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Republicans recently spent millions on ads targeting transgender people who account for about 1% of the population -- for no other reason than to inflate paranoia and deflect from real issues they were not addressing. Trans individuals have been using bathrooms of the gender they identify with all along. No issues have been reported because these individuals enter the stalls, close and lock the doors, and when they’re done, they wash their hands and leave. snip Can you imagine what would happen if a woman who has transitioned to a male identity, dressed as a male, has to go into...

THE ISSUE: President Bush's Monday night speech about securing our border with Mexico. *****......because of ethnicity, many illegal aliens automatically will qualify for preferences the instant they are legalized. They will not be at the back of any line, but at the front of a line from which the vast majority of Americans are permanently barred. Pike Road, Ala. *****.......simply sending those who illegally enter our country back over the border without penalty or confinement allows them to try to enter again, at another time and place. Such lawbreakers, at a minimum, should be properly identified, held in civil confinement...

Can we all please just agree to end the cribbed letters to the editor? About 70 times a week we get fake letters, unoriginal, recycled “thoughts” fobbed off as real by some advocacy campaign. Some arrive with the signature “your name here.” Election season brings out the worst, a blizzard of ersatz letters from both major political parties trying to feed the nation's newspapers. How? Their Web sites provide everything a plagiarist could want. Talking points. Letter contacts. Forms. The canned spiels are known in the journalism trade as “AstroTurf” or simply “turf” for their look-like-the-real-deal letter qualities. The election...

Today is WRITE FOR W FRIDAY! This Friday and every Friday, Freepers will be getting together to write letters to the editor to take back America's editorial pages and counter the latest Democrat attacks against President Bush. Bush haters have also chosen today to send letters to the editor, which is why it's critical to have a HUGE turnout by FReepers. Let's tell the Democrat candidates they're full of it in letters to the editor across the country! Writing letters to the editor to the papers in your area is easy through the President's re-election website. What to write...

Today is WRITE FOR W FRIDAY! This Friday and every Friday, Freepers will be getting together to write letters to the editor to counter the lies in the liberal media and the latest Democrat attacks against President Bush. Bush haters have also chosen today to send letters to the editor, which is why it's critical to have a HUGE turnout by FReepers TODAY. Writing letters to the editor to the papers in your area is easy through the President's re-election website. What to write about? These great stories may give you some ideas: BUSH STANDS TALLProtesters get an earful...

Tired of the lies in the liberal media? Then do something about it! Every Friday -- starting this Friday -- a growing group of Freepers is getting together to write letters to the editor to support Bush against the constant barrage of media and Democrat lies. We'll start out by calling it Write for W Fridays, but we're open to suggestions on what to call it. Writing letters to the editor to all the papers in your area is easy through the President's re-election website. Last Friday, a number of Bush-hating websites mounted a coordinated attack to send as many...