Dixie, didn't Drudge get rid of FreeRepublic's link a long time ago? If I recall it was around the same time Luciane Goldberg quit posting here and got her own site.
I used to go to Drudge first then click the link to FreeRepublic, but then Drudge took it away and I quit going there altogether. Did Drudge put the link back up at some time?
He took it down some time ago because of Lucianne, but restored it a couple or three years ago. I checked last night, and it was gone, again. Did you see the boycott thread? I bet that had something to do with it.