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I'm sure you're trying to be helpful, Conservative, but my suggestion is to not post stories from news services in their entirety. Especially from places like WND, which should be the friend of FR. Something like the above surely took a huge amount of work to create.

The idea is that in some (perhaps very small) way, each person clicking on the direct link adds to the revenues of the news service that created it. The internet news business is not a lucrative one, as far as I know.

You are correct in your observation that it took a bit of time for me to create the (full) post....and I DO understand where you are coming from in regards to NOT posting full articles. It makes absolute sense to me that places like WorldNetDaily, NewsMax and others receive revenue by people clicking on the links for the whole story....BUT....look at this way also: If a person posts an EXCERPTED article on Free Republic (and it is unnecessarily excerpted) how will FUTURE readers of that article/posting know what the rest of the article was? Most web sites don't have the space to store past articles -- so doesn't it just make sense that if one CAN post an article in full (and not be in conflict with the Free Republic posting guidelines) that they should? What if someone wanted to do a search on a previously-posted article on FR -- and when they pulled it up there was this excerpt....and nothing more? Wouldn't YOU be frustrated if that happened to you too? :-) So my point is this: if it is okay to post an article in full (while that is still possible -- more and more websites are going to "excerpt only") then why not? Take a look at the average number of people who reply to a posting here at Free Republic -- it's somewhere in the neighborhood of anywhere from 4 to 20 to 50. In the grand scheme of things that is not a whole lot of "missed hits" by a website such as World Net Daily.

Thank you again for bringing this "excerpt only" issue to my attention, FRiend.

ConservativeStLouisGuy