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We've got some real challenges facing us. FR was established to fight against government corruption, overstepping, and abuse and to fight for a return to the limited constitutional government as envisioned and set forth by our founding fathers in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and other founding documents. One of the biggest cases of government corruption, overstepping and abuse that I know of is its disgraceful headlong slide into a socialist hell. Our founders never intended for abortion to be the law of the land. And they never intended the Supreme Court to be a legislative body. They...

Commentary by Daniel T. Zanoza, Executive Director I don't recall ever experiencing anything like it--a Governor from a small southern state rockets to national prominence and so many are threatened by it. Of course, I'm talking about Mike Huckabee, who many believe is the front-runner for the Republican Party's presidential nomination. You see, the former Governor of Arkansas and ordained Baptist minister has come literally out of nowhere and many in the dominant media and the GOP elite don't like it. Well, they don't like Huckabee's success. Huckabee won the Iowa caucus, came in third in New Hampshire and Michigan,...

A Waterloo man and his dog made a harrowing escape from the clutches of a vicious black bear Thursday while portaging near Wawa, Ont. Tom Tilley, 55, killed the nearly 200-pound bear by jumping on its back and stabbing the aggressive animal with a six-inch hunting knife after his dog alerted him and distracted the bear. "Love is a very powerful emotion and my thought right away was, 'You're not going to kill my dog,' " Tilley said yesterday. "I really consider my dog a hero. Without that first warning I would have had the bear clamping down on my...