i prefer a san sarif font... much cleaner... other than that, it's fine (imo)...
"i prefer a san sarif font"
In printing industry it's a fact (so I've been told for years) that sans-serif fonts are more difficult to read than the other. The serifs let your eye "flow" to the next letter.
Free Republic did not choose the font. I see the text on the home page and here in "Comic Sans MS" which I prefer for its informal look.
To change the font displayed on a web page where the page designer did not specify one, in Internet Explorer 6 on Windows:
Go to: Tools> Internet Options> General> Fonts. Choose the fonts you wish under "Web page font," click OK. If you like the result, click OK again.
Other browsers should give you a similar option somewhere.