http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hi-news/ en-us Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:42:13 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417904/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417904/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:42:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418272/posts President Barack Obama continued his low-key holiday vacation, spending several hours at the secluded North Shore home of a high school friend. The day-long outing yesterday to the Mokuleia beachfront home of Punahou School classmate Bobby Titcomb came on a dark day, as eight Americans and five Canadians were killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan. World events are likely to interrupt Obama's holiday vacation again today. Star Bulletin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418272/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:08:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418234/posts Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh was taken to a hospital with chest pains on Wednesday, a Honolulu television station reported. Paramedics responded to a call at 2:41 p.m. from the Kahala Hotel and Resort where Limbaugh is vacationing, KITV reported. The station, citing unnamed sources, said Limbaugh was taken to The Queens Medical Center in serious condition. Queens spokeswoman N. Makana Shook says the hospital is unable to comment on the report. Emergency Medical Services spokesman Bryan Cheplic said paramedics took a male of unknown age to an area hospital from the Kahala Hotel and Resort. He said... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418234/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:54:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418237/posts Just up on Drudge. rushlimbaugh.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418237/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:06:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418154/posts HONOLULU -- Conservative radio talk host Rush Limbaugh was rushed to a Honolulu hospital on Wednesday afternoon with chest pains, sources told KITV. Paramedics responded to the call at 2:41 p.m. at the Kahala Hotel and Resort. Rush Limbaugh AP Image Rush Limbaugh Limbaugh, 58, suffered from chest pains, sources said. Limbaugh was sitting in a chair in his ninth-floor hotel room at the Kahala when emergency crews arrived, sources said. He told medical crews that he was taking medication for a back problem, sources said. Paramedics treated him and took him to Queen's Medical Center in serious condition. He... KITV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418154/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:50:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418147/posts Gannett-owned paper. Title and source link only.Click here for the brief article. Honolulu Advertiser http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418147/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:34:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418098/posts HONOLULU -- Conservative radio talk host Rush Limbaugh was rushed to a Honolulu hospital on Wednesday afternoon with chest pains, sources told KITV. Paramedics responded to the call at 2:41 p.m. at the Kahala Hotel and Resort. Limbaugh suffered from chest pains, sources said. Paramedics treated him and took him to Queen's Medical Center in serious condition. He was seen golfing at Waialae Country Club earlier this week. The country club is next to the Kahala Hotel and Resort. The radio show host had been in the islands during the holidays. Coincidentally, his visit comes at a time when two... KITV Honolulu http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418098/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 02:46:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418070/posts ...a sign when President Obama delayed his Hawaiian vacation until the Senate passed the healthcare bill: There wasn’t going to be a whole lot of relaxing going on this Christmas. Sure, there’s been the requisite Hawaiian vacation activities -- golf, basketball, tennis, picnics and snorkeling, but for every minute of fun, the president has had hours and hours of briefings and secure conference calls. SNIP Even without politics, Obama’s days are frenzied. He works out at the Marine Corps Base before dawn every morning, including Christmas Day. On Sunday, a day many people might watch football and sleep in, Obama... Los Angeles Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418070/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:53:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417754/posts No More Hawaii Islam Days By Sam Slom, 12/29/2009 10:28:53 AM Okay, I don’t know about you, but I’ve had it. The latest airline bomb attempt by a radical Islamic terrorist flying to Detroit is the last straw. And the response by President Barack Hussein Obama vacationing in Hawaii today, and Secretary of Homeland Defense Janet Napolitani\o is a disgrace and embarassing. Daily, the evidence mounts that our intelligence and security is clueless. Despite spending more billions, inconveniencing American travelers more, the system and the process are flawed. At the center of the failure is the continuation of giving Muslims... Hawaii Reporter http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417754/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:46:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417729/posts At the risk of being branded a “birther”, is President Barack Obama’s post-Christmas Day Flight Northwest 253 terrorist attack a useful way to leave an impression that Hawaii is the place of his birth? AWOL in Hawaii, Obama’s not coming back until Sunday. For certain his vacation has little to do with Christmas, which he tried to cancel on Christmas Eve with the symbolic passing of ObamaCare. Nor according to his royal self, does he particularly believe in Christmas. Describing their own account of the day when Christians celebrate the Birth of Jesus, the Obamas do not give presents to... Canada Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417729/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:00:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417434/posts Today, after a vacationing President Barack Obama conceded that both human and systemic failures of U.S. Intelligence had failed to bar a Nigerian man posing a reported security risk from boarding that Detroit-bound jetliner - a near-''catastrophic" breakdown in security - Obama left the reporters taking his words in Hawaii and went snorkeling. The president was wearing a navy blue suit and white striped shirt with no tie, and spoke only to reporters - unlike a televised appearance sans-tie that he had made the day before. Today, his words seemed sterner. Today, he was acknowledging a troubling breakdown in Intelligence... Chicago Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417434/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:57:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417304/posts HONOLULU -- President Barack Obama, his family and friends visited Hanauma Bay on Tuesday. The bay is closed to the public on Tuesdays so there are only workers at the site. Workers KITV spoke with said they were not told of the president's visit. However, they were told to remain in their offices. The president met his family there at about 12:18 p.m. They had gone to the beach ahead of him. The trip to the beach comes after Obama made a second statement on the failed terrorist attack on Christmas Day. (Read more about his statement.) The president also... KITV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417304/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:33:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417110/posts KAILUA, Hawaii (Reuters) - Vacationing President Barack Obama interrupted a golf game on Monday and sped back to his holiday house after the child of friends was hurt in a beach accident. Obama, on vacation in the island state where he grew up, raced home in his motorcade in a bit of high drama shortly after arriving at a lush golf course for an afternoon game. The child, identified by the White House as the son of Obama's friends Eric and Cheryl Whitaker, is now well and did not require stitches as first suggested, an official said. "Eric and Cheryl... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417110/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:27:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417081/posts December 29, 2009 Pelosi's very private Hawaii vacation Thomas Lifson In stark contrast to Sarah Palin, whose Hawaii vacation was photographed and touted in the press, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is enjoying a very private luxurious time at the Four Seasons Hualalai resort on the Big Island. Andrew Walden, editor of Hawaii Free Press, reports: Guarded by US Capitol Police bolstered by officers on loan from the Hawaii County PD, Pelosi is enjoying what Hollywood Reporter calls: "...a picture-perfect stretch of beach on the Big Island's chic Kona Coast....a private Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course and Pahu'ia, an award-winning oceanfront restaurant, $40... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417081/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 18:40:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417104/posts Imagine if George W. Bush was Bodysurfing... ...when an airline terror plot almost succeeded in killing 300 inside the U.S. on Christmas Day. Imagine then if his Homeland Security Secretary, in a bizarrely self-congratulatory mode, said that "everything happened that should have" to thwart the attack. A man who never should have been allowed anywhere near the U.S. managed to hang on to a multiple entry visa and nearly carry out the worst attack in our nation since 9/11. This is a total outrage and isn't surprising given this Administrations rebranding the war on terror "overseas contingency operations." As I... LauraIngraham.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417104/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:18:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416732/posts While President Barack Obama enjoys a high profile vacation on Oahu, "progressive" House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is being allowed to stay out of the limelight while luxuriating at the Four Seasons Hualalai resort on the Big Island. Guarded by US Capitol Police bolstered by officers on loan from the Hawaii County PD, Pelosi is enjoying what Hollywood Reporter calls: "...a picture-perfect stretch of beach on the Big Island's chic Kona Coast....a private Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course and Pahu'ia, an award-winning oceanfront restaurant, $40 million worth of enhancements...20 new suites and ... its lauded Hualalai Spa." Hawaii Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416732/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:00:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416717/posts KAILUA, Hawaii — US President Barack Obama dramatically broke off a round of golf and rushed back to his rented vacation home followed by an ambulance with lights flashing. Fears that something might have happened to First Lady Michelle Obama or daughters Malia and Sasha were laid to rest later as it emerged that all the fuss was about the son of a friend of the president's with minor injuries. "The First Family is fine," White House spokesman Bill Burton said, following the drama which forced Obama to suddenly rush off the links and race home in the presidential motorcade.... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416717/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:19:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416541/posts Obama has left golf game http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416541/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:10:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416538/posts Just heard: ambulance called to Obama compound, Obama has left his golf game. KFI AM radio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416538/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:03:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416338/posts Four days late, Barack Obama will interrupt his Hawaii vacation and finally speak to the nation today about the Christmas Day terror attack on America. However, he will be hiding from the American people and a media that might (might) ask uncomfortable questions by releasing a taped statement rather than making a live address.Reports are that he will tape his remarks at the nearby Marine base he has been using for his gym workouts, golfing and beach outings. Obama is staying at a $8.9 million estate that rents for an estimated $4000 per night. The White House Web site still... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416338/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 16:57:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416087/posts Like he has on prior trips to Oahu, President Barack Obama got in a morning game of basketball with "friends and staff", this time at Marine Corps Base Hawaii. But, Sunday's round of hoops wouldn't be the President's only outing of the day. Around 11:00 the entire first-family were escorted back onto Base. Despite having his own secured stretch of sand outside of his Kailua beach vacation rental, President Obama and the first family chose instead to spend the afternoon at a more private beach on Base to avoid the crowds. KHON http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416087/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:08:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416014/posts The current strategy from the White House is especially odd considering the issues the president did make an effort to address. Remember the Cambridge Cop Mr. Obama excoriated for "acting stupidly" on national TV this summer? The Chicago Sun Times columnist Lynn Sweet points out (H/T TWT's Amanda Carpenter) that the White House blog has made no mention of the terror attack. Apparently hanging out in Hawaii is more important to reporters who hated Crawford, Texas trips with former President Bush than reporting the importance of a presidential response on a terror matter, so Mr. Obama's avoiding them is not... Wash Times Water Cooler http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416014/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:21:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416055/posts Americans haven't seen President Barack Obama since a Nigerian man tried to blow up a Northwest Airlines plane in Detroit on Christmas Day. But they have gotten a glimpse of their new president’s style in the face of a crisis. Obama, who is expected to publicly address the incident for the first time early this week, has kept mum over the past few days. That's his approach in this type of situation, aides say - to seek a fact-based assessment. So for the first few days Obama left the public comments to senior members of his administration. Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416055/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 03:38:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415969/posts Michelle Obama and Barack Obama are staying in an 8 million dollar house that costs $4000 a night for the holidays. The Hawaii White House is located on kailua beach on the island of Oahu. This is a special place for President Barack Obama because this is where his grandfather would bring him as a child. The beach is also very popular with Hawaii royalty. Just so you know there are many more affordable places to stay in the area. The Presidential beach house is 7000 square feet and is owned by Dave Zimmel of Paradise Point Real estate. The... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415969/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:06:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415942/posts ABC News' Yunji de Nies Reports: White House sources tell ABC News the President will "likely" speak publicly about the alleged attempted terrorist attack on Flight 253 in the next few days. The President is on vacation in his native state of Hawaii - he has received regularly briefings on the incident and called for increased security for air travel, along with a full review of the terror watch list procedures. While the White House is adamant that the President is actively engaged on the incident behind the scenes, on Saturday he spent more than four hours on the golf... ABCNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415942/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 23:07:48 GMT