Free Republic

Only a little more than half of the current world's 7 billion people are citizens of fully consensual governments. That lucky 50 percent alone enjoys constitutionally protected freedoms. Most are also Western. Or at least they reside in nations that have become "Westernized." Migrants, regardless of their race, religion or gender, almost always head for a Western nation. And most often their destination remains the United States. The more it is now fashionable for Americans to take for granted or even to ridicule the idea of their own country, the more the non-American global poor risk their lives to crash...

American workers should be free from being compelled against their will to join any union or pay any union an "agency fee."

The gun grabbers have announced their intentions to disarm America, and now they’re at it again: The City of Minneapolis is trying to force Koscielski’s Guns and Ammo-- the only gun shop in the Minneapolis—out of business. For the second time. In 1995 federal firearms dealer Mark Koscielski opened his store several days before the city council passed a moratorium on gun shops. The city attempted to close down his operation, but a Federal Court judge ordered Minneapolis to allow Koscielski to conduct his business. Mark’s shop was grandfathered in according to that year’s zoning code. In 2002, his landlord...