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Politics & Punditry On The InternetCan the blogosphere really alter the tides of political campaigns? After Howard Dean's meteoric rise from the bottom of the Democratic presidential hopeful pack to its undisputed front-runner, the blogging community supporting his campaign was given a significant amount of credit for Dean's success. Alexis Rice of Johns Hopkins states in his White Paper, The Use of Blogs in The 2004 Presidential Election that "Blogs have already become a power tool in the Democratic presidential nomination battle." Rice goes on to say that "the leading candidate in the blogging revolution is former Vermont Gov. Howard...

Berkeley activist Jane Stillwater is quoted in one paper seized from "DC sniper" defendant Lee Boyd Malvo's jail cell, which was entered into evidence along with dozens of others by the defense team. Written in Malvo's handwriting during his incarceration, the paragraph at the top of the paper dated 3/11/03 reads: It is possible that Iraq will be to America what Afghanistan was to the U.S.S.R.? The similarities are chilling. Jane Stillwater, Berkeley, Calif. Stillwater is perhaps best known for trying to serve eviction papers on President Bush. She also frequently writes letters to Al-Jazeerah criticizing President Bush and Israeli...

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<p>A year ago, while I was serving as President Bush's White House economic adviser, I caused quite a controversy when I said that our objective in Iraq would be well worth spending 1% to 2% of America's gross domestic product. At the time, the president had not made any decisions about war with Iraq, so putting any price tag on the mission — particularly one so steep — was considered premature.</p>

The Christopher Hitchens Democrats Yesterday, Lawrence F. Kaplan published an editorial in the WSJ subtitled, ""How did fighting terrorism become a Republican cause"? Some Democrats may think that's unfair, but honestly I think Kaplan's right on target. For whatever reason, about 1/3rd to 1/2 of the Democratic party, maybe even more, seem to almost dogmatically opposed to every attempt that's being made to defend America. They battle even the mildest security measures because they claim it'll create a police state. They incessantly complain about any increases in military or intelligence funding. Furthermore, they are dead-set against attacks on America's enemies,...

ON THE OTHER HAND [Jonah Goldberg] A reader warns that we shouldn't be too hard on Bush lest we face the alternative: Jonah, I am a 25 year old medical student (4th year) at Penn, and have followed your writing over the last three years. I greatly appreciate your ability to communicate fundamental (but often unspoken) arguments, and your advice on challenging cliches has helped me make sense of much of the intellectual mush I've been fed over the last several years. With all this in mind, I am honestly very frightened when I hear key conservative voices talking about...

President Bush's campaign will unveil a Web site today that allows proprietors of online journals -- Blogs or Web logs -- to "get the latest campaign headlines and inside scoop posted instantly to your site through a live news feed from GeorgeWBush.com!" Bush's campaign is leaving nothing to chance as his devotees spread his message. The automatic feeds are offered in horizontal and vertical versions. ... Campaign manager Ken Mehlman said the site's purpose is "sharing the president's positions and tying them to grass-roots activities so that everyone who wants to, has something to do." The site allows a user...

Operation Expanding Freepdom provides Freepers who are part of the growing Blogging phenomenon the information and tools they need to advance conservative activism in the Blogosphere. For more information check out our founding thread. We have also begun bumping Freeper Bloggers on breaking news stories for use in your blogs, building a blogging rapid response network to the LIEberal media. If you've got a blog, or want to be added to the Blogging ping list, reply to this thread with your blog URL if applicable. ******************************** KNOW OF ANY PROMINENT BLOGGERS WHO ARE FREEPERS/LURKERS? LET US KNOW! Our comprehensive list...

Operation Expanding Freepdom continues to grow by leaps and bounds with new Freeper blogs coming out of the woodwork and joining our network everyday. I can barely keep up! Thank you to everyone who has participated so far, and if you want to know how to start your own blog, read on or click here, here, or here. Despite sensible voices like Andrew Sullivan, James Lileks, and Glenn Reynolds, blogging is being portrayed as the medium for left-wing candidates and activists. Therefore, I'd like to begin a feature where we spotlight leading examples of conservative activism in the blogosphere....

Earlier this week, a Free Republic Blog Directory, or Blogroll, was established here on Free Republic. The goal of this effort is to spotlight key weblogs written by Freepers from a conservative, pro-Bush perspective -- and to expand Freepdom to include the fast-growing "blogosphere." Hence the name: Operation Expanding Freepdom! The response so far has been great. Here's the very latest listing of Freeper blogs, including those started as a result of the original thread. If your blog isn't on this list, REPLY TO THIS THREAD with your blog's address. Cathryn CrawfordWilliam McKinleyRegnum CrucisMichael KingFederal ReviewThe View from ArlenImalMHGinTNAnna Z.The...

Are Freepers still winning the online war? I think we still are. But as conservatives, we need to ask what we can be doing better. One area in which we can and do must do more is blogs. What are blogs, you ask? They’re personal web journals run by online pundits, and they’re achieving enormous popularity both online and in the media. Blogs like InstaPundit.com, the Volokh Conspiracy, and Right Wing News are daily must reads where some of the best minds opine on the really important stories of the day, and where upstart bloggers (folks not unlike you and...

On Friday, I wrote a piece asking why Freepers don't get more involved in reading and writing blogs to expand Free Republic's influence in a growing medium that needs more conservative, pro-Bush voices. The response was phenomenal. Click here to read the original thread, "Are Freepers Still Winning the Online War?" One of the ideas that grew out of that thread was to start a Free Republic Blog Directory, or blogroll, as bloggers call it. From time to time, we will list all Freepers with blogs on threads like this to draw attention to their fine conservative writings. All Free...