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Pardon the vanity post, but I wanted to let Freepers know that two Duke players have been arrested in the rape case.

Hello Fellow Freepers, I'd like to get your input on this post: "Before I post my thoughts on the London attacks or Islamofascism in general, I want to solicit your views. In light of yesterday's attacks, what are your theories and ideas about how to defeat or least contain global terrorism? My intent is twofold: 1) To raise the level of interaction on this blog. Some commenters are treating it like their own personal forum (or toilet) where they can say whatever they want. Not so. If you don't have anything useful to add to this discussion, don't comment; 2)...

Illegal immigration is out of control. As a result, our nation's security is at risk. A group of Americans has decided to do what George Bush refuses to do: protect Americans from the scourge of illegal immigration. This is the first part of an interview with John Smallberries, a former Marine and a volunteer pilot for the Minuteman Project, a group of American volunteers who will patrol the Arizona-Mexico border to deter border jumpers. The mythmaking and urban legends about the group have already begun (They're going to shoot the Mexicans?), so I wanted to set the record straight and...

I just heard on 630 AM WMAL that Michael Jackson, suffering from the flu, we’re told, is staying on the same floor as the Pediatrics Unit! Do you seen the absurd irony? A man on trial for molesting children is on the same floor…as children. Good grief. Developing… Update: I just got off the telephone with WMAL anchor Michelle Basch, who confirms that Jackson is staying on the same floor as the Pediatrics Unit. He’s supposedly there because it’s the most isolated area at Marian Medical Center. Oh, the irony is disgusting! I think he should be locked in his...

Vice President Cheney's outfit wasn't solemn enough for the recent Auschwitz rememberance ceremony. "The vice president...was dressed in the kind of attire one typically wears to operate a snow blower," quipped the sharp-witted Robin Givhan, a "writer" for the Washington Post. (Source) With a not-so-subtle implication that Cheney, in opting to stay warm in Oswiecim, Poland, must be anti-Semitic because the cold didn't seem to bother him on Inauguration day, Givhan says, "[His clothes] had the unfortunate effect of suggesting he was more concerned with his own comfort than the reason for braving the cold at all." Good grief. Scott...

O.J. Simpson’s 19-year-old, motherless daughter was arrested for disorderly conduct on Wednesday. Back in 1994 when Simpson killed Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, I was overwhelmed with sadness every time I saw pictures of his beautiful child, knowing she’d grow up without a mother and raised by the man who killed her in a jealous rage. It seems that Sydney Simpson has inherited her father’s temper. She’s turned into a bully: Simpson was at Ransom Everglades School for a boys’ varsity basketball game against Gulliver Prep. Sydney Simpson graduated from there last June, and her brother Justin, 16, attends...

One popular saying in politics recommends: Don’t get mad, get even. Many African-Americans are still mad at how the Black vote was undermined in 2000 – and they want to get even.

Black women are seven times more likely to have an abortion compared to white women, according to new figures.

First you had to pretend to be looking for something else until the clerk was alone. You also wanted to make certain no other customer was within hearing distance, especially an adult who might recognize you.

Life on the Old Plantation by La Shawn Barber 28 October 2003 Black conservatives are the “uppity Negroes” of the Jim Crow era who just won’t stay in their place. Upon meeting me, white liberals take one look at my skin and presume I’m a left-leaning, Congressional Black Caucus-supporting, racial preference-loving, pro-infanticide crony. They condescendingly offer opinions about “diversity and multicultural” this or “Democratic fundraiser” that. I usually excuse such transgressions because it’s natural to quickly size up people based on information readily available. When I rebut these presumptions and share my deeply held conservative beliefs, however, I get open-mouthed...

August 26, 2003 Liberal Elites Defile King’s Dream La Shawn Barber In 1963, many blacks still could not vote or use the same restaurants, hotels, public toilets or water fountains as whites. On August 28, 1963, 250,000 people descended on the National Mall to demand an end to government-sanctioned discrimination. Freedom was the platform from which Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. made his famous “I Have A Dream” speech. He demanded that the United States make good on its promise of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all citizens. Few people today are aware of the phenomenal progress...

An angry liberal responded to a recent column I wrote about the Supreme Court’s detestable decision to uphold the University of Michigan law school’s use of racial distinctions in admissions and my stand against it,...

We have seen the High Court of the country declare that discrimination based on race was repugnant to the Constitution, and therefore void." — President Lyndon Johnson, 1965