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  • Unnngh..

    10/05/2004 11:42:29 AM PDT · by sam_whiskey · 5,943 replies · 73,100+ views
    unnngh...
  • pretty soon you'll only be able to post Free Republic sources on Free Republic.

    08/25/2011 5:58:01 AM PDT · by the invisib1e hand · 47 replies
    fuggeddaboudit
  • A Birthday Wrapped in Cambodian History

    04/16/2005 9:17:35 PM PDT · by neverdem · 1 replies · 1,186+ views
    NY Times ^ | April 17, 2005 | LOUNG UNG
    OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR Cleveland TODAY is my birthday. April 17 is what's on my driver's license and other documents. But I don't know for sure, and probably never will. All I know is that I was born in Cambodia, sometime during 1970. In Cambodia, we didn't celebrate birthdays, so while my mother and father knew the date, I had no reason to remember it. Instead, my early years were marked by joyous events like the New Year, the Water Festival and various Buddhist holidays. In the early 1970's, Southeast Asia was full of strife; the Soviet Union, China and the United...
  • Gang Violence: The Ultimate Denial of Free Speech

    10/28/2003 9:50:12 AM PST · by The Rant · 6 replies · 322+ views
    The Washington Dispatch ^ | October 28, 2003 | Frank Salvato
    Lance Corporal Sok Khak Ung no longer has the right to free speech. This is because he was shot dead by a gang member who mistakenly took he and his friends for members of a rival gang. It wasn’t as if they were cruising the streets looking for trouble either. Ung and his friends were “free-style rapping” at a barbecue in celebration of his return from Iraq, his return to his neighborhood, a neighborhood mired in the hopelessness that a gang haven has to offer. This is when and where the murder took place. Over his backyard fence the shots...