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Columnists' Corner "Gang Violence: The Ultimate Denial of Free Speech" By Frank Salvato Lance Corporal Sok Khak Ung no longer has the right to free speech. This is because he was shot dead by a gang member who mistakenly took he and his friends for members of a rival gang. It wasn’t as if they were cruising the streets looking for trouble either. Ung and his friends were “free-style rapping” at a barbecue in celebration of his return from Iraq, his return to his neighborhood, a neighborhood mired in the hopelessness that a gang haven has to offer. This...

Columnists' Corner "Senatorial Skullduggery In The Judiciary Committee " by Frank Salvato It’s quite amazing how the liberal press and those of the left in our government can take a truth and completely invert it for their own political gain. Take the matter of President Bush’s nominee for the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit, Janice Rogers Brown. Here again we have an excellent candidate, one who is rated as qualified by the American Bar Association and who has consistently ruled on the word of law rather than acquiesce to the role of judicial activist that so...

FRN Columnists' Corner "An Email From A Young Palestinian" By Frank SalvatoRecently I heard from a young Palestinian named Remah Muntaser regarding an article I wrote about the mindset of the Palestinian terrorist titled And They Say They Believe In Peace. I was so troubled by what Remah wrote that I wrote back. I want to share that exchange with you today. I have left the text in its original form. Initial email from Remah Muntaser: I am writing about your article on the book dream of Palestine. I live in the US and when I came to graduate I...

FRN Columnists' Corner "Everyone Is Disenfranchised" By Frank SalvatoI was going to write about the need for politics and government to be separated but after I read the first line I keeled over from the pain in my belly, as I was laughing too hard. Although the ultimate goal would be to have politicians campaign from their political parties and then disengage from the political arena after they were elected to office so they could better connect with their constituents and do the work they were elected to do without due influence of their political parties, this notion will always...