I myself enjoy the debate immensely, and in the darkest depths of the grim Obammunist era, FR serves as a powerful grass-roots political force: constitutionally-aware patriots can be found in the numerous local FReeper chapters throughout the United States- imo, the TEA Party owes them quite a bit...
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