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Leave it to U.S. Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va. ... Washington's reigning king of pork. The senior senator was some upset when a number of his Democratic colleagues expressed support for President Bush's tax cut last week. Sen. Byrd responded by warning them -- first in private, then in public -- that if they voted to let their constituents keep a little more of what they earn, Sen. Byrd would see to it that their own pork spending was blocked, potentially leading to Republican gains in the 2002 off-year elections. "At a closed-door meeting of Senate Democrats last Tuesday," reported ...

Here are some photos from the rally. I have included a few that were not of FReepers. I hope you'll forgive the use of extra bandwidth. This boat was sailing near the dock at Veteran's Park before the rally. Unfortunately, the bright sunlight rendered many signs nearly unreadable in my photos. The sail says How do we keep Oregon Green Without Water. Notice how very very full Klamath Lake is in the picture. Some of those who were gathered at Veteran's park as the rally got underway. Son of AuntB (sorry, I didn't catch your name!) holding the FR sign. ...

Something has caused almost all the devices to stop working in Bremerton Joel Maimon of Port Ludlow first noticed the problem when he arrived in Bremerton for work Thursday morning. No matter how many times he clicked the remote keyless entry device for his car, it wouldn't work. He wasn't alone. Art DeCamp, service manager for Haselwood Expo Buick Pontiac dealership in Bremerton, first realized something was amiss Wednesday afternoon when a flood of customers began calling with the same problem. By Thursday, virtually every new car dealership in the Bremerton-Port Orchard area was inundated with hundreds of similar calls ...

Thank you for sending me an e-mail message for Bill Maher. WorldNetDaily.com readers sent over 1,100 poignant and opinionated messages which I hand-delivered before the show this past Monday night. If you watched the program then you already know that I made reference to the e-mail on air and challenged Bill about his frequent verbal disdain and abuse of Christians! I also summarized for the show's producers the recurring themes of the e-mail which took issue with Bill's 1) Constant rudeness and "bashing" of Christians (especially Catholics) and others who he disagrees with 2) Misrepresentation of his own views as ...

Welcome to Smith & Wesson Cam™. For some time I had been wondering, "Do guns really cause crime? " I kept reading about "gun violence" and "gun deaths" and so many things blamed on guns. Then, foreign-owned Smith & Wesson sold its soul to Impeached President Bill Clinton & Co. and I decided to rid myself of anything I owned that was produced by that evil corporation. In my sock drawer, I found my once-trusty Model 19. I was about to throw it in the recycle bin with my cans when a thought occurred to me- why not use it ...

In the Old Right, cultural conservatism came as naturally as devotion to the free market or aversion to foreign wars. But when the cold war split the Right into two camps, both sides suffered. Conservatives lost their skepticism about what Clare Boothe Luce called "globaloney"; libertarians lost their moorings to what Russell Kirk called "the permanent things." Today, both parts of the movement are harking back to their roots. More and more conservatives are coming to agree with Patrick J. Buchanan's denunciations of global messianism, and more and more libertarians cheer Murray N. Rothbard's jeremiads against "libertine libertarians." In the ...

Our Bellevue home just got hit by a pretty healthy shaker. Anyone else??? Shaking like a leaf; the chandeliers are still swinging.Wow!MA

Good morning kiddies. I've been asked to start another thread upon which the debate may further rage, regarding whether or not drug prohibition should be ended. This discussion proceeded from oursacredhonor's original posting titled "Uruguay President seeks drug legalization", but has wandered from that topic and thus I have given it a new title. To catch up on previous discussion, please see: Thread I Thread II

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