http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/doublestandard/ en-us Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:40:57 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413291/posts DO NOT click the link unless you are prepared for a grusome sight.   http://www.youtube.com/user/sahab928#p/u/6/lSjAcFGtC90   At 2:29 there is are assassinations of two people.  Point blank with a military rifle.  There is no doubt as to what you're seeing.  Yes this video has been flagged.  Yes it's still up.  At 2:57 there is a head that's been removed from it's body.  YouTube has been notified.  The video remains.  Yeah, sure, YouTube counts on the users to police the site.  What youTube fails to mention whenever the topic comes up is that they ignore the police.  This user, . Even... YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413291/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:40:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410715/posts The Office of Congressional Ethics has closed its investigation into Reps. John Murtha (D-Pa.), Norm Dicks (D-Wash.) and Jim Moran (D-Va.) and their relationships to the lobbying firm PMA Group, and the OCE advised against a formal House ethics investigation, the lawmakers’ offices said Friday. George Behan, Dicks’ chief of staff, said the OCE, which reviews potential rules violations and refers investigations to the House ethics committee, informed the Washington lawmaker on Dec. 2 that it had recommended the inquiry be dismissed. “In his case, there was never anything there,” Behan said. Murtha spokesman Matt Mazonkey and Moran spokeswoman Emily... Roll Call http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410715/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:12:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406482/posts People such as George Soros and Michael Moore certainly talk a good game, but the next Mother Teresa they are not. Mother Teresa never criticized the free-market system; wealth just wasn't for her. Soros and Moore are quite the opposite. They will never take a vow of poverty and dedicate themselves to helping the poor. They just want our civilization to take a vow of poverty and become poor. This has caused many to wonder: How can someone preach socialism while being the most rapacious "capitalist" imaginable? Well, I have a theory about this. It has often been observed that... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406482/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:56:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406406/posts Which Prostitution Scandal Is Worse, Tiger Woods or Max Baucus?December 11, 2009 BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Now, Tiger Woods. New York Daily News today. It actually looks like an AP story: "Tiger Woods was into threesomes and shelled out more than $60,000 to cat around with high-priced hookers, a Hollywood madam claimed Thursday. 'One of his favorites was Loredana Jolie,' Michelle Braun told the Daily News, describing the gorgeous blond as a Playboy model from Sicily who's been living in New York since age 14. 'She's a stunning girl,' said Braun," who I guess is the madam here. "'He went out... Rush Limbaugh .com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406406/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 02:47:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2405785/posts Which is why the self justifying manifesto of the Rochester egg man who went to a Borders Palin book signing event hoping to throw an egg at Sarah Palin is a document of considerable significance because, as we push beyond the usual adolescent pseudo-revolutionary posturing we can observe an uglier truth about the mindset of this weird gremlin, who Lenin would have filed as a “useful idiot”, and his more sinister dancing masters, the Chris Matthews, Geoffrey Dunns and Andrew Sullivans whose steady drumbeat of lies and crude, misogynistic vitriol has the sole purpose of dehumanizing Sarah Palin and, by... The Aged P http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2405785/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:32:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399523/posts Dyron HartA young African-American man from Mississippi who admitted in August to sending death threats over Facebook while posing as a white supremacist received three years of probation from a federal court judge in New Orleans on Wednesday. The Times Picayune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399523/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 18:54:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398512/posts A race for mayor of Atlanta headed for a recount on Wednesday after a knife-edge election that exposed a racial fault line running through the biggest city in the U.S. Southeast. Former state Senator Kasim Reed declared victory overnight when official results from the runoff vote showed him beating city councilwoman Mary Norwood by 758 votes out of 83,000 cast. But Norwood declined to concede defeat and is almost certain to demand a recount under rules that permit one when less than 1 percent of votes cast separates the candidates. Norwood, who led an initial round of voting November 3,... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398512/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 16:44:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397725/posts Can’t stand a member of Congress and desperately want him or her out of office? There’s a blog for that. For many members, there are blogs or websites solely dedicated to making them look bad, designed to highlight all their foibles and offer news and commentary aimed at portraying them as unfavorably as possible. With names like Where’s Eric Cantor?, MyCongressmanIsNuts.com, and Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, these hater websites are proliferating on the Internet, providing aggrieved constituents and local activists with the opportunity to vent, usually anonymously, and offer an unvarnished partisan take on an incumbent’s performance. For the most part,... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397725/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 17:53:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396961/posts Political analyst Charlie Cook says that the scandals enveloping Reps. Charles Rangel (D-NY) and John Murtha (D-PA) threaten to increase losses for their party in next year’s election. He writes: As House Democrats try to avert political disaster by limiting their 2010 losses to about 16 seats, the norm for post-World War II presidents' first midterm elections, dealing with their members' ethics problems may be one of their toughest tasks. The task is tough because of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s reluctance to move against either one, notwithstanding her promise to “drain the swamp” of Congressional corruption and to  “create the most... NLPC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396961/posts#comment Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:35:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2388863/posts I think Obama's in a league with TR," observes historian and presidential biographer Douglas Brinkley. "He created his political reputation through the written word." To be sure, no one has ever accused Sarah Palin, a defeated vice presidential candidate, of creating her reputation thusly. One has to wonder, then, why her book, Going Rogue, would merit a fact check by no fewer than eleven Associated Press reporters when neither the AP nor any other mainstream outlet has spent a moment vetting the books of the "author in chief," as President Barack Obama was anointed in a November GQ article, "Barack... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2388863/posts#comment Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:26:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387471/posts Virginia Muslims are calling on McDonnell (R) to disavow comments made by the Virginia Beach religious broadcaster last week in response to the shootings at Fort Hood, Tex., in which Robertson asserted that Islam is "not a religion" but a "violent political system" and that those who practice it should be treated like members of a communist or fascist party. The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387471/posts#comment Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:20:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385034/posts Of all the sins of the campus left, the worst is hypocrisy. Academic freedom is a spigot they turn on and off at their convenience. This evening, Ray Luc Levasseur, a convicted terrorist who served 18 years of a 45-year sentence, will participate in a "Colloquium on Social Change" at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, sponsored by a "progressive" faculty group called "Social Thought and Political Economy." Levasseur was the leader of the United Freedom Front, which worked for social change from 1976 to 1984 by bombing government buildings, robbing banks, murdering a New Jersey state trooper, and attempting... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385034/posts#comment Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:59:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384872/posts Remember how the Democrats reacted when the Bush Administration started replacing U.S. Attorneys? At least they were actually political appointees employed at the will and whim of the President. RED STATE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384872/posts#comment Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:39:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384833/posts Islam Remains Innocent thelastcrusade.org A conservative media watchdog organization says for the most part, the mainstream media networks have downplayed the Muslim connections with terrorism in the Fort Hood massacre.The Media Research Center (MRC) says that when authorities first announced the Fort Hood shooter was Major Nidal Malik Hasan, CBS and NBC purposefully avoided mentioning his name for fear of offending Muslims. The Center points out that ABC's Charles Gibson suggested Hasan was a "Muslim convert," which was not a correct statement, but adds at least Gibson was not trying to play "hide and seek" with the facts.The MRC... The Last Crusade http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384833/posts#comment Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:52:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384706/posts Had CNN spliced footage of a sparsely-attended Capitol Hill rally to discredit the reports of large numbers of attendees to the 9/12 rally in September, conservatives would have rightly howled about media bias. What will conservatives say about Fox News splicing footage of the 9/12 rally into coverage of Michele Bachmann’s otherwise well-attended rally last week? Jon Stewart gives Fox News a well-deserved poke in the eye for fudging the footage, as well as exposing rather clearly its source: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384706/posts#comment Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:42:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382954/posts Reporting from Ft. Hood, Texas - President Obama is slated to speak at a memorial service today at this grieving Army base, where a military psychiatrist is accused of killing 13 people in a shooting rampage. The service, scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. local time, will be a traditional military affair, with a sermon, a roll call of the dead and a rifle volley. About 3,000 spectators, as well as the families of the 12 soldiers and one civilian killed, are expected to attend. The tribute comes amid new questions about whether the shooting, in which dozens were also... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382954/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:36:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2380185/posts Here is video of Geraldo Rivera on "Fox and Friends" talking about the Ft. Hood shooting. Brian Kilmeade asked Geraldo "do you think it's time for the military to have special debriefings of Muslim army officers, anybody enlisted?" Geraldo answered "Isn't this the headline, Brian, that there are 4 or 5 million American Muslims and how scant and few and far between these horrifying incidents are?" (Video) Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2380185/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 18:37:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380103/posts ORLANDO, Fla. -- Officers are on the scene of a shooting in downtown Orlando Friday. According to Orlando Fire Department dispatch, several people were shot and were transported to a local hospital. The shooting happened at 1000 LEGION PL (see map) at the Gateway Center. No other details are available at this time. Click REFRESH for the latest updates from WFTV.com. Copyright 2009 by wftv.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. WFTV Channel 9 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380103/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:27:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2353027/posts I've had these thoughts for some time, but have been reluctant to express them. Now so many others have voiced them that it's pointless to remain silent. I am frightened by the climate of insane anti-Obama hatred in this country. I'm not referring to traditional conservatives or Republicans. They're part of the process. I'm speaking of the lunatic fringe, the frothers, the extremist rabble who are sweeping up the ignorant and credulous into a bewildering and fearsome tide of reckless rhetoric. Roger Ebert http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2353027/posts#comment Fri, 2 Oct 2009 01:42:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374646/posts President Obama called the 22-year ban on travel and immigration by HIV-positive individuals a decision "rooted in fear rather than fact" and announced the end of the rule-making process overturning the ban. The president signed the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009 at the White House Friday and also spoke of the new rules, which have been under development more more than a year. "We are finishing the job," the president said. The regulations are the final procedural step in ending the ban, and will be published Monday in the Federal Register, to be followed by the standard... The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374646/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:29:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373735/posts How the jury voted in each of the charges in the torture-slaying trial of Lemaricus Davidson.Count 1: First degree felony murder of Hugh Christopher Newsom during the perpetration of robbery of Hugh Christopher NewsomA. Guilty of First Degree Felony Murder of Hugh Christopher Newsom, during the perpetration of Robbery of Hugh Christopher Newsom.[Guilty on all 46 counts including rape and torture of both victims, male and female]Count 29: Aggravated rape of Hugh Christopher Newsom by coercive anal penetration, while aided and abetted by one or more personsB. Guilty of Facilitation of Aggravated Rape of Hugh Christopher Newsom, by coercive anal... Knoxville News Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373735/posts#comment Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:24:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372121/posts WASHINGTON (AP) - Anti-abortion activist Randall Terry is calling on people to burn effigies of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid this Halloween, as part of a "Burn in Hell" video contest to protest the health care legislation in Congress. Terry, founder of Operation Rescue, said Tuesday that the contest serves as a political and spiritual statement that "gives people a chance to peacefully vent their rage." "If Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid force us to pay for child killing and they die unrepentant, they will burn in hell for this," Terry said in a telephone... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372121/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:39:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2372083/posts For sale on Amazon.com for only $39.00 Teleprompters and Nobel Peace Prize not included Transsylvania Phoenix http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2372083/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:49:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372066/posts A spokesman for Rep. Alan Grayson is defending the Florida Democrat’s use of the word “whore” to describe a female official at the Federal Reserve, pointing to a secondary dictionary definition to argue that Grayson meant only that the woman had sold her soul for financial gain. “The attack was on her professional career, not her personal life,” Grayson spokesman Todd Jurkowski wrote in an e-mail to POLITICO. “The second definition of ‘whore’ in the American Heritage Dictionary is 'A person considered as having compromised principles for personal gain.’ “I think a reasonable person could believe that a person who... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372066/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:31:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371856/posts A four-hour stop in New Orleans, on his way to a $3 million fundraiser. Snubbing the Dalai Lama. Signing off on a secret deal with drug makers. Freezing out a TV network. Doing more fundraisers than the last president. More golf, too. President Barack Obama has done all of those things — and more.What’s remarkable is what hasn’t happened. These episodes haven’t become metaphors for Obama’s personal and political character — or consuming controversies that sidetracked the rest of his agenda. It’s a sign that the media’s echo chamber can be a funny thing, prone to the vagaries of news... politico.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371856/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:53:33 GMT