[Kaslin]

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[television is just wrong]

Everyone is wrapped up with tabloid type govt. When they put something out like Mr Weiner, you need to look around that and find out what is REALLY happening. What else are they playing behind the scenes...

[EricT.]

History will show that Universal Suffrage was the downfall of the American Republic.

[jazusamo]

Thanks for the ping, Kas. We're blessed with two excellent columns from Dr. Sowell this week.

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[JimSEA]

The Casey Anthony trial is on. You can’t expect us to pay attention to boring things like Iran or the economy.

[EGPWS]

The media have recently been so preoccupied with a congressman's photograph of himself in his underwear that there has been scant attention paid to the fact that Iran continues advancing toward creating a nuclear bomb, and nobody is doing anything that is likely to stop them.

Proof positive that the likes of Weiner do NOT belong in government and having Free Republic available is mandatory to maintaining our freedom.

Democrats and the MSM are on a slow serial killing spree of our freedoms.

[Glenn]

I'm grateful every day that I can think up to the level it requires to make an informed decision.

[Travis McGee]

The Great. Goes without saying.

[combat_boots]

Iran unveils underground missile silos
Jun 27 03:05 PM US/Eastern
By ALI AKBAR DAREINI
Associated Press

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9O4D8UG0&show_article=1

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

To those who see voting as more or less just a matter of self-expression, almost a recreational activity, there is no need to inform themselves on both sides of the issues before voting, much less sit down and think beyond the rhetoric to the realities that the rhetoric conceals.

Careless voters may be easily swayed by charisma and rhetoric, oblivious to the monumental disasters created around the world by 20th century leaders with charisma and rhetoric, such as Hitler./tt>

The problem is the PR industry, especially the branch of it known as journalism. Their very existence is predicated on the belief in the power of the frivolous to "fool most of the people most of the time."

[wjcsux]

As usual, Dr. Sowell says so much in so few words. Thanks Kas.