I figure the Blogger section was for articles like this. I spend a lot of time writing my articles and it nice to see people read them. I will also post some stuff in the breaking news actually linking back to a “real news” report. Although I think the “real news” is bogus!
I’m a Blogger myself. It’s a disease; it’s demented.
It sounds like you’ll do fine but get a thick skin. Like someone else pointed out upthread, FreeRepublic gets a lot of nefarious infiltration and over time many of us, including my own fine self, have gotten a bit defensive, perhaps too quick to excoriate.
There are plenty of Blogger Freepers but understand that if one’s only participation is to post links to a Blog it’s just not received well.
Still I preach to a choir of sorts. It sounds like you’ve got the idea.