https://freerepublic.com/tag/sctruth/ en-us Mon, 6 Jul 2026 18:29:48 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4386909/posts To use language to obscure reality is to show ‘indifference regarding the truth’— to lie to the public and cease to treat our fellow citizens as equals.” —Justice Clarence Thomas Now that the grand 250th USA birthday party is over — the speeches, the shrieking warplanes, the dazzling fireworks, the speeches and strawberry shortcake — there is only one way this thing can go. What thing? The war for the soul of the nation. Some mysterious somebody is behind the surging “Democratic-Socialist” craze. Somebody is paying for it. It’s a last-ditch drive to marshal the disaffected, under-employed young voters, choking... https://www.kunstler.com/ https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4386909/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2026 18:29:48 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4386855/posts Over the course of the past week, the Supreme Court has released a group of the most important decisions of this year’s term. Most of those decisions involved the federal government/Trump Administration as a party. As you probably have seen, the government won the majority of those decisions (ability of President to fire FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, ability of President to end “Temporary Protected Status” for certain migrants, ability of government to refuse to consider asylum applications from those who have not entered the U.S.), but also lost a few (birthright citizenship, ability of President to fire Federal Reserve Board... Manhattan Contrarian https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4386855/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2026 12:29:32 GMT