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Spring is upon us, a time of chirping birds, budding leaves, and raging blizzards. Raging blizzards? That's right! Earlier this month, major snowstorms struck several western and northern states, dumping six inches of snow in Utah and twenty inches in Minnesota. So what happened to all that global warming Al Gore's been warning us about?

Presidential contender Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.), who has faced widespread criticism of his characterization of rural Americans as bitter and racist, says the intensity of the reaction “proves the validity of what I said. The animosity shown toward the first credible Black man to run for president is evidence enough that racism is still the mainstream of rural America.” “I don’t totally blame them for being bitter,” Obama went on. “I’m articulate, clean and charismatic—everything that they’re not. And I’m a millionaire, to boot. It’s got to be hard on these rednecks to see a Black man outshine them by...

AUTHOR'S NOTE: For a number of weeks, RFFM.org will write a series of columns on the conspiracies which have helped to form the world we live in today. From the killers themselves to the media's role in conspiracies, RFFM.org will attempt to separate the wheat from the chaff. There will be no discussions of flying saucers, USO's (unidentified submerged objects) or the like in this series. RFFM.org encourages readers to submit intelligent comments about the existence of conspiracies and, who knows, perhaps one of the real killers of JFK might actually write in. Now, before I start receiving weird comments...

Word has it that radical peace (?) groups are planning to create monumental tumult during the August Democrat National Convention in Denver. The goal is a media-frenzied series of public disturbances similar to the disorder which occurred in the 1968 Chicago Democrat Convention. However, the current plan is more extreme. They plan to throw bags of urine and blood on cops at the DNC protests. Pretty disgusting, eh? Under the name ReCreate 68 and led by Ward Churchill supporter, Glenn Spagnuolo, the group wants to choreograph the actions of various anti-American, anti-capitalist and socialist throngs such as Code Pink, Food...

The screen on my laptop has died again; 3 times in two years. I need a portable computer but do not need the instant convenience of a laptop. Do these smaller computers (cubes) provide an alternative, especially if I'm willing to take a keyboard and screen into the various hotel rooms? I'm not a gamer. I have word publishing and some photo shop applications. 60 Gig of HD and 1Mg or Ram minimums to accomodate MS Office 2007 and Adobe PS. Any suggestions from the freeper community?

Protesting Truth "The personal is the political", has been a rallying cry of collectivists, "progressivists", marxists, and others on the left since the 1960's. Never has this concept been so apparent than in it's application to the politics of today. A lot of folks, libertarian and conservative alike call the Democratic party the "demonrats", or the "dhimmicrats". It's garbage like this that prompts this sort of rhetoric: "[A]s a Democrat, you don't want anything nice to happen to the Republicans, and you don't want them to have progress. But as an American, you hope good things would happen." Notice...

Joseph Manzanares accosted his girlfriend, Laquisha Bobo, in the Hollywood Video store in Commerce City, Colorado where she worked, knocked over several video displays and a computer and threatened to kill her – all because of a dispute over which gang their 4-year-old son should join. The mother is a member of the Crips. Manzanares belongs to the Westside gang. Each was adamant that their son be affiliated with his or her gang. “A man has the right to bring up his son the way he chooses,” Manzanares insisted. “It’s a matter of pride.” “A mother knows what’s best for...

I just returned home from seeing the premiere of Ben Stein's new movie, "Expelled:No Intelligence Allowed". I was amazed that such an important movie that addresses serious questions would be so enjoyable and have such great entertainment value. The movie exposes Darwinism and the crushing of scientific inquiry going on in this country. Darwinism is the foundation science of modern liberalism, and just as liberalism is a failed philosophy and imposes political correctness to stifle debate, so is some of Darwinian theory wrong, and scientific study and debate about it is simiarly stifled. I urge everyone to see this movie...

Join Honest and Eeevil for two hours of common sense conservative discussion. This week we'll talk about energy and our government's role in the current situation, and the implications of the Security and Prosperity Partnership. http://www.spp.gov (to read about the SPP, you know, the one that doesn't exist but has a government suffix!) Call 646 478 5613 on Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 8 pm est. The show is podcast, so just plug the UrL: http://www. blogtalkradio.com/freedom into Itunes and all the shows will be automatically loaded. Bring your popcorn/and or margueritas, we're gonna need 'em! Well, I know I...

William Ayers has been one of the many friends and supporters of Senator Barack Obama who have given Americans qualms about what Obama's ideology is and what policies he may put into practice as President. There is quite a cast of characters that surround Barack Obama. There is of course, Pastor Wright (his "moral compass" and "sounding board" in Barack Obama's own words), and a range of foreign policy advisers who have been criticized for views that all too often seem accommodating to terrorists and regimes that support terror. Andrew McCarthy has highlighted  these ties in "The Company He Keeps: Meet Obama's Circle: The Same...

This is actually getting interesting. Yesterday we noted the weird story of Aliza Shvarts, an undergraduate student at Yale whose "senior art project" supposedly consists in part of her own blood, which she claims she obtained by repeatedly inducing miscarriages after artificially inseminating herself. Suspecting that the Shvarts project was a hoax, we described it as a "sick joke," which covered our bases in either case. Now a dispute has arisen between the Yale administration, which claims it was a hoax, and Shvarts, who denies it, although she now describes the putative project in somewhat less sensational terms. Let's go...

UPDATE: Friday April 18 The "Sixteen year old girl." A hoax??? Just read this on WND.I am SPITTING mad. Texas authorities better have those children back in their mothers arms by tonight. Jenny Hatch "A 33-year-old Colorado Springs woman has been questioned about a telephone call that sparked a raid at the polygamist Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints compound in western Texas two weeks ago. Rozita Swinton was arrested at her home Wednesday night by Colorado Springs police for an incident that occurred in February. Members of the Texas Rangers were also in Colorado Springs as...

EXCLUSIVE: Pendleton 8 Exposed, Part 5: Autopsy and Pathology Report April 12, 2008 · As promised, here are the first of many documents to come in the Pendleton 8 case. This is the autopsy of a dead Iraqi that even the report admits is only “believed to be” Awad. You’ll see handwritten notes throughout the report, and these are the notes of Sgt Larry Hutchins himself.What makes this document so incredible is that there is no proof that the man autopsied is even the man the Marines killed that night. In fact, there is some evidence to show that the...

What do you get when you start piecing together the various statements of Barack Obama, the conditional patriotism of his wife Michelle, the troubling questions raised by his voluntary associations with anti-Americans and left wing radicals and his glass-jawed and perturbed reaction when questions are posed to him on these matters? A distressing portrait starts to emerge: What all these issues raise are troubling questions — perhaps premature — about the extent and sincerity of Obama’s patriotism. Does Obama believe the United States is fundamentally good or fundamentally flawed? At the debate in Philadelphia, Obama neither enlightened us nor dispelled...

California’s Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) has come out against a citizen initiative aimed at banning gay marriage in the state. His new position puzzled many observers. Previously, the Governor had vetoed legislation that would have legalized gay marriage. Schwarzenegger explained that “I was given a penetrating analysis by a member of the Log Cabin Republicans that just ‘blew me away.’” The governor proclaimed himself “more receptive to the idea” and said that the LGBT (Lesbian, gay, Bisexual, and Transgender) movement could count on his backing should the need arise. “I will terminate the initiative,” Schwarzenegger boasted.

There will be a protest rally against illegal immigration, on the Front Steps of the Capitol Building on Charlotte Street in Nashville, on Saturday, April 26, 2008, from 12 Noon till 4 PM For too long our state government has supported illegal activities by people who are here illegally, while ignoring the health and safety needs of American citizens and residents of Tennessee. The costs to American citizens in deaths on the roads, the return of diseases once eradicated, and the economic support of ineligible illegal aliens by American taxpayers must cease. Cutting off the magnet of jobs has to...

As I noted in a recent column on the perils of ethanol and other biofuels, using food for fuel is wrought with difficulties. One of them is hunger, which is on the rise throughout the Third World, largely due to biofuel production. As a result, discontent is brewing, food riots and hoarding are becoming the norm, and governments are finding themselves facing an increasingly hostile and hungry populace. An International Herald Tribune article (linked at Drudge) spells out thelooming disaster in startling detail (emphasis added): "It's the worst crisis of its kind in more than 30 years," said Jeffrey Sachs,...

Taking an early morning walk this time of year is a singular treat, like Dorothy stepping out of Auntie Em’s house into the color and sound of Oz. The same things that are always there, only instead of Winter‘s drabness, Spring’s full and glorious color. Each walk is accompanied by a symphony of birdsong, a riot of color bursting everywhere. Fallen jasmine blossoms scatter themselves on the ground like the famed yellow brick road, and blooming things pop up everywhere like the fabled Munchkins. And then, as if the colors and sounds aren’t enough, just to add a little spice,...

Barry's miffed that at Wednesday's debate "it took us 45 minutes before we even started talking about a single issue that matters to the American people. Forty-five minutes before we heard about health care, 45 minutes before we heard about Iraq, 45 minutes before we heard about jobs, 45 minutes before we heard about gas prices." If it bothered him so much, why didn't he have the guts to say to the moderators: OK, I've had enough irrelevant questions. Now I'm going to discuss health care, Iraq, Jobs, gas prices. . . " He wants to be president of the...