[SkyPilot]

Thanks Pokey,

When Peggy mentioned "bloggers"...no doubt this forum counts amoung the giants. There are people here who through their ideas, their time and their ambition, have helped change the political cultural climate.

Make no mistake, if FREE REPUBLIC were an ineffective bunch of "Reich Wing Nut Cases" (as it is portrayed by its enemies), then the enemy would not strike and attack it so. It is an truism of conflict that you bypass that which does not matter towards your objective.

FREE REPUBLIC matters. The left hates that, the mainstream media hates it, and the DNC hates it.

Happy 4th.

[GretchenEE]

Blogging. The 24-7 opinion sites that offer free speech at its straightest, truest, wildest, most uncensored, most thoughtful, most strange. Thousands of independent information entrepreneurs are informing, arguing, adding information. Imagine if we'd had them in 1776: ... Blogs may one hard day become clearinghouses for civil support and information when other lines, under new pressure, break down.

Bingo. Hear that, "LA Times," and "Washington Post." America needs both you and us.

God bless Free Republic and the free republic in which it stands.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Once again, Peggy Noonan "gets it" and "tells it" better than anybody!

So, now we know what we have been doing all this time. Not Freepin' - but Bloggin'! I can see a new shirt / song coming on!

Skypilot - yes, Free Republic has had and continues to have an impact. The power of "bloggers" getting together to get to the truth through the spin. And doing so without being paid to do so.....unlike every one of their constituencies who only follow orders when knowing the paycheck is coming.

[Valin]

Yeah us! And of course Boo them.