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This is the third of four debates, This is in English, and tomorrow's will be in French. Join me in wishing Stephen Harper GOOD LUCK!

One of the more appealing aspects about being on the Left is that you do not necessarily have to engage your opponents in debates over the truth or falsehood of their positions. You can simply dismiss your opponent as "anti." Anti-worker: It all began with Marxism. If you opposed communism or socialism, you were not merely anti-communist or anti-socialist, you were anti-worker. This way of dismissing opponents of leftist ideas is now the norm. Anyone, including a Democrat, who raises objections to union control of state and local politics is labeled anti-worker: "anti-teacher," "anti-firefighter," "anti-nurse," etc. This is how the...

Sleaze. Corruption. Breaking the law. And no agenda for the American people. The ethical hypocrisy of today's Democrats knows no bounds. While a discredited partisan hack pushes trumped-up charges against Tom DeLay, the Pelosi/Dean Democrats have become a Caucus of Corruption -- name an ethics violation, and they're guilty of it. NoAgenda.org exposes the wrongdoings of more than 50 Democrats who are under an ethical cloud. Learn more about who's doing it and what they're doing. NoAgenda.org

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...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) - Lee Wilkins remembers well the reaction she'd often get when identifying herself as a reporter. "I had a standard line," said Wilkins, now a journalism professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia. "I would always say back, 'I won't accuse you of all the ills of your profession if you won't accuse me of all the ills of mine.'" Recent research by Wilkins and Renita Coleman of Louisiana State University may provide some vindication for members of a profession that's taken a beating in recent years with high-profile blunders. Wilkins and Coleman surveyed journalists for the first...

how does everyone feel about homosexual marriage

This essay is being written on US Election Day of "2004." And while the outcome of that contest is not known at this writing to the author (a disadvantage not shared by the reader), one thing that has long been obvious is that the majority of the Jewish vote will go to the candidate preferred by Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Jews who are more concerned with the safety of Israel have been scratching their heads and shouting at their fellows to come to their senses. And one of these voices--Ms. Julia Gorin--has pointed out that the...

GOP leaders take issue with Senate candidate's contract By James S. Tyree Transcript Staff Writer October 7, 2004Senate Republican leaders and other GOP members are crying foul over a contract between a state agency and State Senate Democratic candidate Lisa Pryor. The matter stems from a services contract between the Norman candidate and the Oklahoma Tourism & Recreation Department. Republicans take issue over the contract's timing, the money involved and Pryor's use of her campaign address and telephone number as contact information for the Lake Thunderbird project. "Serious ethical - if not legal - questions surround this contract that...

John F. Kerry’s “Economic Policy” graced the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal on September 15. Even though the Journal occasionally leans a little to the right, it was considerate of the editors to publish Kerry’s outline of his economic vision of America

August 23, 2004 -- JOHN KERRY'S presi dential campaign, which slighted Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton during the Democratic convention last month, now wants the former first lady to lead its "truth squad" at next week's GOP convention, The Post has learned. Party insiders said that aides to Clinton were engaged in "intensive talks" over the weekend with Kerry's representatives about the role she is expected to play.

<p>" It didn’t sound like a hard question. After George W. Bush delivered a tepidly received address to a convention of minority journalists, a Native-American editor from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer asked, “What do you think tribal sovereignty means in the 21st century?” As president and a former governor, the journalist said, Bush had a “unique experience, looking at [the issue] from two perspectives.” The president fumbled. “Tribal sovereignty means that—it’s sovereignty,” he stammered. “I mean, you’re a—you’re a—you’ve been given sovereignty and you’re viewed as a sovereign entity.” As Bush rambled, looking like a schoolboy unprepared at the front of the class, many of the hundreds of Asian, black, Native American and Hispanic journalists gathered before him…well, snickered.</p>

Was watching CBS News as The Gipper's body was being moved from his Library to begin the journey to DC. Dan Rather (that glorified talking head) recapped the event saying that we had just listened to, "Ruffles and Flourishes, Hail to the Chief and, what amounts to a SECULAR HYMN, America the Beautiful." Then he proceeds to butcher the words to the song. It seems these secularists and apostates never miss an opportunity to spit in the eye of God and the Christian faith...now, even hymns have been declared secular. When the President's body arrives at the Capitol Rotunda, the...

From blue to redI didn't leave the Dodgers and the Democrats; they left me. At the Angels home opener last Tuesday, I overcame years of denial, followed my heart and bought my first Angels cap, completing my transformation from Dodgers to Angels fan. My change in allegiances from blue to red on the baseball field coincided with my switch from blue-state Democrat to red-state Republican a month ago, when I at last came to see that "conservative Democrat" was an oxymoron. Let me try to explain. I was raised by a father who drove us an hour to Dodger Stadium.......

Friday, February 06, 2004 JOHN FORBES KERRY THE HYPOCRITE, VOL. I, ISSUE 3   Special Interests’ Best Friend_____________________________________________Charles Lewis, Head Of The Center For Public Integrity: “The Idea That [Sen. John] Kerry [D-MA] Has Not Helped Or Benefited From A Specific Special Interest, Which He Has Said, Is Utterly Absurd.”  (John Solomon, “Kerry Blocked Law, Drew Cash,” The Associated Press, 2/4/04)QUESTIONS RAISED OVER CASH AND KERRY NOMINATIONS! In 1984, When Kerry First Ran For U.S. Senate He Promised To Be “Persistent Watchdog Over Presidential Appointments.”  “When he first ran for the Senate, Kerry promised voters he would carefully choose...

DEMOCRAT DEBATE WATCH Dems Still Don’t Get It: Oppose Prescription Drugs For Seniors, Mislead On President Bush’s Record, And Praise George Soros? ____________________________________________________ KERRY AND EDWARDS MAKE DEBATE VIA SATELLITE BUT HAVE MISSED KEY MEDICARE VOTES CAMPAIGNING Kerry Has Missed 35 Votes On The Medicare Prescription Drug Bill (S.1, CQ Vote #262: Prescription Drug Benefit - Passage, Passed 76-21: R 40-10; D 35-11; I 1-0, 6/27/03; S.1, CQ Vote #261: Prescription Drug Benefit - Means Test, Rejected 38-59: R 3-47; D 35-11; I 0-1, 6/26/03; S.1, CQ Vote #260: Prescription Drug Benefit - Alternative Plan, Rejected 21-75: R 20-29;...

DEMS IN DENIAL Democrat Presidential Candidates’ Tax Increases Would Reverse Economic Growth ____________________________________ “[The] Bush tax cuts have stimulated venture capital investment, mergers and acquisition activity, and the stock market. … [P]artisans will continue to produce pessimistic analyses, [but] there should be no doubt that this economy is gathering momentum. The strength … will surprise many … George W. Bush should get credit ...” (Brian S. Wesbury, Op-Ed, “The Bush Boom,” The Wall Street Journal, 9/15/03) Dems don’t get it: say bush tax relief WON’T work Dean: “Tax Cuts To Individuals Do Not Stimulate The Economy.’’ (Kevin Landrigan, “Dean...

September 9, 2003MORE OF THE SAME IN BALTIMORE Angry Attacks, Shrill Protest And Political Hate Speech ______________________________________________________________DEM ATTACKS DEAN: Iraq Is “Battle Created By President.” “This is a battle for terrorism all right. It's a battle created by the President of the United States who ignored the greater danger in Iran and North Korea and al Qaeda at home to do it. This was a mistake, this war, and the President has gotten into it, now we're going to have to get out of it.” (Democrat Candidates Debate, Baltimore, MD, 9/9/03) KERRY: President Was Negligent By Rushing To War....

July 24, 2003   DEMS PLAY FOLLOW THE LEADERFor Years Key Dems Recognized WMD http://www.gop.com/newsroom/rncresearch/research072403.htmThreat . . . But Now Howard Dean Has Changed Their Minds ________________________________________________________________ Dean On Dems: “‘All these guys running say how terrible Iraq is,’ Dean told Iowa voters … ‘Where were they four months ago when we really needed them to stand up to the president of the United States?’”  (Jeff Zeleny, “Potential For War Troubles Field Of Democratic Hopefuls,” Chicago Tribune, 1/20/03) DEM LEADERS BECOME DEAN LITE RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES Dean Accused Sen. John Kerry Of Being “Dean Lite.”  “Speaking to the...

DEMOCRATS POLITICIZE WAR IN IRAQFrom The Beginning, Democrats Have Played Pure Partisan Politics __________________________________________________________________________________ Los Angeles Times’ Ron Brownstein: “I think clearly, the Democrats, there’s obviously a political element of this. The Democrats have been on the defensive on national security issues all year, and they have struggled to find a line of argument about dealing with Iraq ...” (CNN News, 7/14/03) SIX MONTHS BEFORE THE WAR … Reps. Jim McDermott (D-WA) And David Bonior (D-MI) Visited Baghdad To Support Saddam’s Regime And Urged Bush Administration To Not “Play The Blame Game” With Iraq. (Laura Meckler, “Division Over Iraq...

RNC RESEARCH DEMOCRAT PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES TURN BACK ON “NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND”Despite Dem Attacks, President Bush Has Funded Education At Record Levels ___________________________________________________________________________________ “Fiscal Year 2003 funding for ‘No Child Left Behind’ programs increased by more than 36 percent over 2001, and 60 percent over 2000 levels.  This year America will spend more than $8,200 per student of which the federal contribution is now 8.4 percent.”  (Department Of Education, “Record Spending And A Commitment To Success,” Fact Sheet, 5/19/03) DEMS ATTACK PRESIDENT BUSH FOR NOT FUNDING EDUCATION REFORM Sens. John Edwards (D-NC), John Kerry (D-MA), Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) and Robert...