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Well, that time has come for me. I’m leaving FR. However, I do not consider this an “opus”, as I am NOT going to use it to rehash old slights or arguments, or to give my personal opinion of what “should be done around here”. As has been so often pointed out, this is Jim Robinson’s site, and he runs it as he sees fit. Rather, all I’m going to do here is give a general reason for my departure, and say a hearty-but-sad “GOODBYE!” to all the folks here who have enriched my life in the past four years....

Well, it is nice to find out early on in my Free Republic experience that certain individuals would claim a pious love of being a "Real Conservative" yet be more than abrupt in acts of censorship. I have severe reservations about anyone who would join this site then commit such an un-american violation of an individuals rights to express ideas or beliefs. I

Still No Justice for Rachel Corrie - Smith -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, January 23 2004 @ 12:57 PM EST "It is an insult to the human heart to have to force government officials to do their jobs properly while digesting the fact your child has been brutally killed .." By WENDY SMITH Tom Hurndall, a 22-year-old British peace activist, died last week in a London hospital. He was shot in the head by Israeli sniper fire nine months ago while shepherding Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip out of the line of fire. He had been in a coma since his injury....

Martha Stewart, the Queen of Nice? Martha Stewart insists she has "never not been nice to anybody" - and she doesn't understand why people take such delight in her insider trading troubles. Speaking out for the first time since the scandal broke in June, Stewart sounded bitter and frustrated about the dramatic reversal in her public image. "That I have been turned into or vilified openly as something other than what I really am has been confusing," Stewart, 61, told the New Yorker for an article in its issue out today. "I mean, we've produced a lot of good stuff...

On Law: Gore's beef with the Supreme Court By Michael KirklandUPI Legal Affairs Correspondent Published 11/15/2002 3:48 PM WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Vice President Al Gore, in several interviews to be broadcast and published this weekend, will once again claim that the Supreme Court decision in Bush vs. Gore cost him the 2000 presidential election. Though Gore may have every right to be aggrieved, the claim about the Supreme Court is simply untrue. In fact, it's been decisively disproved. But like a particularly feisty vampire, it keeps rising from the grave. There's no doubt that the decision handed...