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  • 4-22-2026

    RFK and the Israel Lobby

    Israel, RFK, United States

    The Israel lobby’s fundraising capabilities started off small, but eventually became significant. As Grant F. Smith documented, “Between 1921 and 1930, Zionist organizations active in the United States collected approximately $15 million in contributions from the public. Between 1931 and 1940, this amount only rose to $25 million, but in the period from 1941 to

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  • 2-7-2026

    The Catholic Definition of Antisemitism

    Catholicism, Israel

    The definition of antisemitism is rather vague. The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance defines antisemitism as the following: “Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”[1]

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  • 12-10-2025

    The Franklin Scandal DEBUNKED

    United States

    The Franklin Community Federal Credit Union was a bank that failed while managed by Lawrence E. King, Jr. During his tenure he embezzled $39 million. The Franklin Legislative Committee was established to investigate the workings of the bank and why it failed. However, it veered off into investigating allegations of child sexual abuse, child pornography,

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  • 11-15-2025

    Text of Douglas County Grand Jury Investigation

    United States

    The Douglas County Grand Jury was impaneled on March 19, 1990. The grand jury was called and charged to look into the illegal activity surrounding the closure of the Franklin Community Federal Credit Union, its members, officers, employees, and particularly the individual who headed that organization, Lawrence E. King, Jr. We considered the financial operation

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  • 5-26-2025

    Israeli Prime Ministers’ Quotes on Palestinians

    Israel

    Source: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-palestine-war-gaza-us-democrats-fuelling-brutal-revenge David Ben-Gurion “After the formation of a large army in the wake of the establishment of the state, we will abolish partition and expand to the whole of Palestine.”[1] Moshe Sharett “We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a

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  • 2-23-2024

    The Hypocrisy of Ben Shapiro on Radical Muslims

    Islam, Israel, United States

    In 2011, Ben Shapiro produced a video titled “The Myth of the Tiny Radical Muslim Minority.” The purpose of this video is deceptive. There is nothing incorrect about saying that many Muslims throughout the world hold radical views. The problem is that Ben portrays radical beliefs as something unique to Muslims, or at least to

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  • 1-29-2024

    Eastern Saints on Mary’s Immaculate Conception

    Catholicism, Eastern Orthodox

    Ephrem (306-379) “Mary and Eve, two people without guilt, two simple people, wereidentical. Later, however, one became the cause of our death, theother the cause of our life.” “Thou and thy mother are the only ones who are totally beautiful in every respect; for in thee, O Lord, there is no spot, and in thy

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  • 6-8-2023

    Christopher West on Submission of Wives to Their Husbands

    Catholicism

    Regarding Ephesians 5:22 (Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord), Christopher West has written: If it makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up, I want to affirm your response. Why? Because you probably think the passage means something like: “Wives are doormats who must surrender to their husbands’

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  • 5-31-2023

    Jesuit Reductions

    Catholicism, Economics

    Video version of the article here: https://eclecticanecdotes.com/2022/05/jesuit-reductions

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  • 2-22-2023

    New Book: Jewish Business Practices: Sketches from Contemporary Social Life

    Catholicism, Economics, Israel

    “The social question is the center of all contemporary endeavors. But we consider Jewish business practices to be the real core of the social question.” So Georg Ratzinger begins his book Jewish Business Practices. An indictment of immoral business activities practiced by Jews, Ratzinger, the great-uncle of Pope Benedict XVI, gets to the core of the

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