How do you post more than 300 words?
Go to free republic home page, on right click on latest articles link, on top menu see “copyright list”, click, in browser menu/edit/find (control F), search for name of article source (get familiar with it), if not on copyright list (I also check the bottom of the source article page for a copyright) then you may copy and paste the article.
I have gotten through the whole procedure and free republic will auto refuse to post if there are copyright issues so it may not be up to date.
blogs that are not under copyright can be posted but please please do not post them under news.
also, copy and paste any excerpt into word and see how many words you are copying. It does an auto count on the bottom bar.
copyright link for FR...add to favorites or bookmark
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1111944/posts