http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/doh/ en-us Sat, 2 Mar 2013 21:09:40 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2992880/posts Shooter takes VP Joe Biden’s advice — and lands in trouble with cops Vice President Joseph R. Biden told a Field & Stream reporter in a published report on Monday that if “you want to keep someone away from your house, just fire the shotgun through the door.” That same day, a 22-year-old man in Virginia Beach, Va., did just that — and was charged with reckless handling of a firearm. WAVY 10 reported that the man was in his bedroom when two armed masked men leaned through the window and warned him to close the bedroom door. The 22-year-old... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2992880/posts#comment Sat, 2 Mar 2013 21:09:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2969934/posts Despite his calls for greater gun control, including a new assault weapons ban that extends to handguns, President Obama's administration has turned away from enforcing gun laws, cutting weapons prosecutions some 40 percent since a high of about 11,000 under former President Bush. Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2969934/posts#comment Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:47:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2965248/posts Turkey fines 'blasphemous' Simpsons for poking fun at God • God offers coffee to the devil in one of the cartoon's episodes (ANSAmed) - ANKARA - Just about everything that could be said and written about the super-popular cartoon 'The Simpsons' had been, except that it was blasphemous. Now even that ''milestone'' has been reached, thanks to the watchdogs of Turkey's television stations under the Islamic-leaning government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. According to the newspaper Hurriyet, Ankara's Council of Radio and Television (RTUK) has handed down a TRY 52,951 fine (about 23,000 euros) to the private broadcaster CNBC-E... ANSAmed http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2965248/posts#comment Mon, 3 Dec 2012 21:58:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2959670/posts BOSTON — A 44-year-old woman has become the latest person to walk off the platform of an MBTA station. The incident happened at Andrew Station on the Red line. According to T officials, the woman did not make contact with the third rail when she landed in the pit. There was no train in the area. WCVB-TV Boston http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2959670/posts#comment Thu, 15 Nov 2012 01:59:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2895477/posts RENO, NV - Reno police have released the name of a man crushed to death after a chase downtown. Wednesday morning about 11, police were helping Municipal Court marshals, who were trying to stop a man with a warrant out for his arrest. The man was on a bicycle, but then dropped the bike and ran. Officers and marshals stopped the search when they couldn't find the man, but then a resident at the Truckee River Terrace Apartments reported finding a man in a trash compactor there. That's where police found 37-year-old Rodney Wright, the man marshals had been looking... KOLOTV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2895477/posts#comment Fri, 15 Jun 2012 03:49:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2824947/posts Whoever carved the statue would not have had TV's favourite cartoon anti-hero in mind - but there is no doubting the resemblance of this stone head to Homer Simpson It was found by Rosalind and Donald McIntyre when they were clearing the bottom of their garden at their home in Fife, Scotland, earlier this year. The couple were working in their garden when Mrs McIntyre picked up the head. She took it to St Andrews Museum, and the discovery has been referred to the National Committee for Carved Stones of Scotland. Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2824947/posts#comment Sun, 25 Dec 2011 18:51:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2822605/posts Equity: The administration that refused to enforce voting rights law in the New Black Panther case is going after America's best-known sheriff for what it calls discriminatory policing practices involving Hispanics. Coming soon after the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the case of Arizona's immigration and border enforcement law, the Justice Department's release of a scathing report Thursday accusing Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio of violating federal law and the Constitution in his department's handling of Hispanics smacks of retaliation. With a thoroughness not seen in Justice's handling of the "Fast and Furious" federal gun-running debacle that resulted... Inestor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2822605/posts#comment Tue, 20 Dec 2011 01:27:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2819296/posts MONDAY, Dec. 12 (HealthDay News) — Drinking too much alcohol can lead to unsafe sex, a new study confirms. Unsafe sex is the most common cause of HIV infection and finding ways to prevent unsafe sex is a major goal of public health efforts to prevent HIV/AIDS. Alcohol use has long been associated with HIV incidence. However, it hasn’t been clear whether unsafe sex associated with alcohol use actually led to HIV infection, or whether certain personality traits, such as sensation-seeking or risky behavior, led to both alcohol use and unsafe sex. In this study, researchers led by Jurgen Rehm,... HealthDay News via OO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2819296/posts#comment Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:18:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2813716/posts At a town hall meeting at the Institute of Politics at New Hampshire’s Saint Anselm’s College Tuesday, Rick Perry asked that all of the college students in the crowd who will be 21 by Nov. 12 support his bid for the presidency. Say what? The voting age in the United States is, of course, 18. And the 2012 election will be held on Nov. 6, 2012. (The New Hampshire Republican primary, which brought Perry to the state, will take place on Jan. 10). “Those who are going to be over 21 on November 12th, I ask for your support,” Perry... WaPo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2813716/posts#comment Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:46:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2740311/posts A shooting call in Roanoke Rapids Thursday night turned out to be accidentally self-inflicted, authorities said. Capt. Andy Jackson, head of investigations for the Roanoke Rapids Police Department, said at 10:43 p.m. Thursday, police responded to the 100 block of Madison Street in reference to a victim who had been shot. “When officers arrived, the victim said he was shot walking down the back alley between Madison and Monroe Street by an unknown subject he hadn’t seen,” Jackson said. Det. Corey Dixon was called to the scene to investigate, Jackson said, and after looking into the shooting, Dixon was able... Daily Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2740311/posts#comment Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:09:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2693239/posts President Obama, Nobel Peace Prize winner, launched an attack on another country while in another country, without the congressional approval that George W. Bush had and with only about half as many other countries on board. Obama seemed to feel this constituted enough of a moral high ground from which to take a jab at the former president. *snip* As the folks at Fox quickly pointed out, Bush actually had twice as many international allies for the invasion of Iraq as Obama has put together for his adventure in Libya. michelle Malkin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2693239/posts#comment Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:35:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2665588/posts So, what was really up with the televised feed of Rep. Bachmann's State of the Union response? Our sources tell us that CNN had originally agreed to use the live feed set up by Tea Party Express, which had a teleprompter running on the lens in which Rep. Bachmann was delivering her speech. But, when Rep. Bachmann left the camera set-up and sat in the House chamber to hear Pres. Obama's speech, CNN set up a camera of their own, just off to the side of the main, tele-prompter/camera. Thus, when CNN provided their network feed it ended up skewed... Breitbart TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2665588/posts#comment Sun, 30 Jan 2011 05:46:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2608465/posts OKALOOSA ISLAND — A local family remains upset four days after giving their pet turtle to the Gulfarium and watching it get eaten by an alligator. Brenda Guthrie and her 8-year-old son Colton witnessed Tomalina’s death as the red-eared slider disappeared into the alligator’s jaws. When the two looked away from the sight, she said they could hear the crunching of the turtle’s shell. “He was jumping up and down screaming,” Guthrie said of her son’s reaction. “He was shouting, ‘Oh no alligator, let it go.’ ” Guthrie said that they decided to donate Tomalina after the turtle outgrew its... TheDestinLog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2608465/posts#comment Sat, 16 Oct 2010 01:04:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2595489/posts PJTV is broadcasting the testimony of Christopher Coates to the Civil Rights Commission live this morning, but they already have his opening statement available in PDF format at Pajamas Media. It contains at least one bombshell, which is that Obama appointee Loretta King ordered Coates to stop asking applicants whether they supported race-neutral enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The question became necessary because of resistance in the Civil Rights division from career attorneys to enforce the law when it resulted in African-American defendants rather than victims, an attitude that Coates first encountered in the Bush era: Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2595489/posts#comment Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:14:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2589815/posts Democratic National Committee gets new logo, slogan By: James Hohmann September 15, 2010 03:27 PM EDT Eager to bridge a daunting enthusiasm gap, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine recited a list of President Barack Obama’s accomplishments Wednesday to an auditorium packed with George Washington University College Democrats. It came as he unveiled a new web site, a new logo and a new slogan for his party: “Change That Matters.” As he went down a longer list, Kaine spoke passionately of how Democrats delivered an economic stimulus (he would only call it “the Recovery Act”) and “the Affordable Care Act”... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2589815/posts#comment Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:27:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2562250/posts <p>Law enforcement authorities in Portland, Ore., have concluded that there is insufficient evidence to proceed with a criminal prosecution of former vice president Al Gore after a massage therapist accused him of sexually assaulting her in a 2006 incident.</p> <p>The Multnomah County District Attorney's Office reached its decision after reviewing a follow-up Portland police investigation into the woman's allegations. The case was reopened in June after the massage therapist publicly asserted in a National Enquirer article that Gore tried to force her to have sex with him.</p> The Washington Post (excerpt) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2562250/posts#comment Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:23:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2554897/posts AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2554897/posts#comment Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:45:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2554548/posts Indonesian Muslims told to change prayer direction JAKARTA, July 16 — Indonesia’s Muslims learned today they have been praying in the wrong direction, after the country’s highest Islamic authority said its directive on the direction of Mecca actually had people facing Africa. Muslims are supposed to face the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia during prayer and the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) issued an edict in March stipulating westward was the correct direction from the world’s most populous Muslim country. “But it has been decided that actually the mosques are facing Somalia or Kenya, so we are now suggesting... The Malaysian Insider http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2554548/posts#comment Sun, 18 Jul 2010 01:46:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2543846/posts WASHINGTON — Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan on Tuesday fought off Republicans who were trying hard to paint her as a liberal activist, saying she'd be a fair, open-minded justice and refusing to call herself a "legal progressive." "I honestly don't know what that label means," Kagan told Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama . Sessions, the Senate Judiciary Committee's top Republican, kept pressing the former Harvard Law School dean, quoting her colleagues to make the point. Kagan wouldn't take the bait, though. "My politics would be, must be, have to be completely separate from my judging," said Kagan, who was... yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2543846/posts#comment Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:43:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2543401/posts President Barack Obama’s political director failed to disclose that he was slated to receive a nearly $40,000 payout from a large labor union while he was working in the White House. Patrick Gaspard, who served as the political director for the Service Employees International Union local 1199, received $37,071.46 in “carried over leave and vacation” from the union in 2009, but he did not disclose the agreement to receive the payment on his financial disclosure forms filed with the White House. In a section on his financial disclosure where agreements or arrangements for payment by a former employer must be... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2543401/posts#comment Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:30:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2531181/posts Washington calls the latest U.N. sanctions on Iran a diplomatic victory, a show of unity by the world's big powers and a powerful way to prevent the country from making nuclear weapons. Iran says the sanctions are an unfair attempt to keep it from developing a peaceful civilian energy program. Whatever Iran's ultimate goal, it is clear that, like three previous sets of sanctions, the new measures are unlikely to crimp a nearly mature nuclear program that can be turned to both peaceful purposes and making atomic weapons. [...] http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2531181/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jun 2010 20:40:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2529711/posts Play the end of the movie "Schindler's List" backward - the compelling scene in which refugees emerge from the hell of the Holocaust to freedom in Israel - and you will get a glimpse into the tortured mind of Helen Thomas.... Ms. Thomas expressed mild regret for her remarks, saying they do not reflect her "heartfelt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance." She should have heeded her own counsel. Ms. Thomas' comments embodied contempt and intolerance. They were a stark message of hatred from the... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2529711/posts#comment Mon, 7 Jun 2010 23:18:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2482220/posts ATTORNEY GENERAL MARK BENNETT’S OFFICE SAYS THEY HAVE “NO GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO THE PREPARATION OF THE PUBLIC STATEMENTS MADE BY DR. FUKINO” The Post & Email is in receipt of a letter signed by Jill T. Nagamine, Deputy Attorney General of the State of Hawaii, which affirms her email early last month to our Editor-in-Chief, Mr. John Charlton, stating that her office will not or cannot corroborate any of the Department of Health’s public statements regarding the alleged birth of Barack Hussein Obama in Hawaii. Ms. Nagamine’s March 19, 2010 formal letter was sent in response to the Hawaii... The post email http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2482220/posts#comment Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:02:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2475123/posts Okay, so he is a felon, it is illegal for him to own a gun, but, like everyone else he would hate to have his car stolen while he is away on a JOG. So does what any normal rational human being would do: he booby traps the steering wheel with his (illegal) revolver! Stop laughing! This is a serious story! Doggoneit! Read More… JohnJacobH RKBA Commentary http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2475123/posts#comment Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:11:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2458255/posts RICHMOND, British Columbia – Sven Kramer peeled off his racing glasses and hurled them onto the infield, just as he had thrown away a Winter Olympic gold medal and nearly half a million dollars a couple of minutes earlier. “What did you do?” he screamed in Dutch as he skated past coach Gerard Kemkers, who stood with his head in his hands, unable to comprehend the biggest moment of sporting stupidity that we will see at these Games. Sven Kramer of Netherlands reacts with coach Gerard Kemkers after finishing first but being disqualified in the speed skating 10,000m. (Jasper Juinen/Getty... YahooSports http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2458255/posts#comment Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:19:42 GMT