Free Republic

Check out the ad hoc performance of the fastest man on the planet, Mr. Usain Bolt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxN825ALFUw&feature=youtu.be

Ticks on a snake:

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An Iranian woman who was blinded by a suitor who threw acid on her face has pardoned her attacker at the last minute, sparing him from being blinded by acid as retribution. ... this is an excerpt, as per the rules

Valerie learns about modern slavery (One of those cute educational youtube animations)

One thing that distinguishes each of us from the monkey is the willingness to admit when we're wrong. I've been wrong about something for a while, and it's been bubbling around in my head as one of those subconscious things. I hate to think that I've participated in leading anyone astray, and need to set things right. It's human nature to want to believe in someone, or something, larger than life who "gets it" and is kind of a champion that can help us fight our battles (or in the case of the monkey, to do all the fighting while...

This is a FreeTalkLive.com interview with "Starving The Monkeys" author Tom Baugh, recorded on March 20, 2010 in New Hampshire at the Free State Project's "Liberty Forum." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTt2zpNJkkY

This is a portion of a CNN broadcast from 2008: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyFO19pCSS0

Last week Joe Wilson showed spine. To borrow the words of a popular pundit, he "questioned with boldness" the words the President of the United States said in his house. That's right, Joe Wilson's house. And by extension, our house. The framers of the Constitution intended that there be a system of checks and balances. And one of those balances is that once a year the President is compelled to address a joint session of Congress, not as an enraptured audience, but as a judge of his performance as Chief Executive. This time the President chose to request an audience...

Now here is something you definitely don't see at left-wing protests: http://www.vimeo.com/4204301 (captured at the Raleigh, NC Tea Party tax protest on the Capitol Grounds)

Aug. 4, 2008 -- Jets of searingly hot water spewing up from the ocean floor have been discovered in a far-northern zone of the Arctic Ocean, Swiss-based scientists announced Monday. The so-called "black smokers" were found 73 degrees north, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between Greenland and Norway, in the coldest waters yet for a phenomenon first observed around the Galagapos islands in 1977.The earth's plumbing system of hydrothermal vents contain their own, unique ecosystems given the absence of sunlight at depths, in this case, of 7,874 feet, with vinegar-like water attaining temperatures of up to 752 degrees Fahrenheit.A team from...

Commentary: Blizzard of Lies By William Safire © 1996 N.Y. Times News Service 01.08.96 Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our first lady - a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation - is a congenital liar. Drip by drip, like Whitewater torture, the case is being made that she is compelled to mislead, and to ensnare her subordinates and friends in a web of deceit. Remember the story she told about studying The Wall Street Journal to explain her 10,000 percent profit in 1979 commodity trading?...

Chapel Hill, N.C. — Chapel Hill police Monday evening released two new photographs of a man they want to talk to about the shooting death of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Student Body President Eve Carson. The photos show a black man attempting to use Carson’s debit card at an automated-teller machine in a local convenience store, Chapel Hill Police Chief Brian Curran said. He did not specify when or where the pictures were taken, in order to protect the investigation. "The photos depict a male going into an area convenience store," Curran said. That man was the...

A cardboard sign hanging in a tree, directed at a boy with developmental disabilities, and the boy's mother, isn't happy. Neighbor: "I'm not taking the sign down, last night was the first night of peace we've got in a long ----- time." Carrie Heaton, Colton's Mother: "They've put up this sign now, that we feel is very discriminatory against my son." The cardboard sign is hanging in a tree in the Central Utah town of Nephi. It is also being denounced tonight by advocates for the disabled. The boy's family noticed the sign pointed at their home on Wednesday night,...

CMT (Country Music Television) has a new series out called True Grit, and the first episode is about Ronald Reagan! I just saw the first showing, and it is really well done. Here are the rebroadcast times for this same episode: Sunday, February 19, 2006 1:00 AM ET/PT Sunday, February 19, 2006 2:00 PM ET/PT Sunday, February 19, 2006 9:00 PM ET/PT Monday, February 20, 2006 5:00 PM ET/PT Tuesday, February 21, 2006 8:00 PM ET/PT Saturday, February 25, 2006 7:00 PM ET/PT Sunday, February 26, 2006 7:00 PM ET/PT

DURHAM -- The large, red numbers stuck to a fence outside Riverside High School read 1,524. That's the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan and Iraq, but the tally continues to grow each day. Members of Riverside's Young Democrats club want the rest of their school to remember the soldiers' sacrifice. In addition to the red numbers in front of the school -- which are changed each time another soldier dies -- the club has put together a tribute to the armed forces in Riverside's main lobby. The display includes the name, age and picture of each soldier who...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- A month-old company based in Rocky Mount hopes to find success in the very niche market of selling log homes to gays and lesbians. Justin Porter, the founder of Log Homes for Us, said he noticed a market to sell the homes to gays and lesbians while working for a larger company, of which his firm is now a division. At log home exhibitions, "I realized one out of every 10 to 15 couples was gay or lesbian couple," Porter said Friday. "And I realized there was no company catering to that demographic." He guessed -- correctly,...

I am sorry for the vanity, but I hope that by posting it on a Friday night that I do as little damage to the forum as possible. There was an amazingly beautiful hymn performed at Reagan's State Funeral that I can't get out of my head, one that I wish to add to my personal collection. It is a marvelous performance that culminates with the grand organ adding itself to the youth choir that opened the hymn, adding depth and weight to the life they were celebrating. Can anyone in freeperdom help me identify it, and possibly point me...

Fox News is reporting that Donald Regan, former Secretary of Treasury and Chief of Staff to Ronald Reagan has passed away.

WOW. Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update" skit opened up with a pretty blatant Bush bash, making a reference to his statements against racial quotas in the Michgan Law case sound like he was "sticking it to the black man" even as he wages war all over the place. But that joke was only luke-warmly received, and all the other jokes in the rest of the skit seemed to suffer from the terrible cadance established by the stupid remark about the president.

Rush opened up his show for a raving lunatic African-American woman to rail against devil caucasians and to complain about the administration's handling of Arafat. Though inarticulate, she was very well-educated about the facts and players in the conflict.