Free Republic

4-year-old grabs early AM bus ride for snack

Debunking a Myth by Ari Bussel “He made it his devilish business of his, to find out who this Ms. Doolittle is … Every trick that he could play, he used to strip her mask away, and when at last the dance was done, he glowed as if he knew he won, and with a voice too eager and a smile too broad he announced to the hostess that she was ‘a Fraud!’” My Fair Lady, “You Did It!” We were sitting on two aisle seats, one across from the other. She was determined to find out my employer, convinced...

Sign up online to take one of our free buses down to Washington, DC from New Jersey on November 5th to oppose the government take over of our health care! Click here for more about the rallyBus Schedule from NJ on Nov 5 to DC. Click link for reservation for the free trip! * 6:30 am Blue Heron Park and Ride located off of Rte 15 at the Blue Heron Exit in Sparta. * 7:00 am Ridgewood Park and Ride located on Rte 17 south in Ridgewood * 8:30 am Shore mall behind Value City, 6725 Black Horse Pike, Egg...

Chicago -- The firestorm surrounding Governor Blagojevich is putting some heat on Barack Obama’s transition team. Fox Chicago News has learned about possible conversations between a top Obama aide and the governor regarding the open senate seat. Craig Wall has the exclusive.

With incense burning and a Roman Catholic priest's blessings, a busload of immigrants left San Jose early Tuesday on a cross-country journey they hope will change the way America views and treats immigrants. Calling themselves the Freedom Riders, a tribute to civil-rights activists who went on a similar journey in the 1960s, about 800 immigrants from 10 U.S. cities boarded buses that will converge Oct. 4 in New York City. The goal of the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride is threefold: to legalize undocumented immigrants, reunite families and protect workers' rights without regard to immigration status. Those from the Bay Area...

Cheering immigration-rights activists and union organizers clapped and chanted Tuesday morning as a bus bound for Washington, D.C., pulled up to St. Joseph's Catholic Church. The sojourn is modeled after the Freedom Ride of the Civil Rights Movement, which carried students campaigning to end segregation in the South 43 years ago. The new Freedom Ride seeks justice for immigrant workers and is larger in scale, with 10 buses departing simultaneously from 10 U.S. cities. The foreign-born riders range from professionals to low-wage workers at different stages in the immigration process — but all believe there's something inhumane and contradictory about...

Movement supports rights for immigrant workers SAN FRANCISCO - About 2,500 marchers toted signs, chanted slogans and carried a united message of support for the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride on Saturday in downtown San Francisco. The 15-day campaign, starting with two busses filled with 106 people, will cross the country, aimed for Washington D.C. and eventually New York. The movement was inspired by the Freedom Riders of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Overall, eight major cities will launch busloads of Freedom Riders to join the caravan that will visit 70 host cities. Close to 70 unions from the...

April 7, 2003 Baghdad's Buses Running Despite Fighting By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 4:49 a.m. ET BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- As U.S. tanks rolled through Baghdad, a few Iraqis waited on both sides of the Tigris River for more ordinary transportation: city buses. Others tried to hitchhike, though destinations were unclear and most stores were closed. Dust clouded the air, stirred by a coming windstorm, and an acrid haze blanketed the city from explosions and fires. Iraqi television and radio, still on the air, broadcast patriotic songs and slogans and archival footage of President Saddam Hussein firing a gun...