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When Barack Obama was elected president of the United States, some suggested that race played a factor in his success. People "wanted" to elect a black man president because of our history of slavery and the denial of civil rights for so many years to African-Americans. It is never "racism" to vote for someone because he is black. It is only racism to oppose the policies of a black Democrat. As the president's approval ratings fall and rise and fall again, some of his supporters in journalism and politics are returning to days of old when the label "racist" could...

Some may remember that due to the job market I had planned on leaving California for Boston for work. Fortunately God had better things planned for me and provided me with work in Dallas, TX (Lewisville to be exact). So I was wondering if any Freepers had any hints on where to live in the area, general comments on places to go with a young family (3 kids under the age of 5), etc. I think we're going to love Texas (minus the weather - we're coming from CA)! Thanks for the help FRiends! This is exciting AND scary, I've...

You don't have to get laid off to feel the pain of this recession. Many workers lucky enough to have survived the ax are still feeling unhappy and unmotivated at work. Raises, bonuses and other incentive programs have been slashed since the downturn began, and employees saddled with additional workloads for less pay are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with their current position -- or just plain burnt out.

The nation has been consumed with health care reform, politicians not listening to the people’s concerns, the ACORN scandals, and rampant racism among critics of the new president, but the world continues to move on around all that chaos.

PAPUA New Guinea police are hunting the leader of a sex cult who promised villagers a bumper banana harvest if they engaged in public sex. The man and his followers fled naked into the wilderness when police tried to arrest them over the weekend, the Post Courier newspaper reported. The newspaper said the villagers in Morobe province, about 200km north of the capital Port Moresby, had been promised their banana harvest would increase 10-fold every time they had sex in public. It said the cult leader was wanted for a range of alleged offences over the past four months, including...

"UPDATE: Recent segments aired by CNN on 9/15 ask about the “racial overtones” of the rally. Our readers are encouraged to peruse the many pictures that were taken of the rally and are posted on this site for the world to see. See for yourself if anything there is anything “racist”. CNN and other “liberal” information sources are in denial that a large segment of middle class America is disheartened by their President’s POLICIES. Look to see the word and accusation of “racist” diminish significantly in value over the next few months due to overuse and misuse. It appears to...

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=110010 "...We, as conservatives, as libertarians, as the possible "third-party voters," and even "single-issue voters" that the Department of Homeland Security wants to redefine as domestic terrorists, must continue to stand up and fight for what we believe. We must not be cowed, frightened, or dissuaded by attempts to mischaracterize and vilify our opinions as "hatred," as "racism," as "unhinged," or as otherwise illegitimate. We have nothing to hide. We have nothing for which to apologize. We have no reason to allow our technologically motivated, operated and facilitated society to broadcast in every possible venue the dictate and dictum that...

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar recently announced plans to cover 1,000 square miles of land in Nevada, Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah with solar collectors to generate electricity. He's also talking about generating 20% of our electricity from wind. This would require building about 186,000 50-story wind turbines that would cover an area the size of West Virginia not to mention 19,000 new miles of high-voltage transmission lines. Is the federal government showing any concern about this massive intrusion into the natural landscape? Not at all. I fear we are going to destroy the environment in the...

.Some time ago, I called needhim.org to discuss the Trinity and find out if I’m missing something or if Christians really just can’t count. The lady who answered the phone, Donna, described the Trinity as “really cool”, and told me that the Father = God, the Son = God and the Holy Ghost = God. I was a little confused and tried to explain the biblical narrative in these terms. The Holy Spirit (God) has sex with the Virgin Mary to impregnate her with Jesus (God). Later, Jesus (God) is sacrificed by the Father (God) to save us from… God?...

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration plans to announce on Thursday that it will scrap former President George W. Bush’s planned missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic and instead deploy a reconfigured system aimed more at intercepting shorter-range Iranian missiles, according to people familiar with the plans. President Obama decided not to deploy a sophisticated radar system in the Czech Republic or 10 ground-based interceptors in Poland, as Mr. Bush had planned. Instead, the new system his administration is developing would deploy smaller SM-3 missiles, at first aboard ships and later probably either in southern Europe or Turkey,...

By identifying the racial dimensions of the current political moment, President Carter has pointed out a huge elephant in the room. Until the rest of the Democratic Party musters the courage to do the same on a regular basis, President Obama will continue to take unnecessary hits. ... I have witnessed this firsthand at several of the health care town halls, where angry white citizens gathered not to talk about policy details, but to vent their anger that "this guy" was changing "their country" by trying to give health care to "those people."

Here is video of Fox News' Megyn Kelly and a panel weighing in on the vicious beating of a student on a school bus in Belleville, Illinois. Kelly was very strong that the kids who beat the boy should be punished to the fullest extent of the juvenile laws, not just receive a suspension. She also felt the students on the bus who did nothing to help the boy should receive a stiff penalty as well. . . . (VIDEO)

U.S. District Court Judge Clay Land tossed out on Wednesday a complaint by an Army captain fighting deployment to Iraq by questioning the legitimacy of President Barack Obama. Land also put attorney Orly Taitz, who represents Capt. Connie Rhodes and is a leader in the national “birther” movement, on notice by stating that she could face sanctions if she ever again files in his court a similar “frivolous” lawsuit — a document that at one point the judge states that a middle school student could find irony in. “(Rhodes) has presented no credible evidence and has made no reliable factual...

Constitution Day is an American federal observance that recognizes the ratification of the United States Constitution and those who have become U.S. citizens. It is observed on September 17, the day the Philadelphia Convention (AKA U.S. Constitutional Convention) signed the US Constitution in 1787. On September 17, 1787, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention met for the last time to sign the document they had created, it was the second American Revolution. The Convention was formed to revise the "Articles of Confederation." What it did instead was to overthrow the existing United States government and create a system unmatched in...

Carter again cites racism as factor in Obama's treatment Posted: September 17th, 2009 08:40 AM ET ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — Former President Jimmy Carter reiterated Wednesday that he believes racism is an issue for President Obama in trying to lead the country. "When a radical fringe element of demonstrators and others begin to attack the president of the United States as an animal or as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler or when they wave signs in the air that said we should have buried Obama with Kennedy, those kinds of things are beyond the bounds," the Democrat who served from...

Congress’s official investigation into the financial crisis, the so-called Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, will convene its first meeting today. Unfortunately, Nancy Pelosi’s handpicked chairman of the commission Phil Angelides, has deep ties to radical left-wing politics, including the Van Jones-connected Apollo Alliance, which he chairs, and ACORN, which is an Apollo member and endorsed and actively supported his gubernatorial campaign. His selection proves the commission will be a politicized attempt to advance a left-wing agenda through a revisionist history of the financial crisis. It also assures that ACORN and other community organizers who forced banks to make reckless loans in...

The Senate should not have voted to deny funds to ACORN — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — on account of transgressions perpetrated by a handful of employees. The group came under fire after two activist filmmakers, posing as a young prostitute and pimp, caught ACORN employees explaining how to run a brothel of underage "women of the night" while evading the federal government. These actions are inexcusable. However, the answer is not to deprive the agency of federal funding. The filmmakers visited ACORN branches in San Diego, Los Angeles, Miami and Philadelphia before finding employees who...

As someone who enjoys standing on the moral high ground, I worry that a flash flood of insanity will knock me into the mud. The moral high ground I stand on is conservative principles. The insanity is the likes of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, and disgruntled citizens at town hall meetings. The mud is where the line is blurred between conservatism and liberalism. I'm a good swimmer, but even I doubt that I could swim through the thick muck that conservatives have created with ludicrous attacks on Obama and other Democrats. My father once told me that he...

Constitution Day commemorates the formation and signing of the U.S. Constitution by thirty-nine brave men on September 17, 1787, recognizing all who, by coming of age or by naturalization, have become citizens. On September 17, 1787, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention met for the last time to sign the document they had created. We encourage all Americans to observe this important day in our nation's history by attending local events in your area. Celebrate Constitution Day through activities, learning, parades and demonstrations of our Love for the United States of America and the Blessings of Freedom Our Founding Fathers...

Keith Olbermann is not one to pass up an opportunity to attack anything that even hints at being right of center. The repugnant MSNBC host devoted some three-quarters of his Sept. 16 show to claim criticism of President Barack Obama had to have elements of racism, no matter how you sliced it. And therefore, those critics were all despicable human beings, end of story. However, he did manage to find time to revert to old tried and true method of appeasing his angry left-wing desires - a little bashing of former Republican vice-presidential nominee and Gov. Sarah Palin, with an...