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Berkeley -- Dozens of flag-waving military supporters squared off boisterously with peace activists today in the first major showdown over of a U.S. Marine Corps recruiting station that until recently had been operating below the radar in downtown Berkeley. Demonstrators led by conservative radio talk-show host Melanie Morgan shouted down members of Code Pink, a group spawned by Bay Area peace activists, as both lined Shattuck Avenue and Addison Street outside the recruiting station, which was closed today. Shortly before noon, there was a physical confrontation between the two camps, which prompted Berkeley police Sgt. Randy Files to bellow at...

Live Interactive Poll: Who would you support in a hypothetical 2008 presidential election between former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Senator Hillary Clinton? [ ] Senator Hillary Clinton [ ] Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani(Scroll to the very bottom of the page.)

Two news items passed recently without notice in The Tribune's pages. Separately, each story is troubling enough, but put side by side, the two stories illuminate a terrifying trend. The first comes from Myanmar, formerly Burma, and tells how its military junta has created civilian gangs to solidify power by antagonizing dissent. The second comes from our own country and tells how the Bush administration has also created civilian gangs, called "rally squads," to antagonize protesters and demonstrators. These civilian volunteers stand ready to block protesters' signs and to drown out demonstrators' chants, ensuring that nary a critical word is...

Check this poll on al Bawaba: Who do you think is responsible for the current clashes in Gaza? - Fatah - Hamas - Israel - International community This needs some freeping!

It was a very good and lazy, sunny spring day in Olney. Especially since only one moonbat showed up today. Also a good time to talk to a high school journalist for an article in her school newspaper. Last week she stopped by as we were breaking down and we did a brief taped interview. It appears she was asking questions from a list that the moonbats wrote for her. She was unsure of how to ask the question and also had to look over the paper to see what to ask. FYI for FReepers from the area, she is...

SEATAC, Wash. — The Christmas trees are going back up at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Port of Seattle officials had ordered the trees taken down over the weekend after a local rabbi threatened a lawsuit if a menorah wasn't also displayed at the airport. Airport officials say they took that action out of concern that if they allowed the addition of a menorah, they would also have to display symbols of other religions and cultures, which was not something airport workers had time for during the busiest travel season of the year. Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky says he never asked that the...

The departure of Christmas tree displays at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport — the Port of Seattle's response to a local rabbi's insistence that an electric menorah also be put up — is accelerating into an international spectacle in the so-called "war on Christmas." And that is not what Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky wanted. "I am devastated, shocked and appalled at the decision that the Port of Seattle came to," he said Sunday. As news coverage about the airport's trees spread from CNN to ABC to the Paris-based International Herald Tribune, Bogomilsky on Sunday began to receive hateful messages from people holding him...

SEA-TAC Airport - All of the Christmas trees inside the terminal at Sea-Tac have been removed in response to a complaint by a rabbi. A local rabbi wanted to install an 8-foot menorah and have a public lighting ceremony. He threatened to sue if the menorah wasn’t put up, and gave a two-day deadline to remove the trees. Sea-Tac public affairs manager Terri-Ann Betancourt said the trees that adorn the Sea-Tac upper and lower levels may not properly represent all cultures. She said that since this is their busiest time of year and they don't have time to add...

THE LEFT RETURNS: PART II Two hundred and three years ago, at the signing of the Declaration of Indepedence, Benjamin Franklin offered a starkly realistic view of what awaited America's first freedom fighters. "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." In the Philadelphia of 2006, it will does all conservatives well to remember that assessment. I apologize for the length of what follows. I think all of it is useful as a reminder for what we are up against. Well, friends and comrades, the dust has barely cleared from Election 2006 and the Left has...

...we came, we saw, we shredded some more... Operation Simply Shred II went into effect at 9:30 am this morning of May 27, 2006 with the opening of the 2006 Memorial Day Airshow at the Columbia Regional Airport. If anyone remembers last Memorial Day weekend in 2005, Operation Simply Shred was a success and had the local moonbats, especially the chief honco, Mark Haim, going rabid over what we were doing to his precious yellow pamplets.. Four FReepers were there to put the Operation into effect: Bluesagewoman, Gulfwar1vet, Prov3456, and Bogeyman.

CQ CQ CQ - Doctor Raoul has kindly asked if I would ping the Ham List in the hopes that a technically skilled Freeper may be able to assist with repairs to PA systems to be used in Freeps. Excerpts from his Freepmail appear below: ========================================================= I have a number of Amplivox portable PAs. It may be that I'm not aligning the prongs on the battery case or perhaps corrosion. Have a schematic on bottom of case. Need them checked out and then we can send them to people doing counter-protests. I think it's possible to wire them up to...

A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day Free Republic made its debut in September, 1996, and the forum was added in early 1997.   Over 100,000 people have registered for posting privileges on Free Republic, and the forum is read daily by tens of thousands of concerned citizens and patriots from all around the country and the world. A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day was introduced on June 24, 2002. It's only a small room in JimRob's house where we can get to know one another a little better; salute and support our military and our leaders; pray for those in...

Last week's AFRO.com poll question concerning Sen. Hilary Clinton's remark that the House of Representatives closely resembles a plantation elicited many more responses than the weekly norm. The poll question received more than a 150 percent increase in voter participation, with almost 90 percent voting the same way. This unusually high number of responses, and the actual voting pattern raised some questions with the publisher. A full investigation, however; was issued after reading the response of one anonymous voter, "your poll is being hacked by freerepublic.com so the results shouldn't be taken too seriously." AFRO staff quickly went to www.freerepublic.com,...

A planned student walkout Wednesday to protest the Iraq war is causing friction and uncertainty in some schools. An advocacy group called Youth Against War and Racism is organizing a rally and march in downtown Seattle as part of a national protest on the first anniversary of President Bush's re-election. Organizers, who want high-school students to walk off campus at noon, said they're expecting as many as 2,000 students from 30 schools in Seattle and beyond. Organizers plan to begin the rally at 1 p.m. at Westlake Center, then at 2 p.m. march to the Capitol Hill Arts Center for...

<p>Please note: to view the stunning photos by TgslTakoma and BMWcyle that illustrate this story, click the italic photo captions.</p> <p>WASHINGTON, DC, September 30, 2005—After twenty-four Friday nights of schlepping the Mother of All Banners, scores of pro-troops signs and dozens of American flags to Georgia Avenue at Elder Street – and don't forget the icewater, soda chests, hot pizzas and lawn chairs – it gets old.</p>

Meet the Right-Wing Michael Moore By Damian Thompson The Daily Telegraph 13 August 2005 Evan Coyne Maloney - Colgate smile, V-necked T-shirt, hint of gel in his hair - could have jumped out of a Gap poster. He's sitting in the Starbucks at a bookshop in Union Square, Manhattan, typing nonchalantly into his laptop. At 32, he is just old enough to have burnt his fingers on a dotcom, but he still exudes optimism. "Very cool to meet you," he says.

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For better or worse, every vote counts at PetitionOnline.com. And considering all the injustice going on in the world, the subjects that get people outraged can be quite depressing. The Web site includes a list of 2,645 people demanding that "The Smurfs" be released on DVD, 1,942 fans lobbying for a Canadian Football League video game and 14,469 activists -- enough to fill a hockey arena -- fighting to bring "Star Trek: Enterprise" back from cancellation. Meanwhile, on the same site, an attempt to save Social Security has gathered 25 signatures, and only 35 people care enough to endorse same-sex...

Posted on 03/08/2004 4:00:56 PM EST by Jim Robinson (This is a Google translated excerpt from a Spiegel article regarding Freeping) Vote vote-pfuscher You need tons click "co-ordinating" Of franc Patalong Votes are a fine thing, the butter on message bread. They give a feedback to the on-line Medienmacher, how the reader sees a thing. George W. Bush regard nearly 60 per cent of the readers of MIRROR ON-line ONE for example as a Top president. We know also, why. From the guidance for the falsification of the Mirror On-line Votes: "You need tons cklick ' co-ordinating!'" The widow Vivian...