http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/front/ en-us Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:56:25 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2349501/posts A quick trip to grab a bite to eat by Police Chief Kevin Belk and Deputy Police Chief James Farris turned into a baby-saving adventure Thursday afternoon. While headed to lunch, Belk and Farris chased down a Chevy Suburban stolen moments before with a baby boy inside, police said. The mother of 10-month-old Kamaron Hill is hailing both as her ``heroes'' after they saw her ``hysterical'' on Fulton Street near Dwight Avenue, she said. Kandeis Hill, 35, of Grand Rapids, ran into the street after her sport utility vehicle was taken from the Fulton Street Superwash, at 912 E. Fulton... Kalamazoo Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2349501/posts#comment Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:56:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385039/posts Federal prosecutors are taking steps to seize four U.S. mosques and a New York City skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385039/posts#comment Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:09:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2334052/posts When you call Communists “liberals” it legitimizes them. The time has come to stop it. To stop the charade , stick your head out the window and say “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.” NewsReal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2334052/posts#comment Mon, 7 Sep 2009 17:56:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263376/posts The following is the full text of Caroline Glick's speech after accepting the 'Guardian of Zion' award. For nearly as long as I can remember, the image of the watchman on the gates of Jerusalem has been the singular image of Jewish strength for me. It is has always been to the Jewish watchmen, ever vigilant, to whom we have owed our lives, and our survival as a people. Today these watchmen preserve our freedom in our land. For 50 generations in exile, it was the memory of those Jewish Centurions, manning the barricades, that inspired us to keep faith... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263376/posts#comment Wed, 3 Jun 2009 00:57:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225974/posts Here is another great moment in A.P. history. In its quest to become the RIAA of the newspaper industry, the A.P.’s executives and lawyers are beginning to match their counterparts in the music industry for cluelessness. A country radio station in Tennessee, WTNQ-FM, received a cease-and-desist letter warning from an A.P. vice president of affiliate relations for posting videos from the A.P.’s official Youtube channel on its Website. See update below. Techcrunch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2225974/posts#comment Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:00:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2165060/posts Federal prosecutors last summer rejected claims that ISNA was unfairly named an unindicted co-conspirators in the Holy Land Foundation Hamas terror funding case. ISNA has admitted ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. The Muslim Brotherhood is waging, in its own words, "a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.” And the head of ISNA is going to offer a JihadWatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2165060/posts#comment Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:07:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2150341/posts The Bush administration moved Wednesday to clamp down financially on a New York City business suspected of acting as a front company for Iran's Bank Melli, which has been accused of providing support to Iran's nuclear program. "This scheme to use a front company set up by Bank Melli - a known proliferator - to funnel money from the United States to Iran is yet another example of Iran's duplicity," said Stuart Levey, the Treasury Department's under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence. CBS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2150341/posts#comment Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:42:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982738/posts Address only per protocol. www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080308/NEWS01/80308067 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982738/posts#comment Sun, 9 Mar 2008 04:38:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1877846/posts WASHINGTON, Aug. 7, 2007 – “Terrorists are under no illusion about the importance of the struggle in Iraq,” so freedom-loving people can’t be either, Vice President Richard B. Cheney told members of the Marine Corps League yesterday. Vice President Richard B. Cheney receives a welcome to the 84th National Convention of the Marine Corps League in Albuquerque, N.M.. Aug. 6, 2007. The Marine Corps League is the only federally chartered U.S. Marine Corps-related veterans organization and credits its founding in 1923 to World War I hero Marine Corps Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune. White House photo by David Bohrer... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1877846/posts#comment Tue, 7 Aug 2007 23:58:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1841733/posts FRED THOMPSON IS RUNNING for the Republican presidential nomination. In a conference call Monday, Thompson addressed a group of more than 100 supporters and fundraisers whom the campaign has dubbed First Day Founders. He told them that he would be setting up an organization that will allow him to begin raising money and recruiting staff. In official campaign finance parlance, the move represents a shift from "giving serious consideration" to a presidential bid, as Thompson said he would do back in March, as a non-candidate, to a "testing the waters" period where one is, in effect, a candidate-in-waiting with a... Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1841733/posts#comment Wed, 30 May 2007 03:46:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1838530/posts Wednesday, May 23, 2007 The horrors facing a first offender locked up with hardened criminals in the nation's high-security federal prisons highlighted testimony Tuesday in the sentencing hearing of Stanislas Meyerhoff, the first of 10 defendants to be sentenced in the Operation Backfire prosecution of radical underground environmental activists. The hearing is expected to conclude today in Eugene before U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken, who will decide Meyerhoff's prison term and rule whether his crimes were acts of terrorism, a ruling that could bring a stiffer sentence. Through the day, prosecution and defense lawyers dueled over whether Meyerhoff was an... The Register-Guard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1838530/posts#comment Wed, 23 May 2007 17:25:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1838879/posts EUGENE, Ore. – Declaring fires set at a police station, an SUV dealer and a tree farm acts of terrorism, a federal judge Wednesday sentenced the first of 10 members of a radical environmental group to 13 years in prison. U.S. District Judge Ann Aiken commended Stanislas Meyerhoff for having the courage to “do the right thing” by informing on his fellow arsonists after his arrest, but declared that his efforts to save the earth by setting fires were misguided and cowardly, and contributed to an unfair characterization of others working legally to protect the environment as radicals. “It was... ap on San Diego Union - Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1838879/posts#comment Thu, 24 May 2007 05:09:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1822382/posts Mon Apr 23 2007 20:01:12 ET A man chopped off his penis with a knife in front of horrified diners at a busy restaurant. Police were called to Zizzi, in The Strand, London, at 9pm on Sunday after reports of a man in possession of a knife. Sales rep Stuart McMahon, who was eating at the restaurant with his girlfriend, told the SUN: "This guy came running in then charged into the kitchen, got a massive knife and started waving it about. "Everyone was screaming and running out as he jumped on a table, dropped his trousers and popped his... Drudge http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1822382/posts#comment Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:31:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1802385/posts We are on the cusp of a new era of terror financing, that of mobile payments or "m-payments." An m-payment system is being developed by members of the GSM Association to enable migrant workers and the poor who do not have bank accounts to transfer money internationally, efficiently and inexpensively. According to the World Bank, 175 million migrants transferred at least $230 billion international remittances in 2005. Are Hamas, al Qaeda, Hezbollah and their likes far behind? Soon, every mobile-phone owner will be able to send money, pay bills and make purchases anywhere, anytime. According to the GSM Association, 3... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1802385/posts#comment Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:26:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1763868/posts Part One of Three (A Photo Essay) 31 December 2006: Baghdad, Iraq To enter Iraq with US forces, journalists normally travel through Kuwait. This time I flew from Singapore to Kuwait, where I toured military facilities critical to maintaining war-fighting equipment, then to Qatar to continue exploration of the same, and finally back to Kuwait to enter Iraq. I plan to spend the entirety of 2007 with our troops at war, until sickness, wounds or worse send me home, or the military tires of my presence and catapults me over the wire. Having spent most of 2005 in Iraq, I... Michael Yon http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1763868/posts#comment Mon, 8 Jan 2007 00:19:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1723894/posts Photo 1: Storm front over Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station (Niagara Falls Air Base), New York on 4 October 2006. Photographer: Senior Master Sgt. Ray Lloyd, United States Air Force. Big image link: http://jccc.afis.osd.mil/images/hres.pl?Lbox_cap=1402598&dir=Photo (Mirror). Above photo, caption info via: http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-20061021.htm Photo 2: An adult bald eagle at NASA Kennedy Space Center, Florida, decides that the tasty mid-day road meal can wait, and makes a hasty flight to avoid the oncoming vehicle. Photographer: Gary Rothstein, National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Links: http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/kscpao/images/large/06pd2061.jpg (big image), http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=29961 (the source). Above photo, caption info via: http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-20060927.htm USAF; NASA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1723894/posts#comment Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:10:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1703252/posts CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shored up opposition to a U.S. drive to curb Iran's nuclear program on a visit to Venezuela on Sunday that cemented an anti-American front with President Hugo Chavez. Ahmadinejad's first trip to Venezuela highlighted Iran's backing for the fellow OPEC country's bid for a U.N. Security Council seat that Chavez would use to challenge Washington's campaign for international sanctions against Tehran. Chavez, who Washington calls a destabilizing, anti-democratic force, cast the visit as two countries jointly defying what he says is the imperialist aggression of the world's only superpower. "Iran is one of... Reuters on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1703252/posts#comment Mon, 18 Sep 2006 00:30:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1680885/posts Israel to triple force on Lebanon front line By Tim Butcher, Adrian Blomfield in Tyre and Harry Mount in New York (Filed: 10/08/2006) Israel vowed yesterday to expand the ground war in Lebanon to try to deliver a knockout blow to Hizbollah, amid warnings that the conflict could last at least another month. The decision by the security cabinet after a six-hour meeting in Jerusalem increased the pressure on major powers struggling to win agreement on a United Nations resolution to end the four-week-old conflict. Israel plans to triple the size of its ground forces "Plans by defence minister Amir... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1680885/posts#comment Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:05:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1670254/posts Banned Islamists spawn front organisations Al-Ghurabaa tries to ensure survival with groups across UK Ian Cobain and Nick Fielding Saturday July 22, 2006 The Guardian (UK) Muslim demonstration organised by Anjem Choudhary, former righthand man to the al-Ghurabaa founder. Photograph: David Levene/Guardian A British Islamist group which is to be outlawed under new anti-terror laws has already formed scores of front organisations in an attempt to ensure its survival, according to investigators in New York. Al-Ghurabaa, formed by Omar Bakri Mohammed before he fled to Lebanon in the wake of the 7/7 bombings, heads the list of four organisations which... The Guardian (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1670254/posts#comment Sat, 22 Jul 2006 02:26:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1652623/posts Front garden yields ancient tools Only one other handaxe of this type has been found that is bigger The Britons of 250,000 years ago were a good deal more sophisticated than they are sometimes given credit for, new archaeological evidence suggests. It comes in the form of giant flint handaxes that have been unearthed at a site at Cuxton in Kent. The tools display exquisite, almost flamboyant, workmanship not associated with this period until now. The axes - one of which measured 307mm (1ft) in length - were dug up from old sand deposits in a front garden. "It is... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1652623/posts#comment Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:48:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1598536/posts Three eco-terrorists were sentenced Friday to federal prison for a series of firebombings that put towns in the Sierra foothills on edge. Ryan Daniel Lewis, 22, the alleged leader of the group, was sentenced to six years, and two sisters - Eva Rose Holland, 26, and Lili Marie Holland, 21 - were each handed two-year prison terms. Prosecutors alleged Lewis recruited the Holland sisters and Jeremiah Dean Colcleasure, 24, on Christmas Eve 2004 to help him burn down two unoccupied upscale homes in Lincoln, a Sacramento suburb, in the name of the Earth Liberation Front. The FBI calls the ELF... AP on Bakersfield Californian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1598536/posts#comment Sat, 18 Mar 2006 02:24:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1594570/posts In the bedroom of a dingy apartment on Tucson's South Side, Air Force Master Sgt. Jim Johnston snapped on a pair of latex gloves and gently probed the rib cage of a 40-year-old woman weeping with pain. She'd been sick for days. Her fever was 104. Her only medicine: Nyquil. "Where does it hurt?," Johnston asked. "My chest," the woman panted, crying out as a coughing spasm overtook her. An hour later, Johnston is on another city street, trying to make sense of a babbling 21-year-old woman who seems strung out --- Arizona Daily Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1594570/posts#comment Sat, 11 Mar 2006 18:51:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1578576/posts AR RAMADI, Iraq (Feb. 14, 2006) -- The streets here are a far cry from the corner of 8th and I streets in Washington, D.C., and yet for an infantryman who joined the Marine Corps to travel the world and do his part in the War on Terrorism, it is the only place he wants to be. Corporal Jared St. Clair, an infantryman with 4th Platoon, Company I, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, has finally made it to Iraq and is making the most of his opportunity. He’s serving in the city that many experts and officials are calling the... Marine Corps News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1578576/posts#comment Tue, 14 Feb 2006 23:25:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1576700/posts CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq (Feb. 11, 2006) -- There are more than 22,000 Marines with II Marine Expeditionary Force units deployed in Iraq. Many of them are serving on the front lines, outside the wire, however, they would not be operating successfully without having proper administrative support backing them. Administrative Marines like Sgt. Jeffery P. Kast, an administration clerk with Combat Logistics Battalion-8, 2nd Marine Logistics Group (Forward), routinely ensure Marines within their respective units have continuous administrative support. “For my office, our day-to-day tasks are to make sure that Marines in our battalion are being taken care of administratively,” Kast... Marine Corps News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1576700/posts#comment Sat, 11 Feb 2006 22:02:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1568725/posts Facts vs. Fiction: A Report from the FrontBy Karl Zinsmeister Your editor has just returned from another month in Iraq—my fourth extended tour in the last two and a half years. During November and December I joined numerous American combat operations, including the largest air assault since the beginning of the war, walked miles of streets and roads, entered scores of homes, listened to hundreds of Iraqis, observed voting at a dozen different polling sites, and endured my third roadside ambush. With this latest firsthand experience, here are answers to some common queries about how the war is faring. Has... The American Enterprise Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1568725/posts#comment Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:19:38 GMT