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For weeks now, I have been working on an essay, hoping to inspire everyone to get to the polls next week. It was going to be about our brave men and women on the battlefield, fighting to defend our freedom, and why they (and you) are hated by European and Arab nations. I told FReepers to watch for it, but I’m not doing that essay any longer. Instead, I just want to share a few thoughts with you all that have been on my mind, but they require a bit of background. I’ve been called long-winded with my essays before,...

Upcoming appearances of Ann Coulter on Television:

If anything is laid to rest with him at the end of this remarkable week, it ought to be the lazy condescension of the elites. That's all but indestructible, alas. Last Monday, the Washington Post and many other papers carried an Associated Press story by Adam Geller on Reagan's economic legacy which began, ''He had almost no schooling in economics...'' Actually, that's one of the few things he did have schooling in: In 1932, he earned a bachelor's degree in social science and economics from Eureka College. I guess a certificate from Eureka just doesn't impress these reporters the way...

A Time for Choosing aka The Speech: Ronald Reagan's stump speech for Barry Goldwater 27 Oct 64 I am going to talk of controversial things. I make no apology for this. It's time we asked ourselves if we still know the freedoms intended for us by the Founding Fathers. James Madison said, "We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self government." This idea? that government was beholden to the people, that it had no other source of power is still the newest, most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This...

World Pays Tribute to Reagan - Post your Pics HereThere have been some really nice pics of independent, spontaneous memorials that are going up around the world to honor President Reagan. You know, the kind, the ones that are sprouting up in city parks, on bridge overpasses, at people's homes. Post them here so. There are some scattered about FR that have been really great. Thought we could collect them here as our FR scrap book on the passing of a great president.God Bless Ronald Reagan

"The Great Communicator" was effective because what he was communicating was self-evident to all but our dessicated elites: "We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around." And at the end of a grim, grey decade -- Vietnam, Watergate, energy crises, Iranian hostages -- Americans decided they wanted a President who looked like the nation, not like its failed government. Thanks to his clarity, around the world, governments that had nations have been replaced by nations that have governments. Most of the Warsaw Pact countries are now members of Nato, with free markets and freely...

June 05, 2004: I sit here not surprised at the announcement of President Ronald Reagan's passing, but incredibly affected. While it was clear that his time was drawing near, I can say with all certainty that I was unprepared for the actual moment, the event, of his passing. In the end, it was the effects of Alzheimer's doing what both political foe and mortal enemy could not do to "The Great Communicator." It is always a somber time in America when a former president passes away. Some have fallen to the assassin's bullet. But most go quietly into the afterlife,...

In his final "Sermon By the Sea" given in 1959 at Asilomar, California, Ernest Holmes shared with us his vision of the outcome of global well-being, the human species and Earth transformed by the consciousness that he had articulated as Science of Mind. His Sermon is a prescription for planetary resurrection, a prophetic, millennial assertion of the role of Religious Science in bringing about the world's rebirth: [Science of Mind] is the most direct impartation of Divine Wisdom that has ever come to the world, because it incorporates the precepts of Jesus, and Emerson, and Buddha, and all the rest...

World Net Daily is releasing a new poll that shows the American people regard former President William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton as the greatest in history. Clinton tops Ronald Reagan, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, etc.

ORATORY Oratory is more than ordinary speech. It is a special kind of public speaking. The orator speaks for a special purpose, in a special way, at a special time. Buehler and Johannesen define oratory as "a memorized, original, persuasive speech, dealing with worth-while subject matter of timely interests, demonstrating qualities of logic, organization, language, and delivery, and producing an effect of eloquence which is far above the ordinary." Oratory rises above the common level of speech and has a greater level of appeal and emotional impact of the listener. Its purpose is to impress, convince, or move the speaker...

<p>Robert Anson Heinlein was born on 7 July 1907, in Butler, Bates County, Missouri, the third son of Rex Ivar Heinlein and Bam Lyle Heinlein. At the time of Robert's birth, the family had been living with his maternal grandfather, Alva Lyle, M.D. A few months after Heinlein was born, his family moved from Butler to Kansas City, Missouri, where he was to grow up, but Heinlein vividly recalled the summers spent with Grandfather Lyle until his death in 1914.</p>