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The Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, at the direction of the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Homeland Security with respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy, are authorized to order to active duty not to exceed 24 consecutive months, such units, and individual members of the Ready Reserve under the jurisdiction of the Secretary concerned, not to exceed 1,000,000 members on active duty at any one time, as the Secretary of Defense and, with respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a...

Did you see the “Sore-Loserman” signs blanketing America during the contentious aftermath of the Presidential election? Modeled after the Gore-Lieberman campaign´s official logo, the parody sign features the same colors, design and typeface. The major difference, aside from the wording, is the replacement of the star with a teardrop. If you think the Bush camp paid some PR firm a pretty penny to come up with that one, think again. The story actually begins with Free Republic, one of the largest and best-known conservative political forums on the Internet. Critics call them right-wing extremists and rigid partisans, but members call ...

Once again I feel compelled to write about this incredibly tired issue of the confederate battle flag (I do apologize). Although it pains my very psyche to attack this subject again, I'm forced. The League of the South. Oh boy. This is the name of the group who most recently held a flag rally along the Biloxi beach, proclaiming the sovereignty of the "Old South." Let's start there. Appropriate meanings of the word "sovereignty" include supremacy, dominion, and power. The "Old South" is just that,old and gone. It has none of the characteristics of sovereignty. Yes, that's right Jefferson Davis, ...

Columbia, S.C. (AP)- As the Confederate flag's fate is debated next week, one of the flag's most outspoken opponents says he might burn the banner outside the Statehouse. It's a plan that has the state's chief law enforcement officer and flag supporters concerned. Kevin Gray, with the Harriett Tubman Read Street Freedom House Project, said Friday his action would be to protest a Senate plan to remove the Confederate flag from atop the Capitol dome and put a square version behind a monument to Confederate soldiers on the Statehouse grounds. He hasn't decided whether to protest Tuesday, when the flag ...

CNN program "Dispatches" covering Waco re-emergence right now (7:20 CST).

State by State by Brian O'Connell Thursday, September 02, 1999 If you did not know better, you would think the national media, aided and abetted by the Democratic Party, are mocking the term "compassionate conservatism" in coverage of George W. Bush's presidential campaign. Whether Bush has the stuff of which White House dreams are made, I cannot say. He has not helped himself with his waffling on the cocaine issue, and he still needs to make a compelling case to the American public why he wants to be president. But to watch political pundits sneering at the Texas governor's call ...

Today, August 31, 1999, John Reyes (pictured in jacket in photo on right) began serving a six month jail sentence for praying and witnessing outside a public high school in Lynchburg, Virginia before school started. Full story: http://www.afa.net/reyes/

I'm a new Freeper (LOVE this site!). Does anybody know if there are leftwing sites where people post like this? I'm just curious to know what the average Joe Leftie says about us. I know what the elite media and liberal politicians say, but not what liberal-Joe Sixpack says. Or does he say anything? Really curious. Nellie Wilkerson