http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/agenda/ en-us Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:25:20 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089144/posts Clay Aiken, 29, is confirming what many people thought: He's gay. The cover of the latest People magazine shows Aiken holding his infant son, Parker Foster Aiken, with the headline: "Yes, I'm Gay." The cover also has the quote: "I cannot raise a child to lie or hide things." Magazine officials said there is an interview with Aiken and confirmed he was on the cover but refused to release the article until today. The baby's mother is Aiken's friend and record producer Jaymes Foster. Aiken, who gained fame as the runner-up on "American Idol" in 2003, rarely addressed the frequent... Seattle Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089144/posts#comment Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:25:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2087354/posts VomitophoriaI don't believe I had ever heard of a vomitophor until I was about nine years old, and then only in very hushed tones. I sensed that there was something forbidden about the topic because when I asked about it, my dad turned on the radio right away and said, "let's see if we can get the Dodger game."And then one day, we held a birthday party for a neighborhood kid around our backyard pool, and Chad Coombs threw up in the shallow end. None of the mothers wanted us to swim after that, and Freddy Marchand--a big kid who... Riley's Farm Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2087354/posts#comment Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:01:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072474/posts I must confess that I am spending an awful lot of time thinking about Barack Obama. I hasten to add that it’s not, as is the case with Chris Matthews, because the senator sends shivers up my leg. Rather, it’s because I simply can’t figure out how he’s managed to convince so many people that he should be the president of the United States. It’s a lot like trying to figure out how Las Vegas magicians make lions and tigers disappear. To be perfectly honest, I invariably feel that way about the candidates the Democrats try to foist off on... Modern Conservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2072474/posts#comment Mon, 1 Sep 2008 17:35:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043626/posts The Thief in the Night By Bean-girl Have you ever had an encounter with a thief breaking into your home? If not how many times have you read about their sudden attacks in newspapers and TV? Scary, right? Don’t want it to happen to you. Well, got some bad news for yah all... it already has. Yes, I realized something long ago, most thieves in the night are your local newspapers and news shows, your high end fashion magazines, almost all of Hollywood movies and TV shows. Oh, yes, you heard me right; they come into your life as innocent... Modern Conservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043626/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:25:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042854/posts There's a "deadlock" over pruning back overgrown bushes in an area known as Avon Gorge located in Bristol, England. The reason why the Bristol City Council has put on hold pruning the bushes and clearing away the overgrowth? Apparently gay groups claim it would be discriminatory to the men who use the area known as Circular Road for "dogging". Rather than just pruning back the bushes, a report was commissioned by the Downs Committee. In the report a recommendation by the Council's Rainbow Group--council employees who are lesbian, gay and bisexual--the employees claimed cutting the overgrowth and pruning the bushes... DBKP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042854/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jul 2008 12:48:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037125/posts "It's one thing when Obama, the Democrats' standard bearer to be, is identified as the most liberal senator. It is something else, something quite extreme, when Obama is recognized as the darling of the Communist Party USA. " Examiner.com Miami http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037125/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:51:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028336/posts Who are the real environmentalists — liberals or conservatives? By Christopher Cook The first news item I saw this morning was from FOX News:Feds: Caribbean Monk Seal Officially Extinct HONOLULU — Federal officials have confirmed what biologists have long thought: The Caribbean monk seal has gone the way of the dodo. Humans hunting the docile creatures for research, food and blubber left the population unsustainable, say biologists who warn that Hawaiian and Mediterranean monk seals could be the next to go. The last confirmed sighting of a Caribbean monk seal was in 1952 between Jamaica and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. The... Modern Conservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028336/posts#comment Mon, 9 Jun 2008 15:54:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027334/posts WASHINGTON, (AP) -- Between now and Election Day, Democrats say they will use Congress to showcase the kinds of change promised by their presidential candidate, Barack Obama. Some legislation they'll choose have good prospects of passage — policy blueprints for higher education and the military; a ban on lead in toys — and skip over debates on spending plans and some taxes until a new president takes office. Other bills they'll debate are doomed. But on those, the point isn't passage this year. It's about making the case that the Democrats' plan for children's health care, for example, won't become... AP via SFGate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027334/posts#comment Fri, 6 Jun 2008 22:15:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011747/posts SACRAMENTO — Karen Bass has drawn up a short agenda for her two-year reign as Assembly speaker that begins next week. There are only three items: * Balance a state budget that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared is "$20 billion out of whack." * Create a ballot initiative that would produce $300 million to $500 million annually for foster care programs. * Restructure California's tax system to make it conform to the modern world. Actually, she wants to create a blue-ribbon commission of "the best and the brightest" to tackle taxes. That's all. Rather ambitious for someone who has held... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011747/posts#comment Tue, 6 May 2008 02:23:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008749/posts The powers that be have decreed that homosexuality and all its variations are normal, and woe to anyone who dares question this alternate lifestyle. Homosexuality has been added to the list of topics, along with race and global warming, that is off limits for discussion. The debate has been declared over. Homosexuality, which not very long ago was defined as a “disorder” in medical journals, is well on its way to becoming a lifestyle option. Despite the fact that it is based on a premise which has been thoroughly discredited. The normalization of homosexuality has its genesis in 1948, when... Culture Watch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2008749/posts#comment Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:24:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997225/posts The CBS News/New York Times poll has both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton leading John McCain in head-to-head races by five points. According to the poll, Obama leads McCain 47% to 42%, with Clinton leading McCain 48% to 43%. As always, it is important to see how the poll's respondents break down by party -- a look which shows that those questioned self-identified 39% Dem, 28% Repub, and 33% independent in the unweighted sample. The weighted sample broke down 40% Dem, 26% Repub, and 34% independent. The unweighted sample shows an 11-point margin for the Dems, while the weighted sample... The New Editor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997225/posts#comment Sat, 5 Apr 2008 17:42:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993663/posts WASHINGTON - Congressional leaders are racing to push through an array of election-year housing measures that already have stirred up much political wrangling and the White House is examining its own plan to further help homeowners caught in the mortgage meltdown. With foreclosure signs prevalent and a Wall Street rescue reverberating, majority Democrats want the government to step in and back up to $400 billion in troubled loans. The goal is to help strapped borrowers and thaw a credit market plagued by uncertainty about the value of subprime mortgages made to people with spotty credit or low incomes. As lawmakers... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993663/posts#comment Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:53:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1981707/posts Obama's women reveal his secret By Spengler "Cherchez la femme," advised Alexander Dumas in: "When you want to uncover an unspecified secret, look for the woman." In the case of Barack Obama, we have two: his late mother, the went-native anthropologist Ann Dunham, and his rancorous wife Michelle. Obama's women reveal his secret: he hates America. We know less about Senator Obama than about any prospective president in American history. His uplifting rhetoric is empty, as Hillary Clinton helplessly protests. His career bears no trace of his own character, not an article for the Harvard Law Review he http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JB26Aa01.html atimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1981707/posts#comment Fri, 7 Mar 2008 02:46:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1971692/posts 7:00 pm ~ Opening flag burning 7:15 pm ~ Pledge of Allegiance to the U. N. in Spanish 7:20 pm ~ Ted Kennedy proposes a toast 7:25 pm ~ Nonreligious prayer and worship with Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton 7:45 pm ~ Ceremonial tree hugging 7:55 pm ~ Ted Kennedy proposes a toast 8:00 pm ~ How I Invented the Internet - Al Gore 8:15 pm ~ Gay Wedding Planning - Barney Frank presiding 8:35 pm ~ Ted Kennedy proposes a toast and explains the new amnesty program 8:40 pm ~ Our Troops are War Criminals - John Kerry 9.00... AmBack Forum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1971692/posts#comment Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:13:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1954223/posts I’m enjoying the prime time primaries, carefully considering what each politician brings to the table as they all campaign to participate in what policy wonks might consider the political equivalent of the National League and American League playoffs in baseball. It’s exciting and compelling observing the players moves; assessing “statistics” comprised of voting records and accomplishments; and listening to analysts determine the catalyst behind voter reactions, compare and contrast the candidates’ styles, analyze the spin, and comment on occasional heartfelt passion, as each contender competes to “go to the show,” our nation’s 2008 presidential election. After the Democrats choose their... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1954223/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:39:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1954043/posts [RAMBLINGS] You want to know the issues? I have the answers... Pass this on.. You want Race to quit being an issue? Don't bring it up in your campaign. Period. You want peace in our time? Stop handcuffing the hands of our commanders behind their backs and let them achieve peace through strength. You want to create jobs? Quit regulating how businesses conduct themselves and Quit forcing payroll policies on businesses. Don't tell them they can't have smokers as customers and don't tell them how to cook their french fries. ... more Markbureau.us http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1954043/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:12:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1950014/posts Faced with a huge budget deficit, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is having to scale back his ambitions this year and will be forced to resurrect old ideas during Tuesday's State of the State address. Aides say he plans to renew his push for health care reform, while making a plea for budget reforms he has tried twice before but failed to achieve. The governor's strategists hope the Democrats' alliance with Schwarzenegger late last year over a plan to expand health coverage to millions of uninsured Californians will prevent them from launching an all-out war over the deep budget cuts he is... AP on Bakersfield Californian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1950014/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jan 2008 02:36:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1903813/posts Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said if he isn’t elected president, the population of African-American males is likely to either wind up in prison or dead. At an MTV/MySpace.com forum Thursday, Edwards responded to a question about inner-city kids partaking in violence by saying there was no “silver bullet” to fight the problem. “We start with the president of the United States saying to America, ‘we cannot build enough prisons to solve this problem. And the idea that we can keep incarcerating and keep incarcerating — pretty soon we’re not going to have a young African-American male population in America.... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1903813/posts#comment Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:48:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1872554/posts ST. LOUIS - The leading Democratic presidential contenders on Friday endorsed a National Urban League agenda that calls for mandatory early childhood education and universal health care for children. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards each promised support for the Urban League's plan, which favors extending childhood education programs to children as young as age 3 and guaranteeing access for all to attend college. Sens. Clinton and Obama have engaged in a weeklong feud precipitated by Monday's debate exchange over whether a president should meet with leaders of rogue nations without preconditions. The two did not share the... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1872554/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:28:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1872405/posts Homosexual agenda on the march. This poll badly needs freeping. I can't excerpt the article do to the dreaded:burlingtonfreepress.com cannot be posted due to copyright complaint.http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070726/NEWS01/707260314/1009 Burlington Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1872405/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:19:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1872188/posts WASHINGTON - Beset by poor approval ratings and internal differences, congressional Democrats hope to give themselves a triumphant send-off when Congress departs on a monthlong summer vacation. "They can't possibly do all the things they want to do," counters Rep. John Boehner, the House Republican leader. Perhaps not. But Democratic leaders, seven months in power, have set an ambitious agenda for themselves for the next 10 days, even momentarily dispatching their efforts to end the Iraq war to the background. They intend to send President Bush bills to counter terrorism and tighten congressional ethics, measures that were among the party's... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1872188/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jul 2007 00:17:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1868318/posts The straight talk express may have blown a gasket around the beltway, but it is running redline up and down I-95 in South Florida. Mayor Jim Naugle of Fort Lauderdale is being demeaned by the hedonist press of the region because he made a few claims that, while they are easily supported by data, run counter to the Broward state religion. Here is a list of his sins, as recorded in the Sun-Sentinel's encyclicals. First, Naugle said he does not use the term "gay" because homosexuals are "unhappy." Second, he claims his city has a problem with men using public... WorldNetDaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1868318/posts#comment Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:02:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1862717/posts MEMPHIS, July 3, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Last week, the Fox News' O'Reilly Factor exposed the increasing trend of lesbian gang violence terrorizing neighbourhoods and schools, especially in large cities across the United States. According to FOX News crime analyst Rod Wheeler there are some 150 such gangs in the DC area alone, including Washington, Maryland, and Virginia. The gangs, known as Dykes Taking Over (DTO) or Gays Taking Over, are forcing children into homosexuality. Wheeler told host Bill O'Reilly: "there is this national underground network, if you will, Bill, of women that's lesbians and also some men groups that's actually... Lifesite News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1862717/posts#comment Sun, 8 Jul 2007 22:04:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1856950/posts Many of the same people who want to prohibit any mention of God in our schools are now attempting to ram the homosexual agenda down our throats. They see no inconsistency in repressing over 90 percent of our society who are believers in God while promoting a small, though highly controversial lifestyle of 1 to 2 percent of our population. U.S. District Judge, Mark Wolf threw out a lawsuit filed in Lexington, Mass. by David Parker, father of a five-year-old kindergarten student. Parker wanted to shield his son from homosexual lessons. Judge Wolf said in his ruling against this father,... Hernando Today http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1856950/posts#comment Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:44:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1854500/posts This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56254 Wednesday, June 20, 2007 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WND BOOKS Finally! The full exposé of North American agenda Book documents plans for merger of U.S., Mexico, Canada -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: June 20, 2007 1:00 a.m. Eastern -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2007 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON – Resistance to enforcing immigration laws and border security by political elites in the nation's capital is, at least in part, a result of plans to promote political, social and economic integration of the U.S., Mexico and Canada, charges a new book, "The Late... WND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1854500/posts#comment Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:51:57 GMT