http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/bohica/ en-us Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:16:44 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133637/posts President-elect Barack Obama says he and Republican Sen. John McCain plan to work together to "fix up the country." The two former rivals met in Obama's transition office Monday in Chicago. Rahm Emanuel, Obama's incoming White House chief of staff, participated in the meeting, as did McCain's close friend, South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham. AP via brietbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133637/posts#comment Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:16:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133074/posts WASHINGTON — John McCain’s close friend and ally from South Carolina, fellow Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, will be on hand in Chicago Monday as McCain meets with his former rival, President-elect Barack Obama. Also attending will be Obama’s new chief of staff, Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill. In an interview Friday, Graham said Emanuel asked for the meeting about a week ago. “We were talking about some things that we could work together on,” Graham said. McClatchy via The State, Columbia, SC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2133074/posts#comment Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:12:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2111065/posts In 1932, Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected president as the nation was heading into a severe recession. The world's economy was slowing down, and all economic indicators in the U.S. showed signs of trouble. The new president's response was to restructure the economy with the New Deal -- an expansion of the role of government once unimaginable in America. We now know that FDR's policies likely prolonged the Great Depression because the economy never fully recovered in the 1930s, and actually got worse in the latter half of the decade. And we know that FDR got away with it... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2111065/posts#comment Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:43:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094494/posts GREENVILLE, S.C. -- Just back from Washington, D.C., South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham painted a very bleak picture of what he expects for the country if the bailout plan fails. Graham spoke in front of a foreclosed home on Avondale Drive in Greenville. He said if the plan doesn't pass soon, more banks will fold. Businesses will close and people will lose their jobs. As least twice he mentioned that the economy could be headed for a depression. WYFF ABC 4 Greenville, SC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094494/posts#comment Wed, 1 Oct 2008 01:32:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2084192/posts Can Barack Obama actually blow this thing? Can he actually lose in November? We have a deeply troubled economy, an unpopular war, a very unpopular president and a historic reluctance on the part of the American people to elect the same party to the White House three terms in a row. You look at all that, and you figure Obama would be leading by double digits. But he isn’t. The race is essentially tied, and not just in the national polls, which really don’t count for much, but in the Electoral College projections, which do. On Monday, MSNBC put its... Poltico via Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2084192/posts#comment Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:40:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064750/posts If, as predicted, Barack Obama (B.O.) picks Hillary Clinton (H.C.)as his prospective Vice President, the two of them could combine their initals to (almost) form the classic military acronym: BOHICA! I think Barry Obama will make Hillary his VP Choice. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064750/posts#comment Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:57:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023181/posts After adjusting his immigration stance when his comprehensive immigration bill died last summer, John McCain, now with the Republican nomination in hand, has once again ruffled conservaive feathers on the immigration issue by returning to the position that almost stopped his campaign dead in its tracks. Last week McCain joined California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in supporting a "comprehensive" immigration plan. "Sen. Kennedy and I tried very hard to get a comprehensive immigration plan through Congress. We must make it a top agenda item," McCain said. But the Arizona senator's staunch defense of such a comprehensive package at the expense of... The Philadelphia Bulletin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023181/posts#comment Thu, 29 May 2008 21:05:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013549/posts Cesar Mojica Carmona could be eligible for parole in about 30 years. Friday, May 09, 2008 SAN MARCOS — Cesar Mojica Carmona took a deep breath and swallowed hard Thursday morning as he heard the sentence a Hays County jury had given him: fourteen concurrent life sentences and a $140,000 fine for what officials say was the worst case of child abuse in county history. Mojica Carmona, 24, was convicted last week on 14 counts of injury to a child for starving, biting and otherwise abusing his three children. Hewill be eligible for parole after about 30 years. Mojica Carmona... Austin Pravda http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013549/posts#comment Fri, 9 May 2008 13:22:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993927/posts Shake-up gives Fed a boost Last Updated: 2:02am BST 30/03/2008 AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARD SOPHIE BRODIE THE US government will tomorrow unveil a radical overhaul of financial regulation that would give the Federal Reserve greater powers to oversee market stability. The proposals are part of a wider effort to simplify labyrinthine US regulation, consolidate regulators and make the market more competitive. The review began last year, but has become increasingly critical as the Fed struggled to restore confidence in markets shattered by the credit crunch and bail-out of Bear Stearns. advertisement While the plans would allow the Fed to scrutinise more closely... Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993927/posts#comment Sun, 30 Mar 2008 10:55:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1950943/posts Good morning. Disinclined as I am to wade into state politics, this one is teed up like a Titleist: The governor's proposed "surcharge" on property insurance premiums is more accurately described as a tax increase. That doesn't make it a bad thing. That makes it a tax increase. ...[snip] L. A. Land (LATimes real estate blog) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1950943/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jan 2008 19:34:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930821/posts WASHINGTON - Talk about an inconvenient truth. l Gore finally won his place in the Oval Office on Monday — right next to George W. Bush. Forever linked by the closest and craziest presidential race in history, the two men were reunited by, of all things, White House tradition. Gore was among the 2007 Nobel Prize winners who were invited in for a photo and some chatter with the president; Gore got the recognition for his work on global warming. The two men stood next to other, sharing uncomfortable grins for photographers and reporters, who were quickly ushered in and... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930821/posts#comment Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:31:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930750/posts It’s not a smoking gun, but it’s smoking-related, and it’s there in bright medical images: evidence of microscopic structural damage deep in the lungs, caused by secondhand cigarette smoke. For the first time, researchers have identified lung injury to nonsmokers that was long suspected, but not previously detectable with medical imaging tools. The researchers suggest that their findings may strengthen public health efforts to restrict secondhand smoke. “We used a special type of magnetic resonance imaging to find these structural changes in the lungs,” said study leader Chengbo Wang, Ph.D., a magnetic resonance physicist in the Department of Radiology at... EurekAlert http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930750/posts#comment Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:08:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909988/posts MERIMACK, N.H. (AP) — Presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday called for a national broadband Internet system and permanent research tax credits and took a swipe at the Bush administration quoting comedian Stephen Colbert for the second time in a week. The Democratic front-runner and New York senator said high-tech jobs can't be sustained without investment in the high-tech fields, and if elected she would chart "a new course to create new jobs, grow the economy and strengthen the middle class." "The nation that invented the Internet is now ranked about 25th in access to it," Clinton said in... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909988/posts#comment Thu, 11 Oct 2007 23:32:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889398/posts WASHINGTON - Offering federal aid for strapped mortgage holders, the White House outlined proposals Friday to help borrowers hard hit by credit problems and the housing slump. The initiatives, to be formally unveiled by President Bush, were intended to help homeowners with risky mortgages keep their homes. Bush also was to discuss efforts to prevent these kinds of problems from arising in the future. It was the administration's first efforts to deal with an expected wave of mortgage defaults fueled by the subprime-mortgage crisis. White House press secretary Tony Snow said he could not provide an estimate of how much... Yahoo News / AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889398/posts#comment Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:22:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889196/posts WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 — President Bush, in his first response to low-income families hit by the subprime mortgage crisis, plans to announce several steps Friday aimed at helping Americans with credit difficulties to meet the rising cost of their housing loans, administration officials said Thursday. NEW YORK TIMES http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889196/posts#comment Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:12:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1885532/posts Senator to assure that farm legislation is a priority in today's Fresno appearance. WASHINGTON -- Get ready for another ride on the immigration roller coaster. Today, Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein will be assuring a San Joaquin Valley audience that Congress will once more take up a big agricultural guest-worker bill. A top priority for Valley farmers, the bill soon could resurface on Capitol Hill. "Agriculture is going to push this thing," Manuel Cunha, president of the Fresno-based Nisei Farmers League, said Wednesday. The agricultural guest-worker package is getting its second wind two months after comprehensive immigration reform collapsed in the... The Fresno Bee http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1885532/posts#comment Thu, 23 Aug 2007 19:25:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1884764/posts DES MOINES --- Democratic presidential hopeful Chris Dodd on Monday criticized the Federal Reserve Board for failing to respond quickly enough to the mortgage crisis that has rocked Wall Street. [snip] Dodd said the government should be working to provide relief to people who will be losing their homes. "People are saying, is this a deep crisis or not? If it's your home, it’s a deep crisis. If you get thrown out of your house, believe me, it's a major crisis, here," Dodd said. WCFCourier.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1884764/posts#comment Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:30:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1859400/posts Another blow for the poverty theory of "radicalization." "Two Terror Suspects Are Hospital doctors," from Sky News: Two of the five terror suspects being held in the wake of the failed car bombings in London and Glasgow are believed to be hospital doctors working in the UK. The majority of the five terror suspects being held in police custody in connection with bomb attacks in London and Glasgow are not British and at least one is still at large, according to Sky sources. Sky sources believe one of the men arrested at Glasgow airport and a 26- year-old man arrested... Jihad Watch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1859400/posts#comment Mon, 2 Jul 2007 02:27:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1859432/posts LONDON - Some now call London the "Muslim capital of Europe." No Western city has more mosques. And now London could be home to the largest Mosque outside of the Middle East. CBNNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1859432/posts#comment Mon, 2 Jul 2007 03:54:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1852328/posts WASHINGTON- U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) today made the following statement on the agreement to bring the immigration reform bill back to the floor. The Senate will resume debate on immigration possibly as soon as next week. Graham said: “After 9-11 immigration reform is not just a social and economic problem, but also a national security issue of the highest importance. I am pleased that the Senate leadership is going to bring the immigration reform bill back to the floor for further debate and amendment. This is a great opportunity for the Senate, in a bipartisan fashion, to reform... L. Graham Senate website http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1852328/posts#comment Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:54:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1846565/posts HEILIGENDAMM, Germany - Group of Eight leaders including President Bush agreed Thursday to call for substantial global emissions reductions to fight global warming and cited a goal of a 50 percent cut by 2050. European leaders hailed the deal as progress in the wrangling between Europe and the United States over global warming, with the Europeans pushing mandatory cuts and the U.S. resisting. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who shepherded the deal as chair of the G-8 summit in this seaside resort in northern Germany, called it "very great progress and an excellent result." With Bush resisting concrete cuts, it had... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1846565/posts#comment Thu, 7 Jun 2007 19:18:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1840693/posts I've been hearing rumors for a couple of weeks now that New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin is considering running for Governor. I finally found a news outlet that confirms this rumor, thanks to freelance journalist Jason Berry, who appeared on Informed Sources last night to predict that Nagin will run for Governor. Hat tip to Library Chronicles. As an aside, is this Jason Berry the author of Amazing Grace, an account of Charles Evers' run for Governor in Mississippi back in 1972? But back to the issue at hand - Ray Nagin running for Governor of Louisiana. This makes... dailykingfish.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1840693/posts#comment Sun, 27 May 2007 23:38:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1836227/posts The Bush administration insisted on a little-noticed change in the bipartisan Senate immigration bill that would enable 12 million undocumented residents to avoid paying back taxes or associated fines to the Internal Revenue Service, officials said. An independent analyst estimated the decision could cost the IRS tens of billions of dollars. A provision requiring payment of back taxes had been in the initial version of a bill proposed by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the Massachusetts Democrat. But the administration called for the provision to be removed due to concern that it would be too difficult to figure out which illegal... Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1836227/posts#comment Sat, 19 May 2007 10:54:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1836192/posts COLUMBIA — Republican National Committee Chairman Mel Martinez on Friday urged GOP leaders from around the nation to back immigration legislation that some critics contend is too soft on illegal aliens. "If we don't pass this bill, nobody that is in the shadows today will come out of the shadows and be accounted for," Martinez, a U.S. senator from Florida, told about 60 state party leaders wrapping up a three-day RNC meeting here. The bill, a compromise reached by liberals and conservatives, would offer citizenship to some 12 million immigrants now in the United States illegally. It also would mandate... Aiken Today http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1836192/posts#comment Sat, 19 May 2007 06:17:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1835200/posts WASHINGTON - Republican and Democratic senators huddled Thursday trying to close in on an immigration compromise to grant quick legal status to millions of undocumented immigrants while fortifying U.S. borders against new ones. A group of lawmakers that has been haggling over the terms of agreement for weeks were reviewing language negotiated Wednesday night to determine if there is a "deal or no deal." But two of the lead negotiators, Sens. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., and Lindsey Graham (news, bio, voting record), R-S.C., booked time for Thursday afternoon in the Senate's radio-TV gallery for an announcement. Kennedy earlier described Thursday... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1835200/posts#comment Thu, 17 May 2007 16:27:37 GMT