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I'm trying to get into this CNN Town Hall thing, but so far is sucks wet dog fur. Until Donald Trump came on stage!!!! What a contrast! I'm sorry, no offense to Kasich and Bush but Trump's responses matter...they are on the money. They are answers no other candidate could give... to questions no other candidate would get. Oh...CW you don't believe me? They asked him a question about the music he likes... then he moved into Michael Jackson, and how he knew the man.. and the surgery that usurped him confidence that led to his demise etc. Who else...

One of the big reasons I got fed up with the Democrats and left is that Barack Hussein Obama broke with the tradition of previous Presidents, from JFK to Nixon, Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush, all from both parties, of honouring the only free-market and free society country in the Middle East, that is Israel. Obama joins Michael Moore, Max Blumenthal, Dhimmi Carter, alongside Fidel Castro, George Galloway, Jeremy Corbyn, and other radical crazies. George HW Bush was an exception to this, tho come to think of it, he was nicer to Shamir than Obama was to Netanyahu,...

2 Corinthians 1:12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward. This is the greatest election ever and it is only just begun. We have the outsiders completing the work the Tea Party had begun and Moscow on the Potomac has no idea what is about to hit them. When you look at the two Parties you have one which is being headed by some old as dirt Leninists...

Over the past several months, Free Republic has begun to show an ugly side of its members. Although admittedly comprised of many strong-willed, opinion-charged individuals presenting thoughtful, conservative insights into the topics of the day, this forum has begun to show a seamier side as the Trump-Cruz-Rubio-Carson 2016 Primary heated up. You all know what I mean. Many of you have either been at the giving or receiving end of EMOTIONALLY-charged attacks against various candidates or even individuals as their supporters. Herewith a few thoughts I would like to share: Passion for a candidate and buying into the campaign is...

This is a short dissertation on the Real political spectrum, Each step of the way will be confirmed by the dictionary definitions of the various political ideologies and how they relate to the spectrum. In order to properly set it out in a logical manner we need to base it on the metric of governmental power since this should be the clearest method of distinguishing where the ideologies fall on the spectrum. 1. Government Control scale. For the sake of simplicity we will use a scale of %0 to %100 with zero for no governmental control and ranging up to...

As much as I love Cruz as a conservative, there really is a voter rebellion underway and it may be unstoppable. Despite all the denials, the simple truth is the voters really are fed-up and really are up in arms against the establishment. Trump's message is exactly what the voters are looking for: Build the wall, enforce the law, deport them all, slap a moratorium on Muslim immigration, bomb the hell out of ISIS, cut the taxes, cut the spending, cut the regulations, cut the government, cut the bad trade deals, cut the political correctness crap, bring back capital, bring...

He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour. Proverbs 21:21 KJV What if everything man knows is wrong? What if everything is built on a fraud and that fraud is maintained by the elite to keep them in charge? What if they have sold us a bill of goods through both fraud and poorly thought out ideas? If this charge is true then it is time for America to take a look at a new way of doing things than the way it has been since Roosevelt. We have been following evolution as the state religion...

President Obama's Lecture from the MosqueThe Rest of the Story Thoughts on Obama's Lecture: From watching and listening to President Barack Hussein Obama lecture all of us as he spoke at the Balitmore Mosque last week...he not only looks entirely comfortable there, heck, you would have thought he was the main Imam cleric for the Mosque. He used their language because he knows it. The teachings of Mohammed flowed naturally off of his lips, because he was raised with it. Earlier he announced to the world in his book that the most beautiful sound in the world in the Islamic...

Q: Why are the voters rebelling? A: The leftist progressives have been treading on our constitution and our liberty for at least the last 100 years and consequently we've suffered a long train of abuses and usurpations: The income tax (16th amendment), ending state sovereignty/concentrating power at the federal level (the 17th amendment), the Fed, heavy-handed/unconstitutional regulations, socialized retirement, socialized health care, restrictions on religious liberty, legalized abortion, federal mandated homosexual marriage with the heavy hand of the federal government enforcing it over the objections of the states and small business operators, the illegal alien invasion, the subversive Muslim invasion,...

Former President Bill Clinton on Tuesday said that, as candidates, Bernie Sanders and Barack Obama have "traumatic differences" in appeal — and dispelled any notion that the Vermont senator could beat Hillary Clinton, his wife, in the race for the White House. Bill Clinton told NBC News' Andrea Mitchell at a campaign event in New Hampshire that President Obama had a different feel than Sanders, calling the president "new, different." "Barack Obama is not Bernie Sanders, let's not play cheap games here," he said. Bill Clinton argued that Sanders policy positions are a red flag from some Democratic voters, an...

Welcome to the Free Republic CaucusPlease read the rules, and participate according to the guidelines provided.  Thank you. REMEMBER:  To find the Caucus thread for the day, Search "Caucus".       The New Hampshire Primary takes place in seven days. Only vote on this thread on: 02/02/2016  another thread will pop up five minutes before: 02/03/2016Wait to vote until 12:00 midnight EST, and don't vote after 12:00 midnight EST at the at the end of the day.  Look for the new thread. Votes outside the 24 hour period, will not be counted.  Give it five minutes or so on each...

Romans 8:24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? What if everything we know about science is wrong? What if science has been completely corrupted by agenda driven politics and what we have left is more political than scientific? What if science is simply a tool to manipulate? Science for the past hundred years has been more wrong than right. What we have seen is the foundation of science is corrupt and built on a lie so science has repeated this model...

A Review of Presidential Debate Questions in the Modern Era The Nixon-Kennedy Debates Can you tell if there is any hostility, bias, or gotchas in the questions over time? I will use a 1-5 point system to "rate" the question, and then normalize and "score" the fairness of the overall debate. A perfectly neutral debate should score 50/50. Scoring System 1=Biased against the candidate. Intended to create conflict with others, or make the candidate defensive or unappealing. 2=Mostly fair, but makes unnecessary snipes at the candidate. 3=A generally fair question. 4=Mostly fair, but gives the candidate an intentional opportunity to...

If you're an American conservative Fox News is NOT your friend. All of the following is sourced and linked. Muslim Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal is the second largest voting shareholder in 21st Century Fox. Alwaleed told an audience in Dubai that it took just one phone call to Rupert Murdoch - to get the Fox News crawl reporting "Muslim riots" in France changed to "civil riots."" Fox had a Muslim activist and Bernie Sanders supporter who has compared Trump to Hitler set up to sandbag him at the debate. Fox had an illegal immigrant set up to sandbag Trump....

Gary Bauer, one of America's leading pro-life and pro-family activists, endorsed Ted Cruz on Friday. In doing so, Bauer became one of many evangelical Christian leaders who have thrown their support behind the senator from Texas. Bauer explained: "Ted Cruz is a courageous conservative who has built a consistent record on the issues that matter most. He has fought for religious liberty at home and abroad. He believes all of our children should be welcomed into the world and protected by the law. Ted knows that government is too big and that taxes and regulations are too high. He will...

Welcome to the Free Republic CaucusPlease read the rules, and participate according to the guidelines provided.  Thank you. Only vote on this thread on: 01/25/2016  another thread will pop up five minutes before: 01/26/2016Wait to vote until 12:00 midnight EST, and don't vote after 12:00 midnight EST at the at the end of the day.  Look for the new thread. Votes outside the 24 hour period, will not be counted.  Give it five minutes or so on each end, so you are sure to get your vote counted. If you have questions, FReep Mail me.  DO NOT disqualify your vote...

Donald Trump has opened up a marginal lead over Ted Cruz in the voting on the Free Republic Caucus thread.  Yesterday's vote revealed a 51.88% to 45.31% preference for Trump. The Free Republic Caucus (daily) has been up and running for four days now.  The first day was the 20th, and we're in the midst of voting on the fourth day now.  Over 300 people have participated each day. The Free Republic Caucus has been instituted to determine what the preference of FReepers was.  It is being run each day leading up to and into the Caucus and Primary season,...

Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they becamefools, What if everything we know in science is wrong and we have been exploring bad science for the last hundred years. What if the entire science world is built on a false premise which has corrupted everything built from its foundation and steered us into complete fallacies. What if science is the source of many if not most of our problems from the environment to education to the economy? What if we have driven ourselves into a dead end street and God actually is real? Back in the late eighteen hundreds...

By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Richard Nixon became the thirty-seventh President of the United States on January 20, 1969 and was reelected in 1972 for a second term by the electors of forty-nine of the fifty states. His term in office continued until his resignation on August 9, 1974. Pursuant to resolutions of the House of Representatives, its Committee on the Judiciary conducted an inquiry and investigation on the impeachment of the President extending over more than eight months. The hearings of the Committee and its deliberations, which received wide national publicity over television,...

Trump has the formula to win. He is combining a country-wide populism with a national conservative mood instigated by seven years of abuse from the Obama administration and acquiescence by the uniparty. People are fed up. For years now, 70% of Americans have felt the country is going in the wrong direction. I have written many rants. You each have your own rants about what's wrong with the country and everyone has just had it up to here; we're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore. People say Trump sold out in Iowa on the ethanol...