Free Republic

Look away, Dixieland US Democrats won't win in the South while they keep quiet on race Sidney Blumenthal Saturday November 8, 2003 The Guardian (UK) Everything seemed to be going so well for Howard Dean, the frontrunner in America's contest for the Democratic presidential nomination. Then he made a throwaway remark that changed everything: he wanted, he said, "to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks". Dean's error was to evoke the divisive Confederate symbol, hated by black Americans as standing for slavery and still upheld by many Southern conservatives as representing their "heritage". Because...

Wonder how reporters, as cited in recent CyberAlerts, can describe Howard Dean as a “fiscal conservative,” a “centrist” and even claim “there’s a lot in his record that looks...not only moderate, but even conservative”? Well, they probably see the world through the same very liberal prism as former NBC and CNN political reporter Ken Bode who, on the Chris Matthews Show over the weekend, seriously maintained that neither Walter Mondale nor Michael Dukakis were liberals.      I’m not kidding.      Bode generously conceded that George McGovern “was a liberal,” but then insisted: “Dukakis was no liberal and neither was Mondale....

<p>Revisionist history. That's the kindest description you can give columnist Ann Coulter's attempt to portray Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy as an American hero.</p> <p>But it's more accurate to call it a lie. A damnable one, at that.</p> <p>But there it is, in black and white. In her columns and in her new book, Treason.</p>

July 4, 2003 | "Slander" is defined in Bouvier's Law Dictionary as "a false defamation (expressed in spoken words, signs, or gestures) which injures the character or reputation of the person defamed." The venerable American legal lexicon goes on to note that such defamatory words are sometimes "actionable in themselves, without proof of special damages," particularly when they impute "guilt of some offence for which the party, if guilty, might be indicted and punished by the criminal courts; as to call a person a 'traitor.'" So how appropriate it is that in the rapidly growing Ann Coulter bibliography, last year's...

Kids fear Ann Coulter "Mommy, make the scary lady go away." Those are the tearful words of Kaylee Brodkin, 7, of Gary, Ind., who for the last five days has been awakened in the middle of the night by terrifying nightmares - nightmares featuring television pundit/author Ann Coulter. With the ubiquitous Coulter currently on a national book tour, little Kaylee's sad story is far from an isolated occurrence. "More and more these days, we are seeing small children who have been traumatized by Ann Coulter," said Dr. Harmon Densmore, chief clinical psychologist at the Chartwell Children's Institute based at the...

Was there ever a 4th of July so untimely? Has our national birthday ever fallen on a day that calls for less flag-waving, not more? Or more cries out for sober reflection rather than bottle rockets and Uncle Sam suits? I can't remember one. Still we'll be marching Friday. We'll parade down the middle of Central Street, in our uniform of choice (a visor and T-shirt of a girls softball team) behind the fire engines and ahead of the drum-and-bugle corps. Back home, the national ensign will be hung, per holiday routine, over the front porch. Out back, the Kingsfords...

THIS THREAD IS FOR ADULTS ONLY. THIS IS WHAT IS MEANT WHEN THEY SAY GAY "PRIDE". THIS IS WHAT YOUR TAX DOLLARS AND THE PC PARTY SUPPORTED. Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 5:18 PM Subject: public indecency: some photos from Saturday and Sunday's Gay "Pride" Parade http://members.rogers.com/liberty.ca1/nudemen.html (300 K) http://members.rogers.com/liberty.ca1/dykemarch.html (3 MB) > List of parade sponsors> ----------------------- > Toronto Arts Council > > Labbatt Blue > Government of Canada > Delta Chelsea > VIA Rail Canada > Show Case TV > Woody's > Rogers > Montclair natural spring water > Trojan condoms > Ikea > Schick > pur...

To the editor: "Whenever the nation is under attack, from within or without, liberals side with the enemy," writes Ann Coulter in her new book, "Treason," subtitled "Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorists." Wrong. Our nation is presently "under attack from within" by the group known as PNAC, the "Project for the New American Century,"[1] which now inhabits the Bush White House. Liberals are certainly not siding with this enemy. The progressive movement desperately is attempting to defend the U.S. constitution from this menace. Desperate because the White House and both houses of Congress have...