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“The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behavior ... In all the other Cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make” – United States Constitution, Article III, Sections 1 and 2. That piercing scream you'll hear any day now is the leftist juggernaut in America being neutered without the blessings of anesthetic. The left, it appears, has been too busy reading homoerotic poetry tucked away inside an upside-down Marx and Engles book...

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania May 8, 2003 For Immediate Release: Long-time Freeper William Wallace announced today that he has no complaints whatsoever about FreeRepublic. Wallace claims he harbors no animosity, deep-seated grudges or pathological hatred toward forum management and moderators. “I’m not as active on FR as I was during the Clinton years and the election controversy,” Wallace admitted. “I lurk a bit, but rarely post these days.” Wallace went through a period where he spent most of his free time here, but now mainly uses the forum as another news source and antidote to the mainstream media spin. “For the most...

As soon as Fidel Castro seized power in 1959, I saw on television the firing squad execution of an array of political prisoners, which he ordered. He then began filling his brutal prisons with Cubans whose sole crime was a desire to breathe freedom after the Batista dictatorship -- only to find themselves in another totalitarian quicksand. At one point, interviewing the already legendary Che Guevara -- an international Cuban revolutionary icon -- at the Cuban mission to the United Nations, I asked him if he could foresee, anytime in the future, free elections in Cuba. Crisply dressed in his...

The greatest obstacle to domestic security in the war on terror is the worldview of the liberal elites. No sooner had the Twin Towers fallen than the press and an army of advocacy groups were on the hunt for victims—not of Muslim fanaticism but of American bigotry. The liberal commentariat has denounced every commonsensical measure to protect the country the Bush administration has proposed as an eruption of racism or tyranny. But the elite ideology began its corrosive work long before 9/11. For three decades, the liberal establishment, fixated on preventing a highly unlikely repeat of Watergate-era abuses, has encumbered...

WASHINGTON, June 1 (UPI) -- Binyamin Jolkovsky is a man with a mission. For five years the 33-year-old has produced his high-quality conservative Web site, Jewish World Review, from a Brooklyn attic on a wing, a prayer and three or four hours' sleep a night. Will he be able to make it financially viable before his health gives out? Jolkovsky's wife, a systems analyst in Manhattan, has given him a deadline to pay himself a salary. Maybe some day he can even hire an assistant. Testimonials to Jolkovsky's editorial skills come from far and wide, but fundraising is another matter....

I guess this story started back on Super Bowl Sunday (as its called in these parts) when I let my 8 year old stay up and watch the Super Bowl. I had done all to pretend football did not exist but school had done him in, he couldn't stop talking about football. Kids at school traded cards with verve after Pokemon got banned early in the year. So given our family's long-standing attachment to sports teams from St. Louis (I was born there) I succumbed and agreed he could watch the game but then straight to bed, no hanging around...

<p>PATRICK J. Buchanan calls it ''La Reconquista'' - the steady takeover of the American Southwest by the Mexican culture from which it was wrested in the first place. He marshal s the facts at length in his new book, ''The Death of the West,'' and in the March issue of The American Enterprise, where a lengthy excerpt appears.</p>

While the world's attention has been focused on the Middle East, South America has been headed toward chaos and collapse. And worse, it is not merely an economic collapse, but a collapse into a disastrous intellectual confusion that threatens to make recovery impossible for many years. A measure of this confusion is the fact that Argentina just swore in its fifth president in two weeks. The fourth president resigned his post the moment he got it, explaining that whoever takes office "has to have a serious program of government" -- a confession that he didn't have one, and didn't know ...

<p>IT ISN'T THE CASE that the parents of John Walker Lindh - the Marin County child of privilege turned Taliban terrorist - never drew the line with their son.</p> <p>True, they didn't do so when he was 14 and his consuming passion was collecting hip-hop CDs with especially nasty lyrics.</p>

If you think the Bush tax cut plan is unfair, read this rebuttal that appeared in the Sunday, March 4 Chicago Tribune. By the way, the ratios are roughly accurate -- 10% of the taxpayers pay about 60% of the taxes collected, 30% pay 37%, and 60% collectively pay only 4%. Every night, 10 men met at a restaurant for dinner. At the end of the meal, the bill would arrive; they owed $100 for the food that they shared. Every night they lined up in the same order at the cash register to pay the bill. The first four ...

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With little fanfare or surprise, the media reported last week that Associated Press photographer Alan Diaz won the Pulitzer Prize for The Photo. When it no longer mattered, The Photo finally made the front page of the New York Times. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose. By an unexpected twist of fate, prescience or plain old preparation, the veteran photographer was inside the modest Little Havana home of Elian Gonzalez’s Miami relatives in the pre-dawn hours of April 22, 2000. Diaz had seconds to get ready when the Clinton Justice Department (the quintessential oxymoron) sent 150 federal agents ...

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You know you’re getting old when you go shopping for a pair of sneakers and don’t see anything you would be caught dead in. My last pair of sneakers were black Reebok high tops that vaguely resembled dress shoes and could be worn to work on dress down days. I purchased them sometime during the last Bush administration. They finally gave out last week and I went to the local mall for new ones. Big mistake. Never mind that I was the oldest person in the store by twenty, maybe twenty-five years. A tatterdemalion rabble of grungy teens immediately began ...

Someplace in Angola. 1979. They had been two days pinned down under artillery fire. Alfredo the mortar operator had argued with the squad’s lieutenant. They sent him to carry out a mission in the same line of fire and he fulfilled it. The dispute with the lieutenant would mean a military field trial. He was prepared to face the consequences. The important thing now was to get out of that place alive. By day and by night, enemy artillery mortar fire fell on the Cuban troops. That same morning they had received the news by radio. Cuban forces would arrive ...

A Shining City on a Hill: A tribute to Ronald Reagan He was the greatest president of my lifetime, perhaps the greatest of all time. He loved his country at a time when patriotism was passé. He tended the sacred fire of liberty through the long dark night of collectivism and ignited bonfires of freedom across the globe. He stood up to an evil empire that murdered and enslaved countless millions and swept it into the dustbin of history. He “turned the tide of history away from totalitarian darkness and into the warm sunlight of human freedom”. He imagined America ...

As part of Generation X, I am (or so demographers say) temperamentally inclined to irony. Our sort will watch a rotten ’70s-era sitcom on Nick at Nite not in spite of its awfulness, but because of it. This helps, sometimes. It is hard to keep one’s sanity when confronted with someone as mischievous, and even wicked, as, say, a high official of the World Council of Churches praising the Rt. Rev. Fidel Castro. Because I try to be amused, not disgusted, I tend to view the pious pronouncements of religious liberals as a form of church camp. So when a ...

In the immortal words of the great Yankee sage, Yogi Berra: "It ain't over till it's over." In the immortal words of the great Yankee sage Yogi Berra: "It ain't over till it's over." Wait a minute, didn’t I just say that? It just goes to prove something else the great Yankee sage said: "It’s déjà vu all over again!" In both cases, he could have been talking about the 2000 presidential election. Another illustrious philosopher George Santayana surely understood what Yogi meant when he wrote: "Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it." Over the ...

November 23, 2000 Thanksgiving Day The Honorable Al Gore Vice President of the United States The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500 By Fax to: 202-456-2461 Dear Mr. Vice President, Let me introduce myself. I am a husband and the father of seven and an elder in the Presbyterian Church in America. I am also a professor of social ethics at a theological seminary. And I am a Ph.D. candidate in the history of political thought, focusing particularly on the development of constitutionalism in seventeenth-century Britain. I am not an ignorant, disgruntled American but a political philosopher ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Hundreds of parishioners whose church was ordered seized in a $6 million dispute with the IRS prayed and wept Tuesday as they awaited the arrival of federal marshals. Experts believe the U.S. government has never before seized a church in a dispute over taxes. Singing ''Faith of our Fathers,'' members and supporters of the Indianapolis Baptist Temple worshipped for what they believed would be the last time inside the church. A noon deadline for the independent Baptist congregation to vacate its property passed without any sign of marshals. "They can take our church. They cannot take our ...