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why do people keep banning me everytime I put up interesting articles? I work for a website I think some of you are familiar with called phantirath weekly world news and each time we put somthing up on FR no matter how conservative it is it keeps getting banned. Whats the matter with it?! Damn man what are you marxist socialists communists? I just got a call this mroning from a Juwish friend of mine who said that you banned an important article about Zionism and Noam Federman and about how we were to support israel. I thought you guys...

August 02, 2004 JOHN KERRY, SELF-INVENTOR "Facts are stubborn things"--Alain René Le Sage John Kerry, our first true post-modern Presidential candidate, has created a narrative, call it the "prequel" to John Kerry, President. In this heroic story, our young John leaves his upper class childhood to go off fighting courageously in a war that his future rival for President avoided. John was a determined youth, dedicated to his country yet attuned to his future responsibility, so much so that he brought along a camera to record his battlefield exploits. In fact, in a brilliant post-modern gesture he may have actually...

Ten years ago, on January 10, 1994, Lorena Bobbitt went on trial for the "malicious wounding" of her husband's manhood with an eight-inch kitchen knife. After an eleven day trial, she was acquitted on grounds of temporary insanity. On the tenth anniversary of this internationally watched trial, the Elliot Institute is releasing a special report on the case, entitled The John and Lorena Bobbitt Mystery, Unraveled that reveals surprising new information on the case. The 14,000-word report goes beyond the standard explanation of an abused wife striking back at her husband. This in-depth analysis offer a detailed account of why...

Whatever It Is, They’re Against It David C. Stolinsky, M.D. Wednesday, May 14, 2003 I don't know what they have to say, It makes no difference anyway. Whatever it is, I'm against it. – Groucho Marx in “Horse Feathers” Total negativism is an appropriate attitude for Groucho’s zany version of a college president. His ridiculous dance in an academic robe still makes us laugh. But negativism is not an appropriate attitude for citizens of a republic. It is still less appropriate for leaders of a great nation. And it’s not at all amusing. When a small child learns he can...

The RAND Corporation's Drug Policy Research Center released a study Monday that casts grave doubt on the validity of the "gateway theory," the intuitive but unproven notion that the use of marijuana leads to the use of harder drugs. The "gateway theory" has guided US drug policy for a half-century and has been used by prohibitionists to justify imposing tough penalties for even the possession of small amounts of marijuana. In recent months, drug czar John Walters and others of his breed have seized on the "gateway theory" to campaign against relaxing marijuana laws in the states. While the RAND...