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*snip* There are five crucial reasons for this: 1. Twitter is an equalizer in an eco-system where MSM types are no longer insulated in their bubble. We can now use Twitter to reach out to the media in order to challenge their biases, facts, lies, spin, and hypocrisy. The media is now accountable to their customers and you can bet this has an effect. Even the corrupt media types (which is most of them) are aware that these challenges posed on Twitter are potentially being tweeted and re-tweeted to thousands of readers. That's hard to ignore. 2. More and more...

Please contact your congressman and senator and demand they vote against this bail out bill which gives ACORN 20% of the money and helps wall street and the banks......I just called and agressively voiced my opposition.

It's Not Just Scott Beauchamp By Randall Hoven "Matt Drudge's role in the Monica Lewinski scandal] strikes me as a new and graphic power of the Internet to influence mainstream journalism. And I suspect that over the next couple of years that impact will grow to the point where it will damage journalism's ability to do its job professionally, to check out information before publication, to be mindful of the necessity to publish and broadcast reliable, substantiated information." -- Marvin Kalb in 1998 Scott Beauchamp was the last straw. I realized that I need a scorecard to keep track of...

Get Involved — Let Your Voice Be Heard! You're powerful — because you live and vote in your legislator's district. And it's the job of your lawmakers to represent you. But they can't effectively represent your interests unless you communicate with them around the issues you care about. Your elected representatives pay close attention to grassroots points of view expressed by their constituents, and take those views into account when the final votes are cast. That's why YOU, as an informed and active constituent, can play the most important role of all in shaping legislation. Choose to make a difference...

Mega kudos to my wife, fellow freepers. Here's how her day went: After she dropped the kids off at school, she kept thinking that she heard a dog's cry for help. The nieghbor across the street (he got my lab for me) said that he could barely hear it also. It was very faint, and it was one of those sounds that you are not really sure that you are hearing. Anyways, the nieghbor across the street left for work, and my wife, all alone was haunted by the sound she kept thinking that she heard, It wasn't until Duke...

I'm starting a new site... Elephant Party - designed as an activist network of Republicans to spread the truth about the political issues of the day. I created the site because I realized that we need to counteract the liberal spin put on political issues by the left-wing newspapers, network news programs, and magazines. Here's what I hope to do with the site: First, I'm aggregating the best conservative "blurbs" from the Web. What are "blurbs"? Blurbs are political cartoons, pictures, animations, jokes, or short text write-ups that advance the Republican point of view on the political issues of the...