http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/demlies/ en-us Sat, 2 Jan 2010 23:25:56 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419717/posts Attorney General Martha Coakley, the state’s top lawyer, acknowledged yesterday that she improperly filled out a federal financial disclosure she submitted to the US Senate as part of her candidacy in the special election. The Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419717/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 23:25:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419571/posts After the EunuchBomber attack fizzled on Christmas Day, both Republicans and Democrats wasted no time in pointing fingers, primarily battling over the Department of Homeland Security, even though DHS had little if anything to do with the security issues involved in that attempt. Republicans called for the resignation of Janet Napolitano after her ridiculous insistence two days later that “the system worked.” Democrats blamed the attack on Senator Jim DeMint for placing a hold on Barack Obama’s nominee to head TSA, Erroll Southers, even though Obama hadn’t even bothered to nominate Southers until late September, and TSA had nothing to... Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419571/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 17:32:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419587/posts January 2nd, 2010 Maggie M. Thornton President Obama’s nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) lied to Congress. His confirmation to the office has been moved-up to tomorrow (just kidding – but probably). Not only did he lie, but some in Congress knew he lied before advancing his nomination in November 2009. See video below. Travelling Tech http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419587/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 18:05:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419171/posts When members of the U.S. Senate finally head home this week, they will be leaving the future of 50 individual and business tax breaks in limbo. All expire at the end of 2009. Among the disappearing breaks are the research tax credit and an annual alternative minimum tax "patch," which keeps 23 million additional middle-income Americans from being forced into calculating and paying the dreaded AMT. (For 2009, with the patch in place, 4 million upper-middle- and high-income families will pay AMT.) Forbes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419171/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 22:06:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418416/posts The pilots’ union at American Airlines said Wednesday that the Transportation Security Administration didn’t warn flight crews appropriately during the terrorist attempt on a Northwest Airlines flight on Christmas, Dow Jones reports. The union, the Allied Pilots Association, wrote to American Airlines that “some pilots were left out of the loop” when TSA told some airlines to notify only pilots on inbound transatlantic flights, Dow Jones said. “The TSA should have mandated that information about this security event be passed on to all airborne flights,” the APA wrote. The letter seems contradict Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s comments that the... POLITICO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418416/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:53:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418360/posts Looks like the folks at Wikipedia were prepared for the worst when it came to Rush Limbaugh. Actually they were a little too well prepared. Shortly after the news broke that the conservative political radio talk show host was hospitalized, Wikipedia updated his page – and pronounced him dead. Folks (like us) who happened to take a look at LimbaughÂ’s biography, saw this: Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (pronounced /ˈlɪmbɔː/;born January 12, 1951, died December 30, 2009) is an American radio host and conservative political commentator. He is the host of The Rush Limbaugh Show, the highest-rated talk-radio program in the... RadarOnline http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418360/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:36:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418022/posts Here is video of Chris Matthews, Steve Kornaki, and Jonathan Martin discussing "Politifact's" biggest "political lies" of the year. Politifact named Joe Wilson one of the biggest liars for shouting out "you lie" while Obama was speaking and "the lie of the year" went to Sarah Palin for claiming that there will be "death panels" as a result of the Democrats' Health Care legislation. . . . (VIDEO) Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418022/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:23:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415653/posts Last night’s cloture vote on the Obama-Reid Big Government Healthcare Bill brought an end to any discussion of fiscal conservative or “moderate” Democrats. Two so-called moderate Democrats Ben Nelson and Arlen Specter betrayed taxpayers by violating their Taxpayer Protection Pledges and voting along with 58 other Democrats in support of the healthcare bill. (For a comprehensive list of all the tax hikes in this bill, click here.) They were the only remaining Democrat Pledge Signers not to have violated their Pledges on at least one occasion. House Democrats including Brad Ellsworth, Ben Chandler, Rob Andrews, and Gene Taylor have all... Americans for Tax Reform http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415653/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 07:52:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415233/posts On his own terms, President Obama is a failure. During the presidential campaign, he fought hammer and tongs with Hillary Clinton over the best way to govern. Clinton, casting herself as a battle-scarred political veteran, argued that diligence, dedicated detail work and working the system were essential for success. Obama, donning the mantle of a redeemer descending from divine heights, argued that his soaring rhetoric was more than "just words"; it was a way out of the poisonous, partisan gridlock of yesteryear. Early on, in New Hampshire, he proclaimed that his "rival in this race is not other candidates. It's... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415233/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 10:48:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413777/posts Sarah Palin Responds to Winning 'Lie of the Year' By Noel Sheppard Created 2009-12-23 10:40 Sarah Palin has responded to claims that her "death panel" comment concerning healthcare reform legislation is the "Lie of the Year." As NewsBusters previously reported [0], the Palin-hating press have been having a field day since she won this dubious honor from the website PolitiFact last week. On Tuesday, the former Alaska Governor responded [1] at her Facebook page, and did so with skill and aplomb (emphasis hers): Last weekend while you were preparing for the holidays with your family, Harry Reid’s Senate was making... Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413777/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:08:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412754/posts PolitiFact's Lie of the Year: 'Death panels' By Angie Drobnic Holan Published on Friday, December 18th, 2009 at 5:15 p.m. Related rulings: Seniors and the disabled "will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care." Sarah Palin, Friday, August 7th, 2009. Ruling: Pants on Fire! | Details Bookmark this story: Buzz up!ShareThis A winner in our "Lie of the Year" contest! Of all the falsehoods and distortions in the political discourse this year, one stood... St. Petersberg Times (home of PolitFact http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412754/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:47:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412662/posts A panel of experts ruled her claim the Obama administration was planning to introduce "death panels" was chosen as the most misleading statement of 2009. Palin, 45, made the claim on her Facebook page at the height of the debate over President Obama's plans to reform the US health care system. She wrote: "My parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide whether they are worthy of health care." But the website PolitiFact.com found that there were never any plans to introduce so called "death panels"... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412662/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:38:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411632/posts <p>Prosecutors investigating Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton were prepared to seek indictments of them for their roles in the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky affairs, an explosive new book about the former president's scandals charges.</p> <p>In "The Death of American Virtue: Clinton vs. Starr," due out in February, author Ken Gormley also says that Lewinsky believed Bill Clinton lied about their affair during grand jury testimony about his relationship with the White House intern.</p> My Way http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411632/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:06:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410668/posts And of course, stories that Joe Klein makes up get recycled in Palestinian propaganda. Ben Smith reports: U.S. and Israeli officials are dismissing an eyebrow-raising claim from a prominent Palestinian activist and official, Mustafa Barghouti, in today's International Herald Tribune. "The Israeli foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, stands up and walks out on the U.S. envoy, George Mitchell, every time the American envoy mentions East Jerusalem," Barghouti wrote in an op-ed deploring "U.S. and European inaction" in the face of Israeli intransigence. Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren, through a spokesman, dismissed the claim as "nonsense." "I have never heard such a thing,"... Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410668/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:10:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409959/posts In the years since their bitter battle, both former President Bill Clinton and independent counsel Ken Starr have predicted they’d be vindicated in the history books. Now the first definitive history of the Clinton scandal is about to arrive — and neither man can be completely happy about his portrayal in its pages. “The Death of American Virtue,” due out in February, asserts that Clinton had yet another extramarital affair, with Susan McDougal of Whitewater fame. Also in the book, Monica Lewinsky tells author Ken Gormley that she believes the president lied under oath when he described their encounters. At... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409959/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:22:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406649/posts Using his best Chuck Schumer imitation, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon jumped in front of some cameras at Copenhagen and assured us that his cause was noble. His demeanor was serious. Contemplative. He searched his vocabulary for the precise phrase to convey his deepest conviction … and you could see his eyes sparkle when he hit upon the shim-sham-inducing word, accelerating, to describe what was happening to global warming. Good Lord! I thought to myself. This is bad! If global warming is accelerating, if it is worse than we have predicted — happening three times faster than any scientist ever... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406649/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:43:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405739/posts You've heard of the Person of the Year and the Sportsman of the Year -- get ready for PolitiFact's Lie of the Year. For our year-in-review coverage, PolitiFact soon will be announcing our Lie of the Year -- the most significant falsehood of 2009. Our staff is examining the claims we've rated False or Pants on Fire and will be choosing the one that reached all-star status and played an important role in the nation's political discourse. We're also inviting PolitiFact readers to vote on the most important lie. Here are our eight nominees: The St. Pete Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405739/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:26:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402430/posts Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- President Barack Obama told the American people in a national speech in September that "my" health care plan would not include taxpayer funding of abortion. Obama broke that pledge once by lobbying members of the House to support a pro-abortion funding bill and he did it again this weekend in the Senate. Obama met with Senate Democrats in a closed door session on Sunday and told them to support the Harry Reid-sponsored bill that includes massive abortion funding and could force insurance companies to cover abortions with taxpayer's premiums.Although the media wasn't allowed into the... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402430/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 00:06:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402438/posts President Obama traveled to the economically hard hit Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania to say, "I know times are tough." To illustrate his message of commiseration, he suggested that joblessness hits close to home. He told a community college audience in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania, "Michelle and I were talking the other day. There are members of our families that are out of work." A White House official declined to identify any unemployed relatives of the Obamas except to say, "I don't think they are close close" family members. See BS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402438/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 00:25:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391026/posts The Senate Select Committee on Ethics has completed its investigation of Sen. Roland Burris, and his office is trumpeting its finding that he committed no "actionable violations of the law." What his press release didn't mention is that the committee also found he had provided "incorrect, inconsistent, misleading or incomplete information" about his appointment to the Senate. Which is senatorese for, "Pants on fire!" Chicago Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391026/posts#comment Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:17:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389405/posts Officials tell ABC News so far, they found 700 mistaken Congressional districts out of more than 130,000 stimulus grants. On Monday night, ABC reported on errors found on the website set up by the White House to track the number of jobs created or saved by the economic stimulus program. The website was riddled with reports of jobs in places that didn't even exist. That report prompted anger on Capitol Hill, and defensiveness at the White House. On Tuesday night's broadcast, ABC's Chief Congressional Correspondent Jon Karl took another look at the stimulus confusion (link) LINK White House Vows to... abcnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389405/posts#comment Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:12:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388809/posts Since President Obama took office, the American people have been subjected to an aggressive propaganda campaign designed to convince them that the $787 billion stimulus bill is working. Month after month, as unemployment continues to rise, the administration has sent its spinmeisters out to trumpet an altogether dubious number of jobs "created or saved." Vice President Biden -- the man appointed by the president to oversee the recovery effort -- has shamelessly continued to claim credit for as many as one million jobs that the administration argues the stimulus has "created or saved." Meanwhile, unemployment hit the highest point in... The Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388809/posts#comment Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:42:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388662/posts The Recovery.gov website is full of these fraudulent claims nationwide. The White House blames the problems on clerical errors, and even claims their tracking of the $787 billion stimulus funds has been a "huge success". The egregious lies spewing from the mouth's of Obama administration officials have become farcical. The complete breakdown of "clerical errors".... The Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388662/posts#comment Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:59:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387149/posts Did President-elect Barack Hussein Obama commit a federal crime in September of this year? Or did he never actually register and, instead, did friends of his in the Chicago federal records center, which maintains the official copy of his alleged Selective Service registration commit the crime for him? It’s either one or the other, as indicated by the release of Barack Obama’s official Selective Service registration for the draft. A friend of mine, who is a retired federal agent, spent almost a year trying to obtain this document through a Freedom of Information Act request, and, after much stonewalling, finally... Debbie Schlussel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387149/posts#comment Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:57:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379788/posts Pelosi Breaks Pledge to Put Final Health Care Bill Online for 72 Hours Before Vote Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD that the speaker will not allow the final language of the health care to be posted online for 72 hours before bringing the bill to a vote on the House floor, despite her September 24 statement that she was "absolutely" committed to doing so. House members are still negotiating important issues in the bill--whether it will provide taxpayer-funding for abortions, for example. Pelosi is pushing for a Saturday House vote, and a number of big changes will... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379788/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:42:58 GMT