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A millionaire couple accused of keeping two Indonesian women as slaves in their luxurious Long Island home and abusing them for years have been indicted on federal slavery charges. The women, prosecutors said, were subjected to beatings, had scalding water thrown on them and were forced to repeatedly climb stairs as punishment for perceived misdeeds. In one case, prosecutors said, one of the women was forced to eat 25 hot chili peppers at one time. One of the women also told authorities they were forced to sleep on mats in the kitchen and were fed so little, they had to...

In the heat of summer, all sorts of tourists head north to cooler climes. This year, a manatee has joined the crowd, cruising past the nightclubs of Manhattan and continuing north.The massive animal has been spotted in the Hudson River at least three times in the last week — first off the Chelsea and Harlem sections of Manhattan, then to the north in Sleepy Hollow in Westchester County."It was gigantic," said Randy Shull, who said he spotted the unusual visitor Sunday afternoon while boating at Kingsland Point Park in Sleepy Hollow. "When we saw it surface, its back was just...

www.gunowners.orgJun 2006 Rep. Stockman Helping GOA Start Gun Clubs On Campus -- Do you know someone who can help win the hearts and minds of the next generation? Gun Owners of America 8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102 Springfield, VA 22151 (703)321-8585 Tuesday, June 20, 2006 Do you know someone who is pro-gun, who likes working with college age kids, and who is in need of a full-time job in the fall? Well if so, former Rep. Steve Stockman (R) has a deal for him. Stockman is the Director of the Campus Leadership Program (CLP) in northern Virginia. The CLP is...

A home invasion and attack near Duluth a week ago has set off a political firestorm that may reach all the way to China. Peter Yuan Li said he was tied up and beaten in his Chatburn Way home by several men on Feb. 8. The men spoke Korean and Mandarin and left behind certain valuables, including a camcorder and television, but took his computers, a phone and his wallet, according to Li. They also demanded unspecified documents and pried open two file cabinets, he said. But Li claims it was no ordinary robbery. The culprits, he said, were Chinese...

2006: Turning point for young conservatives Posted: January 5, 2006 By Hans Zeiger Something big is going on in America, but few are yet aware of it. It is a generational shift comparable to that of the infamous '60s, and it will involve as much revolt and upheaval. In this case, revolution is desperately needed, for the previous revolution has almost destroyed the country. The new revolution will repair the country. Yet 2006 will not be the beginning of the revolution – it has already been gathering steam now for several years. But it will, I predict, commence the vigorous...

Hey Colorado Freepers! Announcing a Freep at the CU campus around the Michelle Malkin Speech on March 1st. This event is being organized by the CU republicans GOPCollegeRepublicansThanks so much for your interest in the upcoming event, “The War on Terror.” Michelle Malkin and Dinesh D’Souza will visit the University of Colorado at Boulder on March 1st at 7pm. This event is free, but you do need a ticket to attend. This event is being sponsored by the Cultural Events Board, the University of Colorado Student Union and the College Republicans. For your free tickets, visit the CU Connection in...

We have declared this Operation a SUCCESS!!!! The Revolutionary Communist Party, with it's front group WorldCantWait, showed up Saturday with their disgusting signs, their disgusting chants and their filthy appearence. Our group of intrepid PW's, Freepers, and the Leadership Institute's best and brightest, along with two brave wounded wariors from Walter Reed, and a contingent from George Washingtin University, assembled in Lafeyette Park at 1030 and set up our signs with messages of support for the current administration, the military, and the methods used by both to keep us safe from terrorists. Our favorite code pinko, Squeegee Boy showed up...

Rockville Centre Bishop William Murphy announced a major shakeup of religious education yesterday that reconfigures the program that produced a generation of lay Catholic leaders, as well as many members of Voice of the Faithful, an activist group that has demanded the bishop's resignation. Murphy said the restructuring would "not mean a major change in the content of what we offer, which is the teaching of the Church," in a column in this week's diocesan newspaper. But critics said they feared the changes - coming two weeks after he named a new seminary rector known for strict orthodoxy - signal...

My right-wing degree How I learned to convert liberal campuses into conservative havens at Morton Blackwell's Leadership Institute, alma mater of Karl Rove, Ralph Reed, Jeff Gannon and two Miss Americas.   - - - - - - - - - - - - By Jeff Horwitz   May 24, 2005 | One recent Sunday, at Morton Blackwell's Leadership Institute, a dozen students meet for the second and final day of training in grass-roots youth politics. All are earnest, idealistic and as right wing as you can get. They take careful notes as instructor Paul Gourley teaches them how to...

A Wyandanch man fatally shot a 20-year-old man who tried to enter his home through a window early yesterday, police said. Tyrell Rudolph, of Wyandanch, was discovered in front of a home on Parkway Boulevard with gunshot wounds to his chest and left arm at 3:05 a.m. The alleged shooter, Sanjay Broomfield, 22, was charged with criminal possession of a weapon, a felony. Broomfield, a baker at Entenmann's in Bay Shore, told police he fell asleep Friday night, after working a double-shift, said Det. Sgt. Vincent Posillico, of the county's homicide squad. He said he was awoken at 9 p.m....

When it comes to fighting government fraud, Washington state lacks a key weapon: a state False Claims law. The federal government, thirteen states and many local jurisdictions (including Washington, D.C. and San Francisco) have adopted False Claims laws. These measures allow anyone with unique knowledge and evidence of fraud against government to act as a "private attorney general" and sue the wrongdoer on behalf of the government. These citizen fraud fighters, however, are first required to petition the government attorneys to take action before filing suit. If that government doesn't take action, the citizen then is empowered to act on...

Sunday, Aug. 22, 2004 The Right's New Wing Diverse and well funded, the next generation of conservatives is winning battles on campus. But not all are fighting for George W. Bush By JOHN CLOUD Earlier this month, a group of students met in Washington to bash George W. Bush, debate the power of multinational corporations and hear a speaker who denounced the Iraq war, the Patriot Act and stricter airport security. A leader of these college kids calls them "the new counterculture," but here's the thing: they aren't liberals. The 185 students were in Washington to attend the 26th annual...

Across the heartlands and hinterlands of conservative America, many doubters and desponders wake up every morning to retrieve their newspaper, a product of the downtown Left. And so it shall remain, they say. But for America's growing army of young conservatives, there are no boundaries to the battle for the future. Even the newspapers of America must stand to reckon with a new generation of conservatives. Two students at Seattle Pacific University named Matthew McCleary and Benjamin Williams are launching a publication called the Seattle Sentinel at www.seattlesentinel.com . The sophomores have a long-term goal no less than turning the...

LONG ISLAND CATHEDRAL DEAN OUSTED BY ORRIS WALKER By David W. Virtue On Friday night Long Island Bishop Orris Walker walked uninvited into the Vestry meeting of the Cathedral of the Incarnation at Garden City and informed the Vestry that he had fired Dean James J. Cardone saying that the Dean and the Cathedral were racist. When he was asked if he was bringing somebody in, he said no and that he did not care if the Cathedral fell down. Cardone's "sin" seems to have been the reinstatement of Rite I twice a month at the request of the congregation....

Less than two weeks to go before the NYC Activism Seminar.Scholarships and donations are still being accepted.Freepers, don't be shy if your cash flow is a tad slow and you could use a scholarship, which will reduce your tuition by half. There's no application to fill out, and your privacy is protected.Honor Roll of Scholarship Donors:clyde260 (who started the whole idea of scholarships going)diotimaBob JFree Republic NetworkEdReformFocault's Pendulumalisasnyanonymous donor from Washington Stateanonymous donor from MassachusettsTo see a description of the seminar topics, click on the link for Thread 1 or Thread 2, which I will supply below in one of...

8th Congressional District Republicans selected their nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives Saturday, and will wait until June to see who the Democratic nominee will be. The party faithful also ousted chairman Mike Lane. More than 600 Republican activists turned out to Edison High School in Fairfax County Saturday, choosing defense contractor Lisa Marie Cheney as the Republican nominee. Cheney defeated Jane Eshagpoor, Matt Mueda and Mike Riccardi. Cheney will have to wait until June 8 to see who her opponent will be. On that date, Democrats hold a primary to select their nominee. Incumbent U.S. Rep. Jim Moran,...

OK, everybodyNow is the time!There are 3 more weeks until the New York City Activism Seminar. Now is the time to sign up, by pressing the magic PayPal link right here: PAYPAL! The e-mail address to use to send your PayPal payment to is nancy2003@sluggy.netor freepmail me, firebrand, to find out another way to pay (check, postal money order, etc.). Scholarships and Donations Now Being Accepted:It turns out that the $70 tuition is a little too high for many of our younger Tri-State Area freepers, and the temporarily unemployed. One scholarship has already been offered and taken, and Tri-State thanks...

OK! It has finally come together. The Tri-State Chapter of Free Republic will be hosting a Leadership Institute Activism Seminar from 9 a.m. to 3 or 4 p.m., Saturday, June 5, 2004, at The Women's National Republican Club 3 West 51st Street (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, at Rockefeller Center) New York, NY We will be in the lovely Lincoln Room, which you can view at the WNRC site. The club has rooms available for overnight stays, if anyone should decide to make a weekend of it. Los Angeles and Friva Las Vegas have already had these seminars, and the...

Recently, I was voted to head a communications committee by the College Republicans at my university. One primary goal of this committee is to see how we may go about getting our conservative message into the only school news paper on campus, the U-News. Right now, the papers writers and editors are anti-republican Michael Moore types who jump on any opportunity to slam Bush. They have refused to run any op-ed pieces written by the College Republican writers like myself and others. They do however give access to the Campus Greens and College Democrats. In addition to being very bias,...