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Hmmmm, given that you're new here, and I was once a hawkeye fan, I'll cut you some slack. Perhaps you don't understand the etiquette of Free Republic and blog postings. Excerpted blogs are not a popular thing unless they're from a major national figure. If Mr. Vander Hart would like his blog posted on Free Republic, he's free to do so in full. I notice that Mr. Vander Hart is big on promoting himself on the web. Blog excerpts drive traffic away from this site; that's not what Free Republic is here for. It's a place for discussions of all things conservative.

The owner of Free Republic, Mr. Jim Robinson has been quite clear on this point:

I have no complaint if a good conservative blogger posts his own material to FR, not as an excerpt to drive hits and discussion back to his blog, but rather to impart useful information to OUR readers and to promote and join in on the discussion and conservative activism HERE on FR.

If a blogger can’t or refuses do that, and if he constantly complains or fights with our participants over it, then I’d just as soon he doesn’t post here. It’s not my job to make his content or his presentation or cooperation acceptable to our readers. That’s his job. And if he cannot do it or refuses to do it and continues posting brief excerpts only and obviously attempting to draw away our participants while loudly complaining about it, then I have no sympathy for his complaints and the more apt I am to ban his account and blog.

As you are an acquaintance of Mr. Vander Hart, perhaps he would give you his permission to post his entire blog posts on Free Republic. Getting such (inter)national exposure seems it could be something he'd like.