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Who we are RealRepublicanMajority.org is working to bring the GOP?s agenda back to the center and promote common sense values. The Real Republican Majority promotes tolerance, not bigotry. We want the GOP to focus on the longstanding beliefs in sound fiscal policy, smaller government, lower taxes, a growing economy and individual liberty. We believe that these traditional goals should be first and foremost in the GOP. Unlike the 'my way or the highway' tactics of social extremists we know that there is often room for compromise and common ground on issues of disagreement. It is time to promote the big...

Amnesty International investigates, documents and takes action on human rights violations around the globe using one standard – that of international human rights and humanitarian law – and strives to do so in an impartial way. Nevertheless, the annual Amnesty International Report 2005 covering human rights violations around the globe in 2004 generated criticism in this newspaper from David Forman ("We are not paranoid," May 30) and Michael Ehrlich ("Amnesty International – do your homework," June 2). Forman accuses Amnesty International (AI) of being "out to get" Israel while ignoring serious human rights violations elsewhere in the world. Most of...

In his now legendary interview last month with Brit Hume of Fox News, George W. Bush explained that he doesn't get his news from the news media — not even Fox. "The best way to get the news is from objective sources," the president said, laying down his utopian curriculum for Journalism 101. "And the most objective sources I have are people on my staff who tell me what's happening in the world." Those sources? Condoleezza Rice and Andrew Card. Mr. Hume, helpfully dispensing with the "We Report" half of his network's slogan, did not ask the obvious follow-up question:...

I knew that the wave of anti-Americanism that would swell up after the Iraq war would make me feel ill. And it has. It has made me much, much more ill than I had expected. My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease. It rises up in my throat like acid reflux, that fashionable American sickness. I now loathe the United States and what it has done to Iraq and the rest of the helpless world. I can hardly bear to see the faces of Bush and Rumsfeld, or to watch their posturing body language,...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- Power. Control. Privilege. Old, white, straight, Christian men. These are the power-holders in our society. It's funny. Just a couple of weeks ago, my "feminist" best friend made the comment, "I don't understand why I act more like a man than he does." She was referring to another friend of hers whom she felt was becoming "over-emotional." "Why does he have to act like a man to be strong? Why can't women be strong?" Ding. The light went on. Driving ever so slowly through Old Town last night, I looked at the sparkling lights and the...

Since I am approaching my one year anniversary of being a "freeper" and since I have never contributed a dime to FR, jim or the republican party, I am going to beat the powers to be at FR and voluntarily leave, rather than have them come up with one of the cock and bull stories to ban me. Been fun,Bye

Americans who value the Constitution should stand with Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., and oppose George Bush's attempted power grab in conjunction with establishing a Department of Homeland Security. The Bushies are trying to frame the debate as either protecting bureaucracy or providing security for Americans. In fact, the debate is about preventing an authoritarian president from sacrificing the Constitution in the name of providing security. Let me remind you that those who prefer security to freedom will lose both. Bush wants to be able to disregard labor contracts and civil-service rules, as well as move money within the department as...

A cartoon-musical about suicide bombing and racist thuggery, considered too inflammatory to be shown in the Middle East, is to premiere next week at the Edinburgh international film festival. Promise Land, a film in the style of a children's cartoon, features a rapping suicide bomber, racist Jews and an Arab waiter masturbating into food for a Jewish table. The Israeli director, Gili Dolev, has created a pessimistic, non-partisan view of the Middle East conflict, after losing faith in the peace process. His family in Israel has been angered by the 15-minute film, which will be shown only in the west...