors-overwhelmingly-democrat-doesnt-make-differe

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“Shame on PBS. They have now joined, along with BBC, my blacklist of news organizations to never do an interview with again.“

http://www.drroyspencer.com/2012/10/climate-of-doubt-about-pbss-objectivity

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10 Questions the [Mainstream] Media Never Ask Pro-Abortion Candidates

http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/25/10-questions-the-media-never-ask-pro-abortion-candidates/

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Now Reuters contradicts itself on Benghazi attacks

http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/now-reuters-contradicts-itself-on-benghazi-attacks/print/

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“… FactCheck.org is operated by Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, where the ratio of professors who vote Democrat to those who vote Republican is a whopping TWELVE to ONE…  Also one of the chief funders is the Flora Family Foundation, which is notorious for funding traditional liberal non-governmental organizations and political action groups such as Planned Parenthood, The Tides Center, and the American Resources Defense Council.“

http://shaynroby.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/liberal-mind-control-factcheck-org-not-non-partisan/

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Dems Didn’t Start Social Security — and Other False Factchecks From Factcheck.org

http://www.fair.org/blog/2012/09/05/dems-didnt-start-social-security-and-other-false-factchecks-from-factcheck-org/

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Fact-Checking FactCheck.Org on Obama and Guns

http://www.nationalreview.com/blogs/print/8734

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Fact Checking Fact Check

http://www.saysuncle.com/2008/09/23/fact-checking-fact-check/

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More on FactCheck.org’s Bad Fact Checking

http://www.pagunblog.com/2008/09/23/more-on-factcheckorgs-bad-fact-checking/

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FactCheck and Brady Campaign in Bed with Annenberg Foundation

http://www.nraila.org/legislation/federal-legislation/2008/factcheck-and-brady-campaign-share-same.aspx?st=&ps=

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FACTCHECK.ORG. Chairmans of the Board donates hundreds of thousands of dollars to liberals

http://www.bakersfieldtalks.com/groups/national-news/forum/topic/factcheck-org-chairman-of-the-board-donates-hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars-to-liberals/

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ASSESSING JOB QUALITY

How Factcheck.org got it wrong

http://www.epi.org/page/-/old/issuebriefs/200/epi_ib200.pdf

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FactCheck.org, meet Politifact. You both go to the dead pile.

http://www.drumsnwhistles.com/2012/07/03/factcheck-org-meet-politifact-you-both-go-to-the-dead-pile/

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Obama’s “Truth” Update:

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Obama’s ‘Veterans Unemployment’ Claim Disproved By Government BLS Data

http://cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/obamas-veterans-unemployment-claim-disproved-government-bls-data

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Obama claims Planned Parenthood performs mammograms… again

http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/obama-claims-planned-parenthood-performs-mammogramsagain

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Lies We Can Believe In

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/lies_we_can_believe_in.html

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Obama’s Benghazi Investigator: An Iran Sympathizer

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/matthew-vadum/obamas-benghazi-investigator-an-iran-sympathizer/print/

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Abortion Update:

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Culture / Abortion menu tree.]

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Planned Parenthood Caught Lying About Its Botched Abortions

http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/24/planned-parenthood-caught-lying-about-its-botched-abortions/

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Does Abortion Really Reduce Crime? Another Look at Freakonomics

http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/26/does-abortion-really-reduce-crime-another-look-at-freakonomics/

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Obama’s “Truth” Update:

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“In a new TV ad, President Obama makes an inflated claim to have added 5.2 million new jobs. The total added during his time in office is actually about 325,000.“

http://factcheck.org/2012/10/obamas-inflated-jobs-claim/

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Global Warming Update:

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Science / Global Warming menu tree.]

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Malaria study challenges warmer world predictions

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22419-malaria-study-challenges-warmer-world-predictions.html

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Michael Mann – never fully investigated, thus never exonerated

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/10/23/michael-mann-never-fully-investigated-thus-never-exonerated/

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New Record : Seven Years Since A Hurricane Hit Florida

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/new-record-seven-years-since-a-hurricane-hit-florida/

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Scientific Fraud Update:

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“… there are at least three different ways that the system of peer review can be undermined.”

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8227/

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The deadly world of falsified and substandard medicine

http://www.aei.org/print/the-deadly-world-of-falsified-and-sub-standard-medicine

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Higher Education Update:

“… the percentage [of university faculty members self-] identifying as ‘far left’ or liberal has increased notably in the last three years.”

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/10/24/survey-finds-professors-already-liberal-have-moved-further-left

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Obamacabinet Update:

Obama’s HHS ‘grooming’ children for sex

“… advocated techniques mirror those of pedophiles.”

http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/obamas-hhs-grooming-children-for-sex/print/

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Environmentalism Update:

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Why Are Environmentalists Taking Anti-Science Positions?

http://e360.yale.edu/feature/why_are_environmentalists_taking_anti-science_positions/2584/

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Election Fraud Update:

“One day after Rep. Jim Moran, a Virginia Democrat, asked Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate voter-registration fraud involving a company linked to Republicans — the congressman’s own son has been caught in a vote-fraud related scandal.“

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/democratic-congressmans-son-resigns-after-talking-undercover-reporter

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A Vote for Every Murderer and a Ballot for Every Rapist

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/a-vote-for-every-murderer-and-a-ballot-for-every-rapist/print/

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Obama the Man! Update:

Obama describes Romney as ‘a bulls***ter’

http://www.dailmail.co.uk/news/article-2223130/Keeping-classy-Mr-President-Obama-describes-Romney-bullshitter.html

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“The Obama campaign has put out an official video targeting young adults that compares voting to having sex for the first time.“

http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/25/obama-campaign-ad-targeting-youth-compares-voting-to-first-time-sex/

[ASND wonders how many mainstream media channels will run the  official response  to that ad.]

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Blacks & Violence Update:

Black mob violence hits high school gridiron

‘Officers tried to separate the combatants and they were surrounded’

http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/black-mob-violence-hits-high-school-gridiron/print/

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Feminism Update:

“… we see a new feminist movement arising in America — the ‘Women Warriors.’“

http://pjmedia.com/blog/women-warriors-new-movement-challenges-liberal-feminism/?print=1

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Liberalism Update:

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Republicans More Knowledgeable Than Democrats

“According to whom?  None other than the Pew Research Center, a left-of-center organization. Moreover, Pew’s latest survey only reaffirms previous surveys demonstrating the same result.”

http://cfif.org/v/index.php/commentary/54-state-of-affairs/1357-pew-research-republicans-more-knowledgeable-than-democrats

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“According to a [2010] Zogby International survey… [s]elf-identified liberals and Democrats do badly on questions of basic economics.“

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703561604575282190930932412.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

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More Brits Believe in Aliens Than in God, Survey Claims

http://www.christianpost.com/news/more-brits-believe-in-aliens-than-in-god-survey-claims-83663/print.html

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Ted Turner: I Think It’s Good US Troops Are Commiting Suicide

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/10/25/Ted-Turner-I-Think-Its-Good-US-Troops-Are-Commiting-Suicide

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Liberal Fascism? Update:

The [Homosexual] Bullies Are Being Exposed

http://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbrown/2012/10/24/the_gay_bullies_are_being_exposed/print

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“… it’s only supposed to get better for [homosexuals] as long as [they]‘re not conservative… if [they] dare wander off the liberal plantation, there is hell to pay.“

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/10/gay_republican_attacked_sent_to_hospital.html

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Obama’s EPA Plans for 2013

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/obamas_epa_plans_for_2013.html

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Homosexual Marriage Update:

“‘Gays Against the Gay Agenda’ (G.A.G.A.) Says Homosexuals ‘Are Being Used to Further a [liberal] Agenda’… consistent with countless accounts of homosexual victimization, molestation and recruitment we have received or reported on over the years.“

http://americansfortruth.com/2012/10/20/gays-against-the-gay-agenda/

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Pornography Update:

“… the accused killer of 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway… was a boy who was addicted to pornography.“

http://www.charismanews.com/us/34389-did-pornography-contribute-to-jessica-ridgeways-killing

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CertifiGate Update:

Are Obama’s 1961 Birth Announcements Fake?

http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/are_obamas_1961_newspaper_birth_announcements_fake.html

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“A noted forensic profiler and psychiatrist says Barack Obama during the third presidential debate recently confessed to being a ‘secret foreigner who has passed himself off as American.’”

http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/forensic-profiler-obama-admits-being-secret-foreigner/print/

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U.N. Update:

“… a report soon to be released by the United Nations… calls for an international campaign of legal attacks and economic warfare on a group of American companies that do business in Israel…“

http://freebeacon.com/u-n-human-rights-council-calls-for-boycott-of-u-s-companies/

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Human rights abusers on the UN’s Human Rights (sic) Council

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/10/human_rights_abusers_on_the_uns_human_rights_sic_council.html

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Obama’s “Transparency” Update:

“The White House is declining to say when President Barack Obama first learned of three e-mails that the State Department sent to the White House on Sept. 11, 2012, directly notifying the Executive Office of the President that the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi was under attack…  The White House also declined to say when the president first met with the National Security Council after the Benghazi attack.“

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/wh-we-decline-comment-when-obama-learned-e-mails-met-nsc-benghazi

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“Obama EPA is the most difficult to get information and answers out of that I’ve covered in 20 years.“

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=8964ec0a-a03f-4c00-45c7-a3b215a4ca49

– Ken Ward Jr., President, Society of Environmental Journalists

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Theistic Evolutionism Update:

“It makes no sense to talk about a purposeful process that is nevertheless purposeless, or to talk about God directing an undirected process.”

http://blog.equip.org/journal-topics/thinking-clearly-about-god-and-evolution/

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Islam Update:

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The Islam Debate

http://www.ccel.us/islamdebate.toc.html

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‘Sharia Killed Ambassador Chris Stevens’

http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2012/10/26/sharia-killed-ambassador-chris-stevens/?print=1

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Christian Persecution Update:

KENYA CHURCH BOMBED

http://www.be-a-voice.net/prayerbulletinpdfs/6912/267_KenyaChurchBombed_11x85_p.pdf

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Chinese Christian was tortured for helping other believers

http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?id=39002

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VOM-USA Prayer Update

https://www.vomgroups.com/qry/forum/td_index.taf?_function=topic&tdttopc_uid1=101

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Atheism Update:

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“Science describes natural phenomena in terms of laws, but it does not explain where those laws came from…“

http://www.godevidence.com/2012/10/why-trying-to-explain-away-god-with-science-is-an-error/

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“[Since] naturalism does not provide us with any reason to trust our reason, why should we accept any naturalist reasoning?  And if Christian theism was responsible for the rise of science, why does naturalism so often get the credit for being the more scientific worldview?“

http://www.godevidence.com/2012/07/atheism-vs-theism/

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Mormonism Update:

What have Mormon authorities — published in official Mormon books and documents — had to say about historic Christianity?

http://www.evidenceministries.org/2012/03/mormonism%E2%80%99s-hypocritical-attack/

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Roman Catholicism Update:

Debate: Is the Roman Mass a Propitiatory Sacrifice?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngjs-X-ItqU

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Pope’s Exorcist Says the Devil Is In the Vatican

http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/chief-exorcist-rev-gabriele-amorth-devil-vatican/story?id=10073040#.UIkyy4bhc2l

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Democrats Back Abortion Because Catholics Won’t Quit Party

http://www.lifenews.com/2012/10/24/chaput-democrats-back-abortion-because-catholics-wont-quit-party/

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“To date, Catholic Church leaders have been AWOL in a campaign that will determine whether Obama’s anti-Catholic assault on religious freedom will continue for another four years or be stopped at the ballot box.“

http://www.conservativehq.com/article/10497-catholic-leaders-failing-lead

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The Bible Update:

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How We Got Our Bible And Why We Believe It Is God’s Word

http://www.ccel.us/bible.toc.html

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God’s Inerrant Word

An International Symposium on the Trustworthiness of Scripture

http://www.ccel.us/godsinerrantword.toc.html

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Christianity Update:

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Jesus, the Recycled Redeemer

http://www.str.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=10112

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The Argument from Miracles:

A Cumulative Case for the Resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth

http://www.lydiamcgrew.com/Resurrectionarticlesinglefile.pdf

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36 Purposes of God in Our Suffering

http://www.apologetics315.com/2012/10/36-purposes-of-god-in-our-suffering.html

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The Mark[s] of the Christian

http://www.ccel.us/schaeffer.html

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“Christian [spiritual] warfare is not a form of terrorism, it is a form of counterterrorism.”

http://archive.org/details/OnTheNatureOfSpiritualWarfareAndAPleaToTheChurch

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