Free Republic

Next Sunday, 10.17.04, liberty will rise, as PW debuts our new film chronicling our battle against the Left at the RNC. Plans are in the works to have a live premiere using a technology that will allow for quality instant streaming, followed by a video chat with Kfir and me. We're going to encourage local chapters to hold screening parties, so be sure you're registered at HQ if interested. And afterwards of course the film will be available for free download. We're going to let the film speak for itself, but we'll tell you two things about it. First, it's...

A march at the Republican convention in New York City turned ugly when a plain clothes detective was yanked from his motorcycle and repeatedly stomped and punched by a group of protestors until he was unconscious. "People started tugging at his bike and pushing him around," said Rob Raney, a 22-year-old Ohio college student. "Finally they just pushed him off his bike." Also here: Police Commissioner calls it "a blatant, vicious attack"

There actually were Bolsheviks at the march yesterday. More properly, there were Bush supporters who dressed as Bolsheviks. They had put together some brilliant signs, illustrated in Soviet realist style, showing John Kerry wielding a worker's hammer, depicting Marx, Lenin, Engels and Kerry in heroic profile. The signs were emblazoned "Communists for Kerry," and "The next generation building communism for America." "We're just spoofing," one of the men told me. They'd linked up on Free Republic, the ultra-right-wing Internet site and, well, when these people link up, stuff like "Communists for Kerry" is one of their more polite ideas. They...