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What great American values this forum represents. I responded to a comment about http://tvnewslies.org. The link I submitted was an editorial on the site, - directly related to the activity on the thread. Guess what? The administrator deleted the site for being LEFTIST! I cannot believe it...but then again, I can. Is there some inherent danger in allowing members of this forum to read a commenaryt from the left? What I find abhorrent is that the administrator of a forum entitled "FREE REPUBLIC" would arbitrarily decide to limit access of the readership to an editorial. The editorial, of course, was...

OMG THE LIBBERS ARE EVIL!

Thunderous protest has persuaded CBS to cancel The Reagans, its miniseries about America's 40th president and his second wife. (The series will air instead on Showtime, which shares a corporate parent with CBS.) It isn't especially troubling that CBS would bow to angry protesters in canceling The Reagans, given that the miniseries itself, if at all typical of the genre, is likely a piece of hackwork. (Those who live by popular tastes, die by popular tastes.) But it is troubling that the public, or at least a highly influential segment of it, has apparently ruled any criticism of President Reagan...

http://www.geocities.com/stewjackmail/pdf/uhc-canus.pdf Universal Health Care! Are Canadians Stupid? by Jack Stewart, January 2000 (full permission for nonprofit distribution) IT’S YOUR MONEY! Government spending for health care in Canada consumes 6.9 percent of the economy (GDP). However, government spending for health care in the United States consumes only 6.6 percent of the economy. *[1] Before deciding that the U.S. has done a slightly better job of reining in "big government" than Canada, we should examine what each country gets for its money! 1. Government health spending includes costs for a Public Health Service in both countries. 2. In the United States, government...

Long queue at drive-in soup kitchen George Bush's America, the wealthiest nation in history, faces a growing poverty crisis. In the first of a three-part series Julian Borger takes the pulse of the US with elections just a year away Monday November 3, 2003 The Guardian The free food is handed out at nine, but the queue starts forming hours earlier. By dawn, there is a line of cars stretching half a mile back. In Logan, it is what passes for rush hour - a traffic jam driven by poverty and hunger. The cars come out of the Ohio hills...

President' Clinton's comments today on Rush Limbaugh: We have our political differences, but I have a great amount of respect for Mr. Limbaugh. He is a great American who I admire deeply. Hillary and I are praying for his recovery and health. Rush we love and come back soon.

Jay: We have a special guest: Arnold Schwarzenegger, star of the reprehensible Terminator movies. Arnold: Jay, my new film is a mixture of action and comedy. It's called "Terminator: Let's Get Silly". [cut to clip from movie showing Terminator with a microphone in front of a brick wall] Terminator: Did you ever notice how men always leave the toilet seat up? [pause] That's the joke. Man: [from audience] You suck, Terminator! [Terminator pulls a machine gun and fires into the audience] Terminator: Now, my Woody Allen impression: I'm a neurotic nerd who likes to sleep with little girls. Man: [from...

The United States administers a global empire. This used to be a secret. Through the 1990s, our government told us that we stood for democracy, freedom, and independence of nations worldwide (lying to us). But the majority of U.S. citizens refused to critically examine their government out of patriotism. Sheeplike, we acted in defiance of the founding fathers of our nation who distrusted the power of government, who realized that small acts of terrorism (which existed then as now) were nothing compared to the potential for tyranny from those who wield governmental powers. From the late 1940s to the 1990s,...

Hi all. I have just read the most amazing political novel. It's called The American Beatles, and it's by a kid named Jon Bell at N.C. State. It's about what might happen if the Beatles existed today, in America: but it's also a ruthless and hilarious critique of the modern media and the American right-wing community. It's a damn good book. You can read it online in e-book form at BeatlesNovel.com.

WHY DON'T WE HAVE ANSWERS TO THESE 9/11 QUESTIONS?By WILLIAM BUNCH bunchw@phillynews.com     Firefighter looks out window at Ground Zero. Photo, Jim MacMillan, Daily News   NO EVENT IN recent history has been written about, talked about, or watched and rewatched as much as the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 - two years ago today.Not only was it the deadliest terrorist strike inside America, but the hijackings and attacks on New York City's World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington were also a seminal event for an information-soaked media age of Internet access and 24- hour news.So,...

Voting machine controversy 08/28/03 Julie Carr Smyth Plain Dealer Bureau Columbus - The head of a company vying to sell voting machines in Ohio told Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." The Aug. 14 letter from Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold Inc. - who has become active in the re-election effort of President Bush - prompted Democrats this week to question the propriety of allowing O'Dell's company to calculate votes in the 2004 presidential election. O'Dell attended a strategy pow-wow with wealthy Bush...

Helo Free Republic. Friends say I should write here to bring truth. Many things say no truth. Clinton is loved by friends and all. Bush makes president no good. Economic is bad all place by Bush. War is no good. Bush cause war no good. Why like this? Why think good. Make back Clinton to bring money and peace.

New US demands - tabled at a little-noticed meeting in Montreal earlier this month - threaten to unravel one of the greatest environmental success stories of the past few decades, causing millions of deaths from cancer. The news comes at a particularly embarrassing time for the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, who pressed the President in their talks in Washington last week to stop his attempts to sabotage the Kyoto Protocol which sets out to control global warming: one of the few international issues on which they differ. Now, instead of heeding Mr Blair, Mr Bush is undermining the ozone treaty...

According to contemporary political lore, the Bush clan exalts loyalty above every other virtue. Other politicians envy that inviolable code, whose power is reflected in the absence of leaks from the White House, in the lockstep obedience of politicians in Congress and around the country, and in the enormous cash donations from hundreds of wealthy "friends." This is how dynasties are built to endure. But at the highest level, in the inner councils, such feudal allegiances often require awful sacrifice and compromise. For those who now work for George W. Bush, loyalty means surrendering professional integrity and accepting public humiliation....

Syndicated talk-radio host and local columnist Ken Hamblin has walked off his national radio program with American View syndicators, alleging that they failed to "perform financially" and reach a new contract. Hamblin's last show was Friday, and he is now searching for another syndicator to pick up the three-hour program. He said the show was being heard on 56 stations across the country when he ended it, and that he is confident he'll be back on the air soon with someone else. "I terminated the show," Hamblin said in a brief phone interview Tuesday. "For reasons of their inability to...

Q One question for you both. Do you believe that there is a link between Saddam Hussein, a direct link, and the men who attacked on September the 11th? THE PRESIDENT: I can't make that claim. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030131-23.html

I've been reading Sidney Blumenthal's book, The Clinton Wars. I was struck by the similarities between the Starr Inquisition and the way the Bushies "investigated" weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Starr and his office clung to the belief that the Clintons were devious criminal conspirators. “I think it was consistent throughout the office,” Sam Dash said. “Ken ultimately believed it himself. They said, [the Clintons are] powerful, they can cover up, they’re pressuring people to lie. We’re going to stay on it until we get it. It was a hypothesis.” But Starr had no evidence that the Clintons were...

I was flipping around the radio dial one afternoon when I heard a familiar voice. The last time I heard that voice was to the accompaniment of a leering grin and towels snapping in a locker room. "Gotcha!" the voice had been saying. Snap! "Gotcha good, didn't I, queer?" Snap! "That'll teach you to mess with Mike." Mike was the terror of my high school locker room. Snapping towels at young boys' private parts. Getting freshmen in a headlock and rubbing their faces in his armpits. Calling all the boys "queers!" and "wimps!" He was a class act then. Now...