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Satan

2007-03-17T05:23:25Z

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'''Satan''' (from the Hebrew "ha-satan", "accuser") was a member of the [[divine council]] of God referenced in the [[Old Testament]] and the [[New Testament]]. He rebelled against [[God]] and was cast from [[Heaven]] to reign over [[Hell]], where he leads a host of fallen angels (or [[demon]]s). Jews believe that Satan faithfully serves God as a tester of the piety of men. Those who worship Satan are called [[satanism | Satanists]].

== History and Goals ==

Satan's goal is to lead people away from the love of God, by tempting or tricking them. The only sources of supernatural power in the world are from either God (good), Satan (evil), or Aliens from another planet. In the book of Genesis, Satan takes the form of a snake and tempts Eve with fruit from a tree. Satan, in the Book of Job, is used by God to test the faith of Job (who remained true to God through hardships). Satan is able to possess and control living humans on Earth, although Catholic priests (and sometimes only bishops) are able to [[exorcise]] his influence. Satan, is also called by several different names (the Devil, deceiver, Bealzebub, Beelzebul, Lucifer, Asmodeus, Abaddon, "Old Scratch," the Crooked One, etc). The notion of Satan, or an evil force, is noted in many if not all of the major world religions, which offers compelling evidence of his existence.
In the [[New Testament]], Satan tries to tempt [[Jesus]] in the desert, and fails.

== Jewish Views ==

In the Jewish tradition, Satan serves God as the one who accuses men of wickedness and impiety. At the direction of God Satan may be permitted to test these accusations. In this view, Satan's goal is not to lead men away from their faithfulness to God, but merely to revealing the true depths of their devotion.

Fox News Channel

2007-03-17T05:16:08Z

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Fox News was started in 1996 by Rupert Murdoch in response to the other cable news channels which he believed to all have liberal biases. While Fox News claims to be "Fair & Balanced"<ref>Fair & Balanced[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,27906,00.html]</ref>, a claim which it backs up by having ostensibly bipartisan shows like [[Hannity and Colmes]], it is widely understood to be sympathetic to conservative views. Despite this, Fox News characterizes itself as reporting the news in an unbiased manner and then allowing the viewer to decide. <ref>We Report. You Decide.[http://img83.imageshack.us/my.php?image=foxiu1.jpg]</ref>.

Fox News has dominated the ratings of other cable news shows.{{fact}} Possibly because they report in a way that is more moderate then most news channels and because they do not attack George W. Bush or the Iraq War{{fact}}.Fox News prides itself on reporting on "good news" from Iraq, such as new schools being built and new roads being built and for reporting the suicide bombings in context of the broader war on terrorism and the religion they represent. Fox News was the first and only US cable news company to use the term "homicide bombing" to describe attacks by Arabs and Palestinians on Israelis.

In 2005 the White House selected Tony Snow from Fox News to be the new White House press secretary.<ref>Tony Snow to be Named White House Press Secretary[http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,193093,00.html]</ref>

The network has come under attacks from [[Liberal|Liberals]] since its inception, for what they perceive in turn as a bias.<ref>Block FNC.[http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002220590_foxblocker26.html?syndication=rss]</ref> Despite this perception, even the liberal group [[Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting]] determined Fox News to be by far the least-biased cable news network in a 2006 study. FAIR suppressed this study, but its results were later leaked to the [[Weekly Standard]] by [[G. Gordon Liddy]].

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Socialism

2007-03-17T05:13:10Z

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Born out of the deprivations suffered by the urban poor in proto-capitalist 19th century Europe, socialism is an economic and political ideology that stresses the rights of the many over the privileges of the few. Politically, socialism is democratic and has been responsible for the extension of the franchise to all adult citizens. As an economic theory, socialism calls for the redistribution of wealth. This may be achieved indirectly via taxation of private wealth coupled with progressive social policy or directly via nationalisation and public ownership.

Although socialist ideas such as the provision of unemployment benefit, state pensions, universal healthcare, and state control of key industries have been common throughout the developed world in the modern era, the [[United States]] has tended to reject socialism as an ideological position. In other parts of the world, such as Europe, Africa, Asia, and South and Central America, there has generally been more explicit support for socialism as a doctrine, and socialist parties have been among the most successful political forces of the last 100 years. This correlates with a rise in atheism, although some ideas in religion, such as the society of very early Christianity, have shown similarity to socialism, as shown by Acts 2:44.

[[Marx, Karl|Karl Marx]] considered socialism to be a transitory stage between capitalism and communism. In his view, socialism is summed up by the expression: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." A major criticism of socialism is that it infringes individual rights in favour of the collectivity. In a very real sense, politics in the western world throughout the 20th century were shaped by the conflict between a more socialist and a more individualist conception of history.

Although socialist parties are common in Europe, the leading examples all currently embrace some free enterprise, individual property rights and certain other aspects of capitalism.

Socialism has caused more deaths, including deaths by brutal torture, than any other political system in the history of the world.

Leading European Socialists are very critical of America<ref>[http://www.pes.org/content/view/666/74/lang,en/]</ref>.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower

2007-03-17T05:11:13Z

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'''Dwight D. "Ike" Eisenhower''' (1890-1969) was the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces during [[World War II]], and went on to serve as 34th [[President of the United States of America]].

==Early Life==
Eisenhower was born in Texas, but was raised in Kansas. Eisenhower attended West Point, which put him somewhat at odds with his upbringing as a Jehovah's Witness <ref>http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/listofholdingshtml/listofholdingsJ/jehovahwitnessesabilenecongregation.pdf</ref>. (Eisenhower later became baptized into the Presbyterian church, the timing of which made him the firstpresident to become baptized while in office <ref>http://www.classroomhelp.com/lessons/Presidents/eisenhower.html</ref>.) Eisenhower was stationed in Texas during World War I, where he met his future wife, Mamie Geneva Doud.

==First Term==
After [[Harry Truman]] decided against running for a third term in 1952. Eisenhower ran on the [[Republican]] ticket. Due to his popularity as a [[General]] in [[World War II]], he won the election.

During this term, the [[Korean War]] was ended after a treaty was signed. Eisenhower's term in office is also notable for the creation of the Interstate Highway System, which was funded by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 <ref>http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/programadmin/interstate.html</ref>.

==Legacy==
Though a lifelong Republican, Eisenhower betrayed the Republican Party and conservatism in his Farewell Address, in which he attacked the role of industry in determining the military direction of the United States. For this reason, he has been called a "crypto-[[socialist]]" by many of today's top conservative figures.

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George H. W. Bush

2007-03-17T05:08:57Z

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''George H. W. (Herbert Walker) Bush'', [[Republican]], was the 41st President of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993. Before his presidency, Bush was the 43rd Vice President of the United States in the administration of Ronald Reagan. He has also served as the member of the United States House of Representatives for the 7th district of Texas (1967–1971), the United States Ambassador to the United Nations (1971–1973), Chairman of the Republican National Committee (1973–1974), Chief of the United States Liaison Office in the People's Republic of China (1974–1976), and Director of Central Intelligence (1976–1977). His spawn is [[George W. Bush]].

Perhaps more importantly than his tenure as president, Bush served in World War II as a fighter pilot, where he earned three Silver Stars and the Congressional Medal of Honor. Immediately after the end of the war, Gen. [[Dwight Eisenbower]] delivered a famous speech in which he mentioned Bush by name and called him "unquestionably the finest example of a young man that America has today."

His presidency was defined primarily with the 1990 [[Gulf War]] He faced a strong challenge from [[Pat Robertson]] in 1988 primary due to charges that he was too liberal, and some claim that he lost the presidency in 1992 due to many Republicans defecting to the [[Ross Perot]] camp. He is considered by many to be one of the greatest presidents, and in fact was named the best president of the second half of the 20th century in a 1998 poll of major historians.

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User:Scalito1776

2007-03-17T05:01:17Z

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I am 14 years old and a PROUD AMERICAN PATRIOT in Queens, New York. I aspire one day to be the greatest Supreme Court justice this great nation has ever seen. I have already earned early admission to a prestigious combined bachelor's/law degree program, so I am well on my way. God bless all who read this and GOD BLESS AMERICA.

Richard Nixon

2007-03-17T04:58:50Z

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[[Image:Richard_nixon.gif|right|thumb|The 37th President of the United States, Richard Nixon]]

'''Richard Milhous Nixon''' (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th [[President of the United States of America]], serving from 1969 to 1974. He was the 36th [[Vice President of the United States of America]] from 1953 to 1961, in the administration of [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]. As a [[Congressman]] from [[California]], he investigated [[Communists]] and instigated the successful prosecution of [[Alger Hiss]]. Nixon served as Vice President under President Eisenhower from 1953 to 1961, and lost his first presidential race to [[John F. Kennedy]] by a tiny margin. In 1968 he was elected president, and was reelected in 1972 by a landslide, but resigned the presidency on August 9, 1974 due to a threat of impeachment by Congress for the Watergate scandal. The main impeachment charge was that Nixon obstructed justice by telling employees to mislead FBI investigators about the Watergate burglary. Other charges included lying to the American public.

President Nixon established the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and was the first President to visit the People's Republic of China. He appointed a conservative (William Rehnquist), two moderates (Warren Burger and Lewis Powell) and a liberal (Harry Blackmun) to the U.S. Supreme Court. Nixon was from a Quaker family. His foreign policy as president was marked by détente with the [[Soviet Union]] and the opening of diplomatic relations between the United States and the [[People's Republic of China]]. His centrist domestic policies combined conservative rhetoric and liberal action in civil rights, environmental and economic initiatives. As a result of the Watergate scandal, Nixon resigned the presidency in the face of likely impeachment by the United States [[House of Representatives]]. His successor, [[Gerald Ford]], issued a controversial [[pardon]] that allowed Nixon to avoid prosecution.

When Nixon left office, his reputation was in shambles. Returning home to California, he embarked on an extensive, decades-long campaign to repair his image as a statesman. Today almost all major historians agree that Nixon was one of the greatest presidents of the 20th century.

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Talk:Merriam-Webster

2007-03-17T04:55:53Z

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Several of these so-called "errors" are absurd. To wit:

"The date and description of pogrom is not precisely correct. Merriam-Webster provides a date of 1903 and calls it an organized massacre of helpless people. Pogrom is a Yiddish term used in Russian beginning in the late 1800s to describe an organized campaign of violence (not always a "massacre") against Jewish people in Russia."

Question: Of what language is Merriam-Webster a dictionary? I'll answer that for you: English. Dates of word origin in English dictionaries refer to the year the word entered the English language. Thus it is irrelevant that "pogrom" was "used in Russian beginning in the late 1800s."

"The entry for Yiddish is too narrow in describing it as only a language of Jewish residents and descendants of central and eastern Europe. Yiddish is spoken worldwide."

Hogwash. Except for a very small number of scholars and hobbyists, Yiddish is spoken only descendants of Jews from Central and Eastern Europe. It is indeed true that it is spoken worldwide -- by descendants of European Jews, like the dictionary article says. --[[User:Scalito1776|Scalito1776]] 00:55, 17 March 2007 (EDT)

Talk:Merriam-Webster

2007-03-17T04:54:43Z

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