Free Republic

The chosen legislative instrument to begin the "fundamental transformation of America" was Obamacare. It was presented as an act of charity, a plan to cover the uninsured. That was the “issue” as they presented it. But the actual goal of Obamacare’s socialist sponsors was a “single payer system” – government healthcare — which would put the state in control of the lives of every American, man, woman and child. That is the reason that none of the promises made about Obamacare was true, beginning with his campaign lie that Obamacare government health care was not a program he would support....

One of the most ingenious and effective strategies of the Left on any number of topics is to frame the debate and co-opt the language so effectively that it becomes all but impossible even to discuss the subject honestly. Take the brothers Tsarnaev, the incendiary end of a Chechen family that in very short time has settled aunts, uncles, sisters, and more across the map of North America from Massachusetts to New Jersey to my own home town of Toronto. Maybe your town has a Tsarnaev, too: There seems to be no shortage of them, except, oddly, back in Chechnya....

NFL Films president Steve Sabol died Tuesday morning after an 18-month battle with brain cancer. He was 69. Sabol was one of the driving forces behind NFL Films -- which has allowed fans to see a different side of football for the past 50 years. His father, Ed Sabol, recently inducted into the Hall of Fame, started the company and convinced the league to let him film the 1962 NFL title game. Eventually, Sabol, with help from Steve, started NFL Films, and the league was never the same. Everything you see on Inside the NFL? NFL Films. Much of what...

Now the eyeballs of the nation turn toward this vibrant, proud, ambitious city in North or possibly South Carolina as the Democrats gather here to present their message of hope for America, namely that the Republicans are fascist, racist women-hating scum. Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/09/03/2983588/can-joe-biden-possibly-compete.html#storylink=cpy

“We Will Be As a City upon a Hill” Governor Ronald Reagan (R-CA) Conservative Political Action Conference Washington, DC January 25, 1974 There are three men here tonight I am very proud to introduce. It was a year ago this coming February when this country had its spirits lifted as they have never been lifted in many years. This happened when planes began landing on American soil and in the Philippines, bringing back men who had lived with honor for many miserable years in North Vietnam prisons. Three of those men are here tonight, John McCain, Bill Lawrence and Ed...

He was tall and darkly handsome, in a chiseled sort of way. Clearly intelligent. Quiet and attentive, yet distant in a way that intrigued her as they both drew closer together during those long evenings sipping cheap wine and practicing sophistication on each other. Both were new to adulthood, trying out the public personalities each wanted the world to see, not the inner tremors that corroded their intestines during long nights when dark personal fears crept into the corners of their lonely apartments. Like most others from somewhere else who found themselves living in New York City, they told each...

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. -- Michael Jordan's longtime personal residence in suburban Chicago is for sale for $29 million. The sprawling estate is in Highland Park, along Lake Michigan, and has more than 56,000 square feet of living space. That includes nine bedrooms, 15 baths and five fireplaces. There's also a three-bedroom guesthouse, pool area, outdoor tennis court and three climate-controlled multi-car garages. An indoor basketball complex features a full-size regulation court with specially cushioned hardwood flooring and competition-quality high intensity lighting. It has a sound system set up to provide perfect acoustics within the court space. The property was put...

I needed to Google an error message on my computer and typed "could" in the search box and the "suggestions" below had as #1 "could I be pregnant". Now I am no conspiracy type but I do know that Google is run by a bunch of left wing types and just wonder if that was programmed to pop up first due to the current controversy around the regime's push to force religious institutions to provide birth control and "day after" type medications including Catholic and other religious run health organizations. What do you think? Am I just being hyper-sensitive? Seeing...

Wondering what cliche President Obama will use first in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday? So are the oddsmakers. Paddy Power, Ireland's biggest bookmaking operation, is giving 8-1 odds that "We have more work to do" will be the first cliche the president is likely to drop. Next-most likely are "As I stand here today," and "health care reform" — though given the usual structure of State of the Union speeches, that latter one will likely be saved for the last half of the speech.

You can be forgiven if you didn’t know that we’re in the middle of an ice age right now, what with all the talk about global warming. But it’s true. We’re in what geologists call “the Quaternary glaciation,” an ice age that’s lasted for the past 2.5 million years. Ice ages last a very long time, with periods of extreme cold punctuated by warmer periods, or interglacials. We’re in such an interglacial right now: The Holocene epoch began about 12,000 years ago. It’s best thought of as a brief respite from the most severe ravages of Quaternary ice Read more:...

GW Bush at Flight 93 Memorial: "Evil Is Real, So Is Courage" The best speech W has ever given in MHO. Watch here.

Hundreds of United Nations global warming scientists have just met in France via Earth-destroying air travel, ironically at a time of unseasonably cool temperatures across France, to once again justify their funding. Apparently the overall temperature of Earth is set to maybe rise 4 degrees Fahrenheit within the next hundred years. And you can bet that when climate scientists get together to discuss “solutions” to these hypothetical “problems,” it means they’re going to come up with ways to make humans suffer for being jerks to the planet. According to the website for the group—known as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...

I received this from friend via email and thought I would pass it on. A different point of view Here's something to think about . . . . I remember asking dad about Castro when I was about 9 years old. I asked , "Is Castro a good guy or bad?" Dad said he couldn't tell!! This was about 1955. We were living in Louisiana at the time . Dad was in the army there. Cuba was fairly close and in the news a lot. The Cubans were asking the same question! Ike was president. This past July, we had...

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO FREE ENTERPRISE? by Ronald Reagan During the presidential campaign last year, there was a great deal of talk about the seeming inability of our economic system to solve the problems of unemployment and inflation . Issues such as taxes and government power and costs were discussed, but always these things were discussed in the context of what government intended to do about it. May I suggest for your consideration that government has already done too much about it? That indeed, government, by going outside its proper province, has caused many if not most of the problems that...

In a remarkable monograph, Roy W. Spencer presents hard evidence that 75% of the observed warming since the start of the 20th century is due to natural processes. He offers a detailed model describing how one of these processes, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), operates in the real world. Most importantly, he demonstrates that anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is a minor contributor to a global climate largely insensitive to man-made CO2.  Thanks to this highly skilled climatologist and his The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled The World's Top Climate Scientists, we can now taunt the often corrupt...

With all the to do about the new law down in Arizona, it got me thinking about how often I have to show some form of identification in the course of my everyday life. The big objection from the left is that you can be stopped and asked for "your papers"(nazi reference?). Well, let me list a few of the things I have to show "my papers" for: Boarding an airplane (at least twice before you can board!) Stopped for a traffic violation To get my senior discount (ha) To buy beer in a store (even though I'm 66 years...

Thi is great email I got today. It is so good I just had to post it here. I have no idea who Tom Adkins is but he is right on. Read: By Tom Adkins Look at my fellow conservatives! There they go, glumly shuffling along, depressed by the election aftermath. Not me. I'm virtually euphoric. Don't get me wrong. I'm not thrilled with America 's flirtation with neo socialism. But there's a massive silver lining in those magical clouds that lofted Barack Obama to the Presidency. For today, without a shred of intellectually legitimate opposition, I can loudly...

Policy Not Panic The growing demand for the United States to end its ban on offshore oil drilling should be seen for what it is. Panic. Excerpt read this nonsense here: Policy, Not Panic

One of the best essays I have ever read by Victor David Hansen on why we have to fight wars and an insight into today's problems with waging war. While it is long it is nonetheless a great read. While there are many references to past battles and generals, you don't have to be a history buff to understand what is being said here. Give it a read and comment. Why Study War?

North Tonawanda police issued a nationwide Amber Alert on Monday for a 4-year-old girl after she was taken from her home on Tremont Street. Police said Serenity Plattscq was taken by David Grover, 29, a former friend of the girl's mother. Grover allegedly showed up at the Tremont Street home about 8 p.m. Monday while Serenity's mother was at work and she was being watched by her grandmother. Grover left with the child when the grandmother stepped out of the room, police said. Police said Grover was driving a gray 2003 Acura with the New York State license number DLL-5964....