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Florida FReepers and others beware! Dem operatives and other ne'er-do-wells are trying mightily to co-opt the Tea Party moniker. In Florida, a Democratic lawyer has registered the name "Tea Party" as an official party and has been recognized by the state as such. This clown is obviously trying to capitalize on the Tea Party name and fame and also trying to split conservatives and harm their effort to retake the Republican Party. Do not be fooled. Warning Will Robinson! Burn after reading...

Party of Crooks By: Jennifer King To those who studied the election issues it should come as no surprise that President Obama’s first week in office was a full out Executive Order pander to the hard left. Additionally, it appears that one must be a tax cheat and law breaker in order to receive a nomination to the new Cabinet. The Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac debacle that started this economic crisis was perpetrated almost entirely by Democrats, who passed legislation under President Carter, and ramped them up fourscore under President Clinton, aimed at providing home loans to people who had no-jobs-no-income-no...

CanadianMusherinMI came up with this slogan and it would be great if we could seize upon this "SoreLoserman" moment and come up with something dynamic that could be made into tshirts, posters, etc. for rallies. I am not an artist in any way so I was just going to print the slogan on some tshirts and put "Vote McCain/Palin" under it. If anyone has any other creative ideas (picture of a plunger?) I'm sure CMinMI wouldn't mind. This could be hugh, seriesly :-)

Please sign the petition for Psychiatric Evaluation of Presidential Candidates Understanding Obama: The Making of a Fuehrer By Ali Sina 2008/09/22 (This page is better viewed with the Mozille Firefox browser) I must confess I was not impressed by Sen. Barack Obama from the first time I saw him. At first I was excited to see a black candidate. He looked youthful, spoke well, appeared to be confident – a wholesome presidential package. It is so instinctive for most people to want to see blacks succeed. It is as if all humanity is carrying a collective guilt for what the...

**Vanity** Dear Fellow FReepers: I am counseling a group of high school seniors with a keen interest in attending the Ivy League - we have toured Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth and Harvard as well as Stanford. These are conservative (mostly Christian) students and I am well aware of the perils of the Ivy League - I've even had them read "Poison Ivy" and had them consult the NR's guide to colleges. I believe that they are prepared for the left wing bias. That being said, (and NR giving Princeton more latitude for being fairer than other schools to diversity of thought)...

Profoundly Unserious By Jennifer King Jennifer King The Muslim world is in an uproar over the latest perceived "offense against Islam". The "Cartoon Jihad" was jump started when Ahmed Akkari, a Danish Islamic scholar and activist, took booklets filled with unflattering cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammed to the Grand Mufti in Egypt and various other Islamic leaders. Several of the most egregious cartoons had not been printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, but instead had been received by Akkari via mail. Akkari insists that his motive for publicizing the cartoons - which had been published in September to little notice...

Islamic Intolerance By Jennifer King November 14, 2005 In late October of this year, the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sparked outrage when he called for the wholesale destruction of Israel. When pressed to recant, Ahmadinejad instead joined a demonstration of an estimated one million marchers who carried placards reading, "Death to America" and "Death to Israel". Some demonstrators chanted, "Israel is approaching its death". They were attired in white shrouds, indicating their readiness to die for their cause. Sadly, this is nothing new. In 2001, the United Nations hosted a conference on "racism". The U.N. declared that Zionism - the...

Bloviating Bette By Jennifer King September 23, 2005 On Tuesday, a group of aging celebrities and second string artists got together in order to ostensibly raise funds for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. This event, dubbed, "From the Big Apple to the Big Easy" was held at Madison Square Garden and also contemporaneously at the Radio City Music Hall. Tickets for the events, priced from $50-$1000 at Radio City and from $50-$500 at Madison Square Garden, sold out. The event was simulcast on Pay Per View TV. It had the potential to be a welcome and heartfelt diversion after weeks...

The Katrina Conundrum By Jennifer King September 13, 2005 Almost two weeks later, the Katrina blame game goes on. All of the usual suspects - Hillary Clinton, Sid Blumenthal, Howard Dean, Jesse Jackson et.al have tried to turn this tragic disaster into a crass political advantage against President Bush. It is always grimly ironic when the party of segregation and Ku Klux Klanners claims that it is the Republicans who are racist. The lead in to Katrina was punctuated by errors on all sides. The citizens of New Orleans were warned that a category four, perhaps five hurricane was making...

Misguided Mom By Jennifer King August 12, 2005 The mainstream media has gone bonkers over Cindy Sheehan, the grieving mother who lost her son last year in Iraq. According to a recent Sheehan blog, she is to be featured in People, Time, Vanity Fair and Oprah's magazine. The New York Times and it's Left Coast ideological bedmate the Los Angeles Times have run breathless feature articles. Cindy's story even made the AP, ensuring predictable nationwide coverage in local newspapers. The story is irresistible - the heartbroken mother who is determined to meet with President Bush, to find out if her...

The Malignant Minority By Jennifer King June 7, 2005 Minority leader Senator Harry Reid likes to boast of his upbringing in the small town of Searchlight, Nevada. One would think that he would then display some of the vaunted small town values such as courtesy and cordiality, but the opposite is true. Senator Reid has castigated Justice Clarence Thomas, making insulting and demeaning - not to mention casually racist - remarks about his rulings and intelligence. Reid has repeatedly obstructed the right of the President to appoint judges and then - in a true case of psychological projection - has...

Borking Bolton By Jennifer King April 25, 2005 John Bolton, nominated by President Bush to become the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, has been under a vicious assault by the united forces of the Left and the Democrat Party. Bolton has been a vocal critic of the U.N. and could be counted upon to stand up for American interests there. This does not suit our internationalist friends at all - they view American power with alarm and believe, as Madeleine Albright once said that, "it is not good for America to be the lone superpower". The major media is...

The Death of Terri Schiavo By Jennifer King April 8, 2005 As Terri Schiavo gasped her way to the painful death ordered for her by a renegade judge, outrage about this blatant travesty of justice still lingers. What seems indisputable is that Michael Schiavo was assuredly not looking out for his wife's best interests, or fulfilling a long ago made vow. Michael's actions throughout bespeak selfish cruelty with a streak of sadism mixed in. Were Michael and Terri Schiavo happily married before her bizarre "collapse"? Family members insist that Terri was considering divorce, because Michael was controlling and authoritative, and...

American Jihad? By Jennifer King January 24, 2005 On Sunday, January 16th, Hossam Armanious and his wife, Amal Garas were found brutally murdered in New Jersey. Armanious and Garas had been bound, stabbed and had had their throats slit. What made the crime particularly heinous was that their young daughters, Monica, 8, and Sylvia, 15, had been murdered in precisely the same manner. The Armanious family was Coptic Christians, who had fled Egypt because of persecution by the Muslim majority. Hossam Armanious was particularly vocal on a Pal Talk forum discussing religion and he had personally "converted" several Muslims to...

The Left's Delusion By Jennifer King December 13, 2004 Reality appears to have taken a wide detour away from most mainstream liberals. Their stunning electoral losses appear to have not impacted their belief system in the slightest, proving once again that their liberalism is their religion and that they cling to it more stubbornly than the most devoted evangelical ever would. In Ohio, a state that President Bush won by 119,000 votes, the discredited Jesse Jackson is nevertheless refusing to concede. "It ain't over", Jackson declared at an event called, "Preserving Democracy: What Went Wrong in Ohio". This panel, chaired...

Mau Mauing the Marines By Jennifer King November 22, 2004 The recent publication of the video of a U.S. Marine shooting an Iraqi "insurgent" is the latest installment in Old Media's unending war against the United States military. Embedded photographer Kevin Sites' motivation is a toss up. He resembles a typical longhaired antiwar radical, plus he has submitted photos to an antiwar site - imagesagainstwar.com. Some of Sites actions are suspicious, as will be detailed below. Furthermore, Sites had to first edit the no doubt voluminous footage he has amassed as an embed. He had to know that his incriminating...

x Have They Learned Yet? By Jennifer King November 15, 2004 A week after the 2004 election was decisively settled in favor of President Bush, the question begs. Have the liberals learned yet? With a brief blip in the reelection of President Clinton in 1996, the Left has been losing ground steadily since 1994. With each election, Republicans have gained a bit more of a majority while Democrats have slid farther into oblivion. This is true in House and Senate races, as well as in Governorships and in political offices throughout the state level. One would think that this would...

“We’re Gonna Sue” - A Kerry Coup - Part One by Jennifer King, Managing Editor October 29, 2004 "The Heretical Housewife" The Kerry campaign recently announced a new strategy. Michael Whouley, the DNC’s elections operations operative and a (wink, nudge) Kerry “confidant” has publicly stated that the Kerry campaign has assembled an army of 10,000 lawyers and at least six “SWAT Teams” of lawyers and politicos waiting by fully fueled jets on election eve. When notified of a battleground state battle, the Kerry patrols will swing into action, jetting off immediately to file litigation in order to facilitate a Kerry...

Activism 101 Your Mission, if you choose to accept it.... Make a flyer listing Kerry's actual voting record (since the MSM has conveniently obfuscated it). Put it in the mailboxes of your neighbors who are displaying signs. It might pique their curiosity enough so that they look into it themselves. You can turn a vote for Kerry into a vote for Bush, or into a vote for Nader. Some samples Kerry has voted (how many times) against a ban on partial birth abortion. Kerry has voted (times) against parental notification. Kerry voted against (specific defense systems). In 1971, Kerry gave...

Is John F. Kerry Fit to Serve? - The SWIFT Boat Saga By Jennifer King August 9, 2004 Fast and furious, the rounds have been coming in. Two days ago, a group calling itself "SWIFT Boat Veterans For Truth" (www.swiftvets.com) put out a devastating advertisement about John Kerry's record in Vietnam. The SWIFT boat veterans are all men who served alongside John Kerry during his four month tenure in Vietnam. Among other charges, the SWIFT boat veterans allege: John Kerry was reckless and did not follow orders. Kerry was personally responsible for shooting a fleeing Vietnamese soldier in the back....