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I thought we needed a spot to note our memories of Rush Limbaugh. Do you have a favorite monologue or moment to share? I began listening to his radio show during the Clarence Thomas hearings. My husband, also a freeper, listened sooner. It took a little time for me to overcome Rush's bravado, but then I was hooked. My favorite monologue was about his cat. I know, this was probably one of his few apolitical monologues. I was driving through southern Connecticut on a trip, and I was in hysterics as Rush described his cat waking him up at 5:30...

Something stirring happened one evening last month at a family-style restaurant called Mrs. Potato in Orlando, Fla. By night’s end five strangers would each instinctively make crucial decisions. The result, according to police, was that the life of an 11-year-old boy likely was saved. There is a lesson in what took place, and it starts with what a woman named Flaviane Carvalho saw. She was serving meals to a table where a family of four was sitting. Three of the people—an adult male, an adult female, and a four-year-old girl—were sitting on one side, seemingly enjoying themselves. The boy was...

So, here is my question. Would you be willing to risk catching Covid if it would mean that your kids and grandkids would have a "normal" life? I am 65, but otherwise I have no co-mobidities, and I am very healthy. I don't want to get the disease, but I would rather be sick for a few weeks if it would mean that life could get back to normal for my family. I am sick of my kids suffering inadequate online classes (for college and graduate courses), of cancelled weddings (twice for us thus far), of cancelled summer plans to...

Does anyone remember an interesting political post lately of a former Democrat who began questioning the bias in the media etc. and had recently joined FR. I think this was his first post, written in two parts. It wasn't written in perfect English, but the points were good. I want to send both sections, I and II, to a liberal friend to aid in the "discussion" we are having. (I know, I know, these discussions are often pointless, but I'm trying....) If anyone has a link, title, or whatever so I can find it, I would appreciate it. Thanks.

... A Defense Department document from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), dated September 12, 2012, the day after the Benghazi attack, details that the attack on the compound had been carefully planned by the BOCAR terrorist group “to kill as many Americans as possible.” The document was sent to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Obama White House National Security Council. The heavily redacted Defense Department “information report” says that the attack on the Benghazi facility “was planned and executed by The Brigades of the Captive Omar Abdul Rahman (BCOAR).”

Several questions for Democrats: 1) What was the last constructive thing that the Democrats did for this country? (Protesting, whining, disrupting hearings and “resistance” does not count as constructive. Signing a new trade agreement between Canada, Mexico and the U.S. is constructive.) 2) What constructive plans do the Democrats have in case they do win the House? I’m not sure that axing the tax cuts and abolishing ICE are constructive. 3) What would the country and world look like now if Hillary had been elected? Consider these issues: first, there would probably have been no #MeToo movement; the investigations and...

The Power of Being "Wronged" An exaggerated sense of being “wronged” seems to be driving much politics today. The defensive shoulders come up, quick repartees are given and the battle is on. Representative Wilson thinks the war widow was “wronged” by the gruff condolences sent by the president. Black Lives Matter have been “disrespected” countless times. Both sides of the NFL crisis feel “wronged.” Campus snowflakes are uncomfortable with dissenting ideas. Friends on Facebook exchange barbs until they, too, feel “wronged” and insulted. Then the barbs become stronger. But is this complaint of being “wronged” helping or hurting the political...

I saw some notices when I was in China of delighted Freepers who had also visited China recently. Yes, it was possible to get Free Republic in China!! I am interested in what those travelers, and others, thought of China.

Why all the hate? Why do so many of the liberals so viscerally despise Trump and all Republicans who side with him? Was there ever such hate for Obama? I know there were deep policy disputes with Obama, but conservatives were prevented from expressing the kind of hatred we see today for fear of being called “racist.” And, honestly, I never felt hatred for Obama; disagreement, definitely. But not the hatred we see today on the left. In fact, most of Obama’s presidency was enabled for that very reason: Republicans were terrified of that “racist” label, and they did not...

The drab free port zone near the Geneva city center, a compound of blocky gray and vanilla warehouses surrounded by train tracks, roads and a barbed-wire fence, looks like the kind of place where beauty goes to die. But within its walls, crated or sealed cheek by jowl in cramped storage vaults, are more than a million of some of the most exquisite artworks ever made. Treasures from the glory days of ancient Rome. Museum-quality paintings by old masters. An estimated 1,000 works by Picasso. As the price of art has skyrocketed, perhaps nothing illustrates the art-as-bullion approach to contemporary...

As a state college professor, upset over the disaster that our public schools have become, I have been thinking a great deal about the most effective teaching strategies. These obviously differ according to subject matter. But these are some points I’ve worked up over the years; it is now time to post them, hoping to get feedback and a discussion going. The Democrats have ruled public education through the chains of the federal government and unions for decades. It is time to take back education into an arena of challenge and success. 1) First we have to acknowledge that we...

Director Michael Bay’s riveting, heartbreaking, and infuriating “13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi” opens with five simple words: “This Is a True Story.” What it should have read was, “This Is a True Story The Media Has Covered Up For Years.” God damn these people to Hell. Let me start things off by pointing and laughing at George Clooney, Robert Redford, Meryl Streep, Tim Robbins, John Cusack, Leonardo Di Caprio, Paul Greengrass, Matt Damon, and Paul Haggis — all of whom made films critical of a sitting president’s foreign policy that ended up being, not only box office catastrophes,...

Video.... Published on Jan 3, 2016 As part of a team, Tom McLaughlin interviewed Hillary Clinton on 12-29-15 at The Conway Daily Sun offices in NH. This is his exchange with her. The whole thing took an hour.

Bernie Sanders has accused Hillary Clinton of encouraging Islamic extremism in Libya, in a prelude to a Democratic debate on Saturday during which he is expected to go on the attack for the first time over the unintended consequences of the former secretary of state’s more interventionist foreign policy. Speaking to the Guardian in an extensive pre-debate interview, the senator from Vermont criticised Clinton for carelessly fomenting regime change in Libya “without worrying” about the ensuing instability that has helped Islamic State forces take hold in the country. “Regime change without worrying about what happens the day after you get...

Following the attack in Benghazi, the Obama administration was quick to try to blame the attack on a “crude and disgusting” YouTube video, despite the fact that they watched our Americans die in real time, while repeatedly telling those wanted to help to stand down. While this in of itself is the epitome of evil, a bombshell report was just revealed by Judicial Watch, that will make your blood boil even more. According to these new documents, while our Americans were still on the roof of the consulate, fight off the attack, the Obama administration was already on the phone...

I have been thinking about Thursday’s Benghazi hearing a great deal. I listened to most of it, and I have been reading a great deal of commentary about it. Yes, Hillary behaved herself very well. But we need to look behind her smiling façade to critically think about what we heard during the hearings. This is deeper than a simple “win” or “lose” pronouncement. 1) Deadly poor communication. Hillary admitted that her “friend” Ambassador Chris Stevens had no method of getting in touch with her directly: no email, no cell phone, no FAX number, not even a street address. Then...

As I drifted off to sleep to the first Democratic debate last night, I realized that all of these candidates are 1) preaching to the choir and 2) competing to see who can re-package traditional Democratic ideas in the most appealing way. “I’ll give more freebies than you….free college, free health care” etc. There was little contesting of those ideas. No one considered who would pay for such socialism, apart from “the rich.” Republicans need to directly challenge these ideas. The same held true for the Republican debates….most of the same ideas (control of immigration, stronger foreign policy etc.) are...

Reach deep into the darkest recesses of your memories — way back in the distant past of August 8. A film called Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation was in the theaters, there was a war going on in Syria, and Donald Trump was making rude comments about reporters and Republicans. Back in that sepia-toned era, Hillary Clinton issued a sworn declaration that she had turned over all her work-related emails to the State Department. Yes, she might have wiped her server free of Groupons from Chipotle and Bikram Yoga, but under threat of perjury she promised to have been completely...

Judicial Watch today released new State Department documents showing that Hillary Clinton and the State Department’s response to the Benghazi attack was immediately determined by top Obama White House officials, particularly Ben Rhodes, then-White House deputy strategic communications adviser, and Bernadette Meehan, a spokesperson for the National Security Council. The new documents were forced from the U.S. State Department under court order in a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:14-cv-01511)).

What really bothers me about Baltimore is the despair in that city, the devaluation of young men and the destruction of the family. Young men who father children are disenfranchised and encouraged not to become a part of their lover's family. They thus miss the love, joy and responsibility of raising their own children. Then those young boys and girls are raised without their father and miss that essential element of their families. Young men may turn to gangs as their only source of respect and survival. How can we encourage the formation of families rather than their generational disintegration...