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Jimmy Carter’s Hypocritical Olympic Boycott

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2025
Well knows he who uses to consider, that our faith and knowledge thrives by exercise, as well as our limbs and complexion. Truth is compar’d in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her water flow not in a perpetual progression, they sick’n into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition.
– John Milton

 

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
January 8, 2025
Jimmy Carter’s Hypocritical Olympic Boycott
According to an article in the Washington Post, Gene Mills, a U.S. citizen who was one of the top amateur wrestlers in the world, stated, “He stole my life. That was my life. He took it away from me.” Mills was referring to President Jimmy Carter, who recently passed away at the age of 100. It was Carter who ordered U.S. athletes to …
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