It's also the single best place to catch up with the news, regardless of your political persuasion.
The election fiasco...........oh Lord...........
..........so nice to see 'clintonism' with a lowercase 'C'.........may not have been otherwise........
FreeRepublic has made a difference for our country. It probably played a significant part in defeating Al Gore and the prospect that clintonism would continue under other auspices. We aren't out of the woods yet, but we have seen an end to one of the darkest periods in our country's history.
No offense, Cicero, but 'bull****'. It's not only a place to catch up on the news, it also is a place to report original and breaking news. With 50,000 or so active and participating members, we often form a network of reporting citizens, and I have seen on several occasions when we have broken news an hour or two before the very first AP wire copy emerged. For example, when the plane was forced down in Chicago by a madman who charged the cockpit, it was Chicago freepers who first reported a sonic boom -- and armed with the reports of a diverted plane due to the rowdy passenger -- we deduced that two fighters had scrambled to escort the plane down.
This is merely one example of the real-time reporting we are collectively capable of. In a way, we serve as the eyes and ears of America. And with our research abilities, we also serve as its brain. We routinely pierce the false stories advanced by the FedGov (such as the crap they advanced about TWA 800 and the lame excuses they put forth vis-a-vis Waco).
I am proud to be part of a very unique and interesting phenomenon -- online activism and online reporting -- and forever may we stand.