http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/goons/ en-us Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:25:30 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2209179/posts Police in Missouri apparently are being instructed to keep on eye on conservatives. According to this AP article the government of the state of Missouri has issued a report "informing" state police that people with third party bumper stickers on their cars or who believe the NAFTA superhighway is an attempt create a North American Union are subversive members of paramilitary militias and potential terrorists. American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2209179/posts#comment Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:25:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2152560/posts Teachers unions routinely claim that the interests of students are their top priority. So we would be interested to hear how the Pennsylvania affiliate of the National Education Association explains the proliferation of teacher walkouts in the middle of the school year. According to a recent study by the Allegheny Institute, Pennsylvania is once again the worst state in the country for teacher strikes. No less than 42% of all teacher walkouts nationwide occur in the Keystone State, leaving kids sidelined and parents scrambling to juggle work and family, potentially on as little as 48 hours notice required by state... WSJ Opinion Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2152560/posts#comment Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:04:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2148430/posts Just breaking on CNN. CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2148430/posts#comment Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:23:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101746/posts FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: OBAMA CAMPAIGN BEGINS USING ADVERTISERS TO THREATEN BROADCASTERS ANDY MARTIN PLANS RACKETEERING LAWSUIT AGAINST OBAMA CAMPAIGN FOR INTERSTATE EXTORTION. "OBAMA AND HIS THUGS HAVE PASSED FROM HARDBALL POLITICS TO CRIMINAL ACTIVITY" SAYS ANDY CHICAGO TRIBUNE PASSES ON HANNITY AND MARTIN, UNLEASHES LOS ANGELES TIMES "FRONT" COUNTDOWN TO HONOLULU: "OPERATION ALOHA OBAMA" BEGINS IN 6 DAYS (NEW YORK)(October 8, 2008) "We learned today that the Obama campaign is threatening economic retaliation against news organizations that communicate with me," Andy Martin stated. "This is an extension of the terrorist tactics that were directed at WGN-AM in Chicago for featuring... Press Release http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2101746/posts#comment Thu, 9 Oct 2008 22:05:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096550/posts Last night after the debate the McCain/Palin headquarters was vandalised. Someone threw a rock at the front window of the Worcester office on 149 Highland Street. The window was severely cracked and the police are being called upon to investigate. This action is very disappointing and I would hope the Democratic Party would condemn it. bostonherald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096550/posts#comment Fri, 3 Oct 2008 12:40:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094659/posts Obama image painted on Republican Club building NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama made an appearance here over the weekend at the campaign headquarters of the Republican Club of Southeast Volusia, or at least his image did. A likeness of the Illinois senator, in purple spray paint, was stenciled on the front window and outside columns of the Third Avenue headquarters overnight Friday. Club officials reported the vandalism Saturday morning and told police they would be willing to prosecute the responsible party. "I think it is some un-American, uninformed and misguided individual," headquarters committee chairman Bob McKeen... Daytona Beach News-Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2094659/posts#comment Wed, 1 Oct 2008 06:17:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2092585/posts Chicago-trained thug Barack Obama has recruited musclemen in Missouri to intimidate critics. It’s just the latest example of his bare-knuckle, speech-chilling bully tactics. Michelle Malkin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2092585/posts#comment Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:52:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073362/posts King County GOP booth at Bumbershoot vandalized  08:55 AM PDT on Tuesday, September 2, 2008  By KING5.com Staff  KCGOP Vandals tore open the tent, flipped over the table holding candidates' literature and set parts of the display on fire.  SEATTLE - The King County Republican Party reports that their booth at Seattle's Bumbershoot festival was vandalized Sunday evening. The vandals tore open the closed tent, flipped over the table holding candidates' literature and set parts of the display on fire. A person at a neighboring booth saw the flames and extinguished them before more damage was done. The KCGOP says... Northwest Cable News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073362/posts#comment Tue, 2 Sep 2008 23:54:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2006396/posts A Chinese primary school teacher and a beautician have filed a suit against CNN in New York over remarks they say insulted the Chinese people and are seeking $1.3 billion in compensation -- $1 per person in China, a Hong Kong newspaper reported. The case against the Atlanta-based cable channel, its parent company Turner Broadcasting and Jack Cafferty, the offending commentator, comes after 14 lawyers launched a similar suit in Beijing alleging that Cafferty's remarks earlier this month violated the dignity and reputation of the Chinese people. Cafferty said the United States imported Chinese-made "junk with the lead paint on... Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2006396/posts#comment Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:27:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2006264/posts "Asked if China supported the action against CNN, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu characterized it as "spontaneous activity by Chinese civilians"." - Uh huh... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2006264/posts#comment Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:39:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002543/posts J. Leon Altemose, controversial contractor, dies at 68 By Sally Downey and Jane M. Von Bergen Inquirer Staff Writers J. Leon Altemose, 68, a contractor who gained national attention for his stand against building-trade unions, died in his Malvern home Friday after a decades-long battle with multiple sclerosis. To his fellow "open-shop" builders, Mr. Altemose was a hero, paving the way for nonunion contractors in a heavily unionized area. He won their admiration by standing fast against unions in the face of vandalism, firebombings, and destroyed machinery and equipment at his sites. Mr. Altemose himself was beaten up at one... The Philadelphia Inquirer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2002543/posts#comment Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:04:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2001797/posts BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Tuesday demanded that television news channel CNN apologize after one of its commentators said the Chinese were "goons" and that their products were "junk." Jack Cafferty made the comments earlier this month on CNN's political program, The Situation Room. "We are shocked at and strongly condemn the evil attack by the CNN anchor on the Chinese people," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told a regular news conference. "Cafferty used the microphone in his hand to slander China and the Chinese people, and seriously violated reporting ethics." Cafferty said the United States imported Chinese-made "junk... Reuters via Yahoo! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2001797/posts#comment Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:03:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997591/posts Africa's leading thug, Zimbabwe's Mugabe, gives every sign of resorting to whatever it takes to hold on to power in that tortured country. Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997591/posts#comment Sun, 6 Apr 2008 17:00:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1975098/posts Ever since Super Tuesday a super debate has been raging on FR concerning John McCain. I was never a McCain supporter, in fact I penned the post Super Tuesday post "Official FR Drinking Thread" so we could together drown our common disappointments into oblivion. FReepers seem to be moving into three distinct groups. The first are those that have always supported McCain, a lot or partially. There are those that don't like McCain but are willing to support him because they believe they will get some of what they want or to defeat what the see as the more critical... FR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1975098/posts#comment Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:56:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1968912/posts GOP goon squad can’t rattle McCain DL-Online Published Saturday, February 09, 2008 It’s been a kind of perverse pleasure to watch Sen. John McCain overcome the vitriol of talk radio’s conservative goon squad. Despite vicious daily broadsides from Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham (and their sycophants on regional and local talk radio), McCain emerged Tuesday as the front-runner among Republican candidates for president. On Thursday, the senator’s only credible competition, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, suspended his campaign, effectively handing the nomination to McCain. So much for the influence of the talkers with the base of... DL-Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1968912/posts#comment Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:42:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1968059/posts It's a typical morning in the court system designed to protect California's children from abuse and neglect: Justice is being strangled by the clock. In this Sacramento courtroom, attorneys spend two minutes on the case of a 3-year-old sent to the children's shelter after being found in a filthy home. San Jose Mercury News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1968059/posts#comment Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:33:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1957049/posts The leftist outrage industry bagged a new trophy last week: MSNBC’s Chris Matthews. The Soros-funded wing of the Democratic Party took down the rabidly antiwar and anti-Bush talk show host because he dared to tell the truth about the Shadow Party’s anointed presidential candidate. However, the media have ignored the role Hillary Clinton claims to have played in founding one of the main organizations doing the protesting. Last week, the host of MSNBC’s “Hardball” issued an odd semi-apology for allegedly “sexist” and dismissive comments he made about Hillary Clinton on the network’s early-riser show, The Morning Joe. Matthews told that... Front Page Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1957049/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:46:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1927957/posts A federal judge in Washington, DC, has handed the RIAA another setback in its campaign against on-campus file-sharing. In Arista v. Does 1-19, a case brought against 19 George Washington University students by the Big Four record labels, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has ordered the RIAA to show cause why the ex parte subpoenas issued to GWU shouldn't be quashed. Judge Kollar-Kotelly's order comes in response to a motion filed by Doe number three last week. In that motion, the unnamed student asked the judge to quash the subpoena, arguing that the RIAA was relying on the wrong law to obtain... ars technica http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1927957/posts#comment Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:19:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1925156/posts November 13, 2007 -- CBS News writers could be joining their enter tainment colleagues on the picket lines. The writers, members of the Writers Guild of America, East, are expected to vote unanimously Thursday to authorize a strike on both the national and local levels. They've been working without a contract since April 2005. It doesn't mean we will automatically call [a strike], but it gives us the authority to call it," said WGA spokeswoman Sherry Goldman. "It's been almost a year since the last vote. Last November, the contract CBS offered was rejected by 99 percent of [the WGA]... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1925156/posts#comment Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:25:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1862670/posts If I was a gambler, my money would be on Hillary Clinton being the guilty party in this one and I am seriously wondering if Sandy “The Burglar” Berger may have been spotted lurking around Davenport, Iowa. After all, he was convicted and disbarred for STEALING important Security documents from the National Archive to protect and cover up for the Clinton’s appalling approach to national security and their irresponsible defence of Americans from Islamic Terrorism during the 1990’s. DAVENPORT, Iowa The Davenport, Iowa, campaign headquarters for presidential candidate Barack Obama was burglarized Friday evening. Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor says two... The Rogue Jew http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1862670/posts#comment Sun, 8 Jul 2007 19:08:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1862427/posts <p>DAVENPORT, Iowa — The Davenport campaign headquarters for Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., was burglarized Friday night. Tommy Vietor, a spokesman for the Obama campaign, said that two laptop computers and some campaign literature were taken.</p> Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1862427/posts#comment Sun, 8 Jul 2007 02:14:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1807981/posts Business: Delegates from the United Auto Workers are meeting this week ahead of the upcoming contract talks with domestic automakers. If the UAW isn't careful, it could kill America's Big Three. While the union seems to be acknowledging that economic reality dictates that it cannot be as aggressive as it has in the past, it probably hasn't fully learned the lesson. Reports out of Detroit, where the convention is being held, indicate that the union will not give back any of the ground it won on health care and other core issues. IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1807981/posts#comment Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:55:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1672898/posts U.S. Reporter Attacked by Castro Goons in Argentina Humberto Fontova Thursday, July 27, 2006 For the first time in 50 years a U.S. reporter actually asked Fidel Castro a pertinent question. This journalistic landmark took place last week while Castro visited Argentina. Castro (naturally) freaked. Why, the NERVE!! "You're a mercenary paid by the Bush!" he shrieked. "Who pays you? You'll probably try to assassinate me with a bomb!" As Castro yelled and sputtered, his bodyguards sprang into Kung Fu mode and pounced on the offending reporter chokeholding him and threatening much worse if he persisted in his impertinence. Did... Newsmax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1672898/posts#comment Thu, 27 Jul 2006 00:43:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1628022/posts Latin America: For a relatively small nation, Bolivia has an uncanny way of shaking up a continent, which it did last week with energy nationalization. For democracies like Brazil, it could be a turning point. In his surprise May Day announcement, President Evo Morales "nationalized" Bolivia's natural gas resources — not just by decree, but also by force. His leftist presidency was all of 100 days old as he moved in with a crude, 1960s-style seizure of 56 natural gas fields as well as private gas stations owned by Bolivians. All were taken as if by battle, with troops triumphantly... Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1628022/posts#comment Sun, 7 May 2006 01:04:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1621959/posts MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) -- A congresswoman's son and three Democratic campaign workers were sentenced Wednesday to four to six months in jail for slashing tires outside a Bush-Cheney campaign office on Election Day 2004. The men pleaded no contest in January to misdemeanor property damage. A fifth worker was found not guilty. "This case had to be a public example of what can happen when you interfere with voters' rights," said Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Michael Brennan, who rejected prosecutors' recommendation of probation for the four men. CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1621959/posts#comment Wed, 26 Apr 2006 18:20:59 GMT