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VIDEO: Mark Steyn Hammers Obama On “Senseless Violence” Comment
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218508/posts
‘Per the Canadian jihad attack this morning, Steyn takes aim at a comment made by President Obama decrying the “senseless violence” in Ottawa. Namely, that jihadist attacks are not “senseless violence” but in fact are very purposeful, ideological outbreaks of violence and should be discussed as such rather than dismissed as “senseless violence” or “workplace violence” or some other nonsense ... This goes just short of six minutes.’
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In a first, Republicans claim early vote lead in Iowa
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218514/posts
“...an advantage they have never held in any Iowa campaign...”
Coakley struggling to solidify her base [Tax-achusetts]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218512/posts
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Drudge on Midterms and Media Bias:
http://www.drudgereport.com
RECORD $4 BILLION MIDTERM ELECTION...
TV Networks ignore election...
159 stories in 2006 anti-Bush midterm [25 in 2014]...
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Half-billion dollar MBTA contract awarded to firm owned by Chinese gov (Mass...the RED line)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218476/posts
A Chinese government-owned rail company was awarded a $566.6 million Massachusetts state contract on Wednesday to build subway trains for the “T,” the nation’s oldest subway system, despite concerns from local activists about China’s human rights record as well as complaints from competitors that the company’s winning bid was unrealistically low. [snip]
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Ted Cruz Reveals What he’d do if Elected President – And it’s Even Worse Than You Thought
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218495/posts
With the midterm elections approaching, Texas senator Ted Cruz penned an editorial in USA Today this week detailing what he’d like a potential Republican-controlled Congress to prioritize in 2015. As you might expect, the list is full of Tea Party staples: repealing Obamacare, cutting taxes, and slashing funding for federal programs. What makes Cruz’s list of Congressional priorities interesting is that it essentially previews what a Cruz 2016 presidential campaign agenda might look like–and it’s not pretty... [snip-with-grin]
[Hey, they left out SAFE BORDERS and a SANE ebola-VISA policy. Didn’t want to make him even more popular after all.]
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Obama’s “Truthy” Squad Set to Invade Social Media
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3218497/posts
Earlier this week, the federal government’s National Science Foundation, an entity created to encourage the study of science — encouragement that it achieves by awarding grants to scholars and universities — announced that it had awarded a grant to study what people say about themselves and others in social media. The NSF dubbed the project Truthy, a reference to comedian Stephen Colbert’s invention and hilarious use of the word “truthiness.” The reference to Colbert is cute, and he is a very funny guy, but when the feds get into the business of monitoring speech, it is surely no joke ... [snip]
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Meghan McCain: I Have No Regrets About Bashing Sarah Palin
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218524/posts
“You know Sarah Palin, some of the stuff I said, again I would maybe term differently,” [Meghan] McCain said. “But I think the criticism I have said of her is fair.”
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Obama’s Terrorism Alert System Has Never Issued a Public Warning — Ever
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218519/posts
In the wake of the Boston bombing, the Oklahoma beheading, the Times Square bombing, the Portland, Oregon Christmas tree lighting bombing, hundreds of American Muslims returning from waging jihad in Syria, the thwarted Federal Reserve building bombing, or any of these jihad attacks — “Obama’s Terrorism Alert System Has Never Issued a Public Warning — Ever,” Foreign Policy, September 2014 The National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS), a function of the massive Department of Homeland Security, didn’t issue any public advisories this summer as Western passport holders took up jihad in Syria by the thousands and... [snip]
Brazil, Argentina to strenghten aerospace cooperation; talk Gripen deal
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218511/posts
Census workers manipulated economic data: new whistleblower
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218500/posts
Report: Child poverty in the U.S. is at highest point in 20 years
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218502/posts
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Man apprehended after jumping White House fence
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218493/posts
WASHINGTON — A 23-year-old Maryland man was in the custody Wednesday night after he climbed over the White House fence and was swiftly apprehended on the North Lawn by uniformed Secret Service agents and their dogs... [snip-with-yawn.]
[Catching the guy quickly — way it should be. *Another yawn*. Then again, maybe this ‘grand’ White House achievement will be heralded with town criers.]
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For Swiss, a Distasteful Jolt With Coffee: Hitler Creamer
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218492/posts
The labels on Swiss mini-cream containers tend toward the pastoral and cuddly, with pleasant images of Alpine landscapes and locomotives, or dogs and cats. So it was something of a shock to one consumer at a Swiss train station to find the face of Hitler staring back at him when he reached to lighten his morning coffee.
Migros, a Swiss retail giant, said it did not know exactly how the image came to be on the label. But it offered its apologies Wednesday for the “unforgivable incident” and withdrew about 2,000 containers ... [snip]
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AP NewsBreak: Prisons agree to end race policy (California)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218490/posts
“California officials agreed Wednesday to end a policy in which it segregated prison inmates after riots based on their race as a way to prevent further violence...”
[The more I study prison environments, the more firmly I conclude that complete isolation from fellow inmates is better. Organized crime refers to prison as ‘college’ because so much can be learned about being a more successful criminal. Race-violence BY minorities is very high as is muslim conversion. And TV/Movie requirements by the federal courts are goofy as ‘all get-up’. A vocational education regimen should be taught so long as it doesn’t teach computer hacking, car-jacking, lock-smithing, or identity theft. And access to a large library of cherry-picked books would be good too.]
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Has Beijing Lost Taiwan for Good?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218488/posts
[China’s working on its second aircraft carrier and has the world’s largest economy. Taiwan isn’t going to feel safe enough so long as things like that are going on. Too bad the D.isease Party had smeared Chang ki Shek [sic?] with the slanderous ‘White Papers’ back when we could have swatted Chinese communists down like flies. And too bad FDR and Truman failed to protect Atomic Bomb secrets due to their love of KGB operatives.]
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Donald Trump to Mitt Romney: Don’t Even Think About Running Again
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218477/posts
“No. I don’t think he should run. He had his chance and he blew it,” Trump told Breitbart News during a phone interview on Tuesday. “He had a great chance of winning. He should have won. That was an election that frankly should have been a much easier election than the probable 2016 candidate Hillary. That was an election that should have been won...”
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Will Michelle Obama go into politics next?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218480/posts
[A primary cat fight between her, Biden, and Hellery would be terrific.]
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Cruz_West_Paul2016 posts vanity that rips Debbie Wasserman apart...
Debbie Wasserman’s “Republicans Have A Terrible Record”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3218475/posts
We have seen her on Fox and Morning Joe. She often has to remind us of “The Terrible Republican Record”. And we all react in the same manner. Huh? What? Why didn’t the hosts ask her to give an example of the harm the GOP has done to the nation despite the fact that Harry Reid wont allow any of their bills for a vote in the Senate?
Terrible Record? You mean like in Texas, Florida and Wisconsin? Oh yah, what an economic mess Rick Scott, Scott Walker & Rick Perry have done for their states. Apparently according to Debbie... [snip]
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China opposes sending North Korea to int’l court
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218531/posts
China says it’s against referring ally North Korea to the International Criminal Court over its human rights record. The U.N. General Assembly’s human rights committee is considering a resolution calling on the Security Council to take that step, citing the North’s dismal and well-documented record of sprawling political prison camps, starvation and mass executions. … [snip]
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— abortion in-depth —
Oklahoma Law Putting Limits on Dangerous Abortion Pill RU 486 Can Take Effect
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3218499/posts
“The dangerous abortion pill RU 486 has killed dozens of women and injured thousands of women in the United States...”
Dead (pregnant) woman was beaten with baseball bat and strangled, police say
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3218498/posts
[Double homicide, right? After all, the baby would most likely have lived otherwise.]
“Bro-Choice” Activist Writes Blog on How to Convince a Woman to Have an Abortion
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3218496/posts
[’bro-choice’, not a word I’m familiar with. Must be men who angle for abortions to get out of trouble.]
A Bro-choicer calling himself “Bacon” on the Return of Kings Blog has come up with a “plan” for convincing a girl to have an abortion to avoid child support. The male abortion advocate writes, “Let’s face it: sexually active people have accidents. Shit happens, that’s life. But we know that men have no reproductive rights in opting out of a being a parent. With only two birth control options available to men (a condom and a vasectomy) the words you use to get your girl off the fence about having an abortion must be well thought out. If you are... [snip]
[We have a demonic government that demands expensive child care, demands minimal punishment of misbehaving children, demands expensive housing standards, taxes people who make decent money, over-regulates and over-taxes new businesses, weeds out students who believe in the free market, and then offers the ‘Ultimate Solution’: abortion — 40 million innocent victims and counting. Anti-prosperity and anti-life. And then the libs wonder why we are suspicious about imported ebola?]