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OK. As resident Practicing Political Scientist, I'd like to do something out of character and start a thread. A Vanity, no less. Hopefully JimRob and the admins will understand and take my years on FR and my "cranky old bastard" status into consideration and grant me their grace. Here's something that I've been thinking about recently. What with the smoldering race war evolving around us, this is worthy of discussion. Here goes. Everybody's heard the tired old Marxist definition of racism. You know, the one that says all white people are "racist", and black people can NOT be racist. Kind...

The torrid pace of Muslim migration into the United States should be sending off alarm bells in the nation’s Jewish community, but so far it has barely registered as the sound of a pin dropping. (see rest at link)

The high-stakes political battle between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has taken a new turn, and it’s as ugly as Jerry Sandusky’s future. The Urban Dictionary, an fast-evolving online lexicon that promotes itself as “the dictionary you wrote,” has added a new definition of Reid that seems calculated to respond to the Nevada senator’s recent claims about Romney’s alleged federal income tax evasion. “Harry Reid,” the dictionary now says, is defined as “[a]n unofficial rap sheet of alleged pederasty and sexual abuse of minors by anonymous sources that may not exist.” The definition emerged,...

With the number of protesters dwindling and winter fast approaching, the organizers of the ‘Occupy’ movement in Indianapolis have turned to the homeless for help, recruiting them to help maintain the ‘Occupy’ presence in the city...

Bond was set at $50,000 for a teen who was charged along with two others with a hate crime after making derogatory statements and threatening someone Thursday night near Millennium Park. The victim, a male of an unidentified age, called police about 8 p.m. after the three accosted him in the 100 block of North Michigan Avenue at a Metra station, according to police News Affairs Officer Veejay Zala.

The Pope took a couple of days off to visit the mountains of Alaska for some sightseeing. He was cruising along the campground in the Popemobile when there was a frantic commotion just at the edge of the woods. A helpless Liberal, wearing sandals, shorts, a Save the Whales" hat, and a "To Hell with Bush" T-shirt, was screaming while struggling frantically, thrashing around trying to free himself from the grasp of a 10 foot grizzly. As the Pope watched horrified, a group of Republican loggers came racing up. One quickly fired a 44 magnum into the bear's chest. The...

Looks like the two-week long "correction" has finally turned around. DOW is up by 93.76 points, NASDAQ up 29. Just thought we could use some good news for a change...

"Ex-'vet' who posted anti-war video turns out to be a fake" Click on the link to check out the video.

"The National Day of Prayer is scheduled for Thursday, May 5, 2005 Please join us between 11:15 am and 11:45 am between Bldg. 6 & Bldg. 7 near the back corner of Bldg. 7 at entrance No. 6. Come as your time permits and stay as long as you can, even if it's only for a few minutes, to be part of our circle of prayer to in observance of the National Day of Prayer for our great nation. Also, the old Challgren conference room (next to the Ops conference room - bldg. 6A, 2nd floor) will be available from...

James Joseph Bierbower, a well-known Washington lawyer who represented Nixon campaign aide Jeb Stuart Magruder during the Watergate trials and EPA official Rita Lavelle during a Superfund inquiry, died of pneumonia Feb. 5 at a nursing home in Maryland. He was 81 and had Alzheimer's disease. He practiced law for 49 years in Washington, representing a bevy of capital characters....

Hi Fives to Bush supporters in Cuyahoga County. I just heard on Fox that in order for Kerry to win Ohio, he would have had to taken Cuyahoga County (that's Cleveland and suburbs to you non-Ohio freepers)by 250,000 votes. According to the latest reports, Kerry and the Democrats came up about 100,000 short of that number, because you bothered to go out in that crappy weather yesterday and vote. And yesterday, for the first time I can remember, our votes may have made the difference in the election. Being a Republican in Cuyahoga County can sometimes be (and usually is),...

First time posting, sorry it's a vanity. Just a quick weather report from Cuyahoga County. Time: 0745 Raining, gloomy, crappy, chilly.... it looks like even God is conspiring to keep those Democrats away from the polls!