http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/caruba/ en-us Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:20:35 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1720187/posts In his book, ''State of Fear,'' author Michael Crichton appended an opinion entitled “Why Politicized Science Is Dangerous,” and cautioned against, “a social program masquerading as a scientific one,” citing the widespread eugenics movement in the early part of the last century. “A second example of politicized science is quite different in character,” warned Crichton. “It exemplifies the hazard of government ideology controlling the work of science, and of uncritical media promoting false concepts.” Just as eugenics drew praise and support from politicians, academicians, and media in its time, so too has the manufactured crisis of global warming today. This... Chron Watch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1720187/posts#comment Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:20:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/733489/posts No matter where you go in America, some things remain the same. One is the acute injustice of the "education lobby." State budget woes have brought educrats out in force. In Oregon, they want to borrow against next year's budget to avoid this year's cuts. In Seattle, espresso-cart operators have gone ballistic over a 10-cent-a-cup "latte tax" placed on the fall ballot, with the proceeds, in the millions, going to schools. The educrats' universal slogan is "do it for the children." Invariably, "it" refers to the transfer of money from the taxpayer's pocketbook to the educrat's bank account. When I... WorldNetDaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/733489/posts#comment Thu, 15 Aug 2002 08:41:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1352710/posts I served long ago in a peacetime, Cold War army, but my training in the combat arts and the skill-sets necessary to stay alive probably didn’t differ that much from that which Marine Corps 2nd Lt. Ilario Pantano received. No, in fact, his training was probably better. Marines exist for one purpose. They are not peacekeepers. They are true warriors. They are the ones sent first to where the fighting will be the worst. They know it. They volunteer for it. On April 15, 2004, the Lieutenant and his patrol were on duty in Iraq’s violence-filled Sunni Triangle. That date... CFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1352710/posts#comment Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:28:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1408703/posts An interview with Pat Buchanan in the May 17 edition of The Washington Times has evoked a lot of discussion on the various message boards that self-identified conservatives visit. "The conservative movement has passed into history," said the three-time presidential candidate, commentator, and magazine publisher. He’s right. As a movement, a unifying force, the conservatism that mobilized people to vote in sufficient numbers to give control of Congress to Republicans in 1994 and, with the exception of eight years with Bill Clinton in office, has put Republicans in the White House has lost its momentum. Since then, the Democrat Party... CFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1408703/posts#comment Mon, 23 May 2005 15:01:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/725889/posts Does anyone seriously believe the Palestinians want peace? The Israelis retaliated against a man who had plotted the deaths of hundreds of their countrymen and, in return, his colleagues kill whom? University students. Young people among whom were four Americans. The Palestinians danced again in the streets of Gaza. When Israeli Jews die, the world looks on and regards it as part of a war being waged against them. I am not talking of soldiers, but the countless civilians, the children and teenagers who are targeted along with others. As in the Hebrew University bombing, the aim here is to... Israel Insider http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/725889/posts#comment Thu, 1 Aug 2002 13:56:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/892483/posts Sometimes a single incident can reveal the widespread rot that has affected the nation's school systems as they strive to indoctrinate the children entrusted to their care while neglecting to teach them the Three R's. In Inverness, Florida, a 12-year-old boy was cuffed*, arrested, and taken in a patrol car to jail where he was held for two hours. His crime? You aren't going to believe it! Kyle Fredrikson was walking back to class from lunch when Deputy Tim Langer saw the boy "purposely stomping in the water" after being told numerous times by school personnel to stay with the... NewsWithViews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/892483/posts#comment Sun, 13 Apr 2003 22:23:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1557412/posts Given the rise in statements about the manner in which this nation went to war in Iraq or our current military conduct of the conflict there, it is time to review the law that defines sedition. It is found in the U.S. Code, Title 18, Section 2388: Activities affecting armed forces during war. Canada Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1557412/posts#comment Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:04:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1249009/posts There was a time when, if you wrote or spoke out against the United Nations, you would be dismissed as some "right-wing nutcase" who saw conspiracies or was some kind of "isolationist" who didn't understand the need for an international forum where the problems of the world could be resolved without resort to warfare. Turns out that the United Nations, founded in 1948, is not simply incapable of stopping wars and genocides, it is so utterly corrupt that it needs to be eliminated entirely in the hope that the many other existing international organizations, treaties, unilateral and bilateral relations can... CapitalismMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1249009/posts#comment Mon, 18 Oct 2004 19:39:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1405051/posts Say what you will about the former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, demonized by the Democrats when Clinton was in office, the man’s intellectual powers are impressive. It was, of course, Gingrich, along with former Rep. Dick Armey, who wrote the Contract with America that put the Republican Party in control of Congress in 1994. The Contract, which virtually all of the then-GOP candidates signed, proposed some concrete solutions to problems. With Republicans in the majority, the welfare system was reformed, balanced budgets followed, and so did the first tax cuts in memory. There were rule changes in the... CFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1405051/posts#comment Tue, 17 May 2005 20:01:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1280305/posts Guard dogs on commercial properties would be outlawed, towns could not legally stop people from feeding feral cats and a medical diagnosis would be required to euthanize an animal. Police would be trained to perform CPR on injured cats and dogs, and they would be the front line in animal abuse probes. Special teams of county prosecutors also would be created to handle the cases, much like they already do for child abuse, sex offenses and major crimes. These are just a few reforms being proposed by leaders of Gov. James E. McGreevey's Animal Welfare Task Force, a group charged... Breederville http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1280305/posts#comment Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:47:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/820068/posts BushCountry's intrepid reporter, Jeremy Reynalds seems to have angered some Islamists at Azzam's Forum: Jeremy Reynalds: An Obtuse Foot soldier of a Wretched Tyrant. By Abuz-Zubair on Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 06:21 am: Like Tyrant. . . Like Foot soldier. . . Skulls without brains! Can you believe it?! A Christian fundamentalist, a racist, a nationalist and a Muslim hater, who originally is an Englishman, emigrated to the US in 1979, in a bid to pour the American tax payers’ money in defence of the ‘ever innocent and defenceless’, Zionist state of Israel. Why? Oh, because the ‘Holy Scripture... As-Sahwah.com (Azzam's front) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/820068/posts#comment Fri, 10 Jan 2003 05:54:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/807395/posts Let´s just say it and get it over with. The most recent winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Jimmy Carter, is dumber than a box of rocks. He is the quintessential liberal without the slightest grasp of reality. "But, Alan, he was the President of the United States", you say. That´s right and the good citizens of this nation voted him out after just one term because they quickly came to the conclusion he didn´t have a clue about either domestic or foreign affairs. The various despots of the world took a look at Jimmy and instantly knew they had... Toogood Reports http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/807395/posts#comment Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:01:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1090276/posts George W. Bush calls himself "a war president," but Americans seem to be more focused of late on the state of the economy. The war was fought and won so swiftly, it has virtually faded from the minds of Americans, despite the fact we have troops deployed in combat situations in both Iraq and in Afghanistan. Once the "embedded" journalists came home, the war, for most people, was over. Only it's not. This war is about transforming a region of the world in ways that may well take a generation or more. It's about ridding the region of despotism. It's... cnsnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1090276/posts#comment Thu, 4 Mar 2004 03:30:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1560224/posts On January 16th, I attended the 22nd annual Martin Luther King, Jr. dinner sponsored by the Congress of Racial Equality. Held in the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers, suffice it to say, I had an opportunity to meet a large number of very prominent Americans. Canada Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1560224/posts#comment Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:08:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1534464/posts We are in a new era of ex-Presidents. Having been the most powerful leader in the world, accepting either defeat at the polls or the finality of a second term, we now have two former Democrat Presidents, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, who will not get off the world stage, nor restrain themselves from the criticism of the current President. It is worse than unseemly, it is the kind of backstabbing behavior that betrays them for the kind of person they were while in office, i.e., petty, vindictive, arrogant, et cetera. Most recently, it was reported that former President Clinton... http://www.enterstageright.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1534464/posts#comment Mon, 5 Dec 2005 21:08:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1134194/posts I seriously doubt that any of the detainees in the jails in Iraq have ever read, nor even heard of the Geneva Convention. When I was in the Army, no one ever devoted a minute to discussing it, but maybe things have changed. These rules of conduct for war certainly are unknown to the terrorists who have been waging war on the United States of America. There clearly were abuses, maybe even criminal acts committed against some of the Iraqi detainees, but the huge uproar over these isolated events is designed to (1) undermine homefront and military morale, and support... National Anxiety Center http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1134194/posts#comment Wed, 12 May 2004 17:32:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1679010/posts At what point do Americans and the rest of the world begin to take Iran’s leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, seriously? He is making no secret of his plans to acquire and use nuclear weapons against Israel, England and America. As any student in Psychology 101 learns, there is something called “projection” in which an individual “projects” onto another person their own intentions, motivations, and justifications. If I say you are planning to harm me, there’s a strong chance the truth is that I am planning to harm you. On August 1, he was addressing a rally that was carried on the... HUMAN EVENTS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1679010/posts#comment Mon, 7 Aug 2006 05:38:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1095599/posts The US media almost entirely ignores news regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran. As Tony Snow of the Fox News Network has put it, “this is probably the most under-reported news story of the year.” But most American’s are unaware that the Islamic Republic of Iran is NOT supported by the masses of Iranians today. Modern Iranians are among the most pro-American in the Middle East. There is a popular revolt against the Iranian regime brewing in Iran today. Starting June 10th of this year, Iranians have begun taking to the streets to express their desire for a regime change.... The Iranian Student Movement Up To The Minute Reports http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1095599/posts#comment Thu, 11 Mar 2004 19:36:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1110170/posts Americans are pragmatists. We are interested not only in how things work, but how we can improve them. We are fascinated with cars and with every kind of machine and gadget that make our lives easier as well as entertaining us with the leisure time they provide. If you want to find Americans, go to the mall. Despite this, however, Americans can surely be rated as among the most religious people. The success of the film "The Passion of the Christ" is ample testimony to that. The debate raging over the morality of same-sex marriage, the outcry against the removal... CNSNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1110170/posts#comment Fri, 2 Apr 2004 17:52:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1682809/posts "Before the Israeli attack, Lebanon no longer existed, it was no more than a hologram.” This is what the Lebanese journalist, Michael Behe, wrote on July 30. His commentary was posted on the website of the Metula News Agency in Beirut. To understand the Lebanese situation, it helps to know that, despite a history that dates back to biblical times, modern Lebanon was literally the invention of Western powers, England and France, after WWI in 1920. It became independent of France in the early 1940s. Then, in the 1970s, the Palestinians, driven out of Jordan and elsewhere, moved in. Doing... newbyus.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1682809/posts#comment Sun, 13 Aug 2006 14:14:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1595427/posts The Fraudulent Senator: Part 1 of a 7 Part Series Once upon a time the woman who former Democrat House Ways and Means Committee Chairman and convicted felon Dan Rostenkowski was credited with calling "the smartest woman in the world'' decided that departing the pinnacle of world power at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue – where she was co-president of the U.S. for eight years – was unacceptable. In no time, she decided that the fastest route to regaining that power was to spend as few years as possible as the junior senator from New York and then move onward and upward... new media journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1595427/posts#comment Mon, 13 Mar 2006 13:56:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1322592/posts The famed novelist, Michael Crichton, may achieve what mountains of scientific data produced by meteorologists and others have not. He may get the public to understand that the UN Kyoto Climate Control Protocol is, itself, a work of fiction. His novel, State of Fear, (HarperCollins, 603 pages, $27.95) is a technopolitical thriller based on the widely ignored data that global warming is a hoax, but worse than that, it is a hoax specifically designed to harm the lives and the economy of people living in industrialized nations. It may well be the first novel to come complete with a section... CFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1322592/posts#comment Mon, 17 Jan 2005 19:23:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1568499/posts Global Warming Bombshell A prime piece of evidence linking human activity to climate change turns out to be an artifact of poor mathematics. ..... Canadian scientists Stephen McIntyre and Ross McKitrick have uncovered a fundamental mathematical flaw in the computer program that was used to produce the hockey stick. In his original publications of the stick, Mann purported to use a standard method known as principal component analysis, or PCA, to find the dominant features in a set of more than 70 different climate records. Technology Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1568499/posts#comment Tue, 31 Jan 2006 09:29:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/581321/posts Osama bin Laden didn't intend to change Islam. He wanted to extend it to the whole of the world while returning it to some mythical golden age. What he has done, however, is roll a live grenade into every mosque everywhere in the world. He has revealed that Islam is neither a religion of peace, nor tolerance. The deepest motivation of its believers comes less from faith, than from a contempt for all unbelievers that is deeply imbedded in Islam. Islam does not free the believer's soul; it enslaves it, because Islam literally means submission. For those eager for spiritual ... Too Good Reports http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/581321/posts#comment Fri, 30 Nov 2001 18:41:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1391487/posts A lot of thoughtful conservatives are having serious second thoughts about George W. Bush. His failure to act upon core values of fiscal conservatism and sovereignty is a growing concern. Donations to conservative organizations and think tanks are in sharp decline. A lot of conservatives have decided to stop giving financial support because they are losing faith in the ability of these groups to have any effect on administration policies. Bush has an engaging personality, but he’s not running for office anymore. He is already a very lame duck. In concert with Republican party leaders in Congress, the White House... CFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1391487/posts#comment Tue, 26 Apr 2005 18:12:30 GMT