http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/twink/ en-us Thu, 16 Sep 2004 00:28:23 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1217251/posts = http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1217251/posts#comment Thu, 16 Sep 2004 00:28:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1153643/posts It's been said that every society has two aristocracies. The members of the aristocracy of mind produce ideas, and pass along knowledge. The members of the aristocracy of money produce products and manage organizations. In our society these two groups happen to be engaged in a bitter conflict about everything from S.U.V.'s to presidents. You can't understand the current bitter political polarization without appreciating how it is inflamed or even driven by the civil war within the educated class. The percentage of voters with college degrees has doubled in the past 30 years. As the educated class has grown, it... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1153643/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jun 2004 04:58:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1144009/posts EDITOR'S NOTE: This article appears in the June 14, 2004, issue of National Review. Susie Tompkins Buell was very, very impressed with David Brock. A California businesswoman who co-founded the fashion giant Esprit and went on to become a major donor to Democratic causes, Buell was in Washington last fall attending a meeting of friends and supporters of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton when she met Brock, the self-described former "right-wing hit man." Buell listened as Brock, now a defector to "progressive" causes, presented plans for Media Matters for America, his new Internet-based project to monitor and criticize conservative media. In... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1144009/posts#comment Fri, 28 May 2004 18:37:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1057696/posts <p>Let us imagine the discussion: "Boys, the nation's in massive reeling record-breaking debt and morale's at an all-time low and disposable American soldiers are dying brutal horrific deaths every day over nothing at all except our greed and flagrant cronyism and corporate petrochemical profiteering.</p> San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1057696/posts#comment Wed, 14 Jan 2004 14:17:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1039270/posts <p>Buff Our SF Bubble, Mayor Attn: Mr. New Mayor Guy -- can you please do something about all the garbage and ennui?</p> <p>Congratulations, Mr. Candidate X! You won! You pulled it off even though many thought you were unlikable and smarmy and lopsided! You are the new mayor of San Francisco!</p> SF Gate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1039270/posts#comment Fri, 12 Dec 2003 19:14:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1004364/posts <p>And then you hear the one about the "top Vatican official," one of those ultra-dour black-robed cardinals who never see daylight or the modern world or love, espousing the official Vatican line in a recent interview, claiming that condoms do not, in fact, prevent the transmission of the AIDS virus.</p> San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1004364/posts#comment Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:46:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1001505/posts <p>Did you hug a priest today? Run from a scary homosexual person? Coo over a copy of Bride's magazine? Fall on your knees and thank God Almighty that your child isn't yet gay or pagan or libertarian and if she is that's OK because it's nothing that regular lithium and electroshock therapy can't "cure"?</p> San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1001505/posts#comment Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:26:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/985588/posts <p>These are the things to corrupt young gullible minds and short-circuit self-expression and demean the desperately needed impulse toward spontaneous self-awareness and individuality and happy guiltless vaginal investigations.</p> <p>These are the things to make Mary-Kate and Ashley's alarming and utterly demonic stranglehold on the world of vacuous saccharine multimillion-dollar teendom seem like a boring day at the mall, with lots of makeup and tube tops and Hot Dog on a Stick.</p> San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/985588/posts#comment Fri, 19 Sep 2003 14:16:27 GMT