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Most, if not all, of the major societal problems we are confronting today are a direct result of abandoning the principles that are the underpinnings of American culture.Everywhere we turn, the country looks like it is falling apart. Crime is out of control. Millions of illegal immigrants are pouring across our borders. Our schools are more interested in cultivating gender dysphoria and a proclivity for porn in our children than in educating them. The press routinely censors the truth at the behest of the government, which also increasingly prosecutes (or opts not to) based on political party affiliation. In sport...

The human race has gone through a number of ages: the Dark Ages, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Age of Reason. We are now in the Age of Introspective Contrition, a.k.a., wokeness. The Age of Introspective Contrition is a leftist initiative which exploits guilt to establish thought processes and cultural mores which serve to solidify its political position, which is to pander to the disadvantaged for political gain. It was ushered in with political correctness, which requires one to be introspectively contrite before framing casual speech content that might be misinterpreted or perceived as hurtful. One who ignores the dictates...

An elementary school in Cupertino, California—a Silicon Valley community with a median home price of $2.3 million—recently forced a class of third-graders to deconstruct their racial identities, then rank themselves according to their “power and privilege.” Based on whistleblower documents and parents familiar with the session, a third-grade teacher at R.I. Meyerholz Elementary School began the lesson on “social identities” during a math class. The teacher asked all students to create an “identity map,” listing their race, class, gender, religion, family structure, and other characteristics. The teacher explained that the students live in a “dominant culture” of “white, middle class,...

If The Republicans Fracture By John Andrews Sunday, February 17, 2008 Was it hearing of Dennis Kucinich’s encounter with spacemen? Or was it seeing the ex-Governor Moonbeam, Jerry Brown, doing TV commentary? Something sent me on an out-of-body experience the other night, a sci-fi trip into the future – and it was scary. I was driving home after hosting my Sunday radio show, haunted by political writer Mike Littwin’s prediction about John McCain’s detractors: “The Limbaugh Republicans will eventually vote for him, but the Dobson Republicans, who knows? They may not.” Suddenly my car was a tiny dot far below,...

Contacts: Steffie Woolhandler MD 518-794-8109 Quentin Young MD 312-782-6006 Kimberly Soenen 312-782-6006 Doctors Call for National Health Insurance Journal of the American Medical Association Publishes Physicians’ Proposal for National Health Insurance Signed by 7,782 Physicians WASHINGTON, D.C., AUGUST 11, 2003 — In an unprecedented show of physician support for National Health Insurance (NHI), 7,782 U.S. physicians propose single payer NHI in an article in the August 13 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The “Physicians’ Proposal for National Health Insurance” was drafted by a blue ribbon panel of leading physicians. The signers include 2 former U.S....

Hi everyone. I'm thinking about taking a breather from Free Republic for a little while. Not long, I'm sure. But, I just don't want it to interfere with my job, and I already had that happen once. I'm reading and posting much too much. I think a short sabbatical should help me break this bad habit.See you all soon .... NOT DURING WORK HOURS!