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Congratulations everyone! And thank you all very much for another great and successful fundraiser! FReepers are without a doubt a most generous and very dedicated group of people. Free Republic now has the funds to operate for another quarter. And once again we've dashed the hopes and wishes of those on the darkside who are working so hard to see us fail. LOL Thank you to the hardworking and dedicated fundraising team! We could not possibly meet our goals without your efforts. You are a fantastic group of people! Thank you FReepers and Lurkers for your donations and your continuing...

One more time: Do not post from the lefty discussion sites. Who cares? Sheesh! If some of you want to do battle with the creeps who inhabit those cesspools, then I suggest you start your own forum and have at it. DON'T BRING IT TO FR. It's not wanted here. Period!

To our monthly donors: If you have not re-upped your donation information to our new system, it's time to do so now. Our scoreboard shows receipts to-date for the current quarter and a breakdown of monthlies by state: https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/scoreboard It's not too late to renew your monthly donations before the end of the year: https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate Also, we have added a direct link to our secure server for donations to the Latest Posts pages. Click the credit card image at the top of the right-hand column. To all FReepers and Lurkers: Please consider a monthly donation to Free Republic. You can...

It's no secret. They don't like you and they will ban you whenever they catch you posting to their forums. Who cares? We ban them anytime they register here. It's a fact. Very few people here are interested in reading the DU style spin and regurgitated propaganda. Those of you who want to rattle their cages are welcome to it, but please do not drag any of their garbage back to FR and please do not bother posting vanities about your experiences with them. It's not wanted here and will be deleted. Thanks, Jim

Just in case there is any lingering doubt, my intention for Free Republic is to maintain the present course. The course charted is, IMHO, the direct line to freedom. Our mission, as stated on our front page and elsewhere is, "...to roll back decades of governmental largesse, to root out political fraud and corruption, and to champion causes which further conservatism in America." And we always have fun doing it. Hoo-yah! The people who are killing freedom in our country just as they are all around the world are the leftists or marxists. The leftists/marxists dominate the communist parties, the...

Most of you know that a battle has been raging over the last several weeks between me and BadJoe regarding some of our moderating policies. Looked pretty bad there for awhile. Joe was going to resign from Free Republic and there was even a dust up regarding the monthly donors and how the records would be turned over to a new credit card service. I am happy to report that today that battle has officially ended and Free Republic may have avoided being fatally damaged in a disastrous train wreck. As it is, the only losses suffered were a few...

Free Republic has had one helluva run over the last five years or so. We helped impeach one president and helped get another into office. We've been active in demonstrations and protests in nearly every city across the nation. We've participated in conventions, petition drives, activism campaigns and projects for dozens of conservative causes. We've grown from a tiny web site with a few hundred posters and readers from the time of inception in 1996, to one with tens of thousands of participants today. Along the way we've made lots of great friends and, unfortunately, also made lots of bitter ...

The anti-FReepers are on the prowl. As most of you know, there is a group of ex-FReepers who have been dogging us for the last several years. The anti-FReeper community was started several years ago by a group of disgruntled individuals who were banned from FR and then wanted to get back at us by damaging our reputation. This started out as petty name calling and rumor mongering, but they now appear determined to cause us as much harm as possible. Even to the point of attempting to get FR and FRN shut down and the owners and managers of...

Regarding the LAT/WP settlement negotiations, I know there are lots of people wondering about this so I will post an announcement as soon as I learn something official one way or the other. I promise. I also know that there is a lot of speculation about this within the anti-Freeper community. Well, that's all it is. Speculation. When and if it settles, I believe that we will be among the very first to know, and I will post a notice as soon as I can after I receive word. In the meantime, I would not place a whole lot of...

What is Free Republic all about? Free Republic is a personal avocation and project of my own. Prior to Free Republic, I had been a regular poster on the Prodigy Whitewater News BBS. Prodigy was an online service similar to the Internet, but more limited in scope. You had to be a paying subscriber or member of the Prodigy service to access it. Prodigy was, at that time, a joint venture of two giant multi-billion dollar, commercial for profit enterprises, namely, Sears and IBM corporations. On Prodigy, we had several hundred members of this particular Whitewater BBS and we ...

Continued from Part I What is Free Republic all about? By the end of 1997, Free Republic's readership had grown from just a handful or readers and posters to several thousand readers and several hundred posters. Free Republic had been noticed on "The Hill" and we were beginning to be "The Place" to go to get the latest poop, er scoop, on the proliferating Clinton Scandals. During this time, it is was like every new day brings another new Clinton Scandal. And, we had also been noticed by the liberal media, who, as water carriers for the liberal Democrat Party, ...

There have been several posts recently advocating a plan to engage in illegal activities, that is, to break the new law restricting our free speech rights. Though I sympathize with the posters, Free Republic is not to be used to advocate illegal activities, thus these posts have all been deleted. However, should this clearly unconstitutional bill become the law of the land, I may choose to break it myself, but I would never encourage anyone else to break it. And I definitely would not recommend anyone use the internet to engage in the planning or execution of illegal acts. This...

Sorry about the intermittent outages. We are doing some heavy duty database and software work on the server. We hope there will be no long periods of down time, but just in case, here is the URL of our contingency site on Yahoo: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/freerepublicBe sure to visit and bookmark the site. We will post status messages there during any extended downtime periods. Thanks, Jim Robinson

Knock off the vanities and profanity! You may find your vanity post deleted. Don't post it again. Don't post another thread asking why your's got deleted and others didn't. Nuff said.

Reminder: Free Republic is a non-commerical site. We cannot advertise or sell products on FR. Please do not post advertising banners or links to sites selling products or services. Do not use Free Republic for selling t-shirts, coffee mugs, books, tapes or any other merchandise. Please do not use Free Republic to raise funds for personal or outside causes or projects. Thanks, Jim Robinson

Way too many vanity threads lately. And way too much trash being posted. Please try to stay on topic (politics). Also, please do a search on a significant word from the title of your article before posting. This will reduce the number of duplicates. And, along these same lines, please use the original titles on your article posts. Do NOT edit the titles. Do NOT use "My Title" titles. This will also help to reduce the number of duplicates. And, whatever else you do, please DO NOT post from DEMOCRATS UNDERGROUND (or any other such trashy un-American socialist hangout). Free ...