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The core issue is that changing political mores have established the systematic promotion of the unqualified and sidelining of the competent. This has continually weakened our society’s ability to manage modern systems. At its inception, it represented a break from the trend of the 1920s to the 1960s, when the direct meritocratic evaluation of competence became the norm across vast swaths of American society.

Imagine creating a biological product that not only has negative efficacy and debilitating side effects but actually proliferates other viruses so that the same manufacturer can market its ineffective and dangerous vaccine for the new disease. Well, stop imagining and start observing, because this is exactly what Pfizer and Moderna are doing if we don’t stop them. After the vaccines were released in 2021, there was an unprecedented, out-of-season spike in RSV during the spring. Now, while in season, although on the early side, RSV is filling the hospitals with children all over the country. In October, which is pretty...

I wish I had the creative talent it takes to do stuff like this LOL Good job!

Saw a guy with a black FreeRepublic.Com jacket

I love NYC. When I first moved to NYC it was a dream come true. Every corner was like a theater production happening right in front of me. So much personality, so many stories. Every subculture I loved was in NYC. I could play chess all day and night. I could go to comedy clubs. I could start any type of business. I could meet people. I had family, friends, opportunities. No matter what happened to me, NYC was a net I could fall back on and bounce back up. Now it's completely dead. "But NYC always always bounces back."...

TEXAS MOTOR CITY SPEEDWAY, FORT WORTH — For the first time, disabled and wounded officers are speaking out about an incident that occurred over the weekend at a NASCAR race at Texas Motor City Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas. On Saturday, a group of disabled officers injured in the line of duty were seated as guests of top female NASCAR driver Angela Ruch. After the race, they asked NASCAR track security if they could take a photo with her vehicle benefitting The Wounded Blue organization, which was painted in tribute to more than 120 fallen officers killed in the line...

Saw this on another board, thought Freepers would enjoy the laugh LOL

She didn't have a reservation

LOL These guys are laughing at FR over the LV lawsuit thing. Feel free to wear them out, and have fun - the CI board is anon and there are some really funny libbies there to torment.

Looks like the Clinton machine is springing into action ..... A prominent Philadelphia attorney and Hillary Clinton supporter filed suit this afternoon in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic National Committee and the Federal Election Commission. The action seeks an injunction preventing the senator from continuing his candidacy and a court order enjoining the DNC from nominating him next week, all on grounds that Sen. Obama is constitutionally ineligible to run for and hold the office of President of the United States. Phillip Berg, the filing attorney, is a...

Washington's power players have always bragged about being well-wired, but for disgraced former congressman Duke Cunningham, "wired" wasn't just a figure of speech. In a week when legislators are focused on the question of who else might be brought down by ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s cooperation with prosecutors as he seeks lenient sentencing over his two federal guilty pleas this week, sources tell TIME that ex-Rep. Cunningham wore a wire to help investigators gather evidence against others just before copping his own plea.

MANHATTAN, Kan. - Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle decried Monday what he called the "startling meanness" of American politics. The South Dakotan, who has been Senate Democratic leader for nine years and is seeking re-election in November, said campaigns were especially ugly in 2002 and that the ugliness continues. "Today, enormous new challenges confront each and every one of us," he said. "We will not meet those challenges or seize those opportunities if we indulge in the brutal politics of division, if we attempt to silence those who have other ideas." Daschle spoke to about 500 people at Kansas State...

Bravely bold Sir Kerry Rode forth to VietNam. He was not afraid to die, Oh brave Sir Kerry. He was not at all afraid To be killed in nasty ways. Brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Kerry. He was not in the least bit scared To be mashed into a pulp. Or to have his eyes gouged out, And his elbows broken. To have his kneecaps split And his body burned away, And his limbs all hacked and mangled Brave Sir Kerry. His head smashed in And his heart cut out And his liver removed And his bowls unplugged And his...

WASHINGTON - FedEx chairman Frederick W. Smith told a Senate panel looking at postal reform Thursday that it has two choices: Liquidate the Postal Service as technology encroaches on its primary business or force it to compete. Smith, whose Memphis-based package delivery and logistics company is both in partnership and in competition with the 750,000-employee government mail-delivery giant, laid out a list of proposals aimed at improving service, adjusting Postal Service pricing structures and ending the USPS monopoly by 2008. The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee is considering the first comprehensive overhaul of the Postal Service since the early 1970s while...

Ira Nisby had his eyes on the road as he tooled down Interstate 40 in Memphis Sunday, but he should have been watching the skies. Just before noon, an out-of-gas Cessna 210 single-engine airplane with four aboard touched down on the top of his GMC Jimmy, then bounced into the lane ahead of him. "I heard a knock," Nisby said. "He came from the air. I couldn't see it," he said. Nisby, of Millington, was headed west at Covington Pike to drop off a woman passenger in his vehicle, when the airplane descended. There were no injuries. The airplane didn't...

A year ago this week Jim Goodwin, the former chief executive of United Airlines, wrote a letter to employees warning that "we are in nothing less than a fight for our life". "Clearly this bleeding has to be stopped - and soon - or United will perish sometime next year," he said. The thanks he got for this letter was to be marched swiftly out of the company. The message outraged union leaders, who dubbed it the "Chicken Little letter" for its alarmist tone, and caused UAL's stock price to drop 10 per cent to about $17 at the time....