Just a suggestion for those looking for articles in FR, or for trying to see if an article has been previously posted. Go ahead and use the search tool provided by FR but if you can't find what you need, use google or yippy (I recommend yippy, since google is leftist scum) and type: free republic topic name in the search bar. (Where topic name is the subject or article title or part of article title you're looking for.) I get really good results doing that. (Just a tip.)