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slamhead
12-26-2007, 05:50 AM
RP has been getting some positive coverage in the Orange County Register here in Southern California.

Digg
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/opinion/editorials/article_1947926.php

http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/government-think-people-1946527-don-war

tsetsefly
12-26-2007, 08:16 AM
from wiki:

The Register is notable for its generally conservative/libertarian-leaning editorial page. It often supports Republican politicians and positions, but it is also the largest newspaper in the country to have opposed the Iraq war from the beginning and opposes laws regulating issues such as prostitution and drug use. It was one of a handful of newspapers that opposed the internment of Japanese aliens and Japanese-Americans during World War II.[2][3] In 1956, the newspaper was a prominent supporter of a vociferous campaign by anti-communists against the Alaska Mental Health Enabling Act, claiming that the Act was part of a communist plot to establish concentration camps in Alaska.

Founded by a consortium as the Santa Ana Daily Register in 1905, it was sold to J.P. Baumgartner in 1906 and to J. Frank Burke in 1927. Finally, in 1935 it was bought by R.C. Hoiles, who renamed it the Santa Ana Register and reorganized his holdings as Freedom Newspapers, Inc. in 1950, later Freedom Communications. The paper was renamed The Register in 1952.

R.C. Hoiles was a known libertarian...