Free Republic

If our founding fathers could see us today, what would they think? Unfortunately, they would probably come to the exact same conclusion that so many of us have come to - the U.S. government is absolutely brimming with idiots, incompetents and incredibly corrupt politicians. Today it is very rare to come across a politician that still has any integrity left. Washington D.C. has become such a cesspool that it seems to corrupt even most of the politicians that originally go there with good intentions. We have created the most complicated government in the history of the world and we have...

THE widow of the murdered headteacher, Philip Lawrence, was asked to apologise to the youth who killed her husband because he was upset by comments she had made, it emerged last night. Frances Lawrence was telephoned by a Probation Service official after Learco Chindamo claimed he had been offended by her criticism on television of his lack of remorse. The official asked her to say sorry to Chindamo, now 21, who was jailed for life in 1996 for stabbing the headteacher outside his school in Maida Vale, West London. Mrs Lawrence was so infuriated that she complained to the probation...