http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/cultureofcorruption/ en-us Fri, 3 Oct 2008 19:58:41 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096901/posts You can say one thing about the Yes on 4 TV ad: It's sure to spark some strong reactions. The campaign to pass an abortion parental notification law aired an ad last night with a young man bragging about impregnating underage girls and then taking them to get secret abortions. The ad features a scruffy looking 20-something, wearing a white t-shirt and fleece jacket, talking straight into the camera about how, "I go out with some teenage girls." "OK, so I get a couple of them pregnant. What is the big deal? I can just take her to get an... SacBee: Capitol Alert http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096901/posts#comment Fri, 3 Oct 2008 19:58:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096369/posts WASHINGTON – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that it's "just foolish" to suggest that her husband is benefiting from tens of thousands of dollars one of her political committees is paying a firm he owns. Pelosi, D-Calif., also disputed the notion that the arrangement contradicts her support last year for legislation that would have banned spouses from benefiting, directly or indirectly, from political committees controlled by their husbands or wives. Paul Pelosi has been treasurer of the speaker's "PAC to the Future" political action committee since last year, after the death of the previous treasurer. The PAC has paid... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096369/posts#comment Fri, 3 Oct 2008 04:22:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2095945/posts <p>A Maryland State Police trooper from Westminster who was killed in a helicopter crash in Prince George’s County early Sunday morning is being remembered by those who knew him as a great father and a nice person who took his job seriously.</p> Carroll County Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2095945/posts#comment Thu, 2 Oct 2008 18:04:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2095714/posts The Obama campaign has some splainin’ to do. Only problem is will the proper authorities investigate these questionable donations from overseas? (There is) a hijacking of our political system that makes the Clinton and Gore fundraising scandals pale in comparison. And no one here wants to touch it.” Stuck On Stupid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2095714/posts#comment Thu, 2 Oct 2008 13:47:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095466/posts In a confidential internal memorandum obtained by Face The State (PDF), the Colorado Democracy Alliance outlines a roster of "operatives" who worked for Democratic victory in the 2006 general election. The document outlines specific tasks for various members of the state's liberal infrastructure, including a campaign to "educate the idiots," assigned to the state's AFL-CIO union. Among the operation's intended targets: "minorities, GED's, drop-outs." Individuals named in the document, marked "CONFIDENTIAL," "for internal use only," and "DO NOT DISTRIBUTE," are high-level elected Democrats including House Speaker Andrew Romanoff, former Senate President Joan Fitz-Gerald, as well as Gov. Bill Ritter's press... Face The State http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095466/posts#comment Thu, 2 Oct 2008 02:38:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094946/posts A New Orleans federal judge has sentenced a Slidell man in connection with a case where the man illegally wore a Navy uniform, complete with medals, at a wedding, according to U. S. Attorney Jim Letten. Letten reports that 42-year-old Andy Jerome Ticker was sentenced by Judge Jay Zainey to 12 months of home confinement, two years of supervised release, and a $500 fine. Ticker was charged with illegally wearing military decorations and medals. Letten says that, according to court documents, Ticker attended a wedding in Slidell back in April wearing a Navy Captain dress white uniform, complete with the... WWL-TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094946/posts#comment Wed, 1 Oct 2008 16:18:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094872/posts This has to rank as the all time most hypocritical piece I’ve yet seen featuring liberal finger waging at conservatives over their ire at the product of the leftist press. It is conservatives, you see, that have “have put the final nail in the coffin of truth,” in essence killing the truth, not the left for doing its level best to eliminate the entire concept of truth. It is our fault for pointing out the liberal’s efforts to destroy truth not theirs for having launched the campaign. How’s THAT for spin? ... cont. MensNewsDaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094872/posts#comment Wed, 1 Oct 2008 15:01:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094800/posts ...confirmed for us here on GretaWire: the McCain campaign did NOT know about Gwen Ifill’s book (I think I told them when I made my efforts - emails about midnight - to find out!) I am stunned….the campaign (actually both) should have been told before the campaign agreed to have her moderate. It simply is not fair - in law, this would create a mistrial. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094800/posts#comment Wed, 1 Oct 2008 13:35:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094622/posts House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has directed nearly $100,000 from her political action committee to her husband's real estate and investment firm over the past decade, a practice of paying a spouse with political donations that she voted to ban last year. Financial Leasing Services Inc. (FLS), owned by Paul F. Pelosi, has received $99,000 in rent, utilities and accounting fees from the speaker's "PAC to the Future" over the PAC's nine-year history. Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094622/posts#comment Wed, 1 Oct 2008 04:52:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094193/posts A New Orleans federal judge has sentenced a Slidell man in connection with a case where the man illegally wore a Navy uniform, complete with medals, at a wedding, according to U. S. Attorney Jim Letten. WWL-TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094193/posts#comment Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:33:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094096/posts Alcee Hastings used to be a federal judge. Then he got impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate. Now he's a congressman from Florida. People have a right to vote for whomever they want, even one of the six federal judges in America ever to be removed by Congress. But with friends like Hastings making the case for him, Barack Obama doesn't need enemies. Participating in a panel discussion in Washington this week sponsored by the National Jewish Democratic Council (I don't even want to ask why they invited him — maybe everybody else was busy trying to... Creator's Syndicate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094096/posts#comment Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:38:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2093775/posts Pelosi savaged Pres Bush, blaming "right-wing ideology" as the sole cause of the nation's fiscal turmoil......Pelosi, Barney Frank and Rahm Emanuel immediately blamed the GOP for the bill's defeat..... The fact is, 95 Democrats - 40% of the party's House membership - voted against the bill. Pelosi controls the chamber - and couldn't even deliver her own members. How humiliating is that? Republicans had long-standing philosophical objections to a massive expansion of gov't power over the economy. Pelosi's boneheaded speech didn't help matters. But what of disloyal Democrats? Clearly, they'd bought the demagogic rhetoric that the $700B rescue plan constituted... NY POST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2093775/posts#comment Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:40:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2093457/posts Excerpt - NASHVILLE — Former Tennessee state Sen. John Ford has been sentenced to 14 years in prison on federal charges of wire fraud and failing to report more than $800,000 in payments from state contractors. ~ snip ~ Associated Press (excerpt) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2093457/posts#comment Mon, 29 Sep 2008 22:49:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2093415/posts STEUBENVILLE -EMPTY ENVELOPE — Brian D’Amico, vice president of the College Republicans at Franciscan University of Steubenville, holds the torn and empty envelope that was received Friday at the Jefferson County Board of Elections. D’Amico said he had mailed the envelope containing 115-130 voter registration forms a week ago but it was stamped at the Youngstown postal center as “received unsealed.” Some voter registration forms originally thought to be missing were delivered today to the Jefferson County Board of Elections. Diane Gribble, director of the board of elections, said 56 voter registration cards were delivered today from the Pittsburgh post... The Herald Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2093415/posts#comment Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:37:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2093197/posts Jan Schakowsky.Schakowsky represents the 9th Congressional District in Northern Illinois.Schakowsky is married to convicted felon Robert Creamer.As the AP reported: The husband of an Illinois congresswoman was sentenced to five months in federal prison Wednesday for writing rubber checks and failing to pay withholding taxes. Robert Creamer, 58, also faces 11 months of house arrest once he finishes his sentence. Robert Creamer has strong ties to Obama,as Tom Roeser reports: Robert Creamer, the husband of U. S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill) who was sentenced to jail for running a community group and paying himself big bucks while banks held the... nalert.blogspot.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2093197/posts#comment Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:10:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2092759/posts Last Tuesday, CBS affiliate Channel 4 TV News in St. Louis reported that some Missouri sheriffs and prosecutors have formed a truth squad to target anyone who engages in misleading ad or statements about Senator Obama. Here's the transcript of the lede on the CBS story: "Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign is asking Missouri law enforcement to target anyone who lies or runs a misleading television ad during the presidential campaign." The implied threat in the Channel 4 report is that prosecutors and sheriffs across Missouri will enforce "Missouri ethics laws" and conduct criminal investigations of "anyone who lies or runs... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2092759/posts#comment Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:36:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2092355/posts Democrats fighting tooth and nail to keep Fannie and Freddie from being reformed before they blew up and are now threatening the world's financial structure. Here is the video of the hearings in which Democrats tell us "nothing is wrong," beat up on the would-be regulators, and tell us that Fannie and Freddie are operating exactly as they want them to act. We see Maxine Waters (DEMOCRAT) accuse the regulators of “…trying to fix things that are not broke.” We see Gregory Meeks (DEMOCRAT), Arthur Davis (DEMOCRAT), Lacy Clay (DEMOCRAT) and Barney Frank (DEMOCRAT) defending Fannie and Freddie’s accounting practices.... The Virginian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2092355/posts#comment Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:24:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091969/posts Reader Ron e-mails that the Obama campaign has issued a decree banning all signs at a rally today at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia. It is a public campus on public property.The local newspaper, the Fredericksburg Free Lance Star is up in arms: NOT ALL COUNTRIES guarantee their citizens the right to virtually unbridled freedom of speech. The United States does. Would someone please tell the campaign of Sen. Barack Obama? And the dozing guardians of liberty at the University of Mary Washington?Mr. Obama, the Democratic nominee for president, is scheduled to speak at a rally at the... Michelle Malkin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091969/posts#comment Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:12:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2092020/posts Please copy, paste, and circulate this press release from the Governor of Missouri. Note the Web domain of the press release, governor.mo.gov. This is not "someone's blog," a "rumor," or a "smear." It is the official Web site of Missouri's state government. The Governor of Missouri says openly that Barack Obama conspired to misuse his state's law enforcement resources to "threaten and intimidate his critics."We cannot overemphasize the gravity of Governor Blunt's accusation. While we are not attorneys and cannot give legal advice, "Conspiracy against rights" is a felony under the U.S. Code, Title 18 (Crimes). At present, Governor Blunt's... The Husaria: For Our Freedom and Yours http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2092020/posts#comment Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:06:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090577/posts Scandal, crime, politics—the story had nearly all the makings of a blockbuster, a surefire Drudge link, no less. So why did it seem that nobody in big-time journalism wanted to report it? At about 4 a.m. on Sept. 16, images of e-mails from Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s private Yahoo account were posted to a bulletin board on the site 4Chan.org. The pilfered e-mails were posted by someone with the nickname “rubico,” whose account was linked to the address rubico10@yahoo.com. Splice Today http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090577/posts#comment Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:48:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090452/posts A $100,000 state grant for a botanic garden in Englewood that then-state Sen. Barack Obama awarded in 2001 to a group headed by a onetime campaign volunteer is now under investigation by the Illinois attorney general amid new questions, prompted by Chicago Sun-Times reports, about whether the money might have been misspent. The garden was never built. And now state records obtained by the Sun-Times show $65,000 of the grant money went to the wife of Kenny B. Smith, the Obama 2000 congressional campaign volunteer who heads the Chicago Better Housing Association, which was in charge of the project for... Chicago Sun-Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090452/posts#comment Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:42:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090411/posts PITTSBURGH (AP) - A Marine Corps lance corporal from Pennsylvania has sued U.S. Rep. John Murtha, saying the Democrat lawmaker slandered him by saying he and other marines killed 24 Iraqis in Haditha in "cold blood." WHPTV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2090411/posts#comment Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:59:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089692/posts WASHINGTON, (AP) -- The House ethics committee said Wednesday it was establishing an investigative panel to determine whether Rep. Charles Rangel, the influential chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, had broken House rules as a result of several reported lapses in his personal affairs. Rangel, D-N.Y., has urged the ethics committee to look into questions surrounding his finances while rejecting Republican demands that he step down as head of the tax-writing committee. House Republican leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, welcomed the investigation and renewed his call for Rangel to vacate his chairmanship. AP via SFGate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2089692/posts#comment Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:33:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087282/posts WHERE’S THE OUTRAGE? WHERE’S THE CLAMMORING FOR DISMISSALS? WHERE ARE THE INVESTIGATIONS BY CONGRESS?Remember Enron? When all the bad news came out about Enron, the media was clammoring for resignations, interviews, trashing the CEOs, etc.On the opposite of the spectrum we now have Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Where is the outrage over what these CEOs did? Where are the investigations by Congressional Committees?I see a very different picture here. What about all of you?It is 180 degrees different and I want to know why. Why was McCain’s bill in 2005 on Fannie Mae/Fannie Mac not passed?We need Bill McCollum’s... FreeRepublic.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087282/posts#comment Sun, 21 Sep 2008 21:52:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088871/posts AP: FBI Investigating Fannie, Freddie, Lehman & AIG Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088871/posts#comment Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:14:03 GMT