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On Wednesday, March 29, 2017, Senator Mark Warner (D-Virginia) stepped up to the microphone to address the press. As Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senator Warner told the listening audience that Russia had definitely interfered in the 2016 presidential election. He stated that they had done so with the express intent of making America, “weaker, financially and militarily weaker,” as a nation. He then directly contradicted himself, apparently unaware he had done so. He said that Russia had used their nefarious influence to try to elect “their choice of candidate, Donald J. Trump.” The one candidate...

For the first few decades of my life, almost all of the news received by the American public came either from newspapers, the radio, or from one of 2-or-3 major Network television news stations. Nobody questioned the news back then, and the media was a reliably faithful watchdog on our Halls of Power and the pols who roamed them within the Beltway. This 2016 election cycle, all that changed in significant ways. One major party candidate for president decided to circumvent the historical avenues of public address, going around, over and under the usual news organs to speak directly to...

I turn off CNN or FOX when they get nauseatingly anti-Trump. I just don't have time for the bullsnot. So I come to FR for relief. A bastion of conservatism in the heart of America. But there's a problem. I'm starting to see more Anti-Trump stuff here than I see on FOX or CNN or anywhere else. This will hurt FR, badly, if JR doesn't fix it. Thinking people come here to avoid the urine and feces everywhere else. Let's not latrine this place up too much, especially in obeisance to the false god of "publishing the news..." If it's...

©2012 by Anthony James, all rights reservedOf all the deceptions foisted upon the American public by President Barrack Obama, and they are legion, the most recent and quite possibly the worst has been the lie about the "...riot over a video that got out of control in Libya..."It has come to light that when United States Ambassador Stevens was murdered in Benghazi on September 11th, President Obama and his Security team watched the slaughter unfold via satellite video feed in the White House Situation Room. So Obama and his cabal knew from the very outset that there was no riot....

©2012 by Anthony James, all rights reserved As the 2012 presidential election draws closer, the time for fanciful dalliances is past. Months ago, many among my conservative acquaintances were quite vocal in their lack of confidence in the soundness of the RNC's choice for the GOP's anointed standard-bearer, former Massachusetts Governor, Mitt Romney. Their sincere and well-founded concern lay in the fact that, over his political career, Governor Romney has displayed leanings that went way too far to the left. Whatever may have been his more laudable accomplishments in the political arena, staunch conservatism was assuredly not among them. That this lack...

Back in 2009 the White House held a news conference announcing their new plans for taking action against the Mexican drug cartels. President Obama's spokesman lays out the plan ordered by President Obama and Attorney General Holder. Two questions arise rather quickly: 1) How can they now claim not to have had any idea about this badly bungled operation until it was made public following the Brian Terry murder? 2) Why are Darrell Issa and the rest of the GOP Congress allowing this slow-waltz of pathalogical liars to parade before these hearings when they have access to the same vidoe...

Where, Oh Deceiver, Is Thy Sting? The Tea Party and Racism©2011 By Anthony JamesAs we approach the silliest of all Silly Seasons, it is important to bear a couple things in mind. While the run-up to, and then the engagement of, our quadrennial Presidential Elections are aptly referred to as "the Silly Season" because of the abnormally high level of mischief and demagoguery normally indulged in by both camps, this 2012 Election cycle promises to be an order of magnitude more Daliesque than any we have ever seen.Not only are the usual players already piqued by the extraordinarily dire situation...

© 2012 by Anthony James, all rights reservedFor the moment, let's ignore the fact that all of America's 13 original colonies had official state religions based upon the Christian Bible. Let's further ignore that the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America, the Hon. John Jay is accurately quoted as having written "...Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the privilege as well as the duty of our Christian Nation to select and prefer Christians as their rulers." Finally, let's ignore that in another article here on...

“Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes…”(But who shall guard the guards…?) © 2011 by Anthony James, All Rights Reserved “We are just five days away from the fundamental transformation of the United States of America,” proclaimed soon-to-be president Barack Hussein Obama to the borderline hysterically swooning clot of starry eyed, thought devoid lemmings. In the relative and unprecedented vacuum of any actual background information on the man who would be King, it wasn’t easy for the attendant mass of humanity to know for certain what he meant with this utterance. Given the way the left leaning media and the Beltway Democrats had...

If ever there was a “case in point” example of the unspeakably fraudulent media bias in favor of everything and anything liberal, this is it. Especially when viewed through the lens of fairness and objectivity, which for centuries had been a hallmark of honest and honorable reportage, the current fawning and drooling over the miscreants befouling our city streets by the Lamestream Misledia is the most concrete proof possible that our once vaunted fourth estate is totally bankrupt. Morally and ethically bankrupt. Hundreds of thousands of tea partiers on a number of occasions have marched on DC and congregated on...

Sarah Palin’s “Earthquake” © 2011 by Anthony James A little less than three years ago American conservatives received a devastating gut blow when Barack Obama was elected president. Although the mainstream media had not done any of their usual in-depth vetting of this largely unknown candidate, there were nonetheless millions of Americans who had availed themselves of the information digging properties on the Internet, who knew very well who this man was, who his radical past associations were, and who knew without being told what he meant when he said, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United...

Q: Do you believe Sarah Palin is qualified to serve as President if she were to run and get elected? Yes : 66.38% Q : How would you describe the media's treatment of Sarah Palin? Biased against her : 66.96% Q : How often do you agree with Sarah Palin's opinion on key political issues? Very often : 61.75% Q : Is your overall opinion of Sarah Palin favorable or unfavorable? Favorable : 68.74% Q : Will you vote for Sarah Palin if she runs for president in 2012? Yes : 56.59% Q : Do you believe Sarah Palin could...

RUBES: The REAL Sarah Palin Haters © 2011 By Anthony James There’s a new book out, purportedly an “exposé” on the “real” Sarah Palin, by noted Palin hater Joe McGinnis. Joe is as well known for his questionable sources and frequently unattributable accusations as he is for his creepy fixation on all things Sarah. This is the guy who actually went to Wasilla last summer and rented the house next to the Palins so he could spy on them and be an aggravating thorn in their sides as he concocted his latest hit piece on America’s favorite Governor. Released on...

I spend a good deal of time on the FreeRepublic website, America’s premier gathering place for conservative activists. A healthy cross-section of America’s modern day “Minutemen” bivouac here regularly to share and discuss the daily news items which most greatly affect our constitutional Republic. We were just discussing Sarah Palin’s newest Facebook message regarding Jimmy Hoffa’s disgusting profanity yesterday where he addressed union members with this distinctly un-American reference to The TEA Party: “Let’s take these sons of bitches out!” It wasn’t that long ago that Democrats including president Obama were calling for a more civil form of discourse throughout...

Arctic Storm Sarah Cranks Up To Typhoon Strength © 2001 by Anthony James With sustained winds approaching “blow-Obama-off-the-electoral-map” strength, Typhoon Sarah heads for the lower 48 in an historic move south and east. Just announced is an earlier-than-expected Pay-per-View release of the film “The Undefeated,” a no-holds-barred documentary which lays bare the factual saga of this woman’s remarkable record leading up to and including her three years as Gov. of Alaska. The vast majority of the American public still has no idea about the truth of this Dynamo as a direct result of a concerted three-year campaign to assassinate her...

Pusillanimous Iconoclasts © 2011 by Anthony James The term refers to a group of ignoble and even cowardly individuals whose goal it is to attack or tear down something held in reverence by the general public. It could be a hallowed American institution like our process of electing our leaders. Or, it could be a leader who is cherished by a large swath of the electorate— like Sarah Palin. Still another possibility is that it refers to both, which, in this case, it does. There is little more strictly and thoroughly American than a good political brouhaha, with fairly evenly...

FRANK LUNTZ: A Less-Than-Frank Dunce © 2011 By Anthony James The list of political types who have formed a virtual conga line around Washington DC chanting in near unison their various reasons why Sarah Palin is just not their cup of “TEA,” shall we say, has given birth to some of the strangest bedfellows this town has seen since GOP Sen. “Benedict Arlen” Spector cited Scottish Law when joining with the Democrats in trying to block the impeachment of Bill Clinton. Nonetheless, that list grew recently as Frank Luntz, formerly considered to be an objective pollster whose reports could be...

TOKYO ROVE” STRIKES AGAIN© 2011 by Anthony James Sour Grapes Karl Just Can’t Help Himself. As former president Ronald Reagan would say, “There you go again, Karl.” On Wednesday evening on Greta Van Susteren’s top-rated FOX TV news and talk show, “On The Record,” former Bush political adviser and the man euphemistically referred to as “The Architect” for his alleged contributions to George W. Bush’s winning campaign strategies in 2000 and 2004, Karl Rove just inexplicably and repeatedly soiled himself in front of the American public again and again. Greta had asked him why he felt it was that the...

Washington’s Ghost Is Accepting Applications © 2011 by Anthony James Many of my recent articles have revolved around the themes of Sarah Palin’s unique qualifications, and the fact that the RINO Right, the Liberal Left, and the Lamestream Misleadia were about to launch an all-out assault on The Tea Party. This article is just as timely, but should be seen more as a “call to arms.” In another earlier piece I wrote called “The Price Of Freedom” are these words: “Where, before, the battle was waged on the frozen hills and fields of Lexington and Concord, and across the swamps...

Within the ever shifting landscape of the Republican presidential candidate pool has been a constant that is both the best and the worst kept secret of the 2012 general election cycle. That secret is whether or not Sarah Palin will throw her hat into the ring as a candidate for president this time out. As I have written in my previous pieces, “Revelation: The Arc of the Candidate,” “Sarah Inches Closer,” and “What Really Makes Sarah Special,” I believe her running for president in 2012 is and has for some time been a fait accompli.Ceteris parabus, fortis fortuit brava That’s...