Free Republic 2nd Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $17,609
21%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 21%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Articles Posted by Mack the knife

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • L.A. County inmates to have immigration status checked as part of new program

    08/27/2009 4:33:03 PM PDT · by Mack the knife · 21 replies · 1,702+ views
    L.A. Times ^ | 27 August 2009 | L.A.Times
    Los Angeles is now checking the immigration status of inmates as they are released. Link only to L.A. Times
  • "Family Law" gives balanced view of Gun accident

    03/20/2001 10:32:14 AM PST · by Mack the knife · 12+ views
    TV Show - Famiily Law 3/19/01 | 3/19/01
    Did anyone else see "Family Law' last night? What did you think? When the show started with an 8 year old (?) boy being shot, I got ready to turn the channel - here we go again, sez I, another gun bashing show. Boy was I surprised! Dana Delany played a divorced mother who was raped just after her divorce, and so bought a gun to protect herself. She several times through the show said she would under no circumstances be without a gun to protect herself and her children -- very strong case. One of her kids saw her ...
  • Campaign Financing: Leave well-enough alone

    08/17/2000 9:52:53 AM PDT · by Mack the knife · 12+ views
    Kansas City Star | 16 August | Lee Levin, author
    Is this a great country or what? Here, in America, milliions of citizens who contribute little or nothing in taxes may vote -- freely and without coercion of any kind -- to reach into the pockets of those who do pay taxes, extracting ever increasing sums for their own benefit. Not only that, but the earners are savagely villified even as their hard earned treasure is looted. Should they murmer in protest, they are brutally reviled as mean-spirited, hard-hearted, and selfish. Meanwhile, those who promote this practice -- which, were it to take place on a street corner, would be ...
  • IRS HORROR STORIES ON MONTEL

    03/21/2000 4:58:26 PM PST · by Mack the knife · 11+ views
    Montel Show announcement
    As I was flipping channels this morning, I heard the announcement by Montel that his next show would be entitled "IRS HORROR STORIES". It started with the voice of a person who said that he opened his door one morning and stared down the barrel of a 40 caliber handgun in the hand of an IRS agent. Look up your local channel and time, and set your VCRs.