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The witch-hunters are out this year, if you are not conservative enough, whatever that means, you are going to be crucified!
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Novocastrian: Interesting you talking about witch-hunters when the supreme witch-hunters of the Spanish Inquisition used waterboarding too.
George Bush: no escaping torture charges | Katherine Gallagher 2011
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Despite $70 million worth of investigations and every possible flaw revealed (how many of us would fare as well), prosecutors and political witch-hunters came up empty-handed.
Obama, Clinton supporters both say Clinton attacking unfairly 2008
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It was, he wrote, “a refreshing change from the howls of the witch-hunters, and the Gestapo of Senator McCarthy and all other forms of Fascism—from which the good Lord deliver us please.”
Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010
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Sure, and the only motives of the witch-hunters were to protect people from those evil (nonexistent) witches.
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Professional witch-hunters like David Horowitz, the ex-Commie-turned-neocon who aspires to be the arbiter of a new form of government-enforced political correctness, have turned this effort into a rising new industry and a source of employment for a whole generation of slanderers and sleaze-balls, who make a living sliming their betters.
John Fund vs. Juan Cole: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009
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I think you've just proved your point and brought lots of the witch-hunters out in full cry!!
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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History is filled with evildoers acting from fierce conviction: Mullahs, witch-hunters, Inquisitors and suicide-bombers.
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In the case of the witch-hunters, there were political and financial motivations to obtain confessions: often the property of the ‘witch’ would be claimed by the church.
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Both of Palin's witch-hunters are also directors, one in Alaska, the other in East Africa, of the Global Apostolic Prayer Network, originally founded as the "Spiritual Warfare Network", which in turn constitutes a key network in the religious movement, known as The New Apostolic Reformation.
Bruce Wilson: Sarah Palin Linked to Second "Witch Hunter" 2008
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