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This was posted to FreeRepublic the day we got attacked on 9/11. Everyone was into the attack, so this article got little headway. Only 5 freepers commented, and I am sure not many even read it. Yet when we consider today's situation with China, this was a HUGE story that we can now look back on and just wonder, "What If?" Many here will remember that the author, Howard Phillips, was a long time conservative activist who founded the Conservative Caucus and the Constitution Party. He passed away back in 2013. Long before Bush left office Howard was warning us...

The following is making rounds on Facebook and other social media outlets. While I have my own responses to much of its content, i would like to know the responses you would give. --------------- REPOST: A white man asked his black friend Are you going to vote for BARACK OBAMA just because he's black? The black man responded by saying "why not?" In this country men are pulled over by police because they are BLACK, passed over promotion just because they are BLACK; considered to be criminals just because they are BLACK; Thousands of white voters are not voting for...

July 18, 2004 LIVES When One Is Enough By AMY RICHARDS as told to AMY BARRETT I grew up in a working-class family in Pennsylvania not knowing my father. I have never missed not having him. I firmly believe that, but for much of my life I felt that what I probably would have gained was economic security and with that societal security. Growing up with a single mother, I was always buying into the myth that I was going to be seduced in the back of a pickup truck and become pregnant when I was 16. I had friends...