http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/government-news/ en-us Mon, 6 Jul 2009 07:29:26 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286340/posts Sen. John McCain touched on a variety of topics with The Daily Courier while visiting Prescott July 4, from single-payer health care to a revived push for a national scenic area designation in the Sedona area. . . . . . Other topics with McCain included: . . . . . * Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor. McCain said he hasn't decided how he will vote on Sotomayor, especially since he still needs to talk to fellow Sen. Jon Kyl about her. Kyl serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Daily Courier, Prescott, Ariz. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286340/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 07:29:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286330/posts What a shock that Maureen Dowd devoted her New York Times column Sunday to attack Sarah Palin. It did not so much criticize Alaska's governor for prematurely stepping down from her official duties as to finish off what sister snipers Katie Couric and Tina Fey began last fall. The assassination of Sarah Palin - by media. For those who didn't pay attention, Mrs. Palin's unexpected stratospheric rise as a national political figure threatened the media's preordained presidency of Barack Obama. In light of how the Obama machine took down Hillary Clinton, which unsettled many feminists who believed 2008 was their... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286330/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 06:46:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286329/posts Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell had an unremarkable first year in office, loyally supporting Gov. Sarah Palin. But in the past year and half, a crescendo of unexpected announcements and dramatic developments have thrust him into a more prominent role, culminating with his unanticipated move into the No. 1 seat announced Friday. One day later a spokesman for the governor's office said Parnell would seek a full term in 2010. But for the next year and a half the job is all his. Parnell made headlines in March 2008 with his surprise decision to run against 18-term incumbent Don Young in... Juneau Empire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286329/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 06:28:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286323/posts Soon the Republican party will have no choice but to make Mitt Romney its leader. We've seen a suspiciously steady trickle of losers quietly exiting the ranks of 2012 hopefuls -- Bobby Jindal with his disastrous State of the Union rebuttal; John Ensign and Mark Sanford with their affairs; and most recently, Sarah Palin's bizarre resignation from the Alaska governorship. The only candidates left are Mike Huckabee, Tim Pawlenty and Romney. If history is any guide, we should expect some foul disclosure out of the Huckabee camp any day now. You just can't get away with saying something like this... NBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286323/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 05:48:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286320/posts Then there’s the Waxman-Markey cap and trade bill, which started out in life at a thousand pages, and then had a 300-page amendment tacked on to it in the dead of night. It was as if Dr. Frankenstein, after carefully inspecting his nightmarish creation, decided that what the monster really needed was a second head and a hunchback. Again, nobody had time to read the bill, but that didn’t prevent 219 congressmen, including eight Republicans who scurried out from under a rock just long enough to make certain that Christmas, or perhaps I mean Ramadan, would come early for the... Big Hollywood http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286320/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 05:43:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286316/posts In a move set to infuriate and send many Zero Hedge readers over the top, the NYSE has taken action to make sure that nobody will henceforth be able to keep track of the complete dominance that Goldman Sachs exerts over the New York Stock Exchange. This basically ends our weekly Program Trading updates disclosed every Thursday indicating that Goldman has singlehandedly captured all of NYSE's program trading. Zero Hedge http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286316/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 05:33:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286312/posts I’m confused by all the confusion among the chattering classes about Palin. I thought her press conference explained it very clearly – though she couldn’t put it precisely this way without sounding vain, but it’s obvious. Even though she’s just a state governor, she’s a HUGE national star who is both sought after and attacked as if she is already a president (a Bush, not an Obama). But she basically can’t participate because she’s tethered to the governor’s office up in Alaska. Consequently, she has to fight with one hand tied behind her back and she also can’t go around... Women of the Web http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286312/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 05:17:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286309/posts Back-up: This week's NYSE Program Trading report was very odd: not only because program trading hit 48.6% of all NYSE trading, a record high at least since the NYSE keep tabs of this data, and a data point which in itself was startling enough to cause some serious red flags as I jaunt from village to village in what little is left of Europe's bison country, but what was shocking was the disappearance of the #1 mainstay of complete trading domination (i.e., Goldman Sachs) from not just the aforementioned #1 spot, but the entire complete list. In other words: Goldman... The Market Ticker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286309/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 05:02:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286304/posts Grand Strand marketers turn eyes toward Europe. BY MIKE CHERNEY MYRTLE BEACH — When it comes to attracting foreign visitors to the Grand Strand, some local tourism leaders are looking to Congress for help. The Travel Promotion Act of 2009, which has been introduced in the House and Senate, would create a nonprofit corporation to advertise the U.S. as a travel destination in foreign countries. The campaign would be funded by industry contributions and a $10 fee on foreign travelers who do not have to pay for a visa. The travel industry, including the U.S. Travel Association and the American... McClatchy / The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, SC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286304/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 04:48:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286298/posts US ambitions to send astronauts back to the moon as a prelude to missions to Mars have been put in doubt by budgetary constraints 40 years after man's triumphant landing on Earth's nearest neighbor. After the Columbia space shuttle disaster in 2003, former president George W. Bush decided to phase out the shuttle flights by 2003 and set a more ambitious mandate for America in space. Launched in 2004, the so-called Constellation program aims to take Americans back to the moon by 2020 to use as a launch pad for manned voyages to Mars. breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286298/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 04:39:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286295/posts At least 38 states overestimated tax revenues And states weren't just barely missing their revenue projections; they whiffed by large margins. The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286295/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 04:29:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286290/posts Few small-business owners think the federal economic stimulus will help their companies, according to a survey by Intuit Inc., creator of QuickBooks and other software that manages finances. In addition, 98% have not received any money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, and 86% doubt the $787 billion government spending and incentive plan will directly benefit their businesses. What do you think? Vote here Orange County Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286290/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 04:22:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286286/posts Three Republicans on the House panel that oversees the Census Bureau have asked fellow GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota to end her plans to boycott next year’s count. Reps. Patrick McHenry of North Carolina, Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia and John Mica of Florida issued a statement saying every elected representative has a “responsibility” to encourage participation in the 2010 Census. “Boycotting the constitutionally mandated census is illogical, illegal and not in the best interest of our country,” they stated. . . . . . McHenry, Westmoreland and Mica – no fans of Acorn – pointed out an “unfortunate irony”... The Wall Street Journal - Washington Wire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286286/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 04:13:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286267/posts Andrew Breitbart takes on the elitist media, specifically the three female "feminists" who have been on the trash Sarah bandwagon from the beginning, and he does it with gusto: What a shock that Maureen Dowd devoted her New York Times column Sunday to attack Sarah Palin. It did not so much criticize Alaska's governor for prematurely stepping down from her official duties as to finish off what sister snipers Katie Couric and Tina Fey began last fall. The assassination of Sarah Palin - by media. For those who didn't pay attention, Mrs. Palin's unexpected stratospheric rise as a national political... Flopping Aces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286267/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 03:38:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286263/posts On Monday July 6, President Barack Obama is expected in Moscow for a summit to discuss nuclear arms control, Iran, Afghanistan the post-Soviet space and other issues. It has been announced that Obama will spend most of July 6 in formal as well as informal talks with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev. There will be a joint press conference and a late night dinner with spouses (RIA Novosti, July 1). The two presidents will concentrate on discussing a progress report from the Russian and American negotiating teams that are working on preparing a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) (Interfax,... Eurasia Daily Monitor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286263/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 03:28:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286262/posts WASHINGTON – Colin Powell says the U.S. took too long to strengthen its forces in Iraq after Baghdad fell early in the war. Powell, the nation's top military officer under President George H.W. Bush and secretary of state for President George W. Bush, said the decision to use a lighter force to defeat the Iraqi army was correct. But he said in a television interview broadcast Sunday that the younger Bush's administration should have realized the initial success in 2003 was only the start of a longer fight. AP via Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286262/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 03:27:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286256/posts The KEY sentence, of this Story is... "The new equipment requires fewer people to operate, making it more cost-effective in the long run, TSA officials say." Omaha World herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286256/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 02:47:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286248/posts MOSCOW -- With the clock running out on a new US-Russian arms treaty before the previous Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, expires on December 5, a senior White House official said Sunday said that the difficulty of the task might mean temporarily bypassing the Senate’s constitutional role in ratifying treaties by enforcing certain aspects of a new deal on an executive levels and a “provisional basis” until the Senate ratifies the treaty. abcnew.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286248/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 02:23:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286234/posts Rush Limbaugh Comments on Sarah Palin's Resignation  July 5, 2009  BEGIN TRANSCRIPTRUSH: This is Rush. I’m on a golf vacation, parts unknown, all week long. Six cities, six courses, starting today. On this Palin business, you know, one of the reasons I haven’t said anything to anybody is I don’t know what this means – and I think all of this is just speculation. We don’t know what her reasons for doing this are yet. The speculation here and the predictions here rival some of the irresponsibility I saw with people speculating on the cause of death of Michael Jackson when... RushLimbaugh.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286234/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 02:04:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286229/posts In his landmark 1942 book, "Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy," economist Joseph Schumpeter emphasized the key role that creative destruction plays in generating long-run economic growth. It is the driving force of capitalism. OC Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286229/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 01:52:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286228/posts Socialism is just Feudalism of the New Dark Ages by Fred Jake As I read an article on the Reformation, I was struck by the way the Muslim in the White House and his socialist buddies in congress are trying to return us back to the feudal days, where everything including the people are owned by the government. As good serfs, we are to just shut up and follow the rules and regulations set in place by today's church (which is the church of environmentalism ie..global warming and other earth worshiping entities), the nobles (Democrat politicians treated like royalty),... Self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286228/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 01:48:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286217/posts LOS ANGELES — Firefighters are battling a wildfire that has burned about 130 acres in the Angeles National Forest northwest of Los Angeles. Forest spokeswoman Dee Dechert says the fire was burning Sunday afternoon in the Little Tujunga Canyon area. She says it is 60 percent contained, with full containment expected Sunday night. Officials say there have been no injuries or evacuations. Moderate winds in the area are pushing the fire away from any structures. The blaze is burning near the site of October's Marek fire, which burned more than 4,800 acres. foxnews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286217/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 01:35:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286204/posts The UN's top health official has opened a forum in Mexico on combating swine flu by saying that the spread of the virus worldwide is now unstoppable. World Health Organization head Margaret Chan added that the holding of the meeting in Cancun showed confidence in Mexico, which has been hard hit. The WHO says most H1N1 cases are mild, with many people recovering unaided. As the summit opened, the UK alone was projecting more than 100,000 new cases of H1N1 a day by the end of the summer. As the peak of the flu season approaches in South America, some... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286204/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 01:11:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286189/posts The TERRY ANDERSON SHOW.. Articulating the Popular Rage! Sundays - 12-1 AM EDT, 11-12 PM CDT, 10-11 PM MDT, 9-10 PM PDT KRLA - 870 AM - Los Angeles -- KDWN - 720 - Las Vegas -- KFNX - 1100 - Phoenix "Stupid People of America !!! If You Ain't Mad, You Ain't Payin' Attention!" Call-In Number - (866) 870-5752 Don't miss Terry's July 5th show... When Terry will say ... "Geraldo says 'the immigration debate has demonized an entire race of people'. THAT'S THE POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK !!!!!" Plus: Can you guess WHO the most Horriblest Clown... TheterryAndersonShow http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286189/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 00:44:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286186/posts Hundreds rally against taxes and big government By AUTUMN GROOMS Organizers were impressed with attendance Saturday at the second La Crosse area Tea Party to draw attention to lower taxes, smaller government and individual liberty. About 400 people attended the event at Copeland Park. “We never would have seen these numbers (attending) in the past,” said Mark Block, regional director for Americans for Prosperity. “I think citizens don’t think elected officials are listening to what they are concerned about in Wisconsin,” Block said. The July 4 Tea Party was a continuation of the Tax Day Tea Party held April 15... Leader-Telegram, Etc. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2286186/posts#comment Mon, 6 Jul 2009 00:38:37 GMT