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Many southern states and their political subdivisions, including Texas and Grimes County, recognize April as Confederate History and Heritage Month. The war had many causes, including slavery and tariffs. In March 1861, the U.S. Senate passed the Morrill Tariff, which immediately raised the average tariff rate from about 15 percent to 37.5 percent, but with a greatly expanded list of covered items. Soon thereafter, a second tariff increased the average rate to 47.06 percent. President Lincoln hinted very strongly in his first inaugural address a military invasion was possible if the tripled tariff was not collected. At that time the...

Shuttle from Selma taking marchers to New Orleans By Cassandra Mickens Tuesday, March 28, 2006 8:58 PM CST The Selma Times-Journal The Dallas County New South Coalition, the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute, the 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement and the Dallas County Democratic Conference have joined together to shuttle area residents to the Return, Vote and Rebuild March in New Orleans Saturday, April 1. Those interested in marching will board charter buses at Memorial Stadium at 3 a.m. Saturday. The cost of the trip is $30 per person. Call (334) 418-0800 or (334) 875-3947 for more information. The...

JimRob's Big Adventure (April Roadtrip) Greetings FReepers, I'll be traveling with Jim and Shiela Robinson. We'll be attending a Heritage Foundation seminar/workshop in Colorado Springs, CO. Jim will be representing FreeRepublic.com and I will be there representing VetsCoR. Our itinerary will be: Depart from Date time miles Arrive at Date Time Approximate Driving time Fresno, CA* 4/13/06 ??? 171 mi Mojave, CA 4/13/06 ??? 4 hours Mojave, CA* 4/14/06 ??? 172 mi. Death Valley,CA 4/14/06 ??? 4 hours Death Valley, CA* 4/16/06 ??? 171 mi. Mojave, CA 4/16/06 ??? 4 hours Mojave, CA* 4/16/06 1330 256 mi. LHC, AZ 4/16/06...

Judge refuses to delay New Orleans election Feb. 24, 2006, 3:54PM By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge refused today to postpone the April 22 mayoral election in New Orleans, turning back arguments that not enough has been done to ensure participation by the city's mostly black population dispersed by Hurricane Katrina. The decision came from U.S. District Judge Ivan Lemelle, who had earlier pressured state officials to make sure the election was held by the end of April. "We're extremely disappointed," said attorney Tracie Washington, one of the lawyers working with hurricane victim advocates who...

Campaigning may be difficult after Katrina By JEREMY ALFORD Courier Capitol Correspondent January 08. 2006 12:41AM BATON ROUGE -- While state officials have spent recent months devising a plan to hold elections in the hurricane-ravaged portions of Louisiana, those who run campaigns have been concocting new schemes for the actual campaigning process. It will certainly be a different picture from what voters and candidates find familiar. Deserted cities will complicate media launches, limited resources will make fund raising difficult, and hordes of displaced voters could forever change the face of get-out-the-vote efforts. Additionally, by all accounts, there will only be...

Doing some research on possible WMD releases during Iraq operation. There were (I believe) 4 Scuds launched while guidance was possible. 2 or 3 were knocked out by Patriot batteries; 1 - possibly 2 short rounded in the desert. If there is a well-informed military historian,with access to non-classified data,I'd like to get dates of Scud launches, and approximate areas of interception/shortfall. If someone has access to 1st class meteorological data, I'd like ideas as to weather,prevailing winds, and/or anything else that might suggest where any plume of bio or chemical nature would have blown off to: eg: China, India,...

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day Free Republic made its debut in September, 1996, and the forum was added in early 1997.   Over 100,000 people have registered for posting privileges on Free Republic, and the forum is read daily by tens of thousands of concerned citizens and patriots from all around the country and the world. A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day was introduced on June 24, 2002. It's only a small room in JimRob's house where we can get to know one another a little better; salute and support our military and our leaders; pray for those in...

Snowmass, Colo. -- April 7, 2005 -- Nicholas Popaditch, a Marine Corps veteran from Twenty-Nine Palms, Calif.,is enjoying the challenge of skiing, and an opportunity for self-development at the 19th National Disabled Veterans Winter Soprts Clinic. The Clinic is taking place April 3 - 8 in Snowmass Village, Colo. Established in 1987, the National Disabled Veterans Winter Sports Clinic is the largest annual rehabilitation event of its kind in the world. It is co-sponsored by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Disabled American Veterans (DAV). Popaditch, 37, a combat-wounded veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom, is among...

LONDON, April 1 - The article certainly looked normal, sitting innocently on the front page of The Guardian newspaper on Friday. Under the headline "New Labor Lines up Countryside Role for Charles," it reported that the Labor government wanted to enlist the Prince of Wales as its liaison to rural Britain, giving him "some hands-on experience of running something." O.K., but does the government also want to make fox hunting legal again and make it more socially inclusive, to provide "kids on housing estates the same opportunity to hunt as posh children," as the article also reported? Does it want...

On April 1, 1979, the greatest April Fool's joke of all time was played on the people of Iran. Ayatollah Khomeini proclaimed the "first day of God's government," and established himself as the grand ayatollah. The events that followed that proclamation have had a lasting effect not only in Iran, but in the entire Middle East. The newly-crowned grand ayatollah showed the rest of his Arab brethren how to unify secular, social and religious groups in their hatred for the shah and the United States and use it as a political and military tool to overthrow the government – and...

April Fool's Day is one of the most light hearted days of the year, yet it stems from a serious subject—the adoption of a new calendar. A Traditional New Year's Ancient cultures, including those as varied as the Romans and the Hindus, celebrated New Year's Day on April 1. It closely follows the vernal equinox (March 20th or March 21st.) In medieval times, much of Europe celebrated March 25, the Feast of Annunciation, as the beginning of the new year. In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII ordered a new calendar (the Gregorian Calendar) to replace the old Julian Calendar. The new...

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The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

Last Saturday night brought His Imperial Highness Prince Nguyen Phuc Buu Chanh of Vietnam, Regent of the Imperial Dynasty and President of the Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League, to Cornell. The Prince, a member of the Vietnamese imperial family gave a lecture, entitled "Revival of Vietnamese Culture: The Nguyen Dynasty," before a crowd of about 50 people. Maria Nguyen '05, vice president of the Cornell Vietnamese Association sang the American national anthem and then played the national anthem of South Vietnam. Aided by PowerPoint slides, Prince Buu Chanh then began his lecture speaking from a podium draped with the American flag...

The Imperial Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam is politically pressuring the government of Vietnam to protect the liberty, religious rights of the Vietnamese people as well as the culture, traditions, languages of the Montagnards and Khmer Krom in Vietnam. (PRWEB) October 23, 2004 -- Today, Vietnam is experiencing a minor period of outward growth. Even the most dedicated Communists are abandoning old communist economic policies, which have proven to be ineffective and sometimes harmful. Capitalism is being introduced, with the Communist Party maintained only as a vehicle to exercise absolute control of the elite Party leaders over the common people. The...

"If you mean dying in the course of the United Nations effort, yes, it is worth that. If you mean dying American troops unilaterally going in with some false presumption that we can affect the outcome, the answer is unequivocally no."

Aurora,IL (PRWEB) September 8, 2004 -- OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS - From the Office of the Leadership of the The Imperial Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam & Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League: His Imperial Highness Prince Nguyen Phuc Buu Chanh of Vietnam, Regent of the Imperial Nguyen Dynasty and President of The Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League denounces the Communist Government on the return of United States Servicemen MIA or possible POWs’ and Human Rights Record. It has been stated by American Marines and Army Soldiers who are in Vietnam searching for MIA's, that there is corruption within the government of Vietnam. They stated that...

There’s no question that the U.S. economy is booming. Why isn’t this reflected in President’s Bush poll ratings? Why would Americans think that John Kerry would do anything but ruin the economy? Kerry: the King of All Waflers; the most liberal member of the Senate. He proposes increasing taxes by $700 billion over the next 10 years. Kerry plans to stifle the American economic engine. Faced with good economic times, just what are Americans thinking?Boom Times Yesterday, the Conference Board reported that U.S. consumer confidence reached its best level in two years. 248,000 new American jobs were created in May....

So why is the house shaking... Felt like a long 4-5 earthquake at 5:02

On April 1, the entire world celebrates April Fools day. This is the only day when journalists are allowed to relax a bit and entertain their readers/listeners. The following are just a few examples of the best media jokes: Switzerland celebrates unbelievable pasta harvest The most famous joke of the 20th century was BBC's report about sensational pasta harvest in Switzerland which has been broadcasted in 1957. The report of the British journalists informed viewers of those troubles that the Swiss run into while trying to decide what to do with the harvest. "Winter was rather mild and farmers managed...