http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/corruption/ en-us Sun, 5 Jul 2009 20:36:44 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286087/posts STATE GOVERNMENT HAS NEVER BEEN SO CLOWNISH, SO EVIL, SO IRRELEVANT Having witnessed the anarchy, chaos and lack of leadership that has engulfed the state Capitol during the past month, I have a painful confession to make. After three decades as a journalist covering state government, if I had to do it all over again, I'd find another job. I've covered Govs. Hugh Carey, Mario Cuomo, George Pataki, Eliot Spitzer and David Paterson and for New York to wind up like this after 35 years of modern leadership, it's clear to me that my real job has been to chronicle... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286087/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 20:36:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285872/posts In the snow-covered parking lot of a McDonald's in Detroit two years ago, City Council member Monica Conyers met with a waste-management consultant who slipped her an envelope stuffed with as much as $3,000 in cash. The under-the-table payment, made shortly after she cast the swing vote on a $1 billion city sludge deal, drove Conyers's guilty plea to a bribery charge that could send the Democratic politician to prison for up to five years. Conyers emerged for her court hearing late last week in the same building where her husband, John Conyers Jr. (D), who has served in the... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285872/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 12:54:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2285704/posts For a fellow who claims to have invented the concept of transparency in American politics and government, Barack Obama's behavior is most peculiar, especially when it comes to his birth certificate. Obama claims that he was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4, 1961, has released his birth certificate, and that the matter is closed. Furthermore, when asked about the controversy during a recent news briefing, White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs broke down into hysterical laughter and answered by saying, "We won!" Thanks for that professional insight, Mr. Gibbs. Campaigning to be Obama's Transparency Czar are you? Although Barack Obama's... News Blaze http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2285704/posts#comment Sun, 5 Jul 2009 01:14:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2285632/posts We, the collective citizens of the United States of America, as the employer of the president of the United States, demand that he produce his original passport application and appropriate documentation; his undergraduate college records including all the application, scholarship information and appropriate documentation for such; his Harvard Law School application, scholarship information and appropriate documentation for such; and his original long form certificate of live birth for our inspection and approval. The vetting process for Mr. Obama to run as a candidate for the office of president of the United States FAILED to obtain ALL of the required information... TheItem.com (Letters) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2285632/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 21:48:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2285361/posts Is President Barack Obama’s citizenship still in question? State Rep. Ed Emery, a Lamar Republican who plans to run for the state Senate, thinks so, and says for that reason that he this week attended an event on behalf of his constituents. His attendance Wednesday at an event at which Orly Taitz, a California dentist and lawyer, continued to challenge Obama’s citizenship has Emery at opposites with House Speaker Ron Richard, a Joplin Republican, on the matter. “I don’t think it’s an issue,” said Richard, who is known for blunt reactions. “I’m not concerned about that. We have no jurisdiction... The Joplin Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2285361/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:00:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285253/posts Here's a real dander-raiser on the eve of the 233rd anniversary of the Declaration of Independence: Few if any members of the U.S. House of Representatives that last week narrowly voted to pass the outrageous and deceitfully titled American Clean Energy and Security Act actually read the bill. That's the hardly surprising -- but still unacceptable -- conclusion of Jonathan Adler, a Case Western Reserve University legal scholar writing in National Review Online. The legislation, commonly called the "cap-and-trade" bill, would impose an onerous, if not socialist, regimen on just about every aspect of American life at a cost ridiculously... pittsburghlive.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285253/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 03:43:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2284922/posts Roman Catholicism and Genesis A review of The Doctrines of Genesis 1–11: A Compendium and Defense of Traditional Catholic Theology on Origins by Fr Victor P. Warkulwiz The Catholic Church’s belief about Genesis 1–11 has been in a muddle for a long time—ever since uniformitarianism and evolution came on the scene. This situation is similar to Protestant churches, sadly for both liberal and conservative ones. Within the ‘traditionalist’ churches, this book is a welcome addition to the book Genesis, Creation and Early Man by the Russian Orthodox heiromonk Seraphim Rose,1 who documented that the Church fathers of Eastern Orthodoxy from... Journal of Creation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2284922/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 16:35:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2284913/posts It's often a topic of discussion among professors in the field of psychiatry and related fields. There is a growing influence by the pharmaceutical industry on research provided on it by those in academia. Often, junkets and seminars are paid for University psychiatry professors by the drug companies. In fact, the relationship is so close that it's unclear just how much the research these academics do on the drugs that pharmaceuticals develop. In fact, the relationship has gotten so cozy that their role as watchdog over the industry has likely been totally compromised. The Provocateur http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2284913/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 16:17:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284896/posts The Big Fix – Part Three RIGGED, ILLEGAL, RACIAL, and INTRUSIVE Strike One. In violation of Article 1, Section 2, of the U.S. Constitution, President Barack Obama has assumed complete control of the 2010 Census. This Article, which concerns the legislative rather than executive branch of government, stipulates that the “enumeration” be conducted by a commerce official under the supervision of the Senate and the House of Representations. It reads: Representation and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers … . The actual Enumeration shall be... The Last Crusade http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284896/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 15:55:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284791/posts Photo illustration by Matthew Sheffield Key Republicans in both the House and the Senate are accusing the White House of giving “incomplete and misleading” information to investigators probing the president’s abrupt firing of AmeriCorps Inspector General Gerald Walpin. In return, the White House is hinting that documents concerning its actions in the Walpin affair may be protected by executive privilege. Both developments are part of an escalating conflict between GOP lawmakers and the Obama administration. Republicans are deeply skeptical of the White House explanation for the June 10 firing of Walpin, a tough investigator who had been probing misuse of... washingtonexaminer.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284791/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 13:24:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2284676/posts What if a far left group, with a goal of radically changing the U.S., with a history of significant criminality and effective grass root organizing got together with a corrupt far left billionaire who is also trying to transform the United States of America in a radical way? That's exactly what's happening between George Soros and ACORN. Think of ACORN as instruments of George Soros grand plan. Soros wants to elect far left candidates, pass universal health care, props up the unions among many liberal ideological goals. Think of ACORN is the tool of implementation of his ideology, or at... The Provocateur http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2284676/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 06:18:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284591/posts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFxvy9XyUtg&feature=channel_page How an Economy Grows and Why It Doesn't (by Irwin Schiff) It explains how the economic works in comic and easy to understand form Show this to your Socialist friends and challenge their thinking http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284591/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 02:53:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2284342/posts We knew this was coming .... For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post has offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, non-confrontational access to "those powerful few" — Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and — at first — even the paper’s own reporters and editors. It's the speed at which the newspapers are prostituting themselves that's a little surprising. I'm surprised that the NY Times didn't think of it first. Or perhaps they did but the memo didn't get distributed to the press. I'll forward this to Maurice Jones at the Virginian Pilot to see if he also sees a... The Virginian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2284342/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 19:46:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284112/posts June 9 President Obama called a press conference where he announced, "Several financial institutions are set to pay back $68 billion to taxpayers..." Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner has announced the department will use returned funds to provide aid and loans to small banks...Congressional Democrats have run to defend the practice of TARP fund recycling, and even encourage it... This is not only an unethical use of taxpayer money; it is also a violation of the legislation that allowed the Treasury the ability to lend it in the first place. The TARP law states, "Revenues of, and proceeds from the... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284112/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 15:15:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284019/posts In Troy, New York, where a quarter of the children live below the poverty level and the average household makes less than $30,000 a year, the 29th richest man in the world is being given more than 300,000 taxpayer dollars to open a restaurant. They call it economic development. What it is is a sin. What it is is welfare for the wealthy, proof positive that raping the taxpayer is what the government does best. Meet George Soros. He owns Dinosaur Bar-B-Que. Specifically, his company – Soros Strategic Partners – owns 70 percent of Dinosaur Bar-B-Que. He also owns a... boblonsberry.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284019/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 13:16:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2283981/posts Dear Diary, It seems a handful of Americans aren’t getting on to the Hope and Change™ bandwagon along with those enlightened worshippers folks who voted for Me last November. Not only are they criticizing My policy of not meddling with oppressive dictators in Honduras and Iran while telling Israel what to do, but they’re also not happy with the way I’m causing the economy to tank so that socialism will seem like the only answer to our problems. Who do they think they are? Let Me be perfectly clear: I WON. Get used to it. What’s even more upsetting these... Family Security Matters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2283981/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 12:14:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283340/posts House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-Mich.) has had a change of heart regarding his earlier decision to investigate the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). He now says he is no longer planning to investigate ACORN, which is under fire for vote-fraud accusations in last year's presidential election. But why the change of heart? Conyers, faithfully adhering to the blame-casting game that has long held sway in Congress, weakly and obtusely laid the fault for this recent reversal at the feet of purposely unidentified “powers that be.” "The powers that be decided against it," Conyers told the... New American http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283340/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 16:08:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283338/posts The cancer establishment now has a 50-year history of vast corruption, incompetence and organized suppression of cancer therapies which actually work. A little over one year ago, a UK cancer survivor advertised a natural anti-cancer pill along with proven scientific research results via a link into the US Government database for medical research on cancer. Proving to the public of a cover-up he was arrested by the UK Medicines Healthcare Regulatory Authority (MHRA). Free Press Release http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283338/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 16:04:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283260/posts A Sombrero for Uncle Sam The Constitution in the Crapper byPaul L. Williams, Ph.D.thelastcrusade.org Those who count the vote decide nothing. Those who count the voters decide everything. Joseph Stalin It will determine which states gain seats in Congress and which ones lose them. It will divert billions in federal funds to states and cities with the greatest number of illegal aliens.It will support the conviction that America has become a bi-lingual country.It will allocate of billions of taxpayers’ dollars to special interest groups, such as NAACP, Fundacion Azteca, Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Push Coalition, and Acorn.The dice have been loaded.The... The Last Crusade http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283260/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 14:28:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283095/posts Inouye reported ownership of Central Pacific shares worth $350,000 to $700,000, some held by his wife, at the end of 2007 [5]. The shares represented at least two-thirds of Inouye's total reported assets. Inouye has requested a delay in filing his annual financial disclosure for 2008, which was due this spring, and he declined to provide the current value of his investment. Since the end of 2007, the bank's stock has lost 79 percent of its value. Central Pacific was founded in 1954 by a group of World War II veterans including Inouye who were emerging leaders in Hawaii's Japanese... Hawaii Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283095/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 09:07:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2282943/posts A district judge who held another ACORN worker for trial Monday on election law violations urged prosecutors to go after the real culprit, the organization that employed him. "Somebody has to go after ACORN," Senior District Judge Richard H. Zoller said about the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. "It's happening all over the country. All you have to do is turn on the television," he said, referring to voter registration fraud charges brought recently against ACORN and its workers in Nevada. "We will," Allegheny County Detective Robert F. Keenan promised as he wrapped up his testimony. A spokesman... Pittsburgh TRIBUNE-REVIEW http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2282943/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 01:50:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2282785/posts It received much fanfare, speculation and criticism when it was first introduced both in February and in March. Now, the Private Public Investment Program (PPIP) is about set to launch. Secretary Geithner first talked about this in February. When he made his initial speech on the matter, he was very vague and general. The market proceeded to plunge four hundred points in the aftermath. Secretary Geithner came back in March with a much more detailed plan and the market responded more favorably. The plan is extremely complicated and it's ultimately unclear if it will work. It has also since gone... The Provocateur http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2282785/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:41:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282611/posts Al Franken confirmed to MN senate by MN supreme court. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282611/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:11:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282531/posts The older brother of the man who allegedly shot and killed an undercover Houston police officer last week is wanted in a gang-related slaying last year of a South Carolina man, authorities said. Juan Pedroza Carrillo, 40, was one of three men linked to the November 2 fatal shooting of Jorge Alberto Vindel Ramos, 51, in Lexington County, S.C., authorities said. Ramos was shot in the head and chest with a .380 semi-automatic pistol as he was working on his car outside his home, officials said. While the motive for the killing remains under investigation, federal immigration officials confirmed that... HOUSTON CHRONICLE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282531/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:52:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2282501/posts “In every respect, this agreement is a win for everyone,” said United Federation of Teachers (UFT) president Randi Weingarten in an unexpected Monday announcement about the deal the teachers’ union had just reached with the Bloomberg administration on pension contributions for new teachers. Mayor Michael Bloomberg echoed the win/win rhetoric and welcomed the anticipated reduction in pension costs for the city’s treasury after this year. Amid all this celebration, however, nobody pointed out that the pension deal will probably wind up harming Gotham’s students, starting with their very first day at school. City Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2282501/posts#comment Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:22:44 GMT