http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/compromise/ en-us Sat, 2 Jan 2010 13:06:10 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2419425/posts Five Mainstream Republican Resolutions for 2010 by John F. Di Leo Individuals like to make the most of New Year's Day, by taking the opportunity of a calendar-based fresh start, for one's career, one's household, one's personal relationships. We vow to lose weight, to write a book, to remodel the attic, to change jobs. Public companies do this as well. That's what annual reports and fourth quarter stockholder guidance reports are, at the core: evaluations of the past year, and promises to investors and potential investors (and the SEC, while they're at it) of what they intend to do in... Illinois Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2419425/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 13:06:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406725/posts Two key senators criticized the most recent healthcare compromise Sunday, saying the policies replacing the public option are still unacceptable. Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) both said a Medicare "buy-in" option for those aged 55-64 was a deal breaker. The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406725/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:07:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2340402/posts JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – South Africa will not sign any deal that would compromise the country's economic development chances at the upcoming climate change conference in Copenhagen, the environment minister said Tuesday. "All negotiators are there to pursue national interests ... and South Africa is no different in this regard. If a deal is going to compromise our national interest we are not going to support it 100 percent," Buyelwa Sonjica told journalist. In the lead up to the crucial climate summit in December which hopes to thrash out a new climate treaty, Sonjica said it was unrealistic for developing countries... AFP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2340402/posts#comment Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:32:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2331687/posts WASHINGTON – Even as liberals urge President Barack Obama to demand bold, far-reaching changes to the nation's health care system, the White House signaled openness Thursday to compromises that might attract moderate congressional Democrats as well as some Republicans. Obama believes in "fundamental principles" about overhauling health care, top presidential adviser David Axelrod told The Associated Press, but "he's not dogmatic about how we get there." Axelrod's comments did not definitively answer how hard Obama will push for the most ambitious parts of his proposal, including health insurance for virtually all Americans and a government-run plan to compete with private... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2331687/posts#comment Fri, 4 Sep 2009 01:00:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2327941/posts Many members of the clergy must be using the Bible like the old Sears catalogue – for toilet paper – because they obviously don't read it. Last week, another once-great church succumbed to the relentless, media-savvy campaign of determined homosexuality. "Leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America voted to lift the ban that prohibited sexually active gay and lesbian people from serving as ministers," reported the Associated Press. In July, the Episcopal House of Bishops and laity approved liturgies for same-sex couples and endorsed the right to elect gay bishops. Lutherans and Episcopalians join other denominational giants, Unitarians and... WorldNetDaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2327941/posts#comment Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:39:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2301421/posts Don't look now, but post-partisanship is making a comeback. Nobody is celebrating, but Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and state lawmakers have just demonstrated again that it's possible to bridge the deep partisan divide that has frozen California's Legislature in a condition of near perpetual gridlock. Last week, for the second time in five months, Schwarzenegger cobbled together a difficult budget plan and joined lawmakers from both parties to support the compromises necessary to pull the state back from the brink of insolvency. In February, he got fellow Republicans to raise taxes temporarily. And now he has persuaded Democrats to make deep... Sacramento Bee http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2301421/posts#comment Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:17:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/961444/posts Dr. Howard Dean’s fans come out for the big Democratic summer shindig As Tom Andrews, the director of the leading national antiwar coalition, began his speech at the Maine Democrats’ big outdoor summer shindig in Falmouth, John Baldacci signaled his bodyguard/driver to move the large, dark SUV up the driveway. The vehicle soon hid in the trees, its engine quietly humming. At first, the governor seemed to be paying attention as Andrews, the former First District congressman, launched into rousing tales of how the country, under President George W. Bush, had gone "from peace and prosperity to war and recession."... Portland Phoenix http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/961444/posts#comment Sun, 10 Aug 2003 13:08:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2297182/posts If you are a California Resident, let the state party know that you won't give them ANY money or votes if any member of the party votes to endorse the reported $4bil in additional "Revenue Enhancements" to "balance" the budget.No money, no votes.info@cagop.org Multiple http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2297182/posts#comment Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:47:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2297096/posts WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--An anti-abortion Democrat on Monday said he is negotiating a compromise aimed at resolving concerns that House health-care legislation would allow federal funding of abortions. Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., said he is in talks with Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman, D-Calif., on the language. Stupak said his and Waxman's staff discussed the issue over the weekend and suggested that a compromise could be voted on this week as an amendment to a health-care bill under consideration by the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Stupak represents an important vote on the health-care measure, which already faces possible opposition... WALL STREET JOURNAL http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2297096/posts#comment Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:24:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2287249/posts An Open Letter to Pastor Rick Warren By Jan Markell On July 5 the Washington Times online reported that Pastor Rick Warren told his Islamic audience, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA,) that he envisions "a coalition of faith." Whether Pastor Warren knows this or not, this is just another term for the coming one-world religion outlined in Revelation 13. It is further outlined in Revelation 17. I have not taken on the issue of Rick Warren all that often, but after reading what the Washington Times has to say about his message to a group of spiritually lost... Worldview Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2287249/posts#comment Tue, 7 Jul 2009 14:28:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2284074/posts "It is a people that shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations." (From this week's Torah portion, Balak, Numbers 23:9) Currently, Israel's very essence is its unrequited ambition to be reckoned among the nations. Official Israel does all in its power to be "normal -" in other words, to be like the nations of the world. Israel yearns to be accepted, to "belong," to enjoy the patronage of the nations. It will settle for almost anything. As long as it will not have to dwell alone. Jewish home in outpost. Sign says "G-d is King." But... Manhigut Yehudit--The Jewish Leadership Movement http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2284074/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 14:34:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283855/posts Link only, per FR copyright rules The Arizona Republic, Phoenix, Ariz. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283855/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 04:20:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2266596/posts If you've spent any time at all on Internet message boards or in college debate class you'll have seen the rafters vibrate with righteous condemnation against the "slippery slope argument." It is claimed that a worst case, ultimate extrapolation of a thing is a bad argument because it isn't necessarily a truism. Supporters of the Second Amendment, for instance, are scolded by liberals when the supporter says that any new gun law is "one more step to banning guns." The gun restricter says that the gun supporter is employing a "slippery slope" argument and that it is idiotic to claim... Publius' Forum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2266596/posts#comment Sun, 7 Jun 2009 13:33:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259045/posts In the face-off between Mahmoud (Achmadinijad), Hussein (Obama) and Bibi, the first two can chalk up a major victory even before the game begins. Mahmoud doesn't have a bomb yet, but Netanyahu is already running to drive Jews from their homes and destroy their villages. Hussein Obama, who released the trial balloon called Bushehr in exchange for Yitzhar can also congratulate himself on two big wins. Netanyahu paid lip service to a strong, independent Israel, but his actions show that he has accepted Obama's Bushehr for Yitzhar principle. He also accepted another of Obama's principles: that the right of Israel... Manhigut Yehudit--The Jewish Leadership Movement http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259045/posts#comment Wed, 27 May 2009 14:52:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2259037/posts And it came to pass in the days when the judges judged, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beit Lehem in Judah went to sojourn in the field of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons. And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi, and the name of his two sons Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Beit Lehem in Judeah. And they came into the field of Moab, and stayed there. And Elimelech Naomi's husband died; and she was left, and her two sons.... Manhigut Yehudit--The Jewish Leadership Movement http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2259037/posts#comment Wed, 27 May 2009 14:42:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2252963/posts Notre Dame, The President’s Perspective According to Reuters News Agency, the following quote was given by the President to the University of Notre Dame in his Commencement Address. “SOUTH BEND, Indiana (Reuters) - President Barack Obama urged both sides in the abortion debate on Sunday to pursue a "fair-minded" discussion as he sought to quell a firestorm over his invitation to speak at Notre Dame, a premier U.S. Catholic university. The President has proposed his vision of a fair minded approach when he signed off on the confiscation of tax monies to fund abortions on an International Scale. The Bible... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2252963/posts#comment Mon, 18 May 2009 02:14:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168550/posts Barry Soetoro/Barack Hussein Obama with Grandma in Kogelo, KenyaA photograph of Barry's school enrollment describing him as a "Muslim" with an "Indonesian" citizenship. Robert Drobot http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2168550/posts#comment Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:55:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108512/posts ABOARD “Straight Talk Air” (between New York and Miami)—Sen. John McCain would “absolutely” not compromise on Supreme Court nominations if elected and would continue to nominate strict constructionist judges if any of his Supreme Court nominations were defeated by a hostile Senate. McCain said that and much more to HUMAN EVENTS chief political correspondent John Gizzi in an exclusive interview Friday morning. The Republican presidential nominee also said, if elected, he would gladly join running mate Sarah Palin on a trip to Alaska to view the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge but has not yet changed his mind on oil drilling... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108512/posts#comment Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:41:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068800/posts There has been plenty of whining from conservatives concerning whether John McCain would select a pro-choice vice president. I just hope whining is all it is. As my colleague Dan Calabrese pointed out on August 21, the political leanings of the VP concerning abortion are largely irrelevant. The only way to meaningfully decrease the number of abortions is to convince people that abortion is a bad idea, not to legislate. But this conservative whining must be starting to concern McCain and his political strategists at least a little. Maybe these people who keep complaining that McCain isn´t conservative enough are... The American Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068800/posts#comment Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:29:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053169/posts Composite exchange of late seen too often at FreeRepublic: Petulant Poster #1 Juan McCain is not a conservative. The Republican party jumped the shark by nominating this open borders, gang of fourteen, amnesty liberal. He’s a RINO, a dem in pubby clothing. The only thing that would persuade me to vote for McCain is if he picks ______ (fill in the blank, Mitt Romney, Michael Steele, Duncan Hunter, Jindal, Palin, Pawlenty, etc.) as his running mate. Purist Poster #2 I’m not voting this cycle. It’s time for the Republicans to suffer for going so far leftward. The only way the... FreeRepublic.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053169/posts#comment Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:30:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026106/posts WASHINGTON - After promising to veto a huge Iraq war-funding bill because it contains unrelated domestic spending, the White House now wants to boost the costs even higher by letting troops transfer ramped up GI Bill education benefits to their spouses or children. The White House is signaling that President Bush could sign the hotly contested and long overdue war funding bill if the benefit transferability provision is added to the 10-year, $52 billion improvement to GI Bill college benefits proposed by Democrats and many Republicans. "It's like the Yogi Berra story: 'I don't like that restaurant. Besides, the portions... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026106/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jun 2008 23:03:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995047/posts France and Britain can plausibly claim to have the longest-running national rivalry in the history of the world. With brief intermissions, the competition between France and England has been going on for nearly seven centuries, since the hundred years war. The very identity of Britishness, on which Gordon Brown is so keen, was forged in the 18th- and early 19th-century conflict with France. Britain invented itself as the anti-France. This grand rivalry should continue for another seven centuries - on the football pitch and the rugby field. In politics, it has had its day, and must be replaced by a... Guardian.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995047/posts#comment Tue, 1 Apr 2008 19:35:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1957991/posts A man alerted Transportation Security Administration officials early Sunday morning that he had gotten through the main security checkpoint with a handgun, Fox 5 has exclusively learned. Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority Police were called to the checkpoint where the man, identified as Gregory Hinkle, turned over his firearm and was given a summons for a misdemeanor for violating Virigina Code 18.2-287.01 which prohibits firearms in an airport terminal with exceptions for law enforcement and checked luggage. -snip- Fox 5 DC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1957991/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:01:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1943397/posts The Legacy of Judas: National Right to Life Contact: Donna Ballentine, 888-888-2785 MEDIA ADVISORY, Dec. 20 /Christian Newswire/ -- The following is submitted by Brian Rohrbough, President, American RTL: Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot went to the chief priests and said, "What are you willing to give me if I deliver Him to you?" And they counted out to him thirty pieces of silver. So from that time he sought opportunity to betray Him. In 1981, after president Ronald Reagan agreed he would sign federal personhood legislation for the unborn, National Right to Life and their longtime... American Right to Life http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1943397/posts#comment Sun, 23 Dec 2007 02:54:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1924317/posts The Second Amendment ratifies an individual, inalienable right, abortion kills American citizens, without due process, and "queer" is "queer"! "Illegal" migrants are "illegal" law breakers. I will just be damned if I can figure out why this is so complicated! self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1924317/posts#comment Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:30:36 GMT