Free Republic

FLASH!!! Dixie Chicks Natalie Manes just now blamed the Free Republic for their downfall on "Hardball." She claims the FR had an organized effort to bring them down.

It's time to vote for the 2003 Weasel Awards. This is your chance to shine the spotlight of public ridicule on the weasels that deserve it most. Weaselness is a subjective quality, but you know one when you see one, unless that weasel happens to be yourself, in which case you had good reasons for doing what you did. Put the greatest weight on recent weasel behavior. I know that some of you are still angry about the Crusades, but try to put it behind. We want fresh, innovative weasels that did their best work in 2003. Remember that being...

Student expelled for bread knife to return to class 03/21/2002 Associated Press BEDFORD - An honors student expelled from a North Texas school after a bread knife was discovered in the back of his pickup truck will return to classes Friday after school district officials reduced his punishment. Taylor Hess, expelled from L.D. Bell High School in Hurst two weeks ago, will return after an agreement between Hurst-Euless-Bedford school district officials and his parents was reached Thursday. "Actually, what I was hoping for is exactly what I've got," Robert Hess, the youth's father, said after the hearing. Since his...