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Inspired by FR vets who have previously trumpeted their ten year anniversary status with a vanity, I looked forward to the day when I could do the same. So, here it is. Now, I can't think of anything to say. Oh, wait... Ten years is one fifth of my life. Wow. I have to thank Jim Rob from the bottom of my heart for this, the most excellent forum on the internet. None of us know the long hours and selfless dedication it has taken to keep FR afloat. Thank you, sir, and God bless you. I must also thank...

"President" Barry Soetoro aka Barack Obama is trying to create a marxist/socialist dictatorship. In order to achieve this, he and his Dem/RINO allies must destroy the U.S. Constitution, which stands directly in their way. Soetoro and his allies are attempting to destroy the constitution by creating a wedge. The point of their attack is the NBC Clause. Soetoro and his Dem/RINO allies are trying to mainstream the idea that that clause of the constitution does not really matter. Once that section becomes delegitimized, they can do the same with other clauses in the constitution they don't like, and so on....

ROME – U.S. House Democratic Minority leader Nancy Pelosi was briefly hospitalized Monday in Rome, Italian news agency PZZA reported today. Satan to Pelosi…”I’ll tell you what you’re here for, AFTER you get here”.

port official has admitted that a 'weapon of mass effect' has been found by 'partner agencies' in the U.S., raising major questions over a possible government cover-up. The disturbing revelation came in an interview with San Diego's assistant port director screened by a television channel in the city. The Customs and Border Protection Department tried to dampen speculation over his remarks Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1356645/A-weapon-mass-destruction-U-S--Shock-confession-Customs-officer.html#ixzz1DvGr4mv3

Irregular sky object seen Saturday night.

<p>In the Republican Party, the fracture over issues concerning homosexual individuals revealed itself more clearly in the vote for repeal of the 17-year-old "don't ask, don't tell" policy that prevented gays from serving openly in the military.</p> <p>Of the eight Republican senators who voted for repeal, five are among the youngest in the upper chamber - and they're not all moderates.</p>

The Pulitzer Prize winning fact-checking organization PolitiFact gained national media attention Friday with its claim that its “Lie of the Year” was that Obamacare was a “government takeover.” “The phrase is simply not true,” PolitiFact wrote. PolitiFact is a project of the St. Petersburg Times and claims that it tracks “truth in politics.” The fact-checking is done by the newspapers’ reporters and researchers. But the newspaper’s ability to judge truthfulness has been questioned. Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly lists the St. Petersburg Times as one of just11 news organizations in the country in his “Hall of Shame” for distributing “defamatory,...

Perhaps the most serious and terrifying threat against our nation and the world is a danger about which most Americans likely know little or nothing. That threat is of an electromagnetic pulse—or EMP—attack. The Heritage Foundation has released a bone-chilling report which analyzes in detail what an EMP attack is and the horrific effects it would have on our country, and it gives important recommendations for guarding our nation from such an attack. This report is one you should read, and it ought to be required reading for our government and military leaders and all those who run our critical...

How can we call this country great when all the things that made us great are gone or fading fast? For too long now our country has been slipping into a darkness many of us fear we will not escape. We have lost so many of our Constitutional Rights and so many are oblivious or couldn't care less. In this age of superficial social lives spawned and maintained online. People cant seem to look up from their phones to take in the new scene around them. We have an Oklahoma Judge pretty much saying that Sharia Law is ok. A...

What's with the recent trend of tagging articles with palin or sarahpalin that have nothing to do with Sarah Palin? If your article has nothing to do with Palin, please don't tag it as such. It's bad enough that journalists use her name to get hits to their articles or as a cheap source of writing material. We don't need that attitude here too. Just because people want to increase traffic to their posts, doesn't mean they should tag their posted articles with palin or sarahpalin. This just clutters the keyword/tagging system.

I have long enjoyed Free Republic as a news source, and greatly enjoy the depth of the commentary. I woke up from my political coma, like many Americans, during the 2007 Presidential campaign. I have since been silently witnessing the pain and suffering of our beloved country and liberties. I sincerely want the tide of politics to shift, but fear it too late. Time will show. I hope I can contribute to the FReep discussions intelligently.

Was BP2 banned? I sent a critical Freepmail to him on June 23. On June 24 he posted an innocent comment. And now when I click on his name it says the account has been banned or suspended. Does anybody know what happened? I am concerned because shortly after I sent a Freepmail about a certain subject - the only place I discussed the specifics - the Veterans Administration and Social Security Administration altered their databases in order to obstruct my investigation. So it really, really seems that Obama's czar is snooping around in our private mail here - just...

They’re still around. Being funded in Afghanistan by the State Department (that would be President Obama’s State Department), as a matter of fact. After private Blackwater contractors opened fire in Iraq and killed 14 civilians in September 2007, Obama jumped on it. He went so far as to say his fixes for Blackwater specifically were the the toughest reforms of any Presidential candidate.

a specious argument is a favorite pretext for war. hamas is attempting to break the blockade of gaza by means of propaganda in the international news

<p>I just switched from pro life to pro choice and from pro gun to anti gun. I've always supported amnesty for illegal aliens.</p>

very four years, in between presidential elections, conservative activists gather to take stock of some of the most prominent names in the Republican Party -- and consider which of them has what it takes for a successful run for the White House. That gathering, the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, takes place this Thursday through Saturday in New Orleans. Among the speakers will be Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Bobby Jindal, Michael Steele, and Sarah Palin, whose speech will be closely watched for signs as to whether the former Alaska governor is serious about a presidential run or is opting instead a...

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Dozens of people who parked at the University of Central Florida for an event say they were set up after their cars were towed. They said event parking signs directed them to a lot, but more than 50 cars in that lot were towed. People said those signs and their cars were gone when they got back. A viewer contacted WFTV after his car was towed Saturday, along with 52 others. All of them were in line to recover their cars at an impound lot and all of them attended the Glenn Beck show at UCF. The...

Good video of spitting incident http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7wYt9jee2U

When Reuters Miscaptioned a Photo, They Changed an Accidental Death into a Murder A news story which shocked the world this week dealt with the crushing of American citizen Rachel Corrie by an IDF bulldozer, who ostensibly blocked with her body a bulldozer about to demolish the home of a Palestinian terrorist in Gaza, made huge headlines all over the world. I asked to speak with the spokesman of International Solidarity Movement Mike Shaik, who passed me on to Lynn Clausen, a 24-year old resident of Washington from the Christians Peacemakers Team based in Hebron, which trains the ISM volunteers....

Yet another weird video of a strange circular cloud formation. The way things are going, the idea that cloaked ships are hovering all over the world doesn't surprise me. Ha. No really, it doesn't surprise me.