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As with all cases returned on indictment the New York Times was sent a copy of the complaint and given the option to repond to it with a defense. This is the VERBATIM response just received from the NY Times Public Editor. So tell me! Why did he think he had to respond at all???? Dear Court Clerk, We're not logging into a site to "defend complaint." If you have an issue with a Times article you can send us a message like everyone else, citing an article and the specifics regarding it. Sincerely, Arthur Bovino Office of the Public...

Let's see, all those requests to post pics of skinny Ann Coulter (perhaps from those lonely ones renting something akin to Ted Kasynski's cabin in Montana). Then there's caption this, and caption that. What value is there in this? In the interim, the Republic heads deeper into a liberal quagmire and an otherwise worthy conservative forum is slowly turning into a doormat for those with nothing better to do than to turn this arena into a circus. It's a shame.

How Can Someone Who Lives in Insane Luxury Be a Star in Today's World? As I begin to write this, I "slug" it, as we writers say, which means I put a heading on top of the document to identify it. This heading is "eonlineFINAL," and it gives me a shiver to write it. I have been doing this column for so long that I cannot even recall when I started. I loved writing this column so much for so long I came to believe it would never end. Lew Harris, who founded this great site, asked me to do...

Send E-Mail After You Die Site Allows You To Send Final Messages To Family After Passing Away CLEVELAND -- It may seem a little creepy, but thousands are signing up for an online service that allows them to compose e-mail goodbyes to loved ones in case they pass away, Cleveland television station WEWS reported. People like Beverly Bright feel better knowing they've stored "exit e-mails" for their families. Would you use a service to send an e-mail to family and friends after you have passed away?YesNo "I thought it was just a really great way to let your friend and...

A few days ago, the esteeemed host and founder of this foremerly great website invited me to do the following: "654. To: JohnGaltfla (#367) Oh, it's much better to go out in a blaze of glory. Martyrdom, 72 virgins, plaque on the "Great Ones" wall of fame and all that rot. jimrobfr posted on 2004-03-19 03:29:45 ET" Obviously, he was concerned that some of his better non-bot posters had abandoned FR for greener fields where our financial and intellectual contributions would be appreciated. It was amusing to watch former FReepers belittle, banter and blast JimRob in various forms. I was...

<p>Mod update: To put this "opus" in perspective, some additional information compliments of a thorough FReeper, dighton.</p> <p>I am Michael Joseph McCarthy, well known forest activist in Eugene, Oregon who ran against Scott Meisner for City Council last election. I am a Member of the Pacific Green Party who wants this scoundrel in office now thrown out.</p>

NEW YORK (AP) -- This is the finale, Luciano Pavarotti said of Saturday's "Tosca," one last opera on stage after more than four decades of the high Cs that transformed him from an insurance salesman to perhaps the most widely beloved classical singer ever. Every ticket had been sold for 4,000 seats at Saturday night's production at the Metropolitan Opera House, the stage that made Pavarotti famous as the tenor with the big belly and super-sized smile. He had said last summer that this would be his final staged performance at the Met. During an interview with The Associated...

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Half of new Martian photo is blacked out/redacted (What is NASA hiding?) http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/2/p/013/2P127528143EFF0309P2364L7M1.JPG

 A while back, Yours Truly posted a story about a Berkeley schoolteacher, accused of practicing prostitution on the side. As a resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, I’d made a specialty of being a sort of low-rent James Taranto, and passing on local-loony-left stories to amuse and enrage the FR readership.Well, I checked out the website of the group who supported this teacher in her legal struggles, and made a connection that I hadn’t before. This group was fighting the same kind of anti-prostitute violence, exploitation, and police inattention to the same, that two close friends of mine had...

<p>Okay, so I thought that I could at least have civil debate with INTELLIGENT conservatives, but after posting under a different name, not only were the responses the equivellant of "UH-UH," but I was denied my rights as a citizen of this great country. It appears to me that Free Republic is not interested in FREE SPEECH! I do love the U.S., I just disagree with the jingoism that followed 9/11. I disagree with our leaders purposfully lying to their citizens in order to go to war. I disagree with going to war against the express directions of the UN which was made to council the nations on these issues. I disagree with the nation's presidency being stolen from the rightful owner, the man who truly won the election. I disagree with that stolen presidency being handed to a C average student who has a criminal record and went AWOL when he was supposed to be serving in the military. I disagree with corporations running the government in the new era of pay to play politics. I disagree with the same corporations that run the country, run the news media. I disagree with conservatives instead of listening to what a liberal has to say, they resort to attacking them with (sometimes) drastic immaturity. I disagree with using religion to get votes. I disagree with religion. I disagree with history being written by the victors. I disagree with with the USA PATRIOT Act not only because anyone can be detained for any reason for any amount of time without a trial with a jury of twelve peers. I disagree with the fact it is called the "Patriot Act" and yet there is nothing patriotic about it. I DO agree with the quote "If you are willing to sacrifice freedom for for security, you deserve neither." I disagree with the civilians in this country not standing up and calling for an impeachment for a president that has done far worse than getting a blow job in the oval office. He has LIED, CHEATED, AND MURDERED. I disagree with everyone being angry at Bill Clinton for smoking marijuana but no one criticizes George W. Bush for DRUNK DRIVING and COCAINE use. I disagree with George W. Bush saying in a nationally televised broadcast, "If you aren't with us, you're with the terrorists." This hurt the feelings of about 60% of New York citizens because they not only lost friends and family in the World Trade Center on 9/11, but they also opposed going to war with Iraq. You can imagine the deranged ultimatum this put on those poor Ameericans who had to choose between those who killed their friends and family and the their better judgment to wait for a UN resolution. I disagree with a $350 billion tax that goes directly to the 1% minority of the wealthy. I disagree with the "No Child Left Behind" policy. Standardized tests don't teach children anything but how to memorize test questions. As a teacher, I can only describe it as leaving every child behind. I disagree with arch conservatives on this website saying that I have AIDS because I am liberal and am into homosexual activites. To clear up your mislead statements of slander. I am heterosexual, I do not have AIDS. I have two healthy children that are beautiful and will be entering school in a year. I love my wife and my country. I don't agree with you...but that doesn't mean I hate you or your thoughts. I encourage them. But please stop reacting to someone that you disagree with in an angry passion of blind ignorance. It doesn't solve anything.</p>

This is not a goodbye opus - instead, this is a "I'll see you around but not as much" type of opus.As some of you read in a post earlier this month, I'm a new homeowner.  Part of becoming a new homeowner is, by necessity, living on a tighter budget.  Part of that budget, by necessity, is having to choose between an internet connection or having gasoline for the car.  As much as I like being able to connect to the internet, I like being able to drive to work even more.  So, I'll be foregoing an internet connection for...

With VERY few exceptions (thanks to the people that were human and to people that wrote me privately) you people are a bunch of fundamentalist zealots. You aren't conservatives...you're fascists. You make me embarrassed to be a Republican.

Since its inception, Free Republic has been the world's premeire online gathering place for the discussion of the news, issues, opinions, and just about everything else.There have been several times when the members of Free Republic have posted important breaking news stories first, scooping the outlets of the mainstream media.Some exemplary threads merit mention in what I'd like to call the Free Republic Hall of Fame Threads.I believe this is a good way to remember and share some of the most important discussions that have occured on Free Republic.

Opus is coming back. After an eight-year hiatus from newspaper comics, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Berkeley Breathed will bring his big-beaked, bigger-hearted penguin, Opus, back to life in a Sunday-only comic strip. Beginning Sunday, "Opus" will appear exclusively in the Deseret Morning News, on the back page of the Travel Section. "This could be the best thing for American cartooning in many years," says Alan Shearer, editorial director of the Washington Post Writers Group, which is syndicating the strip. "We all recall the miserable year 1995, when Gary Larsen stopped 'The Far Side,' Berkeley ended 'Outland" and Bill Watterson stopped 'Calvin...

I joined Freerepublic in an attempt to converse with other conservatives. Lately it's been a struggle even to find a conservative post. All I see are two kinds of people, the "blame Clinton(and/or) Democrats for everything bad that happens(ed), and the Bushbots that put GWB up to a place equaling Christ. Neither are true, and I'm a truthseeker first and foremost. All I see now are threads full of propaganda, ..War is peace. Ignorance is strength. Freedom is slavery. Lies are truth. Patriotism is treason. Fascism is patriotism. I see very few coherent posts, and almost none espousing true conservatism....

Every one with the truth is banned at this waste of internet. HAH! Bunch of Republican butt kissers. Do you think that is where the truth is. I am proud to know what is right and to say it, not just kiss up to to Jim and the GOP. Your arrogance will be your downfall, just like Soddom and Gomorrha. I am outa here but good.

I have asked that Mr. Robinson and the moderators remove my account. I no longer wish to be a part of this website. The response I received was that I must post an opus first. This is my opus. For friends of mine who wish to contact me at any time in the future, I will be over at designeduniverse.com. The prayer thread for President Bush which I started on this hand is in capable hands. I appreciate all who have kept it going and pray that it continues. I also pray that Free Republic will return to the forum...

i was contacted by foxnews to be on at 12:30pm tomorrow to discuss the rush situation. i know what to say about the espn situation but the drug one is the one that hit me hard. this is a very sad day! i hope rush tells us something, anything soon; so that i can know what angle to use in defence of him. one thing is for sure, if this is true, this will make his haters very very happy. they have been looking for something to bring him down with! oh well i am hoping rush says IT AINT...

As a tail-end Gen-Xer, I cut my political teeth on the comic strip "Bloom County." So the recent news that creator Berkeley Breathed is bringing back the strip's star — Opus the penguin — is welcome news. Since Opus, The Far Side, and Calvin & Hobbes all retired, there hasn't been much reason at all to read the comics page. Bloom County, you may remember, featured a hodgepodge cast of prairie critters (one of them was actually named "Hodgepodge"), pre-adolescent boys (about my age when I started reading), and adults (whose role was mostly to play the fool). It began...