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How do you form your opinions about various issues? Do you let others tell you how you ought to think or what your opinions ought to be? Or do you make an effort to learn as much as you can about an issue and make your own decisions about what seems to make the most sense to you? This book attempts to provide you with some sides of issues that are not usually presented in the schools or the media.For example:A publication of Planned Parenthood stated, "An abortion kills the life of a baby after it has begun."America is named in honor of a pickle peddler."Two percent of the world's population - Americans - use 60 percent of the world's illicit drugs."Abigail Adams wrote in 1776, "If particular care and attention is not made to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation."A 17 year psychological study came to the conclusion, "Crime is a moral problem."Margaret Sanger wrote: "[The poor and handicapped are] sinister forces of the hordes of irresponsibility and imbecility . . . [those less privileged in society are] a dead weight of human waste."Barry Goldwater pointed out, "A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away."Benjamin Franklin wrote, "They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."Thomas Jefferson claimed that blacks would never be ready to be assimilated into a European type civilization.President Roosevelt said, "To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.""In the United States on May 20, 1895, income tax was declared unconstitutional."Charles Darwin stated, "I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."C. S. Lewis declared, "If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don't recommend Christianity."Robert Heinlein said, "An armed society is a polite society."Hawaiian lava flows known to have happened around 1800 were dated by the potassium-argon method at up to 3 billion years old."[t]he Gun Control Act of 1968 was passed not to control guns, but to control blacks."Albert Einstein said, "Science without religion is lame.""The Barbie doll is a scale model of a woman who tapes 39-23-33.""[T]he National Association of Police Organization's report on averages of criminals' sentences: For burglary, 5.4 days. For auto theft, 3.8 days. For murder, 2.3 years."A young man received a university football scholarship yet couldn't multiply 9 times 6.Nikita Khrushchev said, "Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river."Mao Tse-Tung wrote, "Every Communist must grasp the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun'."The Wall Street Journal reported that of the reported AIDS cases, homosexuals and intravenous drug users accounted for 83%.Thomas Jefferson stated, "I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary."Jesse L. Jackson said, "Your children need your presence more than your presents."John Marshall, Chief Justice wrote, "The power to tax involves the power to destroy."Mark Twain said, "All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure."An ancient philosophy said, "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers.""Although intellect and genetic characteristics may influence behavior, crime is a function of individual choice.""In 1658, the Virginia Legislature passed a law to expel all lawyers."An early white explorer said, "[Indians] have always been kinder to ...