http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/helms/ en-us Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:46:25 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2325868/posts <p>According to the MSM Sen. Ted Kennedy was the "lion of the senate" and was the scion of "America's Royal Family.". Time to set the record straight.</p> <p>Truth be told, Ted Kennedy was one of biggest boorish pigs ever to walk the corridors of the U.S. Senate and he came from a family of gangsters, bootleggers, elections fixers, ward bosses, philanderers, drug addicts, and alcoholics. Perhaps the most over rated family in the entire country. It is truly amazing that these pathetic losers don't have their own reality show yet.</p> http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2325868/posts#comment Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:46:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2268435/posts RALEIGH, N.C. — One of the most polarizing political figures in North Carolina history remains that way for some almost a year after his death. The state's General Assembly honored the late U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms on Tuesday, with a joint resolution and speeches praising the conservative Republican's integrity, honesty and patriotism. But in a rare move for such occasions, more than two dozen lawmakers boycotted the vote to honor Helms. Most were black Democrats like Sen. Floyd McKissick of Durham County, who said Helms opposed civil rights for blacks too long and too hard for him to forget. The... WRAL http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2268435/posts#comment Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:52:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2138290/posts Quote from Jesse Helms in 1987 to the President. "A careful examination of what is happening behind the scenes reveals that all of these interests are working in concert with the masters of the Kremlin in order to create what some refer to as a “New World Order.” Private organizations such as the Council on Foreign Relations, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the Trilateral Commission, the Dartmouth Conference, the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, the Atlantic Institute, and the Bilderberg Group serve to disseminate and to coordinate the plans for this so-called new world order in powerful business, financial,... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2138290/posts#comment Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:23:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044392/posts In death, Sen. Jesse Helms is being honored as a conservative hero. My question is why? Yes, the six-term senator defined right-wing political stands against communists in Cuba, Nicaragua and the former Soviet Union. Yes, he blocked international treaties that limited U.S. sovereignty. And, yes, he was masterful in his use of direct mail to stir contributions to conservative causes. But "Senator No" also created an angry, scolding, close-minded face for the modern GOP, exactly opposite to the sunny optimism of Ronald Reagan. Helms did not invite people into the party; to the contrary, he seemed to delight in excluding... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044392/posts#comment Sat, 12 Jul 2008 13:24:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2043748/posts When the newborn is shown to a bunch of women, you always hear the same lies: “what a beautiful baby.” The fact is that the parents are grateful that it has ten toes and fingers. And the wrinkled little tyke is anything but beautiful; we’re just glad that it’s finally out and alive. The same with that “dialog on race” that the MSM is always wishing for. It’s a lie. Here is what the MSM looks for in a dialog on race. The Virginian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2043748/posts#comment Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:02:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2043536/posts Mary Katharine Ham Presents: Real Heroes of Liberalism (With apologies to Bud Light) Today, we salute you, Mr. Quit the Only Job He Ever Had Rather Than Honor Jesse Helms Guy. (Mr. Quit the Only Job He Ever Had Rather Than Honor Jesse Helms Guy!) You've shown us the truest example of petulant, ineffectual grandstanding by disobeying a gubernatorial order to fly flags at half mast in honor of the late North Carolina senator. (Speaking truth to power!) Not content to voice your disdain for Helms' so-called "doctrine of negativity, hate, and prejudice" in the traditional ways, you operated with... Ham Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2043536/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:56:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042196/posts By way of the South Bend Tribune comes a story about the relationship between Lou Holtz and former North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms. As EDSBS points out, Holtz is an interesting guy to say the least. Lou Holtz Sports Illustrated Cover Lou Holtz met Jesse Helms during his coaching stint at North Carolina State. According to Holtz, Helms used his political influence to help Lou build the program. In his autobiography, “Wins, Losses and Lessons”, Holtz explains how the friendship later cost him his job at Arkansas. “When he ran for the U.S. Senate … Jesse asked me to do... sports by brooks http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042196/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 02:55:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041027/posts If Ronald Reagan was the sunny and optimistic face of modern conservatism, the uncompromisingly defiant exemplar of it was Jesse Helms, who died yesterday at age 86. While Reagan has undergone a revisionist makeover by many historians who now recognize his accomplishments, Helms is still the conservative liberals most love to hate. But while they still disdain his views, many liberal groups are now using their own forms of the rhetorical and campaign techniques that Helms honed to perfection. Jesse Helms was an influential television commentator in North Carolina when he decided to leave the Democratic Party, winning a U.S.... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041027/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 11:00:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040722/posts jesse helms has passed away WRAL.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040722/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:30:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1608003/posts RALEIGH, N.C. -- Former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms, in increasingly poor health before and since he left office three years ago, has vascular dementia and has moved into a convalescent center near his home, The News & Observer reported Sunday. "He has his good days and his bad days," his wife, Dot Helms, told the newspaper. "He still sees friends. Company is good for him. He is still signing books. But he is not able to conduct any business or make any speeches." The 84-year-old Republican has been slowed by a variety of illnesses, including a bone disorder, prostate cancer... WRAL http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1608003/posts#comment Sun, 2 Apr 2006 22:16:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1539789/posts Bono and Jesse Helms? Not only are they friends, but the Irish rocker and archconservative former North Carolina senator also share a common cause: fighting AIDS in Africa. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1539789/posts#comment Tue, 13 Dec 2005 22:28:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1500378/posts ...Allow us to recall the case of Anthony Kennedy.... Mr. Helms said to Judge Kennedy, "I think you know where I stand on abortion." Mr. Kennedy "smiled and answered, 'Indeed I do and I admire it. I am a practicing Catholic.'"... "...Mr. Helms interpreted the response to mean that Judge Kennedy is opposed to abortion and would look favorably on any case in which the Court's earlier decision striking down the abortion laws of all 50 states might be overturned." Reagan nominated Mr. Kennedy, who dodged the abortion issue at his confirmation hearings. Mr. Helms voted for him. And we... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1500378/posts#comment Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:41:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473474/posts Conservative former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms in his newly published memoir boasts of slapping down former Bay State Gov. William F. Weld's Mexico ambassadorship and accuses him of abandoning his Massachusetts duties. Weld ``resigned the position to which the people of Massachusetts elected him and took up a public-relations war centered on attacking me – as if no one had done that before,'' the North Carolina Republican writes in ``Here's Where I Stand.'' Helms, whose memoir hits bookstores today, delights in his single-handed denial of the Weld ambassadorship in 1997 – and in outwitting Weld, now running for New York... The Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473474/posts#comment Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:19:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1471967/posts Raleigh, N.C. JESSE HELMS doesn't miss Washington. After 30 years in the Senate, he retired in 2002. "I was just so glad to get home," he says. Helms and his wife Dot live in the brick house that used to belong to her father. It's minutes from the state capitol and close to his small office. It's been their Raleigh home for more than a half-century. Their daughter Jane and her family live next door. Helms drops by his office most days, watches C-SPAN occasionally, but keeps his political activity to a minimum. Looking back at his years in Washington,... The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1471967/posts#comment Sat, 27 Aug 2005 20:02:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1391640/posts Whatever happened to liberal compassion? by N. Beaujon April 26, 2005 Given that liberals are the most spoiled demographic on earth and “Democrat” is just another name for an overindulged, entitled pedantic, whatever happened to liberal compassion? The Party of Do-Gooders has turned into a pie-throwing, salad dressing slinging, venomous, hate mongering mob whose only agenda seems to be to antagonize conservatives and humiliate people of faith. I guess it’s easy to be “compassionate” when everything’s going your way. Yesterday, Howard Dean (and we all know who he is) had another emotional vomit session and squealed that Republicans were “evil”,... http://www.nbeaujon.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1391640/posts#comment Tue, 26 Apr 2005 22:48:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1390170/posts You could have stuck a fork in Ronald Reagan. Or so everyone thought in 1976. The California governor had lost five presidential primaries in a row. His campaign was $2 million in debt, forcing him to give up his campaign plane and fly commercial. And Republican party leaders all over the country were telling him to pack it in. But not everyone was urging Reagan to quit. Sen. Jesse Helms didn't think he should, nor did Raleigh attorney Tom Ellis nor their Raleigh-based political machine, the National Congressional Club. In March 1976, Helms, Ellis and company saved Reagan's political career... The News & Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1390170/posts#comment Sun, 24 Apr 2005 17:07:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/547649/posts <p>The deadly attacks on the United States in New York and Washington prompted some suggestions that the U.S. must work with Communist China to combat international terrorism. This is a badly misguided proposal that merits a hasty burial. Given the resolve the Bush administration has displayed toward China to date, it is unlikely to fall into this trap.</p> Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/547649/posts#comment Sun, 14 Oct 2001 14:47:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1333787/posts CHARLOTTE, N.C. — They may both be out of office, but Bill Clinton remains the ultimate boogeyman for former Sen. Jesse Helms. In a fund-raising letter for his senatorial library, Helms invokes the specter of the former president leading the United Nations after Kofi Annan retires next year. "I'm sure you might agree that putting a left-wing, undisciplined and ethically challenged former president of the United States into a position of such power would be a tragic mistake," wrote the 83-year-old Republican, who left office in 2003 after five terms. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1333787/posts#comment Tue, 1 Feb 2005 22:47:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1330269/posts SAMIR VINCENT WAS VISITING BAGHDAD when Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion of Kuwait on August 2, 1990. He had not lived in his native Iraq for some three decades, having left in 1958 for the United States and a track-and-field career that would later land him in the Boston College Athletic Hall of Fame. Maybe Vincent's presence in Iraq was simply bad timing.Although Americans were not exactly hostages in the tense days after the invasion, they were not free to leave Iraq. So when Vincent, a naturalized citizen, and Illinois businessman Michael Saba managed to escape by taking a taxicab... The Weekly Standard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1330269/posts#comment Fri, 28 Jan 2005 02:46:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1252505/posts Jesse Helms Sets Example for Our Youth Jerry Falwell Thursday, Oct. 7, 2004 II Chronicles 7:14 (NKJV) tells us: “If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” That is the powerful promise of God to His people and it is very pertinent today as we accelerate our efforts to reclaim our nation’s Christian heritage from the secularists who wish to redefine America in their image. (I sincerely hope that... Newsmax.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1252505/posts#comment Thu, 21 Oct 2004 19:02:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1250850/posts A frail Helms celebrates buyout He endorses Burr, says early goodbye at rally in SmithfieldBy David Rice JOURNAL RALEIGH BUREAU SMITHFIELD, N.C. In what was once a hub of Jesse Helms' political strength in Eastern North Carolina, almost 4,000 people filled a tobacco warehouse last night to hear Helms, an icon for conservatives, pass the torch to the next generation - and perhaps to say goodbye. With his wife, Dot, at his side, Helms, the man who spent 30 years as a conservative lightning rod in the Senate, hobbled out on a walker in front of a crowd gathered to... Winston-Salem Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1250850/posts#comment Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:33:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1238581/posts United Nations - CIA-Iraq chief weapons inspector Charles Duelfer, whose report cast doubt on Bush administration claims that Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction, was blocked from reaching that same conclusion in 1999-2000 by the Clinton White House. Before officially joining the CIA weapons hunt earlier this year, Duelfer spent more than 8 years hunting WMD at the United Nations, first for the noted Swede Rolf Ekeus, than the flamboyant Aussie Richard Butler. Butler, known for his repeated clashes with Iraq officials, was eventually forced out of his U.N. job by the French and Russian ambassadors in June... NewsMax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1238581/posts#comment Fri, 8 Oct 2004 03:34:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1238552/posts Many Helped Iraq Evade U.N. Sanctions On Weapons By Craig Whitlock and Glenn Frankel Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, October 8, 2004; Page A01 BERLIN, Oct. 7 -- As part of its stealth effort to evade U.N. sanctions and rebuild its military, the Iraqi government under President Saddam Hussein found that it had no shortage of people around the world who were willing to help. Among them: a French arms dealer known only as "Mr. Claude," who made a surreptitious visit to Iraq four years ago to provide technical expertise and training. Mr. Claude worked for Lura, a French company... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1238552/posts#comment Fri, 8 Oct 2004 03:03:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1118410/posts GATLINBURG, Tenn. A new report by the National Parks Conservation Association on the future of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park paints a dire picture. "This park is beginning to die," said Tom Kiernan, the conservation group's president. "This assessment clearly shows the park is in danger, and its long-term viability is at risk." High ozone levels, acid rain, continued underfunding and a proposed road on the north shore of Fontana Lake in North Carolina are combining to endanger the park's future, Kiernan said. Much of the damage could be slowed or prevented if certain steps are taken, he said,... Winston-Salem Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1118410/posts#comment Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:54:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1103259/posts When I first went to work in the United States Senate, I frequently accompanied Senator Gordon Allott (R-Co.) to the Senate floor. There I watched as Senators had to cast vote after vote on liberal issues which often were unrelated to the legislation at hand. I asked the Senator what was going on? He replied: It's all politics. The liberals want to use these votes in the next election. The liberal ploy went unanswered for many years. Time and again moderate and conservative Senators had to explain why they voted to deprive poor children of milk, or voted for dirty... Free Congress Foundation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1103259/posts#comment Mon, 22 Mar 2004 23:33:22 GMT