http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/blog/ en-us Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:53:21 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416035/posts As some Houston leaders called on Sunday for measures to help guard against future terrorist attacks, others questioned why the Nigerian man charged with trying to destroy a Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit spent time last year in Houston. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is believed to have traveled to Houston in 2008, but no details of the trip were available Sunday. U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston declined to discuss any connection Abdulmutallab might have to the city, saying details of the investigation remain classified. U.S. government officials did confirm that they are looking into his travel itinerary, but the FBI... chron.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416035/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:53:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415754/posts I know…technically the decade doesn’t end until next year. Whatever. The first 10 years of the 20th Century, as it was, was a great era for great movies. In my mind, we saw a true resurgence of innovation and imagination…with some routine Hollywood nonsense thrown in. Now, I took some editorial leeway on some of these, as you will see. For what it is worth, here is my top 10 list: Neoavatara http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415754/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:57:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393962/posts Hacked emails discussed manipulating data to "hide the decline" in global temperatures Calls for an independent inquiry into what is being dubbed "Climategate" are growing as the foundation for man-made global warming implodes following the release of emails which prove researchers colluded to manipulate data in order to "hide the decline" in global temperatures. minnesotans for globalwarming http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393962/posts#comment Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:51:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393517/posts Holder wants gun registration? So says the Law Enforcement Alliance of America: Holder wants a national, permanent gun registration system administered by law enforcement. A registration of honest citizens that have cleared the federal background check for gun purchases with those records permanently retained by and shared among law enforcement. Holder wants new federal authority to prohibit any person on the federal watch list (reported to be 400,000 names) from buying guns and supports confiscating guns from those on the list who possess them. So, he doesn’t want due process protections for people who want to own guns. Even though... Say Uncle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393517/posts#comment Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:37:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2387598/posts This is the comment left at our blog:As John F. Kennedy once said, "Where there's smoke, look for a smoke-making machine." The whole "story" of ACORN is a fabrication of the Republican National Committee and those folks in Republican politics who come out with the daily "talking points" for people like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. ACORN has had the audacity to register poor people to vote, and those poor people are usually Democrats. This infuriates the Republicans and the right wing commentators. So the right wingnuts find any transgression they can and pump it up and repeat it again... Main Street Radical http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2387598/posts#comment Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:44:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2385719/posts Whatever Happened to Sanctions? Malcolm A. Kline, November 13, 2009 It’s interesting that the same worthies on campus who clamor to disinvest from Israel have yet to endorse sanctions on Iran. It should be noted that, as Claire Lopez points out in a report for the Center for Security Policy, the Iranian government employs a Washington lobby whose primary purpose is to get sanctions lifted on the renegade regime.... AIA FL Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2385719/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:00:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2382154/posts Limits To Diversity & Tolerance Malcolm A. Kline, November 9, 2009 When school district representatives told a Southern California teacher to remove the banners he had on display in his classroom, “diversity” and “tenure” were used to justify the order, according to an attorney from the Liberty Counsel. “Mr. Johnson, if a Muslim student came in here, he wouldn’t be comfortable,” bureaucrats told the educator, the barrister from LC said at a Capitol Hill seminar on October 28, 2009..... AIA-FL Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2382154/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 16:34:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2379726/posts Photos of today's crowd outside the Capitol: Health Care Protesters Overwhelm Capitol Bethany Stotts, November 6, 2009 Today’s November 5 rally may have drawn as many as 20,000 protesters against the health care bill which will soon come up for a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives, according to an Americans for Prosperity representative. As I’m no crowd size estimator, I won’t even hazard a guess, but the panoramas below should give you an idea of how many people were there..... AIA-FL Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2379726/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 04:35:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2379708/posts A law school professor has withdrawn a lawsuit accusing the legal blog Above the Law of publishing a "viciously racist series of rants" after reporting the professor's arrest for suspicion of soliciting prostitution. University of Miami School of Law professor Donald Marvin Jones dropped his lawsuit on Wednesday, nine days after he filed it pro se in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. He did not respond to a request for comment.*** Above the Law Managing Editor David Lat declined comment on Thursday, but in a blog post on Wednesday wrote that there had been no... National Law Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2379708/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 04:02:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2374213/posts The following is by Dr. David N. Menton, Ph.D. It is copyrighted 1994 by Missouri Association for Creation -- The human brain consists of approximately 12 billion cells, forming 120 trillion interconnections. The light sensitive retina of the eye (which is really part of the brain) contains over 10 million photoreceptor cells. These cells capture the light pattern formed by the lens and convert it into complex electrical signals, which are then sent to a special area of the brain where they are transformed into the sensation we call vision. In an article in "Byte" magazine (April 1985), John Stevens... The Ignorant Fishermen Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2374213/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:00:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2372508/posts While organizing our filing system, I ran across my adoption papers. My mother gave them to me a couple of years ago for my own records. The cost of my adoption was a 300.00 donation to Catholic Charities in Chicago, I was six days old. I am blessed to be in the family, in which I was placed. My mother tells me there were lots of rules to comply with. The agency wanted to make sure I had a stable and secure home. In reality, no one can predict how a family will one day turn out. Ours certainly had... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2372508/posts#comment Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:20:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2371534/posts An official announcement by the Obama administration disclosing the reality of extraterrestrial life is imminent. For several months, senior administration officials have been quietly deliberating behind closed doors how much to disclose to the world about extraterrestrial life. Dissatisfaction among powerful institutions such as the U.S. Navy over the decades-long secrecy policy has given a boost to efforts to disclose the reality of extraterrestrial life and technology. The impending disclosure announcement follows upon the secret implementation of a year long openness policy on UFOs and extraterrestrial life. Over the period February 12-14, 2008, the United Nations held closed doors discussions... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2371534/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:51:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2369255/posts Tina Fey, who only recently confessed before David Letterman's national television audience that she didn't have sex until she was 24, is outing herself again: she admires and respects the woman she imitates, Sarah Palin. And is teetering toward voting for Palin should the former Alaska governor run for president in 2012. Chicagonow http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2369255/posts#comment Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:10:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2367991/posts antimullah.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2367991/posts#comment Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:52:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2367995/posts Relax Contessa! Just get on your knees and well, you know, apologize. Jesse, Al, Jesse, Al, what's the difference right? Jesse despises Contessa, remember she's white, so there is no need for her to get down on her knees and well, you know, apologize, as if he's going to mug her. The look on her face! It was as if Contessa was thinking, 'I'm so so sorry Mr. Black man, It wasn't my fault, I swear. I have oppressed you enough already and am responsible for all the problems in the black community and feel so bad for what my... idiots4obama.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2367995/posts#comment Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:58:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367168/posts Lots of talk about CBO scoring today, and now Talking Points Memo is reporting that things are looking good for a strong public option, at least on the House side: A preliminary analysis from CBO may have sealed the deal. Speaker Nancy Pelosi is preparing to move ahead with a "robust" public option--one that reimburses hospitals and providers at Medicare rates, plus five percent--in the House's health care bill. More: The analysis finds the reconstituted House proposal to be deficit neutral, and require about $870 billion in new spending, over ten years. And that's all Pelosi needed to move: She... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367168/posts#comment Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:43:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367158/posts Why would someone have a picture of Obama on their chest? No it’s not what you think. This is Phillip Dennis of the Texas Tea party and it’s not a statement he makes in support of Obama … but a challenge. A worthy opponent of Chris Matthews. Matthews game is to draw out hypocrisy in his opponent and the easiest way to do that is to talk about the “Bush” deficit. But Dennis hits back and hits back hard. The Obama deficit makes Bush look like a piker. http://www.radioviceonline.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367158/posts#comment Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:24:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2362920/posts Members of the mainstream media are having a field day after it was announced today that Dave Checketts, owner of the National Hockey League’s St. Louis Blues, had decided to drop conservative radio talk show legend Rush Limbaugh from the group interested in purchasing the National Football League’s St. Louis Rams. Conveniently, they ignore the fact that the league’s biggest problems stem not from the owners or prospective owners, but from the players themselves. Bob McCarty Writes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2362920/posts#comment Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:46:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351320/posts Do newspapers get any worse than this? Political Lore Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351320/posts#comment Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:27:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2349364/posts A 50x server error was received attempting to serve your request, indicating that either the server is currently unable to handle the request or the request timed out waiting for a response. http://tickerforum.org/cgi-ticker/akcs-www?newposts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2349364/posts#comment Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:12:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349129/posts It appears that when certain citizens of Austin get behind their computers, they turn into monstrous villains. This, at least, appears to be the view of Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo. According to the Austin American-Statesman, the chief is considering pursuing commenters on blogs who have either impersonated him or his officers or maligned them beyond the boundaries of legal tolerance. Options under discussion appear to be not only libel suits, but also criminal charges if the police believe these are warranted. It so happens that Texas passed a state law on September 1 that specifically targets those who "use... CNET News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349129/posts#comment Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:16:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2348622/posts We went from Reagan never removing his jacket inside the Oval Office to the new hip hope and change President putting rap songs on the White House blog....disgraceful hotairpundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2348622/posts#comment Sat, 26 Sep 2009 04:02:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2343140/posts Alone in a crowd of rugged men, nursing his drink in the far corner of the old post town's only tavern: Kaim. A single man strides in through the tavern door. Massively built, he wears the garb of a warrior. His soiled uniform bespeaks a long journey. Fatigue marks his face, but his eyes wear a penetrating gleam—the look of a fighting man on active duty. The tavern's din hushes instantly. Every drunken eye in the place fastens on the soldier with awe and gratitude. The long war with the neighboring country has ended at last, and the men who... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2343140/posts#comment Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:16:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2340646/posts In the recent dialogue between David Frum and David Horowitz about the place of Glenn Beck and other bold talkers in the Conservative Movement Frum shot out a claim which threw Horowitz off guard: Third – how do we define “our side”? Horowitz harshly condemns Obama appointee Van Jones. Van Jones was eventually forced to resign not because of any of the allegations Glenn Beck hurled at him, but because the Gateway Pundit blog unearthed evidence that Van Jones had consorted with 9/11 denialists. So that’s the other side, right? Except… the American politician who most closely associates with 9/11... David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2340646/posts#comment Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:20:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336929/posts As the debate on health care in the U.S. continues, President Obama detailed his vision for health insurance reform in his second address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday September 9, 2009. The address was carried live from 8:00PM to approximately 9:06PM on 10 television networks. The sum of average audience for those networks was 32,111,596 viewers. The networks carrying the press conference were ABC, CBS, NBC, Univision, Telemundo, BET, CNBC, CNN, FOX News Channel, and MSNBC. Viewership to last night’s address was down 38.6% from President Obama’s first address to a joint session of Congress on February... Nielsen Wire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336929/posts#comment Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:19:36 GMT