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The media frenzy surrounding Cindy Sheehan, the woman who lost a son in Iraq, is a prime example of what has gone wrong with 24-hour “news” coverage. The woman is clearly unhinged, and while we need to respect her grief at losing her son, it is now abundantly evident that her campaign has moved beyond her personal loss to her political ideology. It is embarrassing and inhumane for the media to expose this poor women’s unbalanced behavior. Somebody needs to step in to provide her with a quiet place to rest and, one would hope, regain her rationality and emotional...

Posted 1:53 AM August 12, 2005 Morton Marcus column: Fewer kids, more immigration would strengthen U.S. Society should invest in one or other to improve nation, guard resources.   By Morton Marcus August 12, 2005   Morton Marcus   Customer service •   This column may seem harsh to some readers; don't say you were not warned. Could we reduce some of the major costs in our society if we had fewer children and more immigration from abroad? Think about it. Children, particularly those 15 to 19 years of age, are a major disruptive and expensive aspect of our nation....

June 05, 2005 American Left Remains On Fringe Of Society Joe Bell One of the most deeply held objectives of the American left is the overwhelming obsession to remove any vestige of God from American history. Earlier this year The Nation ran an article titled "Our Godless Constitution" by Brooke Allen, which made an intrepid, yet failed, effort to rewrite America's past. Bouncing from the Declaration of Independence to the Founding Fathers to the Constitution the writer battled gamely to prove America was "founded not on Christian principles, but on Enlightenment ones." The Enlightenment offered much in the advancement of...

In the fight over filibustering judicial nominees, the Senate gave us something new: defining extremism leftward. Judges whose views Democrats have regarded as merely conservative are now seen as right-wing extremists — or, to use the phrase that keeps coming up in the current Senate debate, "out of the mainstream." But what does the phrase mean? From Democrats' public statements, it seems to mean the following: Judges who would uphold a state's ban on gay marriage are out of the mainstream; judges who would rule that parents should be notified before their underage daughter has an abortion are out of...

NEW YORK -- Have America's college campuses been overrun by an addiction to political correctness? Some students charge they are being treated as second-class citizens if they don't fit the political correctness mold. The most prominent victims these days: conservatives and Jews. They have seen their beliefs bashed by professors and fellow students. Some young Republicans say they have found their grades lowered because of their politics. Jewish and conservative students have been shouted down in classes. Many have learned to just keep their mouths shut and their heads down. But there are some people who are no longer willing...

I came across this interesting exchange while nosing around on DU:YEM (347 posts) Thu May-19-05 12:46 PM Original message How do we respond to freepers when they say Dems have 0 ideas? Seriously, whenever I argue with a freeper, they say "well what are the dems plans and proposals?" I actually don't know what to say back to them. Any help?bunkerbuster1 (1000+ posts) Response to Original message 1. There are 44 Dem senators with 44 websites Those are good places to start.UdoKier (1000+ posts) Response to Original message 3. That their "ideas" are always just about DESTROYING... ...successful democratic ideas...

Just how serious a problem is racism in Germany? Very, you might be tempted to answer, considering the recent much-documented rise of the right, which is making expats in Germany very nervous. The signs do indeed look alarming. Middle Germany was shocked when the extremist National Democratic Party (NPD) was elected to the Dresden state parliament last September. Berlin is currently bracing itself for the NPD march along Unter den Linden on 8 May, the 60th anniversary of the Nazi capitulation. A recent police report shows that right-wing extremist crimes in Germany have reached their highest level since 2000. The...

On its official Web site, Northwestern offers an impressive biography of Law Prof. Bernardine Dohrn, detailing her work in children's law, her educational background, her academic appointments and other notable accomplishments. The university's profile curiously omits one of her most significant leadership positions: She was a principal organizer of the Weathermen, a radical cabal, during the late 60s and early 70s. Among its many criminal exploits, the group claimed responsibility for no fewer than 12 bombings between 1970 and 1974, and Dohrn spent a decade hiding from federal authorities to avoid prosecution for assaulting a police officer. A basic Internet...

Here's the first of an amazing series of photos, audio and video files taken at the San Francisco Anarchist Bookfair by "Zombie". The entire series can be seen here.WARNING: Several of the images and files on the page -- especially the sixth image from the top -- are highly work-unfriendly, and might disturb Freepers not used to the open-air freak show that is San Francisco "alternative culture." Proceed with caution!

Rafael Renteria, introduces his essay, “Look in the Mirror, Ward Churchill and White America”, with a defense of Ward Churchill by convicted cop-killer, Mumia Abu Jamal .  "It is not enough for us to merely dumbly intone that Churchill has a right to write what he does. No. We must do more. We must insist that Churchill is right, and no one, not some rabid talk show parrot, nor a political whore like Governor Bill Owens, has a right to demand what is wrong, Churchill is right. From Death Row, this is Mumia Abu Jamal." Renteria then writes, “It's...

BC-APNewsAlert,40 NEW YORK (AP) - Civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart has been convicted of helping an imprisoned radical sheik communicate with his terrorist followers on the outside. AP-NY-02-10-05 1525EST

LET us be grateful that Janet Jackson did not bare both breasts. On the first anniversary of the Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction that shook the world, it's clear that just one was big enough to wreak havoc. The ensuing Washington indecency crusade has unleashed a wave of self-censorship on American television unrivaled since the McCarthy era, with everyone from the dying D-Day heroes in "Saving Private Ryan" to cuddly animated animals on daytime television getting the ax. Even NBC's presentation of the Olympics last summer, in which actors donned body suits to simulate "nude" ancient Greek statues, is currently under...

On the first anniversary of the Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction that shook the world, it's clear that just one was enough to wreak havoc. The ensuing Washington indecency crusade has unleased a wave of self-censorship on American television unrivaled since the McCarthy era.Even NBC's presentation of the Summer Olympics, in which actors donned body suits to simulate 'nude' ancient Greek statues, is under investigation.This repressive cultural environment was officialy ratified on November 2nd, when Ms. Jackson's breast pulled off its greatest coup of all: the re-election of President Bush.Or so it was decreed by the media hoarde that retroactively delared...

1. Stay on Message! Keep everything in your platform just as it is. Don't change anything. Keep discussing health care and jobs, because this is what America is concerned with and interested in, not that pesky old War on Terror. 2. Keep fanning the flames of hate! Hate is your biggest asset. Keep it up, don't back off a bit. The more hateful and rhetorical you can be about President Bush and the Evil Republicans, the better! Have Michael Moore make "documentaries", have Bob Woodward write books, have Dan Rather do more investigative reports! Blame everything under the sun on...

A better question might be, does anyone in America really want to unite? If they do, I don’t see any evidence of it. Sure, everybody is talking about it post election, but in all cases, what they mean is, the other side needs to think more like me… Many have attempted to psycho-babble their way through why we are so divided. But the answer is more obvious than anyone cares to admit. We are divided by design… Modern political campaigns are designed to draw distinctions between candidates, even where no distinction exists. Otherwise, if everyone were truly united behind the...

THEY say that in life you get what you deserve. Well, today America has deservedly got a lawless cowboy to lead them further into carnage and isolation and the unreserved contempt of most of the rest of the world. This once-great country has pulled up its drawbridge for another four years and stuck a finger up to the billions of us forced to share the same air. And in doing so, it has shown itself to be a fearful, backward-looking and very small nation. This should have been the day when Americans finally answered their critics by raising their eyes...

"Influential figures on the party's left wing are planning a long-term campaign to move the Democrats to the left...the left-wingers are working hard to elect Kerry, even though they regard him as representing the party's cautious center. In the primaries, most of the left preferred Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor, whose populist, anti-war candidacy threatened to wrest the nomination from Kerry, to the horror of the party establishment...If Kerry defeats Bush on Nov. 2, the left will probably demand significant roles and influence in the new Kerry administration -- a Cabinet position for Dean, for example, or Kerry's acceptance...

A group of south Minneapolis neighbors that wanted to get involved in the presidential race has produced its own campaign commercial. The spot has Osama bin Laden endorsing the Bush-Cheney re-election effort. The ad contends President Bush's approach to the war on terrorism is strengthening al Qaeda. Campaign finance observers say while independent expenditures are certainly nothing new in presidential policies, they have yet to hear about a few neighbors actually producing an ad. Minneapolis, Minn. — Had a handful of south Minneapolis neighbors simply gotten the Kerry-Edwards campaign yard signs they'd asked for this summer, they say they would...

You have seen it, you have heard, and most of you have felt it's consequences. Immorality. Yes, we are seeing the immorality of Left running rampant from phony Bush documents, to John Kerry bashing our critical ally in Iraq, Ayad Allawi, to Howard Dean and Michael Moore. Kookism has been the demise of a historical party, a party that housed greats like John F. Kennedy, Harry S. Truman, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. This parties roots reach even further then the Republicans, all the way back to Thomas Jefferson. And with names like that you have to respect the history of...

GUESS WHO'S ENDORSING JOHN KERRY???? The Communist Party of The United States of America, CPUSA, is publicly supporting the election of John Kerry. No, this is not a typo...you read it correctly. The CPUSA has made available on its Web site, www.cpusa.org, an advertisement entitled Top Ten Reasons To Defeat Bush. This advertisement can be downloaded. The communist party urges readers to place this ad in local newspapers throughout the country to defeat President Bush. Remarkably, the "Top Ten Reasons" of the Communist party are identical to those of the Democratic party; out-sourcing, homosexual rights, abortion and the like. At...

Teresa Heinz Kerry: Bag Lady for the Radical Left By Ben Johnson FrontPageMagazine.com | February 13, 2004 With Matt Drudge’s recent revelation that John Kerry is as faithful to his second wife as he was to his old Vietnam “brothers,” the senator’s presidential campaign may depend more than ever on the actions of his wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry. While the mainstream media has thus far overlooked the alleged infidelity, media outlets have also overlooked a far more important story: The former Mrs. John Heinz is also in bed – financially – with the radical Left. Teresa Heinz Kerry has financed...

At this point we have four independent sources that say there was no lying by President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair regarding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The 9/11 commission, the Senate Intelligence Committee, Lord Butler's British investigation and Vladimir Putin have all stated that the WMD intelligence was faulty but the politicians did nothing untoward. So what should be done with the people who accused Bush and Blair of intentionally lying to bring war to the world? Have you heard any of them apologize for their slander? I haven't. Let's go further. The 9/11 commission report...

was at a health ranch last week, where the idea is to clear your mind for serene thoughts. At dinner one night, a woman at the table referred to Arizona as a "right to work state." Unwisely, I replied: "Yeah -- the right to work cheap." She said, "I think you'll find the non-union workers are quite well paid." Exercising a supreme effort of will to avoid pronouncing the syllables "Wal-Mart," I replied: "If so, that's because unions have helped raise salaries for everybody." She replied: "The unions steal their members' dues." I replied, "How much money would you guess...

SACRAMENTO -- A Sacramento judge has thrown out the 14-year sentence former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson received, saying a new hearing is needed to decide how much prison time the former St. Paul woman should serve. Olson pleaded guilty in 2001 to taking part in two attempts to bomb Los Angeles Police Department cars in 1975, and originally received a five-year, four-month prison sentence. The Board of Prison Terms scrapped that sentence in October 2002 in exchange for a 14-year sentence, saying Olson's crimes had the potential for great violence and targeted multiple victims. The three-member board...

Kerry's New Hate-America Man If this is John Kerry's idea of moving to the center, then he inhabits an unelectable portion of the far-Left. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee hired a young lefty pit bull, Zach Exley, away from MoveOn.org yesterday, and charged him with the task of lording over the campaign’s online communications. Exley, whose idea of proper political discourse is borderline pathological, is an odd addition to Kerry’s team at the precise moment when the candidate is sprinting away from the word “liberal.” A former union organizer, Exley first rose to prominence in Democratic circles when George W....

Kenneth DeGraff is the type of worker Indiana leaders want. The 2003 Butler University graduate is young and technology savvy -- a perfect fit for the high-tech firms the state hopes to lure to shore up its lagging economy. Curt Smith But DeGraff, 22, also is gay, and he moved from Indiana after graduation largely because of the perception that many residents and political leaders are unaccepting of the gay community. Indiana's reputation for intolerance has been reinforced in recent weeks by the General Assembly's fight over same-sex marriage and the Senate's refusal to hear a bill that would extend...

Liberal activists gather for 'house party' Sponsored by MoveOn.org and open to anyone, the meeting was held at Hollins University. By Mason Adams When Jens Rasmussen took the stage at Hollins University on Sunday night in front of a giant photograph of President George Bush labeled "MisLeader," it's safe to say he was playing to a friendly crowd. About 80 people showed up to a "house party" Sunday at Babcock Auditorium, one of a reported 770 around the country, to express their disdain for Bush and the war in Iraq. Rasmussen, an actor at Mill Mountain Theatre, organized the event...

HAVANA (AFP) - Noted US linguist and left-wing social critic Noam Chomsky said he was surprised at the failed US policy in Iraq, especially after such a relatively easy invasion. The 74-year-old Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor said it took "real talent" to botch things up as badly as the United States has in Iraq, especially in view of prostrate state the country was after years of UN sanctions. Speaking through an interpreter at the formal presentation of his book "Noam Chomsky en La Jornada," a compilation of articles published by the renowned US scholar in the Mexican newspaper La...

It may be too late to organize anything against this, but interested parties should know that former terrorists/leftist martyrs Bernadine Dohrn and Bill Ayers will be attending the 7:15 showing of the documentary/propagandistic puff piece The Weather Underground Friday night at the Lagoon Cinema in Minneapolis. I found out about this by reading the following (nauseating) review in the U of M's newspaper: http://www.mndaily.com/articles/2003/09/18/6569 More details are at the Lagoon Cinema's website at http://www.landmarktheatres.com/Market/Minneapolis/LagoonCinema.htm

<p>September 17, 2003 -- It was hard from Day One to understand the rationale for paroling Kathy Boudin, the one-time child of privilege turned revolutionary urban terrorist. Apparently Gov. Pataki had some questions, too, because big changes at the state parole board are accompanying Boudin's walk to freedom this morning. While Pataki's office last night denied involvement, Parole Board Chairman Brion Davis is said no longer to be involved in its day-to-day affairs.</p>

I ran across this blog and thought Freepers would get a kick out of it. Here's another copy of the link: http://dumonitor.blogspot.com/

Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi California     This series, appropriately titled "Herod's Heroes," is intended to separate the wheat from the chaff by revealing those men and women, for whom the citizens have voted, and who are not upholding the ideals God expects of His children. We cannot condone sin, and they are promoting the most vile of sin by being accomplices to the slaughter of millions of innocents in the womb. That is why, like the Judean king of Christ's time, who, out of political expediency and jealousy, tried to eliminate the Messiah by killing the first-born of every family,...

DC Chapter and Others: Today's Washington Times has an article (page A3) about the pretrial hearing for the alQaeda members in Buffalo. It shows a photo of some misguided, un-American lefty weirdo students protesting outside the courthouse there. On the sign held by one of the ones prominently featured up front are the words "March on Washington October 26." Apparently, they are planning to give us another FReeping opportunity. The sign lists a website for more information as well as a phone number. The website is www.iacbuffalo@action-mail.org. I won't put the phone number on the board because I think Jim...

The Left and the Far Right: Curious Bedfellows? The Left has been very serious in its critique of American foreign policy and its cynicism. The basis of that policy has been, "if you are an enemy of communism, you are my friend," which has led America into cooperation with a whole range of tyrannical, military-backed dictatorships. But we should be very careful about the wisdom of that statement, because those on the Left should take heed too. Not everyone who speaks out against "the government" and "the State" is on our side. Indeed, they may have an entirely different agenda,...

Our Man in Paris: When the 'internut' drives out reality John Lichfield 22 July 2002 Apart from his impudent, mournful expression, Thierry Meyssan is an unlikely looking left-wing activist. He wears a suit and a tie and he has short, dark hair. He looks like a door-to-door insurance agent from the 1950s. To France's shame, Mr Meyssan, 44, is a bestselling author. His breathtakingly silly book L'Effroyable Imposture ("The terrible imposture") has been hanging about in the French bestsellers' list for weeks.The book suggests that the attack on the Pentagon on 11 September last year was carried out, not by...

Lies, Damned Lies, and JournalismBy Larry SchweikartFrontPageMagazine.com | July 17, 2002 In the 1970s or 1980s, a typical exchange over liberal media bias went something like this:CONSERVATIVE: "The media is biased." JOURNALIST: "No, it's not."CONSERVATIVE: "Yes, it is."While conservatives could cite anecdotal evidence as to liberal bias in the media, journalism's defenders always replied that such examples did not mean anything There was, as Clinton lawyer Lanny Davis used to say, "no pwoof." In the 1980s, this began to change, albeit slowly. A few surveys---often done by the Media Research Center (MRC)---provided some astounding numbers, such as the fact that...

Of course this new bit of news that the Intelligence agencies had issued warnings of "skyjacking" threats is not really news ... How many times over the past few years, especially during the Clinton Administration had warnings like this been issued? It's a general warning that must have been issued yearly by the Intelligence Agencies since the 1970s ... But who here is naive enough to believe the Press is going to give a proper context to this story? They've been trying to bring down his numbers for months and undermine the GOP in Congress and now this has given...

SACRAMENTO - Gubernatorial nominee Bill Simon today issued the following statement regarding Governor Davis' divisive and politically motivated support for reparations: "Today the Department of Insurance released a report documenting insurance company records containing a list of former slaves and slaveholders to comply with legislation (SB 2199 - Hayden) signed in 2000 by Governor Davis. Governor Davis recently fanned the flames of divisiveness when he said, 'Clearly, we want to right any wrongs and do justice to people who were taken advantage of.' "Bringing up the wounds of our country's past in a politically motivated attempt to shore up his...

March 24, 2002 Law catches up to ecoterror By Valerie Richardson THE WASHINGTON TIMES DENVER -- Sure, they burn down homes, firebomb universities and terrorize research labs. Even so, for the better part of a decade, the Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front were seen not as anti-social thugs but iealistic young kids. After all, the general public tended to support their broad goals: They were in favor of a clean environment and against cruelty to animals. Religious fundamentalists and militias were dangerous; groups like ELF and ALF were well-meaning, even if they sometimes got carried away and torched...