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Eric Margolis on the Muslim Brotherhood

I’m no expert on the Middle East, but I think it’s a safe bet to say that Eric Margolis is a better source on Egyptian politics than the entertainers in Congress and talk radio put together. In his articles, The Mideast Burns and Democracy or More Dictatorship for Egypt?, Eric Margolis lays out his thoughts [...]
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data on egypt in the days of hosni mubarak

Hosni Mubarak became vice president of Egypt in 1975, and assumed the presidency in 1981. It appears that he has recently resigned. Leaving aside moral questions, let’s take a statistical look at what has happened to the people of Egypt during his reign. Related Posts:A World of ElitesEric Margolis on the Muslim BrotherhoodFood Stamps (Again): [...]
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More on Egypt, etc.

Things in the Middle East are heating up. The protest movement has spread to Jordan, where the king has thrown out the entire cabinet and is replacing them all in response to public pressure. As technology has made the world more and more closely interconnected, it appears the Muslim world is finally at a tipping [...]
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Gary North on the recent unrest in Egypt

Gary North explains how the recent unrest in the Middle East is the result of the Internet, which makes the information control that oppressive governments rely on impossible. Brutal dictatorship as we know it is coming towards its last days. And the US government, which has so long armed the repressive government of Egypt, is [...]
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one reason for ancient archaelogy, from a christian perspective,

is the belief that God has been acting throughout history in the various nations of the world.  As it says in the book of the prophet Amos, Are ye not to me as the sons of the Kushites?  O Sons of Israel, says Jehovah, Did I not bring Israel up out of the Land of [...]
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why i am a byzantine priorist

After reviewing all three sides of the argument for a good many hours, I’ve become quite certain that the Byzantine-priority approach, as outlined in Maurice Robinson’s The Case for Byzantine Priority, is the best way to approach questions about the original text of the Greek New Testament.  No one, as far as I know of, [...]
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what eved-melek means to me

When I was a little boy I had a little Bible book of cartoon pictures, a far more complete Bible than many children’s Bibles–if I remember right it even included the book of Hosea.  Serious children’s Bible.  Everyone did, however, look suspiciously European in skin tone. Except for Eved Melek.  Eved Melek was black, and [...]
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population growth, exodus, and numbers

Often, people attempt to use what they call science to disprove the history in the Bible. One of the accusations concerns the rapid population growth recorded in the Bible during the Israelite sojourn in Exodus. This is the accusation: that to start with 70 Israelite men going into Egypt and end with over 2,000,000 people [...]
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