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  • 5% Carry 60% of Fed Income Tax; 5% Carry 100% of Free Republic Expense

    05/26/2014 5:44:46 PM PDT · by xzins · 312 replies
    Vanity ^ | 26 May 14 | Xzins
    Free Republic gets about 40,000 unique hits a day. Going to the state donor numbers, we get about 2300 donors. That is about a 5.5% rate of readers to donors. My testimony is that Free Republic is the best website on the internet. Notice that I didn't say, "the best conservative, small government, pro-God, pro-Life, pro-Gun, etc." website. That is true, but Free Republic is more. I just had a near real time discussion with a FRiend on freepmail. I've had zero pop-ups, ads, thefts, etc. since 1998. It was all discussion all the time. Where else do you get...
  • The VA Death Panels (Saturbray)

    05/24/2014 11:00:46 AM PDT · by bray · 4 replies
    www.braylog.com ^ | 5/24/14 | bray
    For I will restore you to health and I will heal you of your wounds delares the Lord, because they have called you an outcast, saying: “It is Zion; no one cares for her.”’ Jeremiah 30:17 Why should anyone be surprised there were death lists at the VA, it is the natural process of Marxism. There is no way a socialist enterprise can compete with a free market one due to the lack of profit incentives which are replaced with political ones. There is no natural selection or efficiency necessities due to budgeting and making dollars go as far as...
  • The Lavender Nazis (Saturbray)

    05/17/2014 8:20:51 AM PDT · by bray · 20 replies
    www.brayincandy.com ^ | 5/17/14 | bray
    Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners, Isiah 61:1 As a proud homophobe it is time to speak out about the thuggish tactics the Lavender Nazis have decided to take. They have parlayed their special victim status into army intent on destroying the moral foundation of America. When you are subject to losing your job, your career and even your ability to have a bank account if...
  • Hillary Clinton played Politics in Benghazi Lead Up

    05/15/2014 3:14:33 PM PDT · by Col Vit · 5 replies
    POLITISITE.com ^ | 5/15/2014 | Colonel Steven B. Vitali USMC (Ret)
    The intensity level in Washington is heating up with the creation of House Select Benghazi Committee. Already, pugilist jabs are thrown by Nancy Pelosi as she hypocritically rejects appointing members to the committee. Poor Nancy, the same arbitrator of fairness in the Obamacare sham, cast a hallow demand for “fairness and balance” to force Republicans to cave to her insistence of an equal number of committee members selected from each camp. Nancy is smug with her shrewd ploy to appear non-partisan while painting Republicans as unfair before the committee even begins their work. Pelosi recoils in laughter at her deception...
  • POLITICAL STALKING.

    05/15/2014 7:18:53 AM PDT · by Lazamataz · 56 replies
    Original Content | 5/15/2014 | By Laz A. Mataz
    Harry Reid has always been obstinant and churlish, but in recent weeks, we can add the descriptors 'disturbingly obsessed'. The target of Reid's Orwellian Five Minute Hates are the Koch Brothers -- in particular, Charles G. and David H. Koch. The Koch's are an inoffensive pair of brothers who contribute, legally, to conservative and libertarian causes. This appears to enrage Mr. Reid, as evidenced by his continuing rants about these two people from the Senate Floor. in the last year, Reid obsessively derided these two American citizens, as evidenced in the following news stories: Harry Reid Backs Constitutional Amendment To...
  • SOUP, SEX, SALAD, or SUDSMEN MYTHS.

    05/12/2014 11:32:30 AM PDT · by carlo3b · 21 replies
    Cooking With Chef Carlo ^ | May 12 2014 | Carlo3b
    SOUP, SEX, SALAD, or SUDSMEN MYTHS. Setting the record straight!What is it about men that seem to bug everyone in today's society? Everywhere you turn it appears that Guys are the butt of every cliché imaginable. Show me a commercial that depicts a man in a favorable light, when pitted up against women, or even his children, you can't and that is just wrong. What have we done to be so maligned in today’s culture?I think it’s time to correct the record, at least where I can add my extensive knowledge and expertise. Let us start with some of the...
  • HAPPY MOTHERS DAY, remembering Mom...

    05/10/2014 8:09:14 PM PDT · by carlo3b · 10 replies
    Cooking With Chef Carlo ^ | May 10 2014 | Carlo3b
    HAPPY MOTHERS DAY, remembering Mom... Could it have really been 35 years since I kissed my Mom good night? How could that be, it seems like only yesterday? Her memory is still fresh, her wonderful smile is vivid in my mind. I can still feel the tenderness of her kiss on my cheek, and I can recall everything she whispered to me as I held her close... Could it have been so long ago... I still remember you Mom... each and every time I say good night to the kids on a holiday... I kiss them once more just for you... I...
  • Benghazi Cover-Up: Obama, Democrats and the Lap Dog Media

    05/09/2014 12:17:32 PM PDT · by Col Vit · 15 replies
    POLITISITE.COM ^ | 9 May 2014 | Colonel Steven B. Vitali USMC (Ret)
    The Benghazi scandal roared back to life like a raging inferno into the public consciousness last week with a newly released Ben Rhodes “Smoking Gun” White House email. Ben Rhodes, the White House Deputy Strategic Communications Advisor is shown to be orchestrating a White House strategy to focus the Benghazi attack on a relatively unknown anti-Islamic internet video. Ben wrote, “To underscore that these protest are rooted in an internet video, and not a broader failure of policy.” The highly respected conservative analyst, Charles Krauthammer, opined that the discovery of the Benghazi email is reminiscent to the discovery of the...
  • The Ukraine Fights Back

    05/02/2014 2:49:53 PM PDT · by Jeff Head · 20 replies
    JEFFHEAD.COM ^ | May 2, 2014 | Jeff Head
    2014 UKRAINE CRISIS - THE UKRAINE FIGTS BACK (5/2/2014) Part I - Ukrainian Maidan Revolt (February 2014)Part II - Russia takes the Crimea (March 2014) In the report, click on any picture for a higher resolution version) INTRODUCTION: As documented in Part I and Part II (see the above links) of the Ukrainian Crisis of 2014, the Ukrainian people overthrew their President in February of 2014 and he was forced to flee Kiev and was then impeached by the Ukrinian Parliament. He was moving the Ukraine back towrds Russian influence and had been close to Valdimir Putin, the presidnet of...
  • On Claiming ACA Victory

    04/28/2014 10:22:06 AM PDT · by jda · 6 replies
    On April 18, the President claimed "this thing is working", that "it’s well past time to move on as a country and refocus our energy on the issues that the American people are most concerned about" and that "the repeal debate is and should be over". Is the victory lap a bit premature?
  • CLIVEN BUNDY'S COMMENTS ON RACE & THEIR IMPACT

    04/25/2014 10:12:08 AM PDT · by Jeff Head · 86 replies
    JEFFHEAD.COM ^ | 25 April 2014 | Jeff Head
    MY TWO CENTS: BUNDY'S COMMENTS ON RACE & THEIR IMPACT On April 20, 2014, Cliven Bundy, who is at the heart of a large confrontation with the Federal Government over land and property rights and the over-reach of the Federal Government as a result of the Bundy Cattle Ranch, made some caustic comments about race in America. Most of the networks are not playing Cliven Bundy's full comments. I think it important, despite the fact that his words have understandably caused an uproar, to have the full context of what he said. So, before he talked about seeing black...
  • When the government owns the land it's communism

    04/24/2014 6:03:37 PM PDT · by Jim Robinson · 28 replies
    April 24, 2014 | Jim Robinson
    When the government owns the land and natural resources and controls production from same, it's called communism. The Founders intended Americans to enjoy their God-given liberty. The constitution was written to severely restrict government power and ensure freedom. The founders never intended for an all powerful central government to own the land or to control the means of production. They limited the central government to about 18 enumerated powers and left all others to the people and the states to decide locally. The United States was intended to be a free Republic governed at various levels by elected representatives, working...
  • How can it be a state if the central government controls 86% of its land and all of its resources?

    04/22/2014 10:51:05 AM PDT · by Jim Robinson · 77 replies
    April 22, 2014 | Jim Robinson
    Sounds like the very definition of elitism. The elites in Washington DC, most of whom have never set foot in Nevada (outside a casino), controlling what the local citizens can or cannot do on the land within their state boundaries? This is not the way America was intended to be governed. Ever heard of local control? Self-government? States rights? To many of us out here in the West, pursuit of happiness means ranching, farming, logging, mining, drilling, hunting, fishing, or just living in and enjoying God's great outdoors. It's un-American and unconstitutional for unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats in Washington DC to...
  • A Frankenstein Constitution

    04/16/2014 2:47:01 PM PDT · by Jacquerie · 74 replies
    A common concern among Article V opponents is fear that a convention of the states to propose constitutional amendments will result in an oppressive constitution. All we need to do is enforce the constitution we have. Elect the right people to implement our written constitution and all will be well. As logical and appealing as that approach appears to be, it ignores some horrible realities, and actually promotes our headlong dive into tyranny, for the anti-constitution, the unwritten Frankenstein constitution rules. First, aside from the occasional heat politicians take from an outraged populace, our legislative and executive branches in the...
  • (Vanity) The core corruption in the Bundy Ranch Story..Who gets the land offset and why?

    04/16/2014 10:09:24 AM PDT · by tophat9000 · 8 replies
    4-16-14 | Tophat9000
    Sorry for the vanity post but I had a question and thought regarding the Bundy Ranch issues and really the core of the corruption... It boils down to the concept of land offset as part of ..The Rules you and I must follow and who gets exception to the rules because their powerful or friends of the powerful. . We have all seen this..take Obamacare. .push through a draconian law then give exceptions and waver to your friends and strict, to the letter, enforcement to your enemys..same with emigration. .selective enforcement to the letter vs selective non enforcement and out...
  • The Bundy Ranch Story...and Freedom in America

    04/15/2014 3:30:14 PM PDT · by Jeff Head · 133 replies
    JEFFHEAD.COM - The BUNDY RANCH ^ | April 15, 2014 | Jeff Head
    MY TWO CENTS: THE BUNDY RANCH & FREEDOM IN AMERCIA (Throughout the article, Click on any picture for a larger image) What happened in Clark County Nevada, north of Las Vegas, with the Bundy Cattle Ranch in late March and April of 2014 is a story that should be told to all Americans. We should all be proud of what firecly independent, God-fearing Americans accomplished there in standing up to Federal Government over-reach. Having been personally involved with other such incidents in the western United States over the last 15 years, I wanted the people of the United States to...
  • The Republic of Texas 2022 (Saturbray)

    04/12/2014 6:46:14 AM PDT · by bray · 26 replies
    www.brayincandy.com ^ | 4/12/14 | bray
    What would a country look like with a small government and was guided by God and the maximum freedom of its citizens? That is the country I developed in The Republic of Texas 2022, my new novel being published and now in early release. Our hero is Steven Moses who is the most powerful man in the world, but understands that the free market is where true freedom lies. The United States has collapsed and is still in a depression state as the entire structure has disappeared and is replaced with a servant state of the United Nations. Meanwhile Texas...
  • America Betrays Her Revolution

    04/07/2014 5:06:12 AM PDT · by Jacquerie · 31 replies
    To Freepers, our statist government is a daily “fingernails across the chalkboard” experience. Why is Obama able to sweep judicial, and legislative powers into the executive? Why did our national government morph from one designed to protect our freedoms into one of increasing political and social oppression? Why did the federal government generally remain within its Constitutional bounds prior to WWI and not thereafter? Thank the 17th Amendment. Tomorrow is its one hundred and one year anniversary. It fundamentally altered the Constitution; it pulled the keystone from the arch of our Framers’ structure. The structure upon which our freedoms depend...
  • Freedom vs socialism; paychecks vs safety nets; peace through strength; goodness triumphs over evil

    04/06/2014 10:43:47 PM PDT · by Jim Robinson · 20 replies
    April 6, 2014 | Jim Robinson
    I'm getting old and my memory is failing so please correct me where my memory is wrong or if I'm making up memories. Also, please expand where I fall miserably short. It's my recollection that Reagan was so successful because he was a leader with a vision who promoted strength, freedom, optimism, patriotism and righteousness. And he could communicate his vision with commonsense, humility and good humor. He did not succeed by pandering, evolving and adapting. He brought various factions together by promoting the ideas that freedom was much better than socialism, strength better than weakness, fiscal restraint better than...
  • The 7 Million Enslaved Celebration (Saturbray)

    04/05/2014 7:33:31 AM PDT · by bray · 5 replies
    www.brayincandy.com ^ | 4/5/14 | bray
    Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Matt 7:15 How delicious was it for the new Abe Lincoln to do a touchdown dance celebrating the seven million slaves signing up for his healthcare plan. Never mind nobody in the room including him believed the number or the quality of the signees, he had to rub it in the face of all Americans that he won and they lost. It reminded you a bit of Hitler high fiving the 6 millionth Jew or Mao his 20 millionth dissenters, as he mugged...