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I don't mind clicking through to American Thinker to read the rest of the article. It's one of my bookmarked sites. A wonderful collection of news, opinions and essays and any conservative should not hesitate to give them the clicks. With all the complaining we do here about the media (and mostly well-deserved), we should support the sites and publications that try to do it right and are not mouthpieces for the Left.

So an author of one of American Thinker's pieces takes the time to come here to start a thread on a piece he just wrote. I think that's a good thing and a good thing for Free Republic in general. To harass him and chase him off because he didn't post the entire article seems foolish to me. How do we know that American Thinker doesn't have a policy where their contributors are not allowed to post the full content someplace else. Even if it wasn't AT policy, is it a cool thing to let somebody pay your for an article and then go around posting it elsewhere on the web? If I was the owner of a publication and one of my contributors was posting his articles in full someplace else after I PAID him to have it on my site, I would definitely feel ill used.

Now I could see if it was some lame blogger trying to drive clicks to his second rate homemade website someplace out of somebody's basement. But this is American Thinker, a very well-respected publication.

It is this kind of hostility to newcomers that keeps Free Republic relatively small.

I feel much the same way. I really like content at American Thinker (though I admit I don’t admire the way the website is built...I find it distracting to the content!)

I thought that was a cordial apology by you, null and void. SamAdams76 is correct, we should be gratified when the author of a piece at a place like American Thinker posts here.

I appreciate people who work to try to minimize blog pimping on FR, but I agree...this didn’t appear to be one of them.