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I am posting to let fellow freepers that corresponded with Sinclair that he passed away Sept. 25, 2008 My Father was a very strong and right minded man that believed deeply in what a free republic meant to us all. Please say a prayer for him, and keep freeping Cajun315

“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster,” Nietzsche said. “And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” We’re gazing into the abyss all right, and Blackwater is gazing back. Besides having an army for hire, brave kids who are paid to fight so that most Americans are not personally touched by war, we have the real mercenaries. And they’re a spooky cadre, careening outside the laws of Iraq, the United States and the military. President Bush continues to preach that we must defeat the “dark ideology”...

Judge tosses impersonation charge against Reggie By The Associated Press GRETNA -- A judge has dismissed a police impersonation charge against media consultant and Democratic Party operative Raymond Reggie, ruling that prosecutors waited too long to bring him to trial. Reggie, the brother-in-law of U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy, had been accused of stopping three women in Metairie by using a blue police light. The charge carried up to two years in prison. State District Judge Robert Murphy ruled Monday that Reggie's trial on the charge, filed in 2002, should have taken place by July 14, 2004. Defense attorney Mike Ellis...

Born-again NASCAR aficionado (hello swing-voter Hispanics!) John Kerry inflicts enough damage on his presidential campaign all by his lonesome without Barry Bonds, who may one day break Hank Aaron's home run record, stirring up the pot. Last Friday, Bonds told Boston Globe sportswriter Gordon Edes, in San Francisco to cover the Sox-Giants series, that he'd never but never consider finishing his career in New England. "Boston is way too racist for me," Bonds said. Informed that the city, site of Kerry's coronation next month and nationally known for the violence that ensued over forced bussing 30 years ago, had changed,...

1. "We came to Europe twice in twenty-five years to save the French."      We didn't come to Europe to save the the French, either in 1917 or in 1944. We didn't come to to Europe to do anyone any favors. We came to Europe because we in America were threatened by a hostile, aggressive and very dangerous power.      In this war, France fell in June of 1940. We didn't invade Europe until June of 1944. We didn't even think of "saving the French" through military action until after Pearl Harbor - after the Germans declared war on us. We...

The Republican Party was established at Ripon, Wisconsin in 1854 by a group of former members of the Whig Party, the Free-Soil Party and the Democratic Party. Its original founders were opposed to slavery and called for the repeal of the Kansas-Nebraska and the Fugitive Slave Law. Early members thought it was important to place the national interest above sectional interest and the rights of individual States. Over the next few years the Republican Party emerged as the main opposition party to the Democratic Party in the North. However, it had little support in the South. The party's first presidential...

Man, 37, arrested in mailed threats LAFAYETTE -- A 37-year-old Rayne man accused of sending out hundreds of letters in April laced with white powder and strange, ranting bomb threats appeared before a federal judge Friday. If convicted, 37-year-old Stephen Michael Long could face life in prison. He was booked Thursday night with threatening use of certain weapons of mass destruction, mailing threatening communications and interstate wire transmission of threatening communications. Federal prosecutors Friday asked U.S. District Magistrate C. Michael Hill to keep Long in prison indefinitely until he can be tried. Assistant U.S. Attorney Rick Willis called Long...

Right to bear arms should be defended. by Sabrina Kahn March 19, 2002 In the spirit of Sarah Brady, Hillary Clinton, Sharon Stone, Alec Baldwin (if he is still in the country), and Rosie O’Donnell, let’s state the liberal mantra and get it out of the way! The Second Amendment only refers to state’s rights to maintain militias. Guns don’t protect law-abiding citizens. Societies with strict gun control have decreased murder rates. Reality paints a different picture. The founding fathers wanted to protect individual personal freedom from a powerful national government, thus creating the Bill of Rights. The Second Amendment...

Welcome to the Unofficial Sheila Jackson-Lee for President 2004! Home Page In the spring of 1966, I wrote to Robert Kennedy and urged him to run for President and he wrote back declining. You know the rest of the story. He rose to the occasion. And you know the rest after that. The integrity of the Democratic Party overall -- with some modest exceptions and a nod to Jimmy Carter and Barbara Jordan and a few others -- has been in a shambles ever since. Unable to steer a course of integrity and courage between the false paths of ...

ASKING FOR AN INFORMED VOTER IS RACIST  For those of you who don’t think this country is on the brink, this should just about push you over the edge. Here’s the deal.  The Florida legislature didn’t want a repeat of the debacle that occurred last fall with the election.  So, various election reform provisions are put into effect.  The legislature came to the simply amazing conclusion that  some of the responsibility in the voting process lies with the actual voter.  The legislature created something that has the ACLU spinning on its eyebrows and spitting wooden nickels. It’s a list of ...

Panel bashes Darwin By WILL SENTELL Capitol News Bureau A House committee ignored pleas from scholars and approved a resolution branding Charles Darwin's theory of evolution as racist Tuesday. "He was the originator for a scientific basis for racism," said Rep. Sharon Weston Broome, D-Baton Rouge and sponsor of the proposal. The House Education Committee approved the measure 9-5 and sent it to the full House. Opponents suggested Broome's resolution is a veiled attempt by creationists to resurrect the debate over whether man evolved over time from lower life forms or was created by God. Several professors argued that Broome ...

townhall.com Walter Williams (back to story) May 2, 2001 Virginia State University Tyranny If we had to single out one American institution that stands at the forefront of modern-day racial discrimination, deception and contempt for fundamental principles of liberty, it would be America's universities. Under the euphemisms of affirmative action, multiculturalism or diversity, race is used as admission criterion and then administrators swear it isn't. They often restrict free speech and swear they don't. Plus, financial improprieties are not off the agenda. By no means do all universities fit this description, but enough do so that students, parents and ...

January 10, 2001   Bill Clinton: The French Years By PATRICK WEIL ARIS — Dear President Clinton: As you prepare to move out of the White House, you are no doubt wondering what you will do next. Perhaps you assume that your time as a president has come to an end, that you must now move on to other, less attractive, alternatives. I have good news for you: You may have the opportunity to be president of France. Under Section 5 of Article 21-19 of the French civil code, citizens of states or territories over which France has ever ...

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--> HoustonChronicle.com -- http://www.HoustonChronicle.com | Section: Editorial Dec. 24, 2000, 10:58PM Pardon Clinton? Republicans, just say no By MICHELLE MALKIN WHAT has gotten into Republicans? Watching them bow and scrape in the spine-numbing spirit of bipartisanship is like watching a Beltway version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The GOP pod people, with their glazed eyes and frozen smiles, are taking over. Listen to Scott Reed, manager of Sen. Bob Dole's failed presidential campaign in 1996, who told The Washington Post: "There's no better way to close the book on the Clinton chapter than to pardon him and have a fresh ...

HoustonChronicle.com -- http://www.HoustonChronicle.com | Section: Television Oct. 18, 2000, 6:43PM Frightening specials show how extremists target youths TV Feature By ANN HODGES Houston Chronicle TV Critic   Here are two good reasons to keep a sharp eye on the sites your kids are visiting on the Internet. Two scary TV specials look at what's happening in the booming business of selling hate and racism in America. They find it's happening on home computers, and it's targeting children and young people. America's merchants of hate are crowing over their success at recruiting on the World Wide Web. By coincidence of TV timing, A&E's ...

Bilingualism   Decrypting Bilingual Ed The Crusade Against Assimilation Of Hispanics. By The Usual Suspects. It seems that educationists in California are beset by an uproar, and buzz in circles like flies on a plate-glass window, and gnash their hands, and wring their teeth, and nigh about expire of appalledness, or appallation, or appallment. It's because they have made a great discovery. The immediate cause of fluttering in the educational hen-house is tests showing that, in the two years since California eliminated bilingual schooling, little Pedro and Conchita have learned just a whole lot of English. Yep. Their scores have ...

Ain't Nobody Gonna Like It Thoughts On The Unwisdom Of Starting What You Can't Stop I think we're heading toward a racial trainwreck. Here's why. I'd better be wrong. The United States is no longer one nation, but three--black, Hispanic, and white--living in uneasy coexistence in the same place. Whites, once dominant, are either no longer able, or no longer willing, to impose a uniform national culture. The two minorities grow in numbers, being encouraged to do so by the federal government, and grow in assertiveness. Can the three meld? Or live in harmony? The answer, I think, is: ...

So that any who don't, may know. Our Senators and Congressmen don't pay in to Social Security, and, of course, they don't collect from it. The reason is that they have a special retirement plan that they voted for themselves many years ago. For all practical purposes, it works like this: When they retire, they continue to draw their same pay, until they die, except that it may be increased from time to time, by cost of living adjustments. For instance, former Senator Bradley, and his wife, may be expected to draw $7,900,000, with Mrs. Bradley drawing $275,000 during the ...

I guess somebody needs to explain multiculturalism to me. It's because I'm from West Virginia. We're slow up in the mountains, and dim, and have trouble understanding things that don't make any sense at all. Be patient. Explain multiculturalism to me in block letters. If my history's right, all kinds of folk used to come to America from every whichaplace. (I'm not sure that's a word even in West Virginia.) They'd go off to a ghetto and be miserable. You'd have Eye-talians and Irish and Jews and Scowegians, people from every place there was and probably from some there wasn't. ...