Completed our 28th month of consecutive Saturday White House protests against the Clinton administration. Hosted special White House protests the last two nights of the Clintons' reign: Bill Clinton's legacy speech on the 18th and the 'Count the Silverware' freep on the 19th.

Presented FR plaques of thanks to the Norwegian and Vatican embassies for putting up with us during the "Get Out of Cheney's House" protests.

Helped organize the FreeRepublic Inaugural Ball and Count the Silverware Party featuring Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and his band, Capital Offense.

Conducted a month-long daily vigil in front of the Chinese embassy when the ChiComs held an American aircrew hostage.

On behalf of FreeRepublic, DC Chapter members presented FOX News' Brit Hume with a FR media award at his office.

Freeped Hillary Clinton's first fundraiser at her new D.C. mansion for Sen. Maria Cantwell in April. The protest was reported by major newspapers in D.C., NYC, and Washington state, causing Hillary to keep advance publicity of her fundraisers there out of the press.

Freeped Bill Clinton up close and personal at a JFK School of Government conference in D.C., causing him to sneek out the back of the Hotel Washington after he was humiliated by us when he entered it in our presence.

Freeped Dan Rather at a booksigning appearance in D.C. Rather was positioned in front of a large picture window where his audience faced us and our signs out on the sidewalk.

Hosted the Third Annual White House Pimp Corps Dinner FReep where we razzed the liberal media and politicians and met with FRiends such as Barbara and Ted Olson and Matt Drudge.

Helped FR (along with diotima and Clinton's a liar) get Rush Limbaugh to see that FReepers were not the nut jobs who were spamming his e-mail with hate messages by meeting and speaking with him at a book party in D.C. for his brother David. Rush posted our pictures and put a link to our after action report on his website for 4 days.

From July to early September, we were part of FR's coast-to-coast Gary Condit freeps over the disappearance of Chandra Levy, which included freeps at his Adams-Morgan lovenest and on Capitol Hill. Those protests rated coverage in The Washington Post, The Washington City Paper, CNS.com, local TV news and FOX News Channel.

In August, we demonstrated at the White House to call attention to the plight of the Klamath Basin farmers and the firefighters who died that summer as a result of the Endangered Species Act. We collected hundreds of signatures for the farmers got our fellow citizens to think about the abuses happening under the ESA.

Also in August, we organized a White House victory tour for one hundred FReepers through the office of Rep. Bob Barr.

In September, we founded Operation Infinite FReep to support America, our troops, President Bush and the victims of 9-11. Actions included the September 29 counter demonstration against anti-WTO commie-peaceniks who marched on D.C. This was the first time anywhere in the world that anyone organized resistance to the riotous thugs who terrorized cities around the globe with their actions.

We successfully defended the flag at the Navy memorial from the commies and demoralized the anti-war movement for many months by peacefully standing up to them. This was their first big action after 9-11 and we met them with a flag-waving patriotic resolve that blew their minds (literally).

Because we were peaceful, press coverage was minimal, but the AP ran a photo that was picked up by some newspapers across the country, along with coverage in the local D.C. and Baltimore papers and local TV. Reuters TV took lots of video, but we have no idea what was broadcast around the world. We did dozens of interviews that day, and used the opportunity to educate the left-leaning media about the nature of the anti-war protesters and how this war was different from the Vietnam era. Later, we apologized to the press for not giving them the violence they wanted (hehe.)

As a result of our demeanor that day, we were considered for an appearance on ABC News' Nightline, but we were passed over for a known quantity: The Heritage Foundation.

In October, we hosted "Family Flag Day" at the White House where we encouraged families to come out and fly the flag. Unfortunately, President Bush issued a terror alert the day before, so the turnout totalled about forty FReepers. However, the AP ran a photo of Dave Dilegge's son holding an American flag that was picked up by dozens of Sunday papers across the country with combined circulation of well over a million copies.

The weekend before Halloween we held a counter-demonstration by the White House against a small anti-war protest. By agreement with law enforcement, we did not organize a direct confrontation with them this time, but a few FReepers went to their march and peacefully confronted them.

In November, we had back-to-back freeps of Bill and Hillary Clinton at D.C. fundraisers. Bill was once again humiliated up close and personal, this time at Smith Bagley's in Georgetown. This featured the first time (I think) that Bill actually spoke to FReepers protesting him.

The following night, we freeped a fundraiser at Hillary's for her Hillpac. We learned and reported that the hired help was complaining about the low turnout at her fundraisers there.

Also in November, as part of Operation Infinite FReep, we commenced a weekly vigil at the Pentagon, which we are still maintaining to this day, for those murdered in the 9-11 terrorist attacks by creating a memorial to the two FReepers who died in the attacks: Barbara Olson and John Moran. The memorial (and FR) was recently reported in The Washington Times.