http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/followthemoney/ en-us Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:25:28 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066734/posts Since Joe Biden has been a US Senator since he was 29 and a local politician before that where the heck does his wealth come from? His dad was a car salesman which while you can do well if your good at it doesn't usually lead to great wealth. Looking at his family compound and the houses on them you have to have a lot of wealth to afford them. His wife is an English professor at Delaware Technical Community College which while it probably pays well isn't like being a partner in a major law firm or anything. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2066734/posts#comment Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:25:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065530/posts (KCPW News) Utah lawmakers took tips on highway funding from a Texas legislator this morning. Texas Republican Representative Mike Krusee joined them on Capitol Hill. He told the Revenue and Taxation Interim Committee that with federal money drying up, the only way to pay for new highways is to make them toll roads. "Guess how many roads pay for themselves in taxes? Zero. Not a one. Most of them are less than 50 percent," said Krusee. "Imagine if you're a grocery a store owner, and you decide, I'm gonna sell sirloin at a buck a pound, and I'm gonna sell... KCPW http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2065530/posts#comment Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:45:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060618/posts Over the past couple years, we’ve noticed a suspicious number of ticket camera editorials by the Orlando Sentinel. After looking more closely, we noticed that nearly every editorial in the Sentinel was strongly in favor of installing ticket cameras. Furthermore, we noticed that nearly every pro-camera article was written by one member of the Sentinel’s Editorial Board, George Diaz.This seemed odd, so we decided to look into it further.After some quick research, we discovered that George Diaz appeared at a symposium held by The National Campaign To Stop Red Light Running in late 2007.As we covered on this blog previously,... NMA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060618/posts#comment Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:34:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058710/posts ABC Radio news just announced Sen. John Edwards will admit to the affair with Rielle Hunter in an interview with the network, but insists the child is not his. We return you to your regularly-scheduled FReeping. ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058710/posts#comment Fri, 8 Aug 2008 18:57:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058755/posts The writhings of worldwide Anglicanism are another reason to disestablish the Church of England IN THE end it held together, but only just. The 650-odd bishops who attended the once-a-decade Lambeth conference went home with open schism between the liberal and conservative wings of the worldwide Anglican Communion averted. A split may prove no more than postponed, as the agreed mechanisms for making minds meet are oh-so-slowly put in place (see article). But at least the unedifying spectacle of comrades in Christ tearing strips off each other over gay sex will vanish from the headlines for a bit. Does it... The Economist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058755/posts#comment Fri, 8 Aug 2008 21:03:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049806/posts There’s an old saying that the only thing wrong with tainted money is that there “taint” enough of it. That might work for universities and other institutions that grace their halls with the names of robber barons, but it’s trouble for political campaigns. The McCain camp recognized that fact of life anew this week. The Washington Post reports that the campaign was stung by its ties to Oregon venture capitalist and political donor Craig Berkman, who was sued by former investors in a fraud case and ordered to pay $28 million in civil damages. Berkman and his wife, the Post... The Los Angeles Times - Top of the Ticket http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049806/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:13:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046715/posts I'm a lifelong Republican - a supply-side conservative. I worked in the Reagan White House. I was the chief economist at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for five years. In 1994, I helped write the Republican Contract with America. I served on Bob Dole's presidential campaign team and was chief economist for Jack Kemp's Empower America. This November, I'm voting for Barack Obama. When I first made this decision, many colleagues were shocked. How could I support a candidate with a domestic policy platform that's antithetical to almost everything I believe in? The answer is simple: Unjustified war and unconstitutional... NY Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046715/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:45:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044133/posts An astrophysicist claims to know the true source of a strange grouping of lights that appeared in the Arizona night sky 11 years ago. Dr. James R. Bartzen said he has indisputable proof that the so-called "Phoenix Lights" were a product of secret man-made technology being shielded from the public. He works at the Russian-American Institute of Space Science. "There are no theories, there is only evidence," Bartzen told ABC15. "The government desires people to believe in space aliens so they don't have to reveal the technologies that both we and the Russians have." KNXV-TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044133/posts#comment Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:23:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028833/posts Here's a quick geopolitical quiz: What country is three times the size of Texas and has more than 300 days of blazing sun a year? What country has the world's largest oil reserves resting below miles upon miles of sand? And what country is being given nuclear power, not solar, by President George W. Bush, even when the mere assumption of nuclear possession in its region has been known to provoke pre-emptive air strikes, even wars? If you answered Saudi Arabia to all of these questions, you're right. Last month, while the American people were becoming the personal ATMs of... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028833/posts#comment Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:27:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022698/posts The European Union, the "free trade organization with a few added extras," is officially turning into a pan-European dictatorship. The Daily Telegraph reports: "The European Union assembly's political establishment is pushing through changes that will silence dissidents by changing the rules allowing Euro-MPs to form political groupings. Richard Corbett, a British Labour MEP, is leading the charge to cut the number of party political tendencies in the Parliament next year, a move that would dissolve UKIP's pan-European Eurosceptic "Independence and Democracy" grouping. Under the rule change, the largest and most pro-EU groups would tighten their grip on the Parliament's political... The Brussels Journel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022698/posts#comment Wed, 28 May 2008 23:43:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021902/posts The businessman was meeting with clients for lunch at Mimi's Café when he noticed the woman. Sitting a few tables over with her 4-year-old boy, she seemed groggy — yet she was drinking a mimosa. It got worse. The woman ordered a glass of white wine, then another. She was so out of it, the businessman would later write in a statement to police, that she looked ready to fall asleep at the table. When the woman paid her bill and left the restaurant, the businessman was right behind her, cell phone in hand. When she ran a stop sign... Phoenix News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2021902/posts#comment Tue, 27 May 2008 14:56:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1996616/posts BALTIMORE - A federal judge in Baltimore ordered Westboro Baptist Church members to post their church building and nearly $500,000 more in cash and property while appealing a judgment for protesting a Marine’s funeral. The Kansas church members had hoped to avoid posting a bond while delaying payments in the $5 million judgment a jury awarded Albert Snyder, the father of Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder who died in Iraq. Westboro church members preach that God kills American soldiers as punishment for the country’s tolerance of homosexuality. They protested Matthew Snyder’s Westminster funeral in March 2006 by waving signs... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1996616/posts#comment Fri, 4 Apr 2008 13:07:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1968039/posts Thousands of drivers who ignore their red light camera tickets are receiving an unusual giftfrom Orange County courts: Their cases disappear. No fine. No points on their driving records. Meanwhile, the drivers who face up to their mistake and respond to their tickets face a $346 fine, driving school and sometimes, a spike in their insurance rates. "It's not a real good message to get out there to the public," Superior Court CEO Alan Slater conceded in an interview. An Orange County Register investigation has found that police and court workers throughout Orange County rarely complete the time-consuming process required... orange county register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1968039/posts#comment Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:34:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940746/posts Former President Bill Clinton's decision to reconsider a business relationship with California billionaire Ron Burkle reflects concern those financial dealings may embarrass his wife's presidential candidacy. Securities and Exchange Commission documents and financial- disclosure forms filed by Hillary Clinton show that Bill Clinton, 61, has a financial stake in three investment entities registered in the Cayman Islands by Burkle's Yucaipa Cos. LLC. In 2004, Hillary Clinton, a New York senator, said she wanted to ``close the loopholes'' for ``people who create a mailbox, or a drop, or send one person to sit on the beach in some island paradise and... Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940746/posts#comment Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:33:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910887/posts Al Gore’s campaign against global warming is shifting into high gear. Reporters and commentators follow his every move and bombard the public with notice of his activities and opinions. But while the mainstream media promote his ideas about the state of planet Earth, they are mostly silent about the dramatic impact his economic proposals would have on America. And journalists routinely ignore evidence that he may personally benefit from his programs. Would the romance fizzle if Gore’s followers realized how much their man stands to gain? Earlier this year Gore experienced a notable public relations debacle. The Tennessee Center for... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1910887/posts#comment Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:35:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1908892/posts Al Gore’s campaign against global warming is shifting into high gear...But while the mainstream media promote his ideas about the state of planet Earth, they are mostly silent about the dramatic impact his economic proposals would have on America...and routinely ignore evidence that he may personally benefit from his programs. Would the romance fizzle if Gore’s followers realized how much their man stands to gain?...... Never mind that the scientific community is divided over what causes global warming, how bad it is and how to deal with it. Gore plays Chicken Little to the media’s applause, insisting that the world... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1908892/posts#comment Tue, 9 Oct 2007 23:02:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1907377/posts How many readers have donated hard-earned cash for the Susan G. Komen Breast Foundation? How many of you have run or walked to support a "race for the cure"? How many of you know your breast cancer donations go to the pro-abortion outfit Planned Parenthood? Beware of liberal agendas wrapped in good causes. Focal Point USA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1907377/posts#comment Sat, 6 Oct 2007 08:47:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1906300/posts FreeRepublic does not allow Media Matters to be posted here.....but this may be very important.... I believe that it is important enough to remain....(moderators will decide)The following post is an excerpt from a wordy article from Oct 3: The claim that the philanthropist Soros funds or has funded Media Matters -- either directly or indirectly -- is false, as Colorado Media Matters noted .....As Media Matters has noted, conservative figures such as media consultant Phil Kent and Fox News' Bill O'Reilly have falsely claimed that Soros channels money to the organization from the Open Society Institute (OSI) through the Tides... Colorado Media Matters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1906300/posts#comment Thu, 4 Oct 2007 04:03:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1888161/posts TRANSLATION FROM ORIGINAL SPANISH (EXERPT):"Bank Remittances from USA to Mexico Down 1.3%"Slowdown in USA and Tightened Immigration Actions [Against Illegals] Are Main Causes During the first six months of the year, Michoacán became the state that had the greater decrease remittances from the USA, said the Bank Of Mexico.... El Universal Online (TRANSLATION) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1888161/posts#comment Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:03:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1882716/posts Too many people are being diagnosed with depression when they are merely unhappy, a senior psychiatrist said today. Normal emotions are sometimes being treated as mental illness because the threshold for clinical depression is too low, according to Professor Gordon Parker. Prof Parker said depression had become a "catch-all" diagnosis, driven by clever marketing from pharmaceutical companies and leading to the burgeoning prescription of antidepressant drugs. Writing in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), he said the drugs were being marketed beyond their "true utility" in cases in which people were unhappy rather than clinically depressed. Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1882716/posts#comment Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:11:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1866788/posts As reported by Tim Blair in the Daily Telegraph, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Lateline host Tony Jones hosted an in-studio discussion Thursday night after the ABC presented The Great Global Warming Swindle, and he was “hotter than a Christina Aguilera video”. “Welcome to our debate on this deeply flawed and utterly mistaken documentary, which is wrong in every regard and was made by a zombie,” Jones said in introduction, [referring to filmmaker Martin Durkin.] ~~ snip ~~ And as reported in the [National Review] Corner by Iain Murray, “A few days ago, my colleague Dr. Marlo Lewis had a column... ICECAP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1866788/posts#comment Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:48:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1852957/posts The Texas Supreme Court is currently considering the legal briefs in the highly publicized Roman v. Roman frozen embryo case, in which Augusta Roman seeks to implant the embryos created during her six-year marriage to Randy Roman. Randy Roman is trying to prevent this, and won a unanimous decision in the Texas First District Court of Appeal in February. Because this is a new, cutting-edge area of the law, and one which has received little judicial attention in Texas, it appears likely that the Texas Supreme Court will hear the case. Though Augusta Roman says she will raise the child... Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1852957/posts#comment Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:08:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1852726/posts One of the ideas behind Stockpickr.com is to allow investors to peek inside the portfolios of the big financial guns to see what stocks they like. Although they wouldn't be considered financial gurus, the Clintons recently liquidated their blind trusts, and we took note. The Bill and Hillary Clinton portfolio on Stockpickr lists the 25 largest stock holdings liquidated by the couple's blind trust, with each holding representing an investment of more than $100,000 each. The flurry of recent news items about former president Bill Clinton and presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton's blind trust have focused on the reason why... The Street http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1852726/posts#comment Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:20:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1845110/posts This is is a revealing piece from a former global warming supporter on the politically influenced global warming "science:" I devoted six years to carbon accounting, building models for the Australian government to estimate carbon emissions from land use change and forestry. When I started that job in 1999 the evidence that carbon emissions caused global warming seemed pretty conclusive, but since then new evidence has weakened that case. I am now skeptical. In the late 1990s, this was the evidence suggesting that carbon emissions caused global warming: Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, proved in a laboratory a century... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1845110/posts#comment Tue, 5 Jun 2007 13:17:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1835552/posts Sacramento, CA (LifeNews.com) -- The California Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit filed by pro-life and taxpayers groups saying that the state's stem cell research agency is running afoul of oversight and accountability laws. The decision allows the agency to move forward with billions in grants for human cloning and embryonic stem cell research. The state's high court decided against reviewing a state appeals court ruling from February that upheld the legality of the state's multibillion dollar embryonic stem cell research program The appeals court had said the statewide ballot proposal and committee it created were legal despite a lawsuit saying... LifeNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1835552/posts#comment Fri, 18 May 2007 03:42:47 GMT