Almost defies commentary.What really defies commentary is that you placed this in the Activism, Breaking News and Frontpage sidebars.
1). Activism/Chapters - Activism, protests, news and business of Free Republic Chapters.
2). Breaking News - Not every story is breaking news. Breaking news should be news that affects most of us.
3). Front Page News - Front page is for stories which are not breaking news, but would be found on the front page of a newspaper.
It might help if you read
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