Free Republic

During a national emergency, a liberal Marxist-leaning political leadership takes absolute control of the United States. Martial law is declared and elections are suspended. This leadership morphs into a complete Communist-style government. All dissent is brutally repulsed. Two young university students, Peter Blake and Natalie Biriukova, become active leaders in the resistance movement. They soon fall in love. In time they are targeted by the government and forced to go on the run. A feared and notorious Compliance Officer, Nicholas Snoopczech, is hot on their trail. He is hated and feared by Americans, especially those who are brave enough to...

You think you know about Islam. But did you know: Islam teaches that Muslims must wage war to impose Islamic law on non-Muslim states American Muslim groups are engaged in a huge cover-up of Islamic doctrine and history Today's jihad terrorists have the same motives and goals as the Muslims who fought the Crusaders The Crusades were defensive conflicts Muslim persecution of Christians has continued for 13 centuries--and still goes on

The words 'grand old man' and 'larger than life' are often overused but they apply to Maurice Druon, a writer, historian, war hero and defender-in-chief of the French language, who has died just short of his 91st birthday. Druon's name does not mean much to the younger French generation, except perhaps as a bit of a reactionary and champion of linguistic purity at home and abroad. One of his last public acts was a quixotic campaign in 2007 to have the European Union adopt French as its supreme language in official documents. But Druon is remembered by older people as...

Okay, time to discuss the latest book assignment from the Freeper Reading Club: All The King's Men by Robert Penn Warren. The next Freeper Reading Club assignment is Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. Discussion for that book will be July 12.

Sorry for the one day delay of the discussion of the next book on the Freeper Reading Club list---Traveller, written by Richard Adams who also wrote Watership Down. I was busy yesterday putting together the FR Comedy Hour Broadcast set for tomorrow. Anyway, did anybody read both of those Adams' books? If so, how did Traveller compare to Watership Down?