Free Republic

America needs to be more welcoming to foreigners Saturday, September 27, 2008 3:11 AM We are a nation built on immigrants. We became great because of the people who came here and worked and eventually became citizens. Not everyone wishes to stay, but as I read and hear more and more about the immigration issue and the distrust and anger that increasing numbers of Americans have against those who come here for work and whose work we need as well, I am increasingly fearful not of these people, but for our country. We are working hard to create a country...

Late one night in the summer of 2005, Matthew Sepi, a 20-year-old Iraq combat veteran, headed out to a 7-Eleven in the seedy Las Vegas neighborhood where he had settled after leaving the Army. This particular 7-Eleven sits in the shadow of the Stratosphere casino-hotel in a section of town called the Naked City. By day, the area, littered with malt liquor cans, looks depressed but not menacing. By night, it becomes, in the words of a local homicide detective, “like Falluja.” Mr. Sepi did not like to venture outside too late. But, plagued by nightmares about an Iraqi civilian...

It's time to watch the Today Show. The best news the annoying perky one could get is that her old show is doing better without her. Then, after a week or two, stop watching again. FreeRepMates Unite!

She won't last till 2007. Should we start a pool?

What Christians should do regarding illegal immigration has been an ongoing debate for a long time. Recently, Christianity was entered into the debate over immigration bills being worked on in the US Congress by Senator Hillary Clinton. Hillary basically advanced the argument that opposing illegal immigration is "un-Christian" and claimed that such enforcement would be the same as making the Good Samaritan and Jesus criminals. Missing from Hillary's comments were quotes from the Bible. While immigration from Mexico is of course not mentioned, there are issues that illegal immigration bring up that are mentioned in the Bible. 1. Taxes Matthew...

Robin McKennel Lovitt will not die by injection tonight as the 1,000th person executed in the U.S. since the death penalty was allowed to resume in 1976. Gov. Mark R. Warner commuted Lovitt's death sentence to life without parole yesterday. He found no fault with the jury that convicted Lovitt and said he was mindful of the loss suffered by the family of the victim, Clayton Dicks. Nevertheless, citing the destruction of evidence in Lovitt's case by a court official, Warner said the state "must ensure that every time this ultimate sanction is carried out, it is done fairly." Mary...

On March 7, 2005, Mr.and Mrs. Miranda arrived home, in Monroe, Walton Co., with their newborn (4th child) bundle of joy. While they're enjoying and bonding with Lil. Alyssa, their two sons were excited to have finally their baby sister home. In the meantime, anxciously awaiting for three o'clock to come, Alyssa's 6 year old sister can't wait to come meet her baby sister. However, within two hours of Alyssa being home, a worker from DEFACS arrives with the sheriffs, and warrant to remove Alyssa from the home.

For three years, I was an academic prostitute. I ruined the curve for the honest and ensured that the wealthiest, and often stupidest, students earned the highest marks. I was a professional paper-writer. It all started when I quit my journalism job in order to pursue my dream of being a singer-songwriter. I snagged a job tutoring inner-city foster children, but it didn't pay the bills. One day, I found a TUTORS WANTED flier on the UCLA campus. A small tutoring agency that serviced affluent families hired me. "Just sit at her computer and type for her," my boss advised...

Senior editors at the BBC are understood to have remonstrated with their correspondent, Barbara Plett, over her "misjudgment" in revealing on air that she had cried when Yasser Arafat's Jordanian helicopter carried him away from Ramallah en route to hospital in France.

Fresh from a Peace Corps assignment in Haiti, 26-year-old Melissa Kreek last month turned her hopeful attentions to the Mexico-Arizona border. Though she'd just come from the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, the Missouri native was not prepared for the human desperation and suffering she found in the Sonoran Desert. "I had absolutely no idea of the sheer numbers - between 1,000 and 3,000 people every day crossing the border .............

A surreal society has emerged at the tip of Cuba in which rules are the only common language and prisoners and guards alike feel marooned. A preview of Sunday's magazine. I. Dropped From the Sky The juvenile enemy combatants live in a prison called Camp Iguana. It looks like a pair of tennis courts surrounded by fence lined with a few extra layers of the usual green-nylon wind screen. It is perched on a bluff overlooking the sea; the breeze is warm and pleasant. Not far away is a beachside park for barbecues and picnics and a wildlife-viewing area, but...

Liberals Accept Responsibility for Killers, AKA L.A.R.K. Program I searched for this bit of satire on FR, but couldn't find it. I thought it the perfect response to the hand-wringing seen in articles like Secret world of Cuba’s boy captives. So, here is the text of an imaginary letter from George Bush to one of his critics--ah, but I wish he would make it so! (NOTE: THIS IS A PARODY!) A person wrote a letter to the White House complaining about the treatment of a captive taken during the Afghanistan war. Attached is a copy of a letter they received...

For somebody as earnest, smart and church-mouse-quiet as Lori Price, she sure gets called some awful names. Every day, or just about, people she has never met send her notes to inform her that she is "moron." "Retarded" and "idiot," too. Not long ago, a fellow wrote to suggest that she "Get a [expletive] life you piece of [expletive]." What has Price done to earn so many enemies? She is an Internet activist who, in the space of a few months, has collected more than 15,000 signatures on an online petition (www. petitiononline.com/11601TFS/petition.html). The petition, which she plans to send...

Here are some excerpts since its from the Washington Post... "I sat on the curb and stroked the deer's head," Cynthia writes. "He responded by opening his eyes and putting his head in my hands. . . . I wished that everyone could feel what I felt at that moment." Which he managed to do, shortly after police officers arrived. They mercifully shot the animal to death and told the man he could have the corpse. The man did his butchering in full view of several children, all ages 10 to 12, according to Cynthia.