http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/failure/ en-us Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:46:34 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284200/posts US layoffs still too high, too many families worried, Obama says in AP interview WASHINGTON (AP) -- With joblessness rising, President Barack Obama said Thursday he was "deeply concerned" about unemployment and conceded that too many families are worried about "whether they will be next" to suffer economically. In a White House interview with The Associated Press, Obama said that since he took office, "we have successfully stabilized the financial markets," and "started to see some stabilization on housing." "But what we are still seeing is too many jobs lost," said Obama, commenting after new government figures showed the unemployment... Finance.Yahoo.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284200/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:46:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283856/posts Gov: State's deficit has grown to $26.3 billion Matthew Yi, Richard Procter,Wyatt Buchanan, Chronicle Sacramento Bureau Wednesday, July 1, 2009 Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said today that the state's deficit has grown by $2 billion - to $26.3 billion due to the Legislature's failure to pass a comprehensive solution to solve the state's shortfall. The Republican governor also declared a fiscal emergency, citing the Legislature's inability to pass a plan by last night's midnight deadline. The fiscal emergency means that under Proposition 58, lawmakers will have 45 days to adopt a plan to close the deficit. If they fail to meet... SFChronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2283856/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 04:27:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2282998/posts We enter the mid year point of summer with a reminder of how badly the liberal economic fantasy policy of government funded stimulus have failed (vs the tried and true tax cut stimulus that has worked since John F Kennedy employed it). Tomorrow, as Tiernan Raye points out at Barron’s Blogs, is going to set the tone for a very bleak summer for this nation: Strata-Sphere http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2282998/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 03:29:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282902/posts ABOARD A MILITARY AIRCRAFT, June 30, 2009 – Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said today he’s heartened that al-Qaida hasn’t been able to reignite sectarian violence in Iraq despite its acts of violence leading up to today’s deadline for U.S. troops to leave Iraqi cities. Commanders on the ground anticipated for weeks that al-Qaida and other extremists would take advantage of the U.S. troops’ compliance with the U.S.-Iraq status of forces agreement to launch attacks, Gates told reporters returning to Washington with him after a change-of-command ceremony at U.S. European Command headquarters in Germany. While capitalizing on what they perceive... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2282902/posts#comment Wed, 1 Jul 2009 00:55:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280837/posts WASHINGTON – Republicans concerned about the Obama administration's big spending on economic stimulus, energy and health care are asking, "Where are the jobs?" "The president and Democrats in Congress claim this spending binge is necessary to put Americans back to work," House Republican leader John Boehner said Saturday in the Republican radio and Internet address. "They promised unemployment would not rise above 8 percent if their trillion-dollar stimulus was passed. "But our nation has lost nearly 3 million jobs this year. Unemployment has soared above 9 percent. And now the president admits that unemployment will soon reach double digits. "After... Newsmax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280837/posts#comment Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:30:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277815/posts NBC's Chuck Todd: "The honeymoon is coming to an end for President Obama, but it's not personal. It's professional, as now the public appears to be judging the president on some of his actions." Hawaii Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2277815/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:09:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271820/posts On June 4, President Barack Obama declared, "I've come here to Cairo to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world." Awed by Obama's rhetoric, many commentators - blogger Juan Cole and MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann, for example - suggested that an "Obama Effect" could usher in a new era of hope and change in the Middle East, and a pro-American outcome in Lebanese elections earlier this month seemed to cooperate with the theory. After Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's reelection in Iran, we can now say with confidence: There is an Obama Effect, but it has less... NY Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271820/posts#comment Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:52:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2269837/posts Less than six months into it and the Barack Obama presidency has been unmitigated mayhem. Barack-caused disasters befall the nation on a near daily basis, one can scarcely keep track anymore. We have endured his offensive schmoozing with slave owners tour in the Arab states, punctuated by his contemptible speech in Cairo, in which the president spouted flagrant falsehoods about the charms of Islam, while berating the United States for being a bit churlish about radical Muslim ideology after 9/11. As anticipated, Obama made apocryphal pledges to Muslims about the United States’ ability to constrain Israel. Canada Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2269837/posts#comment Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:21:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269277/posts Health care reform has a long history of failureJune 9, 3:52 PM Health care reform is on everyone’s mind. It’s an idea, they say, whose time has come. The cost of health insurance is out of control. 40 plus million Americans cannot afford or cannot qualify for health insurance. But health care reform has been here before. Actually, about every 15 years there is a push for reforming health care in America. It started way back in 1912 when Theodore Roosevelt’s Bull Moose Party introduced a platform calling for national health insurance for industry. In 1934 as part of the... Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2269277/posts#comment Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:59:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2268256/posts Part of President Obama’s healthcare plan includes the making of electronic health records. The major purpose of what the trendy call “e-records” is to provide instant access of everyone’s medical history to doctors, hospitals, pharmacists and any 14-year-old hacker who might be curious. In September 2008, after playing around with electronic health records for awhile, the province of Ontario created a new agency, not surprisingly called eHealth Ontario. This group replaced a previous organization, Smart Systems for Health Agency,that spent $647 million without showing any noticeable results. The primary goal of eHealth Ontario is to provide electronic medical records for... Canada Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2268256/posts#comment Tue, 9 Jun 2009 21:11:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265219/posts As the French team leading the investigation into the Air France Flight 447 crash works through the multitude of likely and less likely disaster scenarios — from the repercussions of stormy conditions to an act of terrorism — perhaps among the most difficult to assess will be possible flight computer malfunctions. Air France CEO Pierre-Henry Gourgeon noted on Monday that immediately preceding AF447's disappearance, automatic messages sent by the plane indicated "multiple technical failures." As details emerge regarding these messages, experts will struggle to understand whether they were the inevitable result of the plane's breaking up or indicators of the... Time http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265219/posts#comment Fri, 5 Jun 2009 04:46:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261828/posts WASHINGTON (AFP) — General Motors, readying a massive bankruptcy filing backed by billions in public funds, faces a complex set of challenges as a virtually nationalized "Government Motors," analysts say. With the US government expected to hold as much as 72.5 percent of the new firm that would emerge from bankruptcy, analysts say a big question is whether GM can concentrate on the difficult auto marketplace. "The tricky part is to leave day-to-day management to the executives of the company," said Jeremy Anwyl, chief executive at auto research firm Edmunds.com. For the government, he said, "the temptation is to influence... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261828/posts#comment Mon, 1 Jun 2009 00:04:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2259042/posts Much of the Obama administration’s rationale for bailing out GM is that such actions will save American jobs. This is just one of the many unfortunate fallacies that stem from our century-old fiat money system. Prior to the formation of the Federal Reserve System the American populace would have scoffed at such nonsense that the government can or even should tax all Americans in order to save the jobs of some Americans. It would have been apparent to anyone in the age of the gold standard that the government can give away only what it takes from someone else, exacting... The Bulletin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2259042/posts#comment Wed, 27 May 2009 14:46:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250804/posts The White House correspondents and President Barack Obama demonstrated they were a tasteless, classless bunch at the recent White House Correspondents’ Dinner. They demonstrated that by laughing at a parade of tasteless, classless jokes that, among other things, wished kidney failure for Rush Limbaugh, made fun of his history of addiction to painkillers and suggested he might have been the 20th hijacker involved in 9/11. Karl Rove put it this way, describing those comments as “mean, vicious and nasty.” But perhaps the most devastating criticism of comedian Wanda Sykes was that her jokes weren’t funny. This disgraceful demonstration was compounded... The Bulletin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250804/posts#comment Thu, 14 May 2009 14:55:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2250458/posts Upon taking office, much of the nation was prepared to give the incoming Obama administration a chance, despite a laundry list of well founded doubts. On his first day in office 44% of Americans strongly approved while only 16% strongly disapproved of the new president. But it would be a very short honeymoon… Immediately, the Obama administration started making all the wrong moves. Little more than a hundred days later, only 35% strongly approve as he has already lost the confidence of many who voted for him and 30% now strongly disapprove, up from 16% on his first day in... Canada Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2250458/posts#comment Thu, 14 May 2009 01:25:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249283/posts The Obama Administration continues to say all the “correct” things about Pakistan and its fight against the Taliban. Yet, knowledgeable observers in South Asia give the country no more than twelve months to stave off the terror group’s inevitable takeover of that nuclear Islamic Republic. In a New York Times piece in early April, David Kilcullen, former adviser to United States military commander General David Petraeus, predicted Pakistan’s fall to the Taliban “within six months.” Shortly afterwards, his former boss agreed that the current Taliban “insurgency” could “take down” Pakistan. Even Secretary of State Hillary Clinton admitted later that month,... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249283/posts#comment Tue, 12 May 2009 15:47:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249067/posts Republican leaders frantically seeking to rebrand their party might want to swing their attention from Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney to a feisty young Republican who has never been elected to anything: Meghan McCain. The 24-year-old daughter of U.S. Sen. John McCain, the 2008 GOP presidential candidate, is a regular political blogger and most certainly not her mother Cindy's serene, St. John-suit-wearing stereotype of a Republican woman. The San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249067/posts#comment Tue, 12 May 2009 04:59:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247652/posts The U.S. Department of Education has just released the latest findings from the “Nation’s Report Card,” the leading nationwide measurement of educational outcomes. The findings contained good news for critics of the 2001 federal education law No Child Left Behind (NCLB). But supporters of the law got good news of their own. The good news for the critics is that the Nation’s Report Card shows reading and math scores still have not substantially changed since 1971. The good news for supporters is that the Nation’s Report Card shows reading and math scores still have not substantially changed since 1971. Welcome... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247652/posts#comment Sat, 9 May 2009 18:26:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247429/posts Excuse me, Jeb Bush, but your daddy and brother already helped push the Republican Party beyond “the good old days” of its Reagan legacy, and we all see how well that’s been working for the GOP since 2006, don’t we. And excuse me, Gen. Colin Powell, but which election did you win because “Americans are looking for more government in their lives, not less …”? Forgive me if I seem a bit cranky here, but, being a card-carrying Reaganaut since 1964, it’s hard not to be whenever the national media lectures the GOP on how to regain voters’ trust. Inevitably,... The Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247429/posts#comment Sat, 9 May 2009 05:30:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247400/posts Earlier This Month, The President Announced He Will Propose A Balanced Budget. On February 5, the Administration will present its five-year budget proposal. The President's budget will reduce the deficit over the next five years and produce a balanced budget by 2012. The Budget will achieve balance while addressing the Nation's most critical needs, including support for the Global War on Terror and sustaining the strength of our economy through permanent tax relief. The President's Tax Relief Has Spurred Robust Economic Growth, Millions Of Jobs, And Rising Wages. A Strong U.S. Economy Is Fueling Higher Tax Revenues. Tax revenues rose... Whitehouse archives http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247400/posts#comment Sat, 9 May 2009 04:12:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2243849/posts With the Class of 2006, California began requiring high-school students to score at least 60 percent on a test of 10th-grade English and at least 55 percent on eighth-grade math to graduate. With numerous chances to take this exit exam, 90 percent of all students pass it before the 12th grade and graduate with a diploma. Why, then, do the relative few not pass and not graduate with a diploma? Sean F. Reardon, an associate professor of education at Stanford University, is seeking answers. Using records of the San Diego, San Francisco, Fresno and Long Beach school districts, Reardon compared... San Diego Union - Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2243849/posts#comment Mon, 4 May 2009 16:06:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2241361/posts Pass 29.1% Fail 70.9% The Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2241361/posts#comment Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:05:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237377/posts 10:49 a.m., April 24, 2009----While their political opinions may differ, University of Delaware alumni David Plouffe and Steve Schmidt, the two men who helped run the opposing campaigns for the 2008 presidential election, agree that President Barack Obama was a once-in-a-generation candidate and that young people have become an important part of the American political process. Schmidt, who led the Republican campaign of U.S. Sen. John McCain, and Plouffe, who led the Democratic campaign of Obama, discussed their experiences with candor and humor before an audience of about 500 people on Thursday, April 23, in Clayton Hall. The discussion was... University of Delaware http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2237377/posts#comment Sat, 25 Apr 2009 01:23:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232192/posts This time we have a five-year veteran of the Framingham Police Department shot at and hit while responding to what appears to have been an armed robbery of a taxi cab driver. The manhunt for the criminals, so brazen as to shoot at a police officer, resulted in the capture of one suspect. He was identified as 22-year-old Josiah Sahr of Framingham. Yesterday, the other suspects were arrested. Kenneth Lacy, of Boston, and Emanuel Aguilar, of Marlborough, are scheduled to be arraigned in Framingham District Court. According to the Boston Herald article: “Lacy, who is 20, is charged with armed... Boston Gun Rights Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232192/posts#comment Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:56:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2230549/posts The seeds of discontent have already been sown. The divide between those who cherish true freedom and liberty and detest the intrusion of the federal government, and those who blindly follow an Obama administration ready to spend this country into an abyss of debt makes the Grand Canyon look like a crack in the sidewalk. Fertilizing this separation apparently is the job of the leftist lapdog media. Journalism that presents facts and relates a true balance is long dead, while advocacy reporting by the leftist press has become blatantly one sided. The coverage of massive Tea Party protests this week,... Canada Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2230549/posts#comment Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:38:44 GMT