Free Republic

With the Senate's passage last week of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003, supporters of abortion rights face an increasingly conspicuous problem. It's not simply that it is set to be the first federal law to criminalize a specific abortion procedure. It's that they still don't know how to articulate the value of unborn human life. ......(see link for middle part of article)..... Why go to such lengths to ignore the developing human? Because, as one women's rights group puts it, "treating the fetus as a legal entity separate from the pregnant woman creates the potential for an adversarial...

DefenseWatch "The Voice of the Grunt" 10-11-2003 From the Editor: Uncovering the Truth about Going to War By Ed Offley This is a message for Barbara and David McPhillips, Michael and Roxanne Kaylor, and the hundreds of other parents and spouses who still grieve for loved ones killed in Iraq since the U.S. invaded to topple Saddam Hussein’s regime. Ignore the naysayers in the news media, forget the French and dismiss the Democratic presidential contenders, all of who are trying to persuade you that your father, husband and son – or mother, wife or daughter – died for nothing in...

August 20, 2003 Now that Democrat Cruz Bustamante is California's gubernatorial recall front-runner, we can look forward to in-depth media investigations of the Latino candidate's long-held ties to the racial separatist group MEChA, right? Ha. While Katie Couric complains about GOP candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger being "the son of a Nazi party member" and international media outlets assail Schwarzenegger adviser Pete Wilson as "anti-immigrant" and "racially divisive," the liberal press has been stone-cold silent on Bustamante's connection to one of the nation's most virulently racist organizations. As a student at Fresno State University in the 1970s, Bustamante was an active member...

DefenseWatch "The Voice of the Grunt" 07-16-2003 Iraq: The Dog Ate My Homework! By Raymond Perry The current wrangling over President Bush’s alleged misleading of Congress regarding the basis for the war against Iraq is killing our soldiers and must be stopped. Our Constitution vests the power to declare war, or to finance it, in the Congress. During the buildup phase to war earlier this year, our solons had a serious responsibility to do their homework. Either they were well aware of the way the intelligence world works – it is never clean and sure – or they did not...

Blind to Victory: How the Liberal Press Doesn’t Want to See the Dawn of a New American Century By Tov B. Brog April 13th 2003 – Our victory in Iraq is the result of one of the most audacious and successful military operations in history.  Even neglecting the certain degradation of the Iraqi army over the last decade of sanctions, the planning, command & control, flexibility, training and discipline required to move 100,000 troops 500 miles, across hostile terrain, to arrive at a destination ready to fight, is reflective of the finest military machine in human history. You wouldn’t know...

<p>NEW YORK Ñ Striking members of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) have brought out star power to aid their fight against the ad industry.</p> <p>The latest union-industry talks, in their 11th day Monday, are just the third round of bargaining in five months. The core battle is over an industry-proposed flat fee system for network TV ads vs. the current system of payment each time the ad runs. It is widely seen as a prelude to coming battles in the entertainment industry over contracts for actors, writers and directors.</p>

Jennings Warns of “Aggressive Efforts” to Hush Anti-War Celebs ABC's Peter Jennings sees an ominous new threat in the world. Not weapons of mass destruction or terrorism, but another vast right-wing conspiracy at home, specifically, the supposedly “well organized and aggressive efforts to make life very difficult for celebrities who speak out against the war.”     Jennings ended Tuesday's World News Tonight with this plug for Wednesday's show: “That is our report on World News Tonight. Tomorrow on the broadcast, the well organized and aggressive efforts to make life very difficult for celebrities who speak out against the war. I'm Peter...

That part of the press which lost thr battle to prevent the war in Iraq and prophesied catastrophe and quagmire should it be launched, the Left leaning gloom/doom press, domestic and foreign, which saw the ambushing of a maintenance company as a military defeat rivaling Cannae, and which agreed silently with Peter Arnett's proclamation that the Iraq campaign plan was ill conceived, the force commitment too light, the support train too thin, the enemy military too resolute, the citizenry sullen and opposed to the removal of Saddam Hussein ("Mr. Hussein" to toilers at the NYTimes who evidently confuse starchiness with...

I'm confident the American people understand that when it comes to our security, if we need to act, we will act, and we really don't need United Nations approval to do so. I want to work -- I want the United Nations to be effective. It's important for it to be a robust, capable body. It's important for it's words to mean what they say, and as we head into the 21st century, Mark, when it comes to our security, we really don't need anybody's permission. - George W Bush, March 6, 2003

As a part of the interview that I had last week with Mike Prager of the Boston Globe, I was chosen to have my picture taken along with one of the local Peace Activists, commies, in a Point Counter Point type of thing. Now you have to keep in mind that Boston is a strange kinda place and unless you know it well some of this stuff will seem out of place. I drive down from my place in NH fighting traffic and finally get to the gates of Pravda on Morressy Bvd. At the gate protecting these people from...

President Bush came to our town, and the local press refused to cover it!

Outrage at plan to celebrate tolerance Sunday September 1, 2002 The Observer As New York gears up for the first 11 September anniversary, educators are at war over what the young minds of America should be encouraged to learn from the hijack attacks. The battle has been drawn across familiar lines: Educators who regard the experience as an opportunity to instill a broader understanding of the world, Islam, the benefits of tolerance, diversity and notions of global responsibility, against conservatives who regard the event as an opportunity to encourage patriotism and moral certainty. Last week the National Education Association, the...

WASHINGTON -- Incense hung thick in the air on the National Mall as a few thousand gathered Saturday to demand reparations for their ancestors' slave labor, which they say helped build the nation's Capitol. "Millions for Reparations" was the rallying call, though far fewer than that turned out. Organizers billed it as a populist movement, not inviting such notable leaders as the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Kweisi Mfume, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "This is the people's call. Rightly so, because the power is with the people," said Doris Cleveland, one of the 100...

The D.C. Chapter of Free Republic cordially invites all FReepers and lurkers in good standing to join us this Saturday at the Washington Hilton for a freepin' good time !The White House Correspondents Association Dinner will be held that evening and, for the fourth year in a row, the D.C. Chapter will be there to demonstrate against the liberal bias in the media.This is a good chance to tell media whores, moguls and high-priced teleprompter readers your opinion of their work--to their face. The dinner is attended by anchors, reporters and other so-called talent of the major news outlets covering...