Legitimate sources require excerpting in many cases.
This does not include your blog.
You are using Free Republic as a free advertising platform
in order to get blog hits. Some folks have a problem with that.
I had no idea it was going to put you out, not to mention the global warming involved! Holy crap!
Oh, I feel just terrible, tell you what, why don't you ask the owners of FreeRepublic to take out the little excerpt thingy from the blog posting forum so I don't overwork your little fingers!!
That way, I won't make this huge, problematic, excessively divisive and wrong,wrong,wrong mistake again!