http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hanson/ en-us Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:14:42 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2386526/posts The head of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America reported that 40 positions may be cut as the denomination struggles financially. "These have been very painful days in this organization," ELCA Presiding Bishop the Rev. Mark S. Hanson told the Church Council Friday, according to the ELCA News Service. Lutherans are looking to reduce their 2010 budget by 10 percent due to decreased giving over the past 30 years, the economic downturn, and the decision by some congregations to withhold funding. Several congregations have decided to cut all funding to the ELCA following the controversial vote in August by the... Christian Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2386526/posts#comment Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:14:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2381732/posts Honest welcomes back Uncle Jimbo of Black Five of the Warrior Legacy Foundation and Bob Weimann of Defend our Marines, specifically the Sins of the Generals Series to layout the truth about the Fort Hood Terrorist Massacre. Join us at the link below at 8 pm est, Tonight Call in at 646 478 5613 BlogtalkRadio/NiteCap at Freedom Radio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2381732/posts#comment Sun, 8 Nov 2009 22:17:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370255/posts I am re-posting because I provided the incorrect URL for National Review. Sorry about that. National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370255/posts#comment Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:32:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370252/posts Victor Davis Hanson writes that America's obssession with Obama may finally be lifting, due, in large part, to the fact that the American people are finally waking up and realizing that Mr. Obama is not the man they thought he was. National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370252/posts#comment Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:28:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2369242/posts So Tom Cable walks. That's how you'd have figured it to play given the other characters and circumstances involved. But more than that, Napa County District Attorney Gary Lieberstein said that Raiders assistant coach Randy Hanson couldn't satisfactorily explain to Lieberstein's conviction rate how his jaw was broken. And that, ultimately, is the lesson here. Nobody told enough of a believable story for us ever to figure out what Cable, the Raiders head coach, actually did to Hanson's face, let alone what his intent was when he did whatever it was he did. With that kind of iron-clad certitude, is... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2369242/posts#comment Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:58:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2364709/posts Raiders defensive assistant Randy Hanson continues to push his assault charges in public, this time challenging Raiders coach Tom Cable to a lie-detector showdown. "I will take a lie-detector test and a drug test, and I will pay for it - and I'll pay for Tom Cable to take those tests as well," Hanson told Yahoo Sports on Thursday. Cable was asked if he had any response. "None whatsoever," Cable said after practice Friday. Hanson has accused Cable of assaulting him and fracturing his jaw Aug. 5 during training camp. Napa police concluded their investigation last week and handed over... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2364709/posts#comment Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:09:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2350746/posts Raiders defensive assistant Randy Hanson finally interviewed with the Napa police, telling them Friday that Raiders coach Tom Cable struck him and broke his jaw Aug. 5 at training camp, his attorney told NFL.com on Monday. Napa police confirmed (again) the potential felony case remains under investigation more than a month since the story broke. Hanson's attorney said Hanson handed over medical records showing he has a broken jaw. When the investigation ends, the district attorney will decide whether or not to press charges. Only then should anyone expect the NFL to take any disciplinary action in the matter --... San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2350746/posts#comment Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:31:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2337093/posts Our National 9/11 Schizophrenia The great debate over 9/11 and the American response — is it coming to an end? By Victor Davis Hanson Ninety-six months ago, 19 Islamic terrorists — led by Mohamed Atta, organized by Khalid Sheik Mohammed, and ordered by Osama bin Laden — hijacked four American airliners. They destroyed the World Trade Center, damaged the Pentagon, and murdered 2,974 people. The al-Qaeda–planned attack was the most lethal on the American homeland in our history. In response, the United States quickly attacked and removed the Taliban government that had offered sanctuary to the killers. About 15 months... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2337093/posts#comment Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:13:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2330242/posts By 1930 Verdun had been transmogrified almost into a dirty word in French schools. Throughout the late 1920s, the First World War was increasingly reinterpreted in the West as a futile bloodletting. International “Merchants of Death” and greedy capitalists, not the Kaiser’s aggressive Prussian militarism, were now seen as the true causes of that recent horrific war. A punitive Versailles Treaty — and not the failure to invade, occupy, democratize, monitor, and transform a defeated Germany — was seen as the real mistake on the part of the victors. Britain and France all but disarmed. The Maginot defensive line, England’s... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2330242/posts#comment Wed, 2 Sep 2009 12:58:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2309683/posts Why does President Obama want to implement all at once radical changes in American foreign policy, environmental policy, education, health care and the tax code? The answer is easy: If he does not achieve these initiatives soon, he never will. Almost none of Obama's proposed policies any longer enjoy majority support among voters -- and many of them were not clearly outlined to voters during the campaign. Current polls show more Americans are against than in favor of his version of health-care reform. Nearly seven in 10 are wary of government takeovers of the economy, like the bank and car... RCP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2309683/posts#comment Thu, 6 Aug 2009 16:18:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279255/posts snip "Yes, he talks about change in America, but never tells the world exactly how an America of many races and faiths never descends into the hatred and violence we see most elsewhere in diverse societies. How, after all, does one apologize for success? (”I am sorry we are not killing as in the Balkans; so sad we do not follow the Rwandan model; schucks, no Kurd-Shiite-Sunni troubles here.”) It used to be cute to talk about how “Bush turned off the Europeans.” Perhaps. But beneath all the public demonstrations and burning effigies, the old guard knew that Bush, like... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279255/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:29:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2216901/posts We are beginning to see that the media is about to add humiliation to its moral failure, as it grasps that once you worship a Messiah, you cannot leave the cult. Mr. Obama tolerates no dissent among the believers. The recent Obama press conference showed what happens to the shunned New York Times or Washington Post once you even consider climbing over the fence of the compound. What were these sycophants thinking as they watched Obama produce all sorts of bogus figures in assuring that tripling the deficit, then halving it will translate into lessening the present red-ink? Again, imagine... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2216901/posts#comment Sat, 28 Mar 2009 17:04:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2207865/posts ELCA NEWS SERVICE March 16, 2009 ELCA Presiding Bishop Comments on Economy, Task Force Documents 09-064-JB ITASCA, Ill. (ELCA) -- Noting that 2009 is "a difficult year," the presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) reported March 7 to the ELCA Conference of Bishops, focusing on the effects of the economic downturn on the ELCA, as well as two documents released Feb. 19 by the Task Force for ELCA Studies on Sexuality. The ELCA Conference of Bishops is an advisory body of the church, consisting of bishops who lead the 65 synods of the ELCA, plus the... ELCA News Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2207865/posts#comment Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:18:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2203930/posts A D.C. woman filed suit in U.S. District Court yesterday, claiming that the city would not let her register a pistol because of its color. Tracey A. Hanson argued that her application to register a .45-caliber semiautomatic was denied because the gun is not on the California Safe Handgun Roster, which is the standard in the city. Hanson tried to register a two-tone, stainless steel/black pistol, according to the suit. But the list has that model in olive drab green, dark earth or black, not in two-tone, stainless/black, the suit asserts... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2203930/posts#comment Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:06:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185993/posts WASHINGTON -- A Maryland woman was charged Friday with exporting miniature controls for small unmanned aircraft to China. The government says the controls are the world's smallest and involve a technology that cannot be shared with China because of national security concerns. The devices can be used to fly small military reconnaissance planes. Yaming Nina Qi Hanson of Silver Spring, Md., is accused of taking the controls to China last August without a required export license. If convicted, she faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine. ap http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185993/posts#comment Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:38:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2178327/posts I get loads of quasi-hate mail about questioning Obama’s candidacy and governance. But I am worried, not about Obama, or the politics of governance, but about the nation itself. The media has forsaken us. But after only two weeks we are in a crisis stage of confidence, and the story is spiraling by the hour out of control. I write here not to score points, but to warn readers that this is all very serious. Obama is our President, and we must hope he does something fast to save his administration from general ridicule that will incur real dangers for... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2178327/posts#comment Wed, 4 Feb 2009 19:02:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2144350/posts Victor Davis Hanson discusses Obama, Palin, McCain, Biden and the Culture Wars Stanford: Hoover Institution http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2144350/posts#comment Sun, 7 Dec 2008 05:59:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2140238/posts November 27, 2008, 0:00 a.m. The Hysterical StyleBaby Boomers — the ungrateful-est generation — canÂ’t help swinging from panic to frenzy. By Victor Davis Hanson Politicians now predict the implosion of the U.S. auto industry. Headlines warn that the entire banking system is on the verge of utter collapse. The all-day/all-night cable news shows and op-ed columnists talk of another Dark Age on the horizon, as each day another corporation lines up for its me-too bailout. News magazines depict President-Elect Obama as the new Franklin Delano Roosevelt, facing a crisis akin to the Great Depression. Columnists for the New... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2140238/posts#comment Sun, 30 Nov 2008 04:13:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102072/posts I spent two hours with historian and classicist Victor Davis Hanson yesterday discussing the election and the candidates, the war and the world. The podcast of hour one is here, and of hour two is here.  I rarely post an interview transcript on the front page, but to encourage you in its reading, here it is: HH: A very special two hours ahead, a prolonged conversation about the state of the election, the state of the parties, the state of the world, the state of the war with historian and classicist Victor Davis Hanson. ... Victor Hanson, welcome to the studio.... Hugh Hewitt Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102072/posts#comment Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:50:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070662/posts Suddenly there are no longer any more litmus tests — remember the Democratic primary bickering in autumn 2007? — over who was, and was not, always against the war in Iraq. There are no more hearings in which a Sen. Obama or Clinton seek to outdo each other in grandstanding condemnations of the war effort. We see no more discounted “General Betray-Us” ads in the New York Times. The protestors on our street corners have taken down the “No blood for oil!” signs and replaced them with “Hands off Iran!” placards. A Sen. Durbin or Rep. Murtha is quiet about... NRO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070662/posts#comment Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:25:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043312/posts Almost everyone is talking about Barack Obama’s flip-flops, as the Senate’s most liberal member steadily moves to the political center and disowns firebrands like Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Fr. Michael Pfleger. But less noticed is that Obama is not just deflating John McCain’s efforts to hold him to his long liberal record, but also embracing much of the present agenda of an unpopular President Bush on a wide variety of fronts. Take social issues. Obama is now a gun-rights advocate. Like Bush, he applauded the Supreme Court’s overturning of a Washington, D.C., ordinance banning the possession of handguns. The senator,... Primetime Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043312/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:41:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022886/posts Victor Davis Hanson, a former classics professor, is a renowned conservative scholar of ancient history and military affairs who's recently become a nationally syndicated columnist and blogger. The author of 17 books with titles like "A War Like No Other: How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War," "An Autumn of War" and "Mexifornia: A State of Becoming," he is the senior fellow in residence in classics and military history at the Hoover Institution on the Stanford University campus. Hanson, whose scholarship and interest in individual freedom recently earned him a 2008 Bradley Prize worth $250,000 from the Bradley... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022886/posts#comment Thu, 29 May 2008 11:41:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2001066/posts "You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them...And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations." Here is what Sen. Obama now says... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2001066/posts#comment Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:27:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990879/posts . . . Over the past four days, I asked seven or eight random (Asian, Mexican-American, and working-class white) Americans in southern California what they thought of Obama’s candidacy — and framed the question with, “Don’t you think that was a good speech?” The answers, without exception, were essentially: “Forget the speech. I would never vote for Obama after listening to Wright.” In some cases, the reaction was not mild disappointment, but unprintable outrage. . . . The sure thing of Democrats winning big in the House and Senate is now in danger of a scenario in which a would-be... NRO (National Review Online) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990879/posts#comment Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:09:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984931/posts Gaza erupted in celebration last week to the news that a Palestinian had murdered Jewish religious students in Jerusalem. And almost daily terrorists send rockets from Gaza into nearby Israeli cities, hoping to kill civilians and provoke Israeli counter-responses — and perhaps start another Middle East war. This is not the way some imagined Gaza two and half years after the Israelis withdrew both civilians and soldiers from the territory in September 2005. At the time, the Palestinian Authority controlled Gaza, but in early 2007, Hamas took over in a violent civil war, claiming legitimacy after once winning a popular... Primetime Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984931/posts#comment Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:11:10 GMT