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We've received many requests from freepers requesting that other freepers not post to them. There are several problems with this. 1. It's impossible for us to enforce.2. We don't have the time to enforce these requests.3. We don't have the software to keep track of these requests.4. Thick skin helps.5. Ignore the poster, if you don't reply, they won't reply. Free Republic does not need a bozo filter, bozo filters are for wimps. Final note: Trolls, troublemakers, disruptors, forum pests, malcontents, RINOs, liberals, stalkers, et al, would continue posting to (harassing) someone after being asked to stop. Conservative FReepers would...

WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record) contended Friday that President Bush is rushing new troops to Iraq and betting that Congress won't cut off funds once they're in battle. The White House called her assertion "poisonous." In an exchange of harsh rhetoric that underscored the intensity of the political fight, Pelosi, D-Calif., said the war should not be "an obligation of the American people in perpetuity." "The president knows that because the troops are in harm's way, that we won't cut off the resources. That's why he's moving so quickly to put them in harm's way,"...

CHICAGO (AP) - Minister Louis Farrakhan said in a letter to followers this month that he is seriously ill, and he asked the Nation of Islam's leaders to carry on in his absence to make sure the movement "will live long after I and we have gone." Farrakhan, 73, said he began suffering pain earlier this year similar to 1998, when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer and underwent surgery. He said doctors discovered an ulcer in his anal area during a visit to Cuba in March. Since then, he has lost 35 pounds while battling "serious infection and inflammation,"...

Re-focus Halloween! If your school insists on having some kind of Halloween celebration, recommend that they steer away from the ghoulish and occult and, instead, focus on the event as a fall festival. ... "When you turn evil into a game, it trivializes it and numbs children to its darkness." (excerpt from email) GREAT RESOURCE SITE for Teachers, Parents & Students.

WASHINGTON - In a spirited attack, the State Department's spokesman on Friday accused Syria of making trouble not only for Iraq, by allowing foreign fighters to infiltrate the country, but also for Lebanon and the Palestinians. "Syria, more and more, is being recognized as a destabilizing element in the region," Adam Ereli said Friday. "It's not just about Iraq; it's about Iraq, it's about Lebanon, it's about the Palestinian Authority. Because there's a connection between Syria and terrorism and murder and mayhem in each of these three different areas." Syrian President Bashar Assad's government insists it is doing what it...

Well, that time has come for me. I’m leaving FR. However, I do not consider this an “opus”, as I am NOT going to use it to rehash old slights or arguments, or to give my personal opinion of what “should be done around here”. As has been so often pointed out, this is Jim Robinson’s site, and he runs it as he sees fit. Rather, all I’m going to do here is give a general reason for my departure, and say a hearty-but-sad “GOODBYE!” to all the folks here who have enriched my life in the past four years....

Communist China is baring its fangs again, and that should focus renewed attention here in the U.S. on Beijing's military and economic buildup (aided and abetted by the industrialized world with the help of your tax dollars) and the spy network right here on our soil. China's rubber-stamp Parliament has enacted into law a clear threat to take the island of Taiwan by force if necessary. That threat has been hanging over Taiwan ever since the Mainland Communist revolution of 1949 chased the pro-Western anti-communist Chinese government to the island. In passing the law, China ignored White House concerns that...

An embattled pastor announced his resignation Sunday, making him the second Dallas Catholic Diocese priest in a week to fall in connection with sexual misconduct allegations. The Rev. William "Bill" Richard said he was leaving Our Lady of the Lake Church to bring "peace and reconciliation" to the parish, where protesters recently began pressing Dallas Bishop Charles Grahmann to remove him. They have cited Father Richard's efforts to save the job of a top aide – who is serving probation for indecent exposure – and his dismissal of critics from church positions. Bishop Grahmann responded to the campaign by seeking...

10:48 PM CST on Monday, February 7, 2005 By BROOKS EGERTON / The Dallas Morning News Dallas County District Attorney Bill Hill is launching a broad criminal investigation of how Catholic Bishop Charles Grahmann and his staff have handled sexual abuse cases, officials confirmed Monday. The goal is to determine whether the Dallas Diocese "has received any allegations of abuse by members of the clergy that have not subsequently been reported to law enforcement," said Rachel Horton, a spokeswoman for Mr. Hill. She said two recent disclosures made prosecutors suspicious of the diocese's written insistence, in 2002, that it had...

Can someone please organize and take up a huge collection to coax a Border Patrol Agent to come out and speak the truth about the situation on the U.S. Mexico Border? On the likely chance that this person is fired; I presume this person would need about $150,000 to support his/her family for a few years. That's a start. Terrorist Warning.com has made mention to WMDs by way of suicide bombers in the U.S. Also mentioned is the vunerable border. Just read an article that called Ramzi Yosef (WTC Part 1) a genius. These terrorist are smart and relentless. I...

<p>He's been a mayor, a socialist and, by his own admission, a pariah.</p> <p>Seventy-seven-year-old Buford Posey reflects about his work with the civil rights movement and the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner in Neshoba County in June 1964.</p>

Something Suspicious Is in the Air By Courtland Milloy Monday, March 24, 2003; Page B01 The sign above the highway leading into the nation's capital advised motorists to "Report Suspicious Activity" and gave an 800 number for the Office of Homeland Security. As a reporter, I figured this was right up my alley and set out yesterday to report on things that struck me as suspicious. For instance, near the Jefferson Memorial, I saw a five-foot-tall metal box that was hooked up to an electrical outlet and equipped with a high-tech antenna and chrome-dome receptor. What was it? I asked...

FoxNews's Hannity and Colmes has asked me to appear on the program this evening to talk about last week's joint AARLC/FreeRepublic Protest of Senator Robert Byrd. The segment is due to air at 21:40(9:40 pm EST). I ask that VetsCor understand why I will not be at tonight meeting.

The following is from Bill Sammon's book Fighting Back,pages 27-29:...Each member of the larger group of journalists took his or her turn pulling pool duty, after which they would share any presidential news or atmospherics with the rest of the press corps, often in the form of irreverently written "pool reports."These reports, almost always penned by a newspaper reporter, were e-mailed to White House press aide Rachael Sunbarger, who then electronically distributed them to the rest of the press. But she also sent them to top White House officials, who eagerly perused them as unvarnished barometers of what the press...