Free Republic

I believe I’ve figured out the how and the why concerning America’s accelerating slide into the socialist sewer. Let me juxtapose two comments to explain. (For Democrats who may see this and have severely limited vocabularies, here’s the definition of this adjective: placed side by side often for comparison; at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other.) This one is attributed to Democrat political operative, James Carville: "The Democratic constituency is just like a herd of cows. All you have to do is lay out enough silage and they come running. That's...

Science proves that love is blind Scientists have shown that there is a degree of truth in the old adage that love is blind. They have found that feelings of love lead to a suppression of activity in the areas of the brain controlling critical thought. It seems that once we get close to a person, the brain decides the need to assess their character and personality is reduced. The study, by University College London, is published in NeuroImage. The researchers found that both romantic love and maternal love produce the same effect on the brain. They suppress neural activity...