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For you relative newbies, here's a brief video on the (almost) first anniversary of Freeping, highlighting the inimitable and greatly missed Dr. Raoul and others.

Can someone help me find the list of Michelle Obama's secretarial staff? I remember a post on FR that had all of her staff listed by name and pay and it was stunning. It would be useful to point out in the wake of the WH tour closing. If I remember correctly, Jackie Kennedy had 2 secretaries and Co-President Rodham Clinton had 6 - MO has more than a dozen, perhaps significantly more....

August 16, 2012 Dear Friends,the Republican State Committee sent us an urgent letter requesting assistance. The committee is seeking to challenge the fraudulent nomination of the Libertarian and Constitution Party presidential candidates who were aided and abetted by Democratic petition circulators to get their names on the November ballot.

Freepers, I write to ask your help on behalf of a good man, a courageous man, who is torn by a community that may finally be awakening to Democrat perfidy. He - and I suspect there are many like him - needs to know that he is not alone; that others walk the same road; that there is a wealth of information and support to guide him through the challenges he faces. Harold is a black man who has risen from the depths of poverty and drug addiction and its associated pathologies. Today he is happily married with a couple...

POTTSTOWN, STOWE MEN SUE DICK CLARKPHILADELPHIA - Five men have filed a civil rights lawsuit against Dick Clark's entertainment conglomerate, claiming they were fired as guards from a suburban "American Bandstand" theme restaurant as part of an effort to keep out black clientele. The lawsuit...alleges that the men, who worked at Dick Clark's American Bandstand Grill in King of Prussia were fired March 10 after managers decided to get rid of the restaurant's "bad element"...All five plaintiffs are black.The lawsuit also alleges that Dick Clark Restaurants, Inc....knew that restaurant management fired the men because of their race but "neglected or ...

The retirement of Anthony Lewis from the op-ed staff of The New York Times leaves a huge gap.The paper is down a liberal columnist, leaving it with just seven liberal columnists on staff, though no doubt reinforcements are coming. Otherwise, William Safire might break out of his conservative ghetto and start colonizing the place.The mullahs who run the Times might present themselves as open-minded, but they are every bit as interested in orthodoxy as the folks who put out Human Events.While there is no shortage of good liberals to choose from, including some who - unlike Lewis - can actually ...

EAST COVENTRY - As Wednesday, Dec. 12 dawned bright and crisp, township Christmas tree farmer and vendor John Neborak got in his truck and drove around his Ebelhare Road neighborhood.There were still 10 days left ot his once-a-year selling season, but Neborak, obeying a township order, set out to take down all of the signs he relied on to steer customers looking for that perfect Christmas tree to his rural farm.After the signs were down, Neborak wondered how many evergreens he might end up mulching because they went unsold.He worried that finding the way to his farm would be more ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - A federal judge on Friday struck down part of an Indiana law requiring women to undergo in-person counseling a day before having an abortion.U.S. District Judge David Hamilton ruled that not letting women obtain information about alternatives to abortion other than in person unlawfully impeded their constitutional right to end a pregnancy."The evidence shows that the burden imposed by the 'in the presence' requirement is likely to prevent abortions for approximately 10 to 13 percent of Indiana woman who would otherwise choose to have an abortion - roughly 1,300 to 1,700 per year," Hamilton wrote.

LONDON, Ky. (AP) - A federal judge refused to jail officials of three Kentucky counties for posting the Ten Commandments in public buildings, and ordered both sides to try to settle the dispute.The American Civil Liberties Union has asked that leaders of McCreary, Pulaski and Harlan counties be held in contempt over the judge's order to remove the displays from courthouse and school walls.U.S. District Judge Jennifer Coffman had ordered the displays taken down last May after the ACLU filed suit challenging their constitutionality.Each of the counties obeyed her order, but then replaced the former displays with new ones that ...

The American Civil Liberties Union prides itself on tolerance. But exactly how tolerant is it? Consider the organization's decidedly intolerant push to remove a World War I veteran's memorial cross from the Mojave National Preserve. The ACLU is suing the National Park Service in federal court on the grounds that its unwillingness to take down the cross, erected by local residents, is a violation of federal law.Which federal law would that be? The Park Service doesn't know. "We have legislation that says keep the cross here. That legislation is what we are working on," Park Service spokeswoman Holly Bundock said ...

Several years ago a youth counselor told me about the dilemma he faced when dealing with violent young men. His direct impressions simply didn't match what he had been taught. He saw violent clients as egotists with a grandiose sense of personal superiority and entitlement, but his textbooks told him that these young toughs actually suffered from low self-esteem.......When my colleagues and I began looking into the matter in the early 1990s, we found article after article citing the "well-known fact" that low self-esteem causes violence. Yet we were unable to find any book or paper that offered a formal ...

Anybody catch the complete coverage of President Bush's first White House press conference the other day? If you did, you saw W handle Helen Thomas with firmness and grace after she ripped into him with an outright attack on his faith-based initiative. The old gargoyle was so nakedly hostile that it was embarrassing. Rush even commented on the incident the next day, focusing on the marvelous command the President had of the entire situation.Well, yesterday our local paper ran an editorial of Ms. Thomas's and was thoughtful enough to note her e-mail address. It gave me great satisfaction to be ...

My fellow Americans. I want to thank you all for the support you've shown me in my eight years as vice president, and for your support in this election. Now it's time to bring this country back together. I come before you to congratulate my esteemed opponent, George W. BushYes, it's been a hard-fought contest. That's as it should be. All things worthwhile are worth the fight to achieve them.But that fight is over. We must move on.We must put aside the partisanship of the past few weeks and months.We must once again look to our rivals with respect and ...

What started out as a cold, grey, and vaguely confused day turned into a splendid pre-rally warmup rally on the steps of the capitol in Harrisburg this afternoon. You Sunday Ralliers have a pretty high benchmark to match tomorrow!Due to a confusion of rally notices the past couple of days, Son of D28Man and I were not at all sure that the long trek to Harrisburg was the best course of action. (After all, the DC Chapter can always use fresh troops and they were freeping Algore his own self!) And sure enough, when we arrived, the parking lot in ...

Those who understand the communion of saints know that heroes and heroines come in hosts even when they appear to be just a handful. For instance, people like Austin Ruse and Jeanne Head who operate on a shoestring out of a little office over at the United Nations where they coordinate a growing number of volunteers, especially young people, who challenge the rule of moral globalizers pressing the agenda of the culture of death. To receive Ruse's very informative "Friday Fax" with updates on UN developments, fax (212) 754-9291, or e-mail austinruse@c-fam.org.

Despite forbidding weather, the turnout for Charlton Heston's rally in Hershey PA clearly exceeded all expectations - not only of the media, but of the NRA as well. Several hundred supporters were left standing in the lobby and in lines 3 and 4 deep extending around both sides of the enormous Hershey Lodge Convention Center as Charlton Heston addressed the faithful inside. We arrived at noon for the noon-to-1:30 event (thanks to a wrong turn on Amish country roads in a driving rain) and trekked across half a mile of macadam parking lot with our signs just in time to ...

WELCOME CHARLTON HESTON TO PENNSYLVANIA - ATTEND "VOTE FREEDOM FIRST" RALLIESCharlton Heston will be appearing at three Vote Freedom First Rallies in Pennyslvania on Wednesday, October 18. It is expected that each of these - and especially the Harrisburg Rally at Hershey - will be covered heavily by the media, so our demonstration of support is critical. 7:30-9:00AM Monzo's Palace Inn, Rt 22 and 48, Monroeville (412) 372-5500.Noon - 1:30PM Hershey Lodge and Convention Center, West Chocolate Ave. & University Drive, Hershey (717) 534-86186:00-7:30PM Genetti Manor, 1505 Main Avenue, Dickson City (570) 383-0206We are asked to bring homemade signs in ...

MISSILE DEFENSE: A FAILURE TO DEFENDVladimir Putin should crack a smile. The Kursk submarine disaster may have undermined his domestic political standing and sullied his image around the world. But in one place his fantasy of a Russia too muscular to be crossed is still honored, his word still enough to bend and break world leaders: the swath of Washington, D.C. from Foggy Bottom to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. President Clinton announced that he wouldn't even begin the groundbreaking for the Alaska-based radar that would be necessary to have a National Missile Defense system operational by 2005. His stated reason was ...

Erin Brockovich, a legal aide who gained national fame for taking on big business, couldn't buck one establishment: the Internal Revenue Service."I did get $2 million," Brockovich told an audience at a financial conference. "The IRS took $1.1 million ---It's a shock, isn't it?"Brockovich helped win $333 million compensation from Pacific Gas & Electric for 650 residents of the small desert town of Hinkley whose water was found to be contaminated with the carcinogen chromium 6. Her story was told in the movie "Erin Brockovich," which starred Julia Roberts.Since the film's release, Brockovich, 40, has been a motivational speaker at ...

...Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, or his staff, has slipped into a methamphetamine bill - which passed the Senate on November 19, 1999, by unanimous consent - a provision that brutally undercuts the privacy protections of the Fourth Amendment. I've asked the staff members of the few senators who support civil liberties whether those senators knew what they were voting on, and I'm told it went right by them - except for Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont.Hatch's provision would allow federal law enforcement agents to search your office, home or apartment while you're away, seize or copy things, and not ...