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Francis Galton was Charles Darwin's cousin. He coined the word "Eugenics" in 1883. He founded the biometric approach to heredity, and to further this theory, R.A Fisher and Karl Pearson established the influential Biometrica journal in 1901. His most important legacy was the Eugenics Education Society, later to be re-named the Eugenics Society. It still exists today, though under a different name. The Biometrica journal delved deeply into that peculiar field of study, popularized by Charles Darwin in Descent of Man, which holds for darwinians an inexplicably gripping fascination. That is, the meticulous scientific comparison of Black people with apes....

Live feed, developing... Key cabinet members/staff and material being made avail. to bi-partisan committee. Get ready for more damn Congressional hearings and the wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Are we allowed to say it now? Can we drop the happy warrior schtick? In the past six years, we've seen the deficit explode like never before in the history of the country. A flaming bra-burner nominated to the Supreme Court, only to be replaced by a (hopefully) stealth conservative. The most inept State Department in the history of the United States. (Clinton's wasn't incompetent; they were flat-out fifth columnists.) 20 million new illegal aliens, and barely-contained glee that the election-day losses mean we can welcome another 50 million in. And I hate to say this, but when we won...

I just took a look at their front page, loathe as I am to boosting their ad. revenues. It looks quite unusually dismal, I must say. I wish I'd written down some of their headlines, but suffice it to say, they're not crowing.

On Saturday, Gibson released a statement apologizing: "After drinking alcohol on Thursday night, I did a number of things that were very wrong and for which I am ashamed. I drove a car when I should not have, and was stopped by the L.A. County Sheriffs. The arresting officer was just doing his job and I feel fortunate that I was apprehended before I caused injury to any other person. I acted like a person completely out of control when I was arrested, and said things that I do not believe to be true and which are despicable. I am...

This guy is on there now talking down the war effort. Talking down Rummy. Telling his guest (General) "this Administration wants Americans to believe Saddam was responsible for 9/11." This guy is so transparent. He's better off in "The Situation Room" with Blitzer and Cafferty. Touting the six retired Officers calling for Rummy's head. Shep is just trashing the effort. Drama Queen.

In reaction to the victory of Hamas in the Palestinian elections, Condoleeza Rice's response was: "She's [Condi] asked her staff to look into that. Why is it that we didn't see this coming?" I am sorry all you Condi supporters, but this is extremely disconcerting. It is completely indicative of someone living in the policy wonk world of the State Department, getting 99.99% of their news and "analysis" from that world and clueless as to what is actually going on. 9/11 was the result of 40 years of that kind of myopic foreign policy thinking. "Didn't see it coming?? Let's...

Farewell to the GOP, for now at least! January 21, 2006 To: RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman Subject: The return of my 2006 RNC Membership Card It is with deep regret that I find myself writing this letter to you. I did in fact receive my 2006 RNC Membership Card. I will not be renewing my membership and I am returning the card to you. If you care about the why, then please read this entire letter. When I pulled the lever for our current President in the elections of 2000 and 2004, this is what I thought I was voting...

Am I the only one to have started suspecting that Judith Miller is... ah... nuts? Names she didn't know but were written in her notebooks? A "secret" level security clearance she says she had in Iraq that the US Government never gave her? Spending twelve weeks in jail "to protect her sources," who say they never told her not to talk? An "agreement" with the NY Fishwrap that the paper now says never existed? Money she says she never got that was located in her account? Too bad Rod Serling is dead.

Let's avoid kidding ourselves, shall we? Democrats aren't going to defeat Miers. They know the only liberal under consideration was Alberto Gonzales, the guy they used to argue that maybe Hussein wasn't so bad, as if a few humiliating photographs compared to the physical torture, starvation or execution of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi dissidents. (Man, those Democrats must've been scarred earlier in their lives. Memo to self: Don't join a fraternity that allows hazing but is "tolerant" of deviant sexual practices.) No, Harriet Miers was the best they could hope for. Sure they're afraid she MIGHT be conservative --...

"Who's In the Doghouse? Miers, Miers." Who Put Her In The Doghouse? Innerbelt Conservatives! I have the highest esteem for these conservative pundits, but they have shot a week of broadcast time condescending a woman who is an "unknown" to them. There is probably a lot they don't know. I just don't like hearing 7/24 what they don't know. Has Air America offered them better contracts?

Don't you remember the utter let-down when elder Bush broke the fundamental promise he made, "No new taxes"? The promise was not merely a bow to the Laffer curve, it was an emotional and pyschological statement to the many people in this country who still believe in constitutional goverment, and who knew that taxation was the means to undermine constitutional government, liberty and freedom, to put it another way. The younger Bush promised a Thomas or Scalia for the same reasons: to tell the believers in constitutional government that supporting him would mean a definitive change in the jurisprudence of...

GHW Bush said he wouldn't raise taxes - then he raised taxes. A one-term presidency was his deserved reward for that stupid betrayal.His son, GW Bush, promised he'd nominate somebody like Scalia. If, instead, he nominates Gonzales - i.e. somebody who's like O'Connor or even Souter - Bush won't pay the price at the polls, but the GOP will. A lot of conservatives - including me - will conclude it's not worth it, and go third party or stay home.

Angry at "Backstabber" John McCain for his deals with the 'Rats? Want to hit him where it hurts? Don't buy Budweiser, or any Anheuser-Busch product (especially in Arizona). Let me explain. McCain married Cindy Hensley who is the daughter of the owner of Arizona's largest A/B distributor, the Hensley Companies. The senator would not even be an elected dog-catcher without his wife's money (like a certain French-looking senator!). Not buying Bud means less $ for McCain's family. FIGHT MC CAIN....BOYCOTT BUD!

A review of all of the Blam threads, the lack of Mitacondrial DNA. and any recient Volcanos has led me to think that the fat broads, Siberian Ivories, are a feminist plant. First of all, what male in his right mind would marry a woman who comes in layers, she couldn't pull a travois a mile or so before coming winded, let alone set up camp at the end of the day. Any woman who, in ancient days, sat out side of the circle, men first, womyn second, children third, would have been rail thin. No fat people in the...

It would appear that Rick Santorum is trying to make himself appear as a closet Liberal. According to cited sources, he has "proposed raising the minimum wage; suggested that the death penalty be reserved for the most dangerous of killers; voted with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., on curbing sex and violence in the media; and sided with Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., on a bill protecting religious freedom in the workplace." Of course his real turn coat action of late has been his suggestion Sunday that "embattled House Majority Leader Tom DeLay needs to answer questions about his ethics and...

I am so mad at Judge Greer, I could spit. I will be protesting him in the morning in the Wal Mart parking lot. I am putting together my protest sign, but I need a good slogan. I am thinking something catchy using "Greer" and "queer" would be clever, but I can't think of anyhting good. Would the freepers please help me with this?

A very good Freeper has another thread going on right now, called "Let's End the Rancor." I started to respond, and realized...my RANCOR ain't going away any time soon. So.... NO! I will never forgive them. I will never forgive the death cabal that forsook common decency and Judeo-Christian principles, and made a Never-give-in stand just to give those who embrace life grief, tension and tortured, sleepless nights.

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Judge Greer has accomplished a coup: He commandeered local cops to repel a state agency (Family and Children Services) and Jeb's state police. And what happens to him for usurping extra-judicial authority? nothing. He's allowed to continue the killing process, with a bizarre zeal to see Terri Schiavo die. Michael will be rid of her, and recipient, likely of book and TV movie deals, from a Hollywood that is pushing assisted suicide as the cause du jour. Greer thumbs nose at Congress; what happens? Nothing. The man shows signs of lunacy - - - is he fiddling with metal balls,...

Raise the drinking age to 25?

George Bush will defeat John F'ing Kerry by......53%-47%..

I mean, who does stuff like that? Just ask an open-ended question in the title and ask everyone to comment, even though they don't know what it refers to?It drives me crazy

Let's see, all those requests to post pics of skinny Ann Coulter (perhaps from those lonely ones renting something akin to Ted Kasynski's cabin in Montana). Then there's caption this, and caption that. What value is there in this? In the interim, the Republic heads deeper into a liberal quagmire and an otherwise worthy conservative forum is slowly turning into a doormat for those with nothing better to do than to turn this arena into a circus. It's a shame.

Is anyone else considering cancelling FoxNews?

Right away on the show, whenever there was any conflict with anyone the first thing that Omarosa would say was "What's the matter, you cant handle a strong black woman?" or "You are just bothered/upset/angry/disagreeable/ because I am a strong black woman!" I think that this woman probably uses the race card for just about anything she can. Its very easy to "cry wolf" when it comes to the race card and racial slurs because no one really wants to challenge someone like that, no one wants to have the finger pointed at them.

It seems that the same democrats calling Iraq, "another Viet Nam", Kerry, Biden, Kennedy........ are the same ones urging Bush to send more troops. They hope to win either way.

IS VOTING "FIXED" IN THE 'AMERICAN IDOL CONTEST?'

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT DR. RICE HAVEING O TALK ABOUT THAT ATTACKS. IS IT A GOOD OR BAD THING. POST ALL OPINIONS HERE

I was asked he other day if I vote. well my awnser was simple NO. when asked why I dont vote (everyone assuming I was anti goverment witch I am not)I told them this, Govener Gray Davis gave thousands and thousands of illeagal imergrants from mexico driver licences todrive almost no questions asked, hint the recall. well as far as voteing my vote dosent even matter all those drivers out their are taking my vote so my vote really dosent matter any more dose it?

My fiancee gets snippets of news and wants to argue integrety issues because she's heard the young Jenna and Barbarra daughters of our President were dancing "on a bar table". What is the origin of this story?

We can all make jokes about little Tommy Daschle, pumpkin head Gephardt, and bloated Ted Kennedy, but meanwhile, Arab Islamist terrorists around the world are networking and becoming empowered to join with Saddam Hussein to attack us and our interests with nuclear, chemical, and biological warfare. It's not funny, it's not hypothetical. While the Senate delays to save their butts for the elections, MORE AMERICANS ARE AT RISK OF BEING KILLED. HOW LONG WILL WE ALLOW THIS TO GO ON? HOW LONG WILL PRESIDENT BUSH ALLOW THE SENATE CLOWNS TO PUT OUR LIVES AT RISK? I don't think enough of...