http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/adams/ en-us Mon, 6 Jul 2009 11:19:13 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286379/posts Note: The following articles contains material that about the Duke University child exploitation case. It is not suitable for all readers. The main stream media is finally discussing the sexual preferences of Frank Lombard - the Duke University administrator accused of molesting and offering his five-year-old adopted son for sex, via the internet. Naturally, the newspapers are focusing on threats to the gay adoption movement not threats to those who are adopted by gay parents. I’d like to bring the conversation back to Frank Lombard for a moment. His potential as a child molester should have been detected by social... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286379/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 11:19:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281587/posts About two months ago, I heard from an old friend with whom I had lost touch. Most of what he had to say revolved around his relationship with a man with whom he is now living. (snip) He said he and his boyfriend needed a church that is more tolerant. I’m going to recommend that he give The Episcopal Church of the Advocate in Carrboro, North Carolina a try. Until a couple of days ago, the Advocate website (www.ouradvocate.org) had a list of the members of its vestry, which included Frank Lombard. But after Lombard was arrested for allegedly trying... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281587/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:40:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273176/posts A 26-year-old man has been sentenced to 70 years to life in prison for carjacking former state Senate leader Don Perata and firing a shot that left a young boy paralyzed. ... During that robbery, Adams fired a shot that went through the wall of a nearby building. The bullet struck then 10-year-old Christopher Rodriguez while he was taking a piano lesson and paralyzed him. SFGate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2273176/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:48:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2274060/posts PORTLAND, Ore. - Portland Mayor Sam Adams could lose two homes in north Portland after falling behind on his mortgage payments. The homes in question sit side-by-side on North McClellan Street in the Kenton neighborhood and both are now in pre-foreclosure. KATU obtained a copy of two notices of default against the properties, showing the mayor has not paid a mortgage payment on either home for five months. With late fees, that adds up to over $10,000 in back payments. Adams said Tuesday his financial problems stemmed from the fact that he had to pay up front for legal bills... KATU http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2274060/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:17:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271880/posts Kendall Myers, 72, who appeared in federal court in Washington on Wednesday charged with spying for Havana for nearly 30 years, had a fascination with Northern Ireland. The Daily Telegraph has established that as well as seeking the envoy's post, which carried the rank of ambassador, Mr Myers travelled to the British Isles and met British and Irish officials, senior Northern Ireland politicians and intelligence officers. .... "Anything this guy could have found from his European responsibilities he might have funnelled to the Cubans for them to sell off," said John Bolton, a former top State Department official in the... telegraph.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271880/posts#comment Mon, 15 Jun 2009 04:23:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271666/posts June 14, 2009Obama's Other Controversial ChurchBy Andrew Walden "This is a guy (former Weatherman terror-bomber Bill Ayers) who lives in my neighborhood ... the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago - when I was 8 years old - somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense." -- Barack Obama on the Campaign trail, 2008 As President Obama prepared to commemorate D-Day, the Associated Press dug up old details and photos to write a warm fuzzy story about the WW2 service record of Obama's maternal grandfather... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271666/posts#comment Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:06:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2246446/posts For the past few years, I’ve been arguing that those who like to be called “liberals” should instead be called statists. You know these people. They are the ones who, full of righteous indignation, speak incessantly of injustice and oppression in America. They also speak, in sentences full of smug self-assurance, as if they and only they possess the empathy and intellectual fortitude necessary to provide “solutions” to a host of social “problems” thrust upon a good people by a bad “society.” Edmund Burke was talking about these statists when he said “by (their) unprincipled facility of changing the state... OneNewsNow.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2246446/posts#comment Thu, 7 May 2009 22:29:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2245337/posts For the past few years, I’ve been arguing that those who like to be called “liberals” should instead be called statists. You know these people. They are the ones who, full of righteous indignation, speak incessantly of injustice and oppression in America. They also speak, in sentences full of smug self-assurance, as if they and only they possess the empathy and intellectual fortitude necessary to provide “solutions” to a host of social “problems” thrust upon a good people by a bad “society.”(snip) The American conservative today finds himself in a position of fighting a form of progressivism, which seems to... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2245337/posts#comment Wed, 6 May 2009 14:33:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2241271/posts Good afternoon, Perez. I’m sorry I haven’t yet taken the time to write you in response to your little flap with Miss California. I’ve been down in South Carolina spending the last few days with a beautiful woman who is opposed to gay marriage. I hope that doesn’t offend you. In Hollywood, that’s called bigotry. In South Carolina, it’s called “normal.” I’m sorry that I was recently complimented by an older gentleman for simply opening the car door for the aforementioned beautiful woman. I’m sorry because opening a door for a lady should be commonplace. It should not be so... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2241271/posts#comment Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:06:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2192879/posts I once had a dog named Jake that I liked very much. He was a well-behaved dog. When I asked him to sit, he would sit. When I asked him to shake, he would shake. When I asked him to stay, he would stay. Because he was so eager for praise and approval, it was easy to control his behavior. That old dog was a lot like the liberals who read my columns. (snip)Those who read yesterday’s column read my spoof apology for an email I claimed I had sent to the Department of Sociology and Criminology at UNC-Wilmington. The... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2192879/posts#comment Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:00:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2188636/posts A member of my forum posted this.... Not many talk like this anymore. Such beautiful words are all but common these days. Liberty will reign in America The Unite or Die Project http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2188636/posts#comment Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:37:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2175483/posts PORTLAND, Ore. - New details are emerging every day as the pieces of the scandal surrounding Portland's embattled mayor continue to unfold and people come forward. A longtime friend of Beau Breedlove, who spoke with KATU News on condition of anonymity, has new light to shed on the scandal that has divided the city into two sides - those for and against Mayor Sam Adams. In this latest development, Breedlove's friend told KATU News that he heard from him almost four years ago that he was having sex with a Portland politician - at a time when Breedlove was 17... KATU http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2175483/posts#comment Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:03:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2172572/posts PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Mayor Sam Adams, who has admitted lying about a sexual relationship with a teenager, said Sunday that he would not resign. A city commissioner, Randy Leonard, told The Associated Press that Mr. Adams had left a phone message in the morning saying he had decided to remain in office. Two other commissioners told The Oregonian of Portland that Mr. Adams, the city’s first openly gay mayor, had told them the same thing. The fourth, Amanda Fritz, declined to comment. Efforts to reach Mr. Adams were unsuccessful. The Oregonian’s editorial page has called for his resignation, as... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2172572/posts#comment Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:39:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168150/posts One thing we seem to breed in Oregon are big political scandals, and the latest one is hitting Portland Mayor Sam Adams with gale force. Adams admitted to The Oregonian and Willamette Week Monday that he lied back in September of 2007 when he denied rumors that he had had a sexual relationship with a teenager who had been a legislative intern. Adams, who is openly gay, said that while he first met the intern, Beau Breedlove, when he was 17, the two did not have sex until after Breedlove turned 18. When rumors about the two first surfaced in... The Oregonian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168150/posts#comment Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:43:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2164841/posts Obama pick faces questions over bombers' clemencyBy PETE YOST Associated Press Writer Originally published Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 2:05 PM WASHINGTON — New York police detective Anthony S. Senft's life changed forever when a bomb set by Puerto Rican separatists exploded, blowing him 15 feet in the air and blinding him in one eye. Now, he's angry that Eric Holder, who played a key role in awarding clemency to the bombers, is in line to be attorney general. Holder, as President Bill Clinton's deputy attorney general, worked closely with the Justice Department's pardon attorney to raise the possibility of... Seattle Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2164841/posts#comment Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:20:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2163203/posts In light of the ongoing naval battles with Muslim pirates operating from Somalia.... America has been fighting Islamists for longer than many realize. Even before independence was declared, American ships were pirated, and their Christian crews enslaved, by Muslim pirates operating under the control of the “Dey of Algiers”—an Ottoman Islamist warlord ruling Algeria.... Lacking the ability to project U.S. naval force in the Mediterranean, America tried appeasement. In 1784, Congress agreed to fund tributes and ransoms in order to rescue U.S. ships and buy the freedom of enslaved American sailors.... Hawai`i Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2163203/posts#comment Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:24:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2162440/posts What was the American Revolution? The American Revolution was one of the great turning points in the history of mankind. It marked the beginning of the end of slavery, led to the founding of the first large and stable republic in history, and inspired the establishment of governments based on the natural rights of man all over the world. In the minds of most Americans, the American War for Independence began on April 19, 1775, when shots were fired on Lexington Green. John Adams said, however, that our War for Independence was not the real American Revolution. That, he said,... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2162440/posts#comment Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:14:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025121/posts Philadelphia - A union staffer's 2002 court declaration asserted that current governor and former Philadelphia mayor Ed Rendell (D) encouraged Teamsters to pursue assault charges against a nonviolent protester, The Bulletin has learned. Testimony Mr. Rendell offered earlier that year differed markedly from the account. The differing versions emerge from the saga of assault victim Don Adams's arduous legal battles. After the Teamsters agreed in March to settle his almost decade-long civil action, Mr. Adams found the justice he received welcome, if incomplete. Mr. Adams, his sister Teri and about 40 others went to Center City to protest a visit... The Bulletin (Philadelphia) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025121/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 02:45:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2010744/posts Based on David McCullough's 2001 best-selling book, "John Adams," the HBO 7-part mini-series starring Paul Giamatti as John Adams and Laura Linney as Abigail Adams is as important for the message that it sends as it is for the history it conveys. Beginning with young attorney Adams's defense of the British soldiers on trial for the Boston Massacre (for whom he won an acquittal), the story follows the political career and personal life of Adams as he becomes a key member of the Continental Congress, editor/co-drafter of the Declaration of Independence, minister to France and England, vice president, then president.... self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2010744/posts#comment Sat, 3 May 2008 17:24:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1981512/posts For those awaiting the HBO John Adams, HBO is now playing over the next few days a 30 minute description of how the movie was made with particular emphasis on the technical aspects. It is well worth watching particularly if you can find one of the HD broadcasts. Now I begin to understand why movies are so expensive and how much artistic technology is involved. The link to an HBO schedule for this technical preview is at http://www.hbo.com/apps/schedule/ScheduleServlet?ACTION_DETAIL=DETAIL&FOCUS_ID=664475. The schedule for the actual HBO series is at http://www.hbo.com/apps/schedule/ScheduleServlet?ACTION_SEARCH=GO&KEY=TITLE&VALUE=adams.Enjoy HBO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1981512/posts#comment Thu, 6 Mar 2008 20:46:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1975568/posts When Hollywood's movie-makers and docu-dramatists get their hands on American history, accuracy, reality and truth often are tortured beyond recognition. But starting at 8 p.m. Sunday, March 16, HBO Films will be delivering the seven-part, nine-hour mini-series "John Adams." ... it is by all accounts a high-quality, historically accurate and meticulously faithful adaptation of super-historian David McCullough's blockbuster 2001 book of the same name. I talked to McCullough about the making of the HBO series Tuesday by phone from his home in West Tisbury, Mass. Pittsburgh Tribune Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1975568/posts#comment Sun, 24 Feb 2008 19:48:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1933938/posts Founder’s Quotes – Jefferson and Hamilton on Citizens Duty to be Armed “The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves in all cases to which they think themselves competent, or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of the press.” Thomas Jefferson (letter to John Cartwright, 1824) ”If the representatives of the people betray... The Patriot Post - Others http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1933938/posts#comment Mon, 3 Dec 2007 14:42:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909553/posts COMMITTEE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL JUSTICE P.O. Box 306, Cheltenham, PA 19012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 10, 2007 Contact: Don Adams, ###.###.#### Teamster Beating Victims Appeal Judge’s Order To Pay Union $15 Grand Philadelphia – Two Clinton protesters, viciously beaten up by a group of pro-Clinton teamsters outside Philadelphia’s City Hall during a presidential visit nine years ago, last week appealed a federal judge’s order to pay two teamster unions $15,000.00 in legal costs stemming from an October, 2000 Federal Civil Rights suit. Five members of Teamsters Local 115 eventually pled guilty to criminal assault, conspiracy, and various other charges in the... Committee for Constitutional Justice http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909553/posts#comment Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:32:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1816465/posts WILMINGTON -- An associate professor is suing the University of North Carolina Wilmington, claiming he was denied a promotion because of his conservative religious and political beliefs. Mike Adams is a national columnist who has taught at the university since 1993. The Board of Trustees turned down his application for full professorship last fall. Adams is seeking monetary damages and legal fees, but he says the fight is really about his reputation. "From the time I was an atheist and a democrat and after the time I became a Christian, and an outspoken conservative as well, I think some of... WECT Ch.6 - Wilmington http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1816465/posts#comment Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:08:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1792617/posts Yesterday afternoon, I logged on to the "Global War" blog (global-war.bloghi.com) of Associate Professor Julio Pino – a Muslim convert who teaches at Kent State University. The heading for the site used to read "The Worldwide Web of Jihad: Daily News from the Most Dangerous Muslim in America." Now it reads "Are You Prepared for Jihad?" IN THE NAME OF OBL. 2007: THE YEAR OF ISLAMIC VICTORY!" Hardly able to believe what I was reading, I called Pino at his office in Ohio around 4 p.m. According to his secretary, he had not been at work that day (he only... Town Hall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1792617/posts#comment Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:02:15 GMT