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We went to see The Hobbit yesterday and we thought it was awful. Been surprised that since it's release there haven't been any posts to the Hole. Are you all disgusted with Part 1?

October 9, 2004OP-ED COLUMNISTThe Report That Nails SaddamBy DAVID BROOKS addam Hussein saw his life as an unfolding epic narrative, with retreats and advances, but always the same ending. He would go down in history as the glorious Arab leader, as the Saladin of his day. One thousand years from now, schoolchildren would look back and marvel at the life of The Struggler, the great leader whose life was one of incessant strife, but who restored the greatness of the Arab nation. They would look back and see the man who lived by his saying: "We will never lower our...

QUICK LINKS: HOME | NEWS | OPINION | RIGHTPAGES | CHAT | WHAT'S NEW townhall.comA fool's hopeRich Lowry (back to web version) | Send December 22, 2003Lo! (Cue heraldic music here.) Out of Hollywood rises an epic of courage and hope so thunderously wonderful that it is almost enough to redeem a year's worth of pop-culture detritus, to make us forget endless reality-show hot-tub scenes, "Gigli" and even Paris Hilton as we marvel at what can be wrought by the entertainment industry when it uses its powers for good. The occasion for such effusion is "The Return of the...

'Tower' of Power Second installment of 'Rings' trilogy is thrilling war epic By ELEANOR RINGEL GILLESPIE Atlanta Journal-Constitution Film Critic PIERRE VINET / New Line Productions Viggo Mortensen's character, the heroic Aragorn, is the central player in "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers." * FORUM: Share your thoughts * 'Two Towers' preview * The theology of the 'Ring' * Photos from the UK premiere * First look at the film "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers" Grade: A- Starring Elijah Wood, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Astin and Orlando Bloom. Directed by Peter Jackson. Rated PG-13 for violence....

Please post any links to RealTime, or at least good Election Result Links.Thanks in advance.

December 9, 2001 Pacifism's claim to high turf J.T. Young In the 1960s, antipathy to the Vietnam War in some quarters spiraled into a broader opposition to war in general and gave pacifism a veneer of respectability in America. Smugly summing itself up in a bumper sticker (that can probably still be seen clinging to the rusted bumper of a Volkswagen microbus), the peace movement-turned-pacifism asked rhetorically: "What if they threw a war and nobody came?"      Now a generation and heinous terrorist attack later, we find the question reversed: What if they threw a war protest and no one came? ...

I have just become aware that someone has applied for credit cards in my name.Does anyone know who to contact, and/or how to stop it?

  Feature June 4, 2001/Vol 6, Number 36 The Bush Doctrine ABM, Kyoto, and the New American Unilateralism By Charles Krauthammer I. The World as It Is Between 1989 and 1991 the world changed so radically so suddenly that even today the implications have not adequately been grasped. The great ideological wars of the twentieth century, which began in the '30s and lasted six decades, came to an end overnight. And the Soviet Union died in its sleep, and with it the last great existential threat to America, the West, and the liberal idea. So fantastic was the change ...

First I lost the video portion of my FoxNews RealPlayer,now the audio is also gone.Are any of you still able to get Fox on your RealPlayer?

Medical Evidence: Gun Control Won't Solve Crime Wes VernonSaturday, April 7, 2001 WASHINGTON The gun control lobby has just received a stunning setback in a new article appearing in the spring issue of the Medical Sentinel. Written by Miguel A. Faria, M.D., the study finds that most gun violence studies of the past two decades are based on flawed methodology and unduly influenced by political agendas, leading to biased and incorrect conclusions. The Medical Sentinel, the official journal of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, argues in effect that many of those who conducted the studies decided in ...

I recommend that all Freepers get David Limbaugh's new book, Absolute Power the Clinton/Reno Justice Department.I, like many of you have read a stack of books by Aldrich, Noonan, Gertz, Timperlake, Coulter, Bennett, etc., but I am only beginning the third chapter of Limbaugh's "Absolute Power" and it is well done, and covers all the scandels, from firing the WH lawyers and Waco to, . .. don't know yet. But, what I have read has been awfully good and done strictly from the perspective of what Reno and the Justice Dept. did and didn't do. Limbaugh is doing a good ...

I just listened to The News Hour with Jim Leherer and I believe he said that the Senate had just voted for an amendment to the Campaign Finace bill that would NOT require unions to get permission from members to use their money.I may have heard this wrong, but if it is true, how would you find which of the whimpy GOP Senator would vote not to require unions to get this permission?

Freepers, below is an exchange that I had with The Voting Integrity Project, VIP.The Email i recieved, the note I sent back-voluteering to recruit Freepers, and her response.She would love to have us voluteer, so take not of her information below.Let's let her know we are from FreeRepblic, and that we will help. Dear VIP Supporter, I recommend today's article in USA Today about why our election problems are not going to be easy to fix. http://www.usatoday.com/news/acovwed.htm ( Click here: USATODAY.com ) Just looking at the issue of equipment upgrades, as The Voting Integrity Project has been saying, is not ...

MemberDC PhoneDistrict PhoneE-Mail Sen. Joseph Maxwell Cleland (D)202-224-3521404-331-4811senator_cleland@exchange.senate.gov Sen. Zell Miller (D)202-224-3643404-347-2202webform@miller.senate.gov Jack Kingston (R-01)202-225-5831912-352-0101jack.kingston@mail.house.gov Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. (D-02)202-225-3631912-439-8067bishop.email@mail.house.gov Mac Collins (R-03)202-225-5901770-603-3395mac.collins@mail.house.gov Cynthia A. McKinney (D-04)202-225-1605404-377-6900cymck@mail.house.gov John Lewis (D-05)202-225-3801404-659-0116john.lewis@mail.house.gov John 'Johnny' Isakson (R-06)202-225-4501404-252-5239ga06@mail.house.gov Bob Barr (R-07)202-225-2931770-429-1776barr.ga@mail.house.gov Saxby Chambliss (R-08)202-225-6531912-752-0800rep.saxby.chambliss@mail.house.gov Nathan Deal (R-09)202-225-5211770-535-2592http://www.house.gov/writerep/ Charlie Norwood (R-10)202-225-4101706-733-7066http://www.house.gov/writerep/ John Linder (R-11)202-225-4272912-642-4118john.linder@mail.house.gov

A tourist walks into a curio shop in San Francisco. Looking around at the exotica, he notices a very lifelike, life-sized bronze statue of a rat. It has no price tag but is so striking he decides he must have it. He took it to the owner: "How much for the bronze rat?" "Twelve dollars for the rat, one hundred dollars for the story," said the owner. The tourist gave the man twelve dollars. "I'll just take the rat, you can keep the story." As he walked down the street carrying his bronze rat, he noticed that a few real ...

From:---------"Fair Taxation" AFTCyber@um5.unitymail.net To:-----------Freepers All Subject:------WASHINGTON ACTION ALERT Date:---------Fri, 26 Jan 2001 17:12:09 -0600 Today's Wall Street Journal highlights an interview with Bush's new Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill recognizing him as a long time advocate for replacing the income tax with a consumption tax! According to the article O'Neill wants to push for a national discussion. He said, "If we don't have a conversation about the truth of this stuff, how are we ever going to change it?" Americans for Fair Taxation is depending on all our members and all members of the Coalition for Fundamental Tax Reform (CFTR) to ...

While discussing the "trashing of the WH" with my sister in Illinois, we came to the conclusion that the bahavior of the Clintoons Staff was more reminiscent of animals than of humans, and that the term 'slovenly' just didn't do it.White Trash even pales.These folks were This group were BESITAL. And like beasts, they MARKED THEIR TERRITORY

January 17, 2001 Bush faces his demons Tony Blankley      They say if you put a live frog in a pot of cold water and turn the heat up slowly, the frog will be boiled before he knows what's happening to him. I hope President-elect Bush is noticing the rising water temperature, because I have never seen any previous president-elect treated with such brutal disdain by both the media and the opposition party.     Since Election Day the Democratic Party and its various interest group auxiliaries systematically have pounded away on two themes - that Mr. Bush is not the legitimate president, ...

PEGGY NOONAN FarewellBill Clinton's last speech? We can only hope.Friday, January 19, 2001 12:37 a.m. The question going into Bill Clinton's farewell speech last night was this: Is this the last speech of the Clinton presidency, or the first speech of the new Clinton era? It was very much the latter, which is why he never said the word "goodbye" or "farewell." There was a time--it lasted more than 200 years--when American presidents came from America, journeyed to Washington to serve and then, when they were done, followed the tradition of George Washington and went back home to America, ...

To Atlanta: we will be having a nice get-together at the $3 Cafe on Roswell Rd. we have the "porch" area reserved for us Jan. 20, 2001 at 7:00 p.m. Below is link for map to Cafe. It is about 2 blocks N of 285 on Roswell. Exit 17. Map to Cafe As some of you know, it might be pretty cool, if weather becomes too bad, we can cancel. But, it worked out pretty well in Nov. We will have TVs on, and perhaps get to see fellow Freepers at the DC Freeper Ball. Please drop me a line ...