Free Republic

I've discussed before the fact that the Left is basically a knowledge-control cult. The Left hates the free flow of information. This is why they want to kill talk radio. It's why they want to hand control of the internet to Obama and some Czar that he gets to appoint without the advice and consent of Congress. This is why they cooked up the idiotic idea of having an email address that the leftist ground troops could use to "snitch" on people who aren't on board with the Democrats' efforts to destroy our health care system. Campaign finance reform is...

Collumb's varied resume ranged from Westminster official to substitute teacher The 911 call about a house fire came about 2:20 a.m. Wednesday. Plano Fire Capt. Peggy Harrell said the dispatcher asked whether everyone had gotten out of the house, and the caller said he was on his way. Pete Collumb never made it. The 67-year-old died of smoke inhalation, according to authorities. Harrell said an investigation is under way to determine the cause of the fire that destroyed the home in the 3400 block of Mission Ridge Road. Collumb was beloved by neighbors, adored by school children, and relied upon...

The Travel Promotion Act that SC Sen. Jim DeMint called "Fannie Travel" in a Washington Post op-ed on Tuesday has passed, 79-19. Bill's statement of purpose: A bill to establish a non-profit corporation to communicate United States entry policies and otherwise promote leisure, business, and scholarly travel to the United States. The legislation would levy a $10 fee on foreign visitors to the U.S. That money would, in turn, be used to fund an advertising campaign trying to lure international tourists to the U.S. DeMint's beef: "Proponents of the bill say that it's not a tax increase because only...

Herewith, two scenarios. Scenario A: The supposedly inept president of the United States carefully planned and orchestrated the worst terrorist attack on American soil in our history. Though "only" 3,000 people died, the plan was to kill many more by simultaneously attacking the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and either the U.S. Capitol or the White House itself on Sept. 11, 2001. Hundreds of people, including personnel from myriad agencies, participated. According to some versions of Scenario A, explosives were placed at the World Trade Center to ensure success. In other versions, all of "the Jews" working there were tipped...

The Baltimore adventure with ACORN started off as a silly idea, both absurd and incredible by all accounts. But it stuck, and quickly escalated into a full blown operation with scripts, method acting, undercover gear, scandalous outfits, fast minds, good hearts, plenty of humor and healthy homemade blueberry muffins. When I pitched the “prostitute goes into ACORN seeking housing” idea to James O’Keefe at the beginning of the summer, I had absolutely no idea how he would respond. He came back with, “Would you be willing to portray the prostitute? And if so, when can you do this?” Needless to...

Next Attack Nuclear!!! FBI Informant Spills Guts ByPaul L. Williams, Ph.D.thelastcrusade.org On the eighth anniversary of 9/11, an FBI informant who infiltrated U.S. terrorist cells, says the FBI missed a chance to stop the al Qaeda plot because they focused more on undercover stings than on the man who would later become known as 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta and Adnan el Shukrujumah, one of Atta’s key associates.Former undercover operative Elie Assaad, a 36-year-old Catholic native of Lebanon who pretended to be a Muslim extemist, says he spotted and became suspicious of Atta and Shukrujumah in early 2001, when he...

This multi-year near-comedic chain of communication, from AAG Kassel’s “honest your honors, you can open carry on State Street,” to the current game of “memo, memo, who’s got the memo” down at Madtown PD got me thinking . . . so I made ANOTHER open records request under Wisconsin law, this time for any video discussions of these internal police discussions about “the memo,” and low and behold, they sent me this, a videotaped “counseling session” between Madison’s own Captain Victor Wahl and the officer who arrested Travis Yates in Madison recently . . .

A foster child was sent to live with the family of the ringleader of the airlines bomb plot by the same council that was at the centre of the Baby P abuse case. Haringey Council placed the child with relatives of Abdulla Ahmed Ali who was found guilty of planning to kill thousands of innocent people by blowing up trans-Atlantic airliners in coordinated suicide attacks. The child was placed in a house in Walthamstow, East London, where Ali and his wife lived along with a number of her relatives. The couple later moved out to a council flat nearby, paid...

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ACORN has erected an elaborate web of front organizations that allow it to hide its influence and reach. I did a quick search of the internet using the New Orleans address of ACORN. Guess what I found? Almost three hundred organizations connected to ACORN. Well, I would like you to look at the following list of ACORN related organizations that share the same address as ACORN. TWO HUNDRED AND NINETY FOUR names. Got that? This is a tangled web that defies the ability of any one person or organization to figure out who is working for whom. Carnival workers use...

Organs for Sale? by: Brittany Fortier, September 11, 2009 For those in need of a kidney transplant, it can be a difficult journey to find a willing donor. Circumstances have become so desperate for those waiting for a posthumous kidney that they sometimes resort to advertising their need on billboards and websites. Even worse, some may turn to the black market. On August 24, 2009, the American Enterprise Institute discussed these issues with Dr. Sally Satel, a resident scholar at AEI and beneficiary of a kidney transplant. Satel argued that the best way to procure more organ donations is to...

Not too long ago, I was very disappointed by the silence of the Church in regards to Islam. Now as time goes on and the threat becomes clearer and clearer to America, some Church leaders have decided to step up to the plate. I fully support their efforts in this war with Islam and hopefully more will follow.

A new poll shows that 58% of Americans don’t want abortions to be paid for as part of any new public insurance plan. Yet four of the five health care plans floating around Congress include language that would allow abortions to be paid for with public money. The only one that doesn’t – the Republican plan in the Senate – probably won’t go anywhere. Joy Yearout, communications director for the Susan B. Anthony list, thinks that the plans’ inclusion of abortion is a direct result of Obama’s previously stated desire to include abortion in any public health care legislation despite...

Everyone talks about "Liberty", but do they really know what it means. Unfortunately, many Americans no longer recognize the difference between the liberty that produces prosperity and the "soft" tyranny that promises utopia. If you cannot crisply articulate the difference, I'd recommend comparing the 10 Attributes of Liberty vs. "soft" Tyranny found at http://www.streamingliberty.com/

Sept 8, 2009 — Visualize a cartoon of Charles Darwin as Hippocrates.  It accompanies a book review in Science by Peter T. Ellison (Harvard).1  Ellison realizes that the mass of material doctors need to master is formidable, but thinks that “Evolutionary biology, however, is no longer an expendable topic in medical education...”

Are we already forgetting the horrid events of that day? Are we already relegating it to only being worthy of recognition every five years? Neither the L.A. Times nor the Chicago Tribune had any front-page stories commemorating the anniversary.The Washington Post -- which only had a single ad in remembrance (a full-page tribute from Lockheed-Martin) -- did have this article above the fold on its cover which was titled "9/11 a Distant Memory for Teens: Eight years later, the Sept 11 attacks have become relegated to history books for a generation that's too young to remember." The bad news: It contains an anecdote about a class that groans when they...

Video about Joe Wilson and politicians across the world and includes Pope. Various scenes of politicos having food fights, etc. States Obama turned the other cheek just like the Pope.

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