http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/doi/ en-us Tue, 8 Dec 2009 18:22:25 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403003/posts A top priority of DOI Secretary Ken Salazar was to settle the 13-year old Indian Trust lawsuit. That goal was just met and announced. The settlement says the Federal Government will: o Establish a $1.4 billion fund to settle historic trust mismanagement and accounting claims. o Create a $2 billion fund that DOI will use to buy back fractionated Indian lands to ensure the problems raised by Cobell do not occur again. To provide an additional incentive for account holders to sell their interests in fractionated lands, Interior will direct up to 5 percent of the value of fractionated land... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403003/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 18:22:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395533/posts Please take the time to read and sign this poingnant and forthright statement at the following link if you are so inclined...and then pass it on. It is being supported by the FreeRepublic Alliance site, Restore the Constitution. THE MODERN AMERICAN DECLARATION OF LIBERTY It is past time for us all to stand and dmenad a return to the Constitution and to fundamental moral, republican, and constitutional principle upon which the constitution is based. Petition Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395533/posts#comment Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:12:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2285276/posts In Congress, July 4, 1776, the unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America.When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they... Second Continental Congress http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2285276/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 05:12:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285047/posts When we celebrate the Fourth of July, we are celebrating one of the most important political documents in the history of the world.  The Declaration is a statement to the world -- the people of the world was the audience -- about the very nature of government and its relationship to men.  Sometimes we appreciate what this document was, but perhaps we need even more to appreciate what it was not. It was not a poll-driven summation of current opinion.  The men who gathered in Philadelphia did respect each other's talents and knowledge, but the document they signed was not... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285047/posts#comment Fri, 3 Jul 2009 20:10:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284017/posts A rare copy of the United States Declaration of Independence worth thousands of pounds has been discovered in Britain. The document, which is in perfect condition, is believed to be one of only 200 ever printed and was found among files at the National Archives in Kew. An American antiquarian bookseller carrying out research found the Dunlap print of the declaration which was printed on July 4, 1776. The discovery brings the total of known surviving copies worldwide to 26. The last discovery of a Dunlap print was at a flea market in 1989, and it sold at auction in... Daily Mail (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284017/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 13:15:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225321/posts WASHINGTON – When Barack Obama called for "all nations" in the world to "come together to build a stronger, global regime" to respond to threats like those posed by North Korea's nuclear weapons and long-range missiles, WND's Editor and CEO Joseph Farah had heard enough. Farah was stunned once again that no major news agencies in the world even deemed to question the administration about what he meant. It sounded to Farah like Obama was, once again, raising the specter of some form of global governance unaccountable to the American people – a direct threat to U.S. sovereignty and independence.... World Net Daily dot Com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225321/posts#comment Thu, 9 Apr 2009 02:23:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2195976/posts RICHMOND, Va. – A rare 1776 copy of the Declaration of Independence belongs to a Virginia technology entrepreneur, not the state of Maine, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled Friday. Richard Adams Jr. of Fairfax County purchased the document from a London book dealer in 2001 for $475,000. But the state of Maine claimed it belongs to the town of Wiscasset, where it was kept by the town clerk in 1776. Virginia's high court said that a lower court did not err in its ruling in Adams' favor because Maine didn't prove the document was ever an official town record and... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2195976/posts#comment Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:43:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2167337/posts In his Saturday remarks during his campaign train ride, President-elect Barack Obama issued some soaring rhetoric about the state of the country today. At least the Old Media thought it was soaring rhetoric, anyway. Typically, the media was overawed by his mellifluous tones, of course. But during these remarks in Baltimore Obama made a startling suggestion. He said we need a "new Declaration of Independence." Apparently the original one isn't good enough for the new president, but it also seems a silly rhetorical flourish. After all, what is it that we are declaring independence from this time? Recall that the... Publius' Forum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2167337/posts#comment Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:32:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2162621/posts New Rules On Right-To-Carry In Our National Parks Take Effect Today Friday, January 09, 2009 In early December, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), through the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, announced the final amended version of a change to rules on carrying firearms in national parks and wildlife refuges. The change will restore the right of law-abiding gun owners to transport and carry concealed firearms for lawful purposes on most DOI lands, according to the laws of the states in which these public lands are located. The new rule, which takes effect today, allows... NRA-ILA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2162621/posts#comment Sun, 11 Jan 2009 14:12:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2142091/posts Scathing reports released Wednesday charge officials with “a culture of ethical failure” involving sex, drugs and financial shenanigans at a federal agency in Denver charged with collecting energy royalties for taxpayers. In three reports prepared for Congress by the Department of Interior’s inspector general, 13 current and former employees at the agency’s Minerals Management Service were charged with violating the public trust in a frat house atmosphere. MMS employees, according to the reports, accepted gifts from oil companies, had sex with industry contacts, and did drugs at the office and at oil company parties. Other MMS officials steered business to... The Colorado Independent http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2142091/posts#comment Wed, 3 Dec 2008 14:09:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088158/posts BAGHDAD — The last of nearly 2,900 members of the Sons of Iraq (SOI) and Daughters of Iraq (DOI) were officially registered with the Government of Iraq in Adhamiyah District of northern Baghdad, Sept. 20. The SOI, and most recently, the DOI, are volunteer citizen groups similar to the Neighborhood Watch Program in the United States. They have been instrumental in decreasing attacks and have aided Iraqi and Coalition forces with actionable intelligence. The men and women made their way to Combat Outpost Apache in northern Baghdad to have their paperwork processed and information entered into a database to facilitate... Multi-National Force - Iraq http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088158/posts#comment Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:13:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085870/posts WASHINGTON (AP) -- At least 49 offshore oil platforms, all with production of less than 1,000 barrels a day, were destroyed by Hurricane Ike as it raced across the Gulf of Mexico, and some may not be rebuilt, the Interior Department said Thursday. It said in the latest hurricane damage assessment that the platforms altogether accounted for 13,000 barrels of oil and 84 million cubic feet of natural gas a day. There are more than 3,800 production platforms in the Gulf producing 1.3 million barrels of oil and 7 billion cubic feet of gas each day. Most remain shut down. GOPUSA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2085870/posts#comment Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:56:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2036209/posts Can’t wait for the fundraising photo of Abe Lincoln, sitting in his Memorial with an Obama t-shirt on saying “Emancipation for America - Vote Obama.” The Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2036209/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:09:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016072/posts WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne today announced that he is accepting the recommendation of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dale Hall to list the polar bear as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).  The listing is based on the best available science, which shows that loss of sea ice threatens and will likely continue to threaten polar bear habitat.  This loss of habitat puts polar bears at risk of becoming endangered in the foreseeable future, the standard established by the ESA for designating a threatened species. In making the announcement, Kempthorne said,... U.S. Department of the Interior http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016072/posts#comment Wed, 14 May 2008 23:38:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956468/posts Declaration falls through the cracksThe Supreme Court's rare copy is safely tucked away, then forgotten for seven years, a spokeswoman says. By Steve Chawkins, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer January 19, 2008 When in the course of human events it becomes necessary to locate a rare, vintage copy of the nation's founding document, try looking behind the filing cabinet. That was a lesson learned the hard way at the Supreme Court, where a 185-year-old facsimile of the Declaration of Independence gathered dust for seven years, tucked behind the office furniture, a court spokeswoman acknowledged this week. Commissioned by John Quincy... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956468/posts#comment Sun, 20 Jan 2008 00:09:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1949010/posts The Press of a Patriot Norfolk's first newspaper, the Virginia Gazette, or Norfolk Intelligencer, had a brief but memorable existance. Its first issue appeared on June 9, 1774, and what is believed to have been its last issue left the press on September 27, 1775. The four-page weekly, the only known copies of which are preserved in the Library of Congress, was first published by William S. Duncan & Company, whose printing office was on the east side of the Parade or Market Square, later known as Commercial Place. Arbitrary Governance Leading to Suppression of Freedom In April of... Norfolk Historical.org, Library of Congress, Vanity http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1949010/posts#comment Sun, 6 Jan 2008 02:21:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940190/posts This Christmas marks the 350th anniversary of the least-honoured genesis of American freedom, to be celebrated in the New York suburb of Queens. For only the fourth time in its history a fragile piece of paper called the Flushing Remonstrance will go on display. Written in 1657 by the English citizens of the Long Island village of Flushing, it asserted their right to freedom of conscience against the autocracy of Peter Stuyvesant, the Dutch governor of their colony of New Netherland. It thus long predated the “self-evident truths” of Jefferson’s 1776 Declaration of Independence. The Flushing Remonstrance protested against Stuyvesant’s... The Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940190/posts#comment Sun, 16 Dec 2007 08:33:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1717622/posts Baron Bodissey forwarded this email today; is the US Department of the Interior following the lead of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, and blocking American anti-jihad sites? I’m a long-time reader, without ever actually commenting on anything. Yesterday the U.S. Department of the Interior (I work for the Mineral Management Service) installed blocking software on their entire network. Gates of Vienna is now blocked, as are all sites with a .blogspot URL. Also blocked are other conservative blogs, such as Wizbang. More than half the sites I check on a daily basis are now completely blocked. As of today, Little Green... Little Green Footballs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1717622/posts#comment Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:52:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666472/posts G. K. Chesterton, an Englishman, remarked in 1922 that "America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed." That creed was given 230 years ago by Thomas Jefferson, who wrote in the Declaration of Independence, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal" and "that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." As Lincoln said one afternoon in Gettysburg, America was, and continues to be, the only country dedicated to a proposition. It is, in the... County Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1666472/posts#comment Sun, 16 Jul 2006 02:28:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1660174/posts When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life,... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1660174/posts#comment Tue, 4 Jul 2006 14:08:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1660105/posts Obscure graves bury the accomplishments of two Northern Neck brothers who signed the Declaration of Independence __ They were brothers whose signatures on the Declaration of Independence made them American heroes for all time. Now Richard Henry Lee and Francis Lightfoot Lee rest in obscure Northern Neck graveyards visited by few, even on the Fourth of July. "We only come out here when somebody dies," said H. Gwynne Tayloe III. Tayloe stood Sunday beside a brick-walled cemetery where Francis Lightfoot Lee is buried beside Tayloe's ancestors at Mount Airy Farm near Warsaw. The graveyard is a 10-minute walk from the... The Free Lance-Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1660105/posts#comment Tue, 4 Jul 2006 09:51:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1659981/posts (click for text) Various http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1659981/posts#comment Tue, 4 Jul 2006 01:47:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1659512/posts I don't know how true the stories are about what Fourth of July celebrations were like in the earlier days of the Republic. I'm sure I read the Declaration during a high school history class, but it wasn't emphasized, and nobody even hinted to me that it just might have been the most profoundly revolutionary document in human history. I didn't start thinking about it seriously until I was finished with college and trying to figure out whether I wanted to be a politician or a writer. I have, of course, come to appreciate what the Declaration of Independence means.... Orange County Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1659512/posts#comment Mon, 3 Jul 2006 01:27:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1649714/posts June 15, 2006 -- WHO'D have thought it possible even a month ago? President Bush is getting his mojo back. The president just had the best week of his second term, perhaps of his entire presidency - and the end of the investigation of Karl Rove, which would have been the headline grabber not long ago, had little to do with it. Instead, the president's brilliantly conceived and executed trip to Baghdad - giving exactly the right boost at the right time to new Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki - capped off seven days that included the forming of a... The NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1649714/posts#comment Thu, 15 Jun 2006 11:01:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1564918/posts Last year, I was privileged to work with Brian Maloney of The Radio Equalizer on an ongoing blog investigative series about beleaguered Air America radio's finances. Brian has continued to dig and dig deep on the story. He has a new report here and will discuss it tonight on The O'Reilly Factor. Brian asks: "Did Al Franken's outrageous salary demands hamper Air America's ability to repay the Gloria Wise Boys & Girls Club in 2005?" Excerpt: During the same mid-to-late 2004 period when Air America parent Piquant LLC was quietly considering how to resolve the still-undisclosed scandal, Franken was demanding... Michelle Malkin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1564918/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jan 2006 21:50:20 GMT