http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/2008election/ en-us Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:31:14 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282625/posts The Minnesota Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously ruled Al Franken the winner of last November's Senate race, putting the former "Saturday Night Live” star on the brink of becoming a United States senator and Democrats on the cusp of holding a dominant supermajority in the Senate. In a unanimous 5-0 decision, the court upheld a three-judge panel's April 14 ruling that Franken defeated Republican Norm Coleman in the race by 312 votes out of 2.9 million cast.... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282625/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:31:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2267265/posts Stanford’s One-Party University by: Malcolm A. Kline, June 08, 2009 Developments on campuses from kindergarten through college help to show the prescience of author M. Stanton Evans’ law of inadequate paranoia: No matter how bad you think things are, when you look into them, you find that they are a lot worse. “In a startling investigation, The Stanford review discovered that the Stanford faculty’s donations favored Obama over McCain by the astounding rate of 43-to-1[He better watch his back],” Jason Dunkel, the business manager for the alternative newspapers on campus, wrote in a recent fundraising letter. “The numbers from the... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2267265/posts#comment Mon, 8 Jun 2009 16:37:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266449/posts After ID of the new White House occupant was revealed following several opinion polls that mostly showed lead of Democratic Presidential Candidate Barak Obama over his republican rival John McCain, we the Arabs and Muslims admitted that we have been the invisible voter that decided the election result. When I say the Arabs and Muslims, I don't mean the regimes, but rather the oppressed peoples, who are ruled by tyranny and crackdown, most notably the groups that decided to stop being obedient to the American dominance and held resistance weapons against projects of American occupation in Iraq, Afghanistan, South Lebanon... The Yemen Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266449/posts#comment Sun, 7 Jun 2009 02:26:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2264393/posts WOW, whoever said that God stopped performing miracles after the 1969 NY Mets has never been to Minnesota, the state where the dead people vote. And In case you were wondering, I am not talking about the 60 year-old people who wear tie-dyed shirts and used to follow a rock groups around. A Conservative government watchdog group had the voting records from the last election compared to people who died before November and found that voter records suggest that at least 2,800 people who voted in the election were very far out of town at the time, being fitted for... Minnesota Majority/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2264393/posts#comment Thu, 4 Jun 2009 04:43:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260363/posts Imagine if Ku Klux Klan members had stood menacingly in military uniforms, with nightsticks, in front of a polling place. Add to it that they had hurled racial threats and insults at voters who tried to enter. Now suppose that the government, backed by a nationally televised video of the event, had won a court case against the Klansmen except for the perfunctory filing of a single, simple document - but that an incoming Republican administration had moved to voluntarily dismiss the already-won case. Surely that would have been front-page news, with a number of firings at the Justice Department.... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2260363/posts#comment Fri, 29 May 2009 07:03:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259396/posts Yesterday - less than three months after Kenneth W. Starr and I appeared in the California Supreme Court on behalf of our ProtectMarriage.com Campaign to defend Prop 8 - the Court finally issued its decision... all 185 pages of it! By a 6 to 1 vote, a nearly-unanimous majority of the Supreme Court upheld the vote of the people by which Prop 8 was passed into law to protect traditional marriage in our State Constitution. You can read the decision here as it appears on the Court's website. While there were no real surprises in the decision, and it looks... Flash Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259396/posts#comment Wed, 27 May 2009 23:07:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2255073/posts Unless social conservatives were responsible for Sen. John McCain getting the nomination instead of a Washington outsider like Gov. Mike Huckabee or Gov. Mitt Romney, they were not responsible for the GOP loss of the presidency. McCain lost because he had the disadvantage of being a Senator and a member of the incumbents party when the economy was going the wrong way. It was natural for voters to think McCain would continue Bush's economic policies. An outsider might have been able to avoid being held responsible for the economy, particularly running against an incumbent Senator. A Republican governor could have... Town Hall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2255073/posts#comment Wed, 20 May 2009 23:24:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2251366/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2251295/posts?page=9 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2251366/posts#comment Fri, 15 May 2009 05:25:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224078/posts <p>A federal judge says in 25 years on the bench he's never seen anything as bad as the government's mishandling of the Ted Stevens corruption trial.</p> <p>U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan is expected to dismiss charges against the former Alaska senator on Tuesday. At a court hearing, Sullivan opened with a stinging summary of the many times the government withheld evidence or mishandled witnesses in the case.</p> Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224078/posts#comment Tue, 7 Apr 2009 14:51:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2211710/posts Chris Hughes is having a philosophical moment. "I don't really know what 'community' means. And I never use that word." We are in Washington, D.C., just three days before his most recent boss, Barack Obama, will take office. It is so bone-jarringly cold that even nestled over coffee inside a Starbucks, we can see our breath. I resist the urge to pat his nearly whiskerless cheek, or reach over to tighten his jacket against the frigid air. Such a baby face. But at the age of 25, Hughes has helped create two of the most successful startups in modern history,... Fast Company http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2211710/posts#comment Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:14:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2204422/posts Proposition 8 opponents received permission Tuesday from the California Secretary of State's office to begin collecting petition signatures toward a repeal of the state's same-sex marriage ban. Wed, Mar. 11, 2009 Posted: 08:19 AM EDT Proposition 8 opponents received permission Tuesday from the California Secretary of State's office to begin collecting petition signatures toward a repeal of the state's same-sex marriage ban. The initiative would side step the issue of same-sex marriage by making all couples eligible for marriage benefits regardless of their sexual orientation. If approved, the initiative would strike the word "marriage" from all state laws and replace... Christian Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2204422/posts#comment Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:03:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2204621/posts SACRAMENTO, March 11, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - California same-sex "marriage" supporters are collecting signatures to support a ballot initiative that would remove civil marriage from California law entirely, as well as the provision codifying marriage as between a man and a woman. The "Domestic Partnership Initiative" proposes to categorize all unions simply as "domestic partnerships," while retaining all the rights of marriage for heterosexual couples, and extending them to homosexual couples. According to the initiative's summary, "Legally speaking, 'Marriage' itself would become a social ceremony, recognized by only non-governmental institutions." State Attorney General Jerry Brown submitted the official title and summary... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2204621/posts#comment Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:13:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2203949/posts Strange times we live in when it takes a ballot initiative to confirm the definition of marriage as the union of a man and a woman. Stranger still when endorsing that definition through the democratic process brings threats and reprisals. In November, the San Francisco Chronicle published the names and home addresses of everyone who donated money in support of California's Proposition 8 marriage initiative. All available information, plus the amount donated, was broadcast. My name is on that list. Emails started coming. Heavy with epithets and ad hominems, most in the you-disgust-me vein. Several accused me, personally, of denying... The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2203949/posts#comment Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:02:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2203405/posts Free At Last? by: Daniel Allen, March 10, 2009 Harvard University’s 2008 Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics was not about the press, and it was only about politics generally. It was about race. Still in rapture over the November 4th victory, Harvard turned its attention to the Honorable John Lewis, a congressman for Georgia and civil rights legend, to hear of his days combating racism—a battle that continues, even as an African-American sits in the White House. Pointedly absent from Congressman Lewis’ speech and the subsequent question-and-answer session were comments referring to the Congressman’s most recent public... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2203405/posts#comment Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:39:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2199031/posts Calif. high court to hear challenge. There is little common ground between those on either side of the charged debate over marriage in California. But on the eve of the state Supreme Court hearing in San Francisco on Proposition 8, which prohibits same-sex marriage, advocates on both sides describe the issue in similar high-stakes rhetoric. “History swings on very small hinges sometimes,” said Jim Garlow, pastor at Skyline Church in La Mesa and one of the state's highest-profile supporters of Proposition 8. “On a broader scale, beyond the scope of the definition of marriage, this is about whether the social... San Diego Union Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2199031/posts#comment Wed, 4 Mar 2009 16:33:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2180072/posts Funds for this purpose were authorized in the Housing and Economic Recovery Act, signed into law in 2008. However, these funds were limited to state and local governments. Now House Democrats are taking the unprecedented step of making ACORN and other groups eligible for these funds: “For a further additional amount for ‘Community Development Fund,’ $4,190,000,000, to be used for neighborhood stabilization activities related to emergency assistance for the redevelopment of abandoned and foreclosed homes as authorized under division B, title III of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–289), of which— “(1) not less than... Michelle Malkin web site http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2180072/posts#comment Fri, 6 Feb 2009 23:38:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2179889/posts What About Bob? by: Daniel Allen, February 06, 2009 One of the most respected men in his field, veteran broadcaster Bob Schieffer, who is known for his intimate knowledge of Washington D.C., offered an insightful address to the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) on Monday. Schieffer spoke about his role in the political world over the last several decades as a reporter, and about the changing nature of politics. Journalism is also changing, he explained. Though he deeply admires both Barack Obama and John McCain, Schieffer believes that both positives and negatives came from the 2008 election.... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2179889/posts#comment Fri, 6 Feb 2009 19:23:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2176148/posts Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No. 1, in the City of Austin in Travis County, Texas, but independent of both, is a political subdivision that performs various governmental functions; its five-member board is elected to staggered, four-year terms in biannual nonpartisan elections. Under Texas law, Travis County controls voter registration; however, the District runs its own elections, which, before 2004, were conducted in private residences. Eventually, the District decided to hold elections at public locations, such as the neighborhood elementary school. Later, the District contracted with Travis County to put its elections on the larger county ballot, to delegate the... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2176148/posts#comment Sun, 1 Feb 2009 13:39:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173683/posts ROME, January 27, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A document of the US Catholic Bishops is partly to blame for the abandonment of pro-life teachings by voting Catholics and the election of the “most pro-abortion president” in US history, one of the Vatican’s highest officials said in an interview with LifeSiteNews.com. Archbishop Raymond Burke, the prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, named a document on the election produced by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops that he said “led to confusion” among the faithful and led ultimately to massive support among Catholics for Barack Obama. The US bishops’ document, “Forming Consciences for Faithful... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173683/posts#comment Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:34:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2166128/posts From: Dorothy Rodham [mailto:info@hillaryclinton.com] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 7:39 PM To: xxxxx.xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxx.xxx Subject: One last request Dear Xxxx, I've been so proud watching my daughter over the past few days as she begins a new step in a life so full of accomplishment. And I know she'll continue to do great things for our country. Now I have to ask you -- for the very last time -- to give her your help. This is our last chance to help Hillary pay down the debt from her history-making campaign. I know how much it would mean to her to... Campaign email http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2166128/posts#comment Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:20:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159770/posts Former Minnesota Gov. Arne Carlson says Republican Norm Coleman should concede to Democrat Al Franken in the U.S. Senate race. Carlson says Coleman shouldn't sue over the results of the recount. Carlson was a Republican governor who now considers himself an independent.... MPR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159770/posts#comment Tue, 6 Jan 2009 19:44:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158663/posts Week of babies and lies Sarah Palin talks about her daughter's baby, and a hoax that fooled Oprah Winfrey falls apart. Buzz Week in Review A collective exhale ushered the volatile 2008 out the door this week, although one baby who caused a political storm managed to quietly slip himself out before the end. Meanwhile, a long-time Oprah hoax and high-seas piracy stirred up the Buzz—and the searches—during this transition period. Mom, Do We Have to Do a Combo Celebration? Bristol Palin's boy emerged not as the grandson of the first female vice president, but as another December baby who... Yahoo Buzz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158663/posts#comment Sun, 4 Jan 2009 22:14:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158171/posts "History always makes a sharp turn in Washington when a new American President takes the oath of office, and so it will once again on January 20, 2009. There will be new Cabinet members, a new Congress, a new foreign policy, a new style in the East Wing, new embarrassing relatives (if the past is any guide), and new first friends." PHOTO CAPTION "The President of the United States is one of the world's most public figures, yet the power and tradition of the office veil his life in a tightly controlled, highly protected enclave (above, in Benin) that few... National Geographic Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158171/posts#comment Sat, 3 Jan 2009 19:26:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155090/posts December 23, 2008, 4:00 a.m. Gross Dereliction of DutyBy the Editors As attorney general of California, Jerry Brown has a duty to defend the state and its laws in court. That duty requires him to offer the best grounds in defense of any law that may reasonably be defended. In a brief he filed last Friday in the case challenging Proposition 8 — the ballot measure that amended California’s constitution to ban same-sex marriage — Brown grossly violated that duty. On Election Day, California voters approved Proposition 8. Opponents of Proposition 8 then rushed to court to invalidate it... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155090/posts#comment Sun, 28 Dec 2008 04:27:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2153759/posts Attorney General Jerry Brown's legal challenge to California's constitutional ban on same-sex marriage marks the first time that the state's top lawyer has refused to defend a newly enacted ballot measure since 1964 - another epic discrimination case that eventually reached the U.S. Supreme Court. In November 1964, an overwhelming 65 percent majority of the state's voters approved Proposition 14, a constitutional amendment that overturned a fair-housing law and allowed racial discrimination in property sales and rentals.Attorney General Thomas Lynch - newly appointed to succeed Stanley Mosk, a Prop. 14 opponent who had just been named to the state Supreme... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2153759/posts#comment Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:48:35 GMT