Free Republic

While this new world of corporate governance/ lobbyists/ privatization of the commons etc; seems difficult to understand (disguised as it is with buzz words – and meaningless jibberish), it’s really not as complex as one might think. After you learn how to ignore the superficial banalities, and get to the meat (if there is any) of the message being given. Most times you’ll hear just fluff and nutter talk – sounds important but isn’t. While we naturally focus upon local issues and concerns such as community development, roads, tons of garbage, forest access, tourism, sportsmen’s rights, lack of snow, no...

    An alumnus tapped by Democrats to testify in next week's Senate hearings on Samuel Alito '72 will no longer appear, removing the only witness slated to speak specifically about a controversial conservative alumni group of which Alito was a member.     Stephen Dujack '76, an environmental writer, had been outspoken in his condemnation of the group, Concerned Alumni of Princeton, which during the 1970s criticized the University's move to coeducation and adoption of affirmative action. Opponents of Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court had seized on his membership in the group to show that he is out-of-step with mainstream America...

FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash. -- Paul Watson leans back into a fluffy couch surrounded by swords and confides that his reputation as a crazed, eco-terrorist pirate actually helps him perform his mission. He used to have to actually ram and sink whaling ships to be effective, Watson explains. Now he's considered so dangerous that all he has to do is show up. During the past 30 years, Watson takes credit for sinking eight whaling ships and ramming six other vessels. He's faced off navies and brawled on Canadian ice over the killing of baby harp seals. He was beaten, shot at...