http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/humanevents/ en-us Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:25:28 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414733/posts Jose Feliciano protests use of his 'Feliz Navidad' for musical spoof about illegal immigrants By: SIGAL RATNER-ARIAS Associated Press 12/24/09 3:38 PM EST NEW YORK — Grammy-winner Jose Feliciano has gotten an apology after accusing a pair of radio producers of trashing the spirit of Christmas by using his popular holiday song, "Feliz Navidad," for a racist musical spoof about undocumented immigrants. Feliciano released a statement Wednesday saying that he was "revolted beyond words" and that the song was never meant to be "a vehicle for a political platform of racism and hate." "When I wrote and composed 'Feliz Navidad,'... Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414733/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:25:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412299/posts In Washingtonian “inside the Beltway” terms, the most amazing aspect of former Vice President Dick Cheney’s new clout is that he is achieving it the old-fashioned way: talking about public policy. He is not running for President or any other office. He has not formed a PAC or a D.C. lobbying firm. He is not dishing on former colleagues, not spreading gossip, not settling scores. He is, instead, writing a memoir about his extensive career in public service, and giving occasional speeches and interviews, mostly on national and homeland security policy, long his central focus. How is it, therefore, that... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412299/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:49:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412779/posts (CNN) - He may have exited the national stage nearly one year ago, but former Vice President Dick Cheney has been named "Conservative of the Year" by the conservative Human Events magazine for his ardent and continuous criticisms of the Obama administration's national security policies. "What Cheney is saying, primarily on foreign policy, defense and anti-terrorism, makes sense to more and more American citizens growing increasingly worried by the Obama Administration's insouciance when U.S. national interests are threatened, both at home and abroad," former U.N. ambassador John Bolton writes for the magazine. "Since the only real, long-term way to deal... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412779/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:21:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412654/posts Bear this one in mind next time you hear a liberal bemoaning that conservatives show insufficient respect for Pres. Obama and VP Biden . . . On this evening's Hardball, Chris Matthews called Dick Cheney "the bath-tub ring of the Bush administration." Chris' calumny came in reaction to the news that the estimable Human Events magazine has named the former VP 'Conservative of the Year'. View video here. NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412654/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:27:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403792/posts [Editor’s note: The Nobel Peace Prize is supposed to recognize and reward contributions to world peace. But, for decades, the Prize Committee has made the award a tool of left-wing politics and UN chicanery, risibly awarding the prize to recipients including the late Yassir Arafat, a terrorist, global warmist Al Gore and now President Obama, in recognition of what they believe are Obama’s good intentions and not for anything he has accomplished to date. HUMAN EVENTS believes there are people who actually do contribute to our nation’s peace and prosperity far more than the Nobel recipients. From this year forward,... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403792/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 16:52:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2315680/posts Now officially part of the mob, I attended the town hall meeting yesterday of Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) in Hagerstown.  (Included below are two brand new videos.) Maryland is as “blue” a state as you can find.  (Barack Obama got almost 700,000 more votes than John McCain in 2008).  But anger at Obamacare -- and the senators and congressman pushing it -- appears to have turned a lot of blue voters red-faced. Obama won the State of Maryland in the Presidential general election last year by over 26 points -- Obama-Biden receiving 61.9 percent of the vote to 35.5 percent... HumanEvents.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2315680/posts#comment Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:28:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2313545/posts TIME FOR SECESSION Human Events ^ | 10/15/52 | Frank Chodorov  By Frank Chodorov If I were governor of a state, or even a legislator, I would put my weight behind a secessionist movement; not secession from the Union, but secession from Washington. I would do so exactly because I favor the Union, as originally conceived and my advocacy of secession would be based on the same reasoning that prompted initiation of the Union, namely that divided authority is a good guarantee of freedom. The Union was—it still exists on paper—a voluntary association of autonomous states, each invested with... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2313545/posts#comment Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:05:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2313078/posts There are times when back to back posts on Free Republic strike the eye as if planned, but one must figure they were not. This thread is devoted to occasions where two or more FR posts occur in sequence that literally fit together. The example to follow was created by using the [CTRL] + [PRT SCR] function and then pasting into Photoshop for a quick cropping. (Sorry if sloppy.) I'm counting on other Freepers to keep an eye out for these occasions. If someone else has already started this work, please point me to the same and I'll post this... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2313078/posts#comment Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:50:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2292359/posts Liberal opinion is engaged heavily now in belaboring Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh for calling the Prophet Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, a racist. The proximate cause for this charge is the following statement by Judge Sotomayor to an audience at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law in 2001: "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life." Well, possibly the bigotry inhering in that line does not rise to the level of... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2292359/posts#comment Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:08:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2288056/posts Many, O LORD my God, are Your wonderful works which You have done; And Your thoughts toward us cannot be recounted to You in order; If I would declare and speak of them, They are more than can be numbered. (Psalm 40:5) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2288056/posts#comment Wed, 8 Jul 2009 15:15:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259087/posts President Obama on Tuesday nominated Judge Sonya Sotomayor to be on the Supreme Court. Here are some provocative statements she has made in the past. “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” "I simply do not know exactly what the difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.” “I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259087/posts#comment Wed, 27 May 2009 15:38:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233366/posts President Obama’s two overseas trips -- Europe and Latin America -- make him appear more like a diplomatic tourist than the leader of the free world. He met heads of state, made speeches, attended summits, conducted town hall meetings, but accomplished nothing that furthers U.S. interests abroad. Obama’s agenda -- described succinctly by his spokesmen on the eve of each trip -- was shut out by the leaders with whom he met. Obama’s only accomplishment is to portray himself as a chameleon-like leader who takes an anti-American tone to please his foreign hosts. Presidential candidate Obama promised to demonstrate a... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233366/posts#comment Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:48:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2208885/posts House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, at a June breakfast for reporters sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, took a bold position on whether government should resume regulating political speech on the radio. “Do you personally support revival of the Fairness Doctrine,” asked John Gizzi, political editor for Human Events. “Yes,” said Pelosi. While this declaration was little noted in the mainstream media, it sent shock waves through the conservative blogosphere. If the new Barack Obama administration were to make moves now to revive the doctrine, however, it surely would become one of the most hotly debated issues in America. Nicknamed the... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2208885/posts#comment Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:31:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2205097/posts The number of ex-Guantanamo detainees who have gone back to terrorism is much larger than the government is letting on. A senior intelligence official, who has access to some of the country's top secrets, tells HUMAN EVENTS that some Pentagon analysts actually believe 102 former enemy combatants have returned to terror -- not 61 as publicly reported by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). That would mean that of 520 terrorists released from the Guantanamo Bay prison, nearly 20 percent returned to the practice of killing to achieve their radical view of Islam. The number is gaining importance in light of... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2205097/posts#comment Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:40:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2203492/posts In an event billed as a “distinguished speaker series” event, Ann Coulter faced off against Bill Maher last night at Radio City Music Hall in New York. In front of 6,000 hissing New York City liberals -- alternately absorbing and answering vulgar, sexist and racist insults from “comedian” Bill Maher -- Coulter battled back against audience shriekers, an unfunny Maher and “moderator” Mark Halperin of Time Magazine in a “debate” that would have been more accurately billed as a cage match and shown on Pay-per-View tv. The tone was set at the very start. The audience was asked whether they... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2203492/posts#comment Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:25:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2195396/posts A hidden effect of the November 4 elections and the national events that preceded them during this past year is perhaps best called the “John Galt Effect” in honor of Ayn Rand’s famous character in Atlas Shrugged.  It is occurring to a very significant extent. Our technological civilization stands upon the shoulders of many generations of free Americans and the great accomplishments that they bequeathed to us. Among those Americans and their counterparts in other countries have been a small special group of people whose unusual genius, work ethic, and love for their specialties were especially outstanding. These men,... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2195396/posts#comment Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:24:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2182680/posts The Senate today passed a massive $838 billion economic stimulus package while Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner gave only scant details on the next step of the financial bailout package. Wall Street was not impressed as the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell sharply, down over 300 points by mid-afternoon. Three Republican senators - Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania - joined with the Democratic majority in passing the stimulus package on a 61-37 vote. The bill will now have to be reconciled with a House version that relied more on spending programs and less on... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2182680/posts#comment Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:24:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2181394/posts February 12, 1999 was the day social conservatism died in America. On that bitter day, President Bill Clinton was acquitted in his impeachment trial. The United States Senate determined that his perjury and obstruction of justice in the Monica Lewinsky scandal did not warrant his removal from office; the Senate’s view was shared by two-thirds of the American people. With that decision, traditional American morality bit the dust. Four days after Clinton’s acquittal, the late Paul Weyrich wrote an open letter to the American conservative movement in which he declared: Cultural Marxism is succeeding in its war against our culture.... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2181394/posts#comment Mon, 9 Feb 2009 09:09:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2181408/posts There are many reasons to oppose the so-called stimulus bill and none of them are partisan. An obvious one is the haste with which Congress is acting on a bill that is in excess of 700 pages and spends hundreds of billions of dollars. It is being rushed through both the legislative process with little or no input from the minority party legislators, much less the general public. The so-called Senate compromise was not available to most Senators until past 11 pm on Saturday night and yet a vote is expected by Tuesday at the latest. Even if the Keynesian... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2181408/posts#comment Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:22:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2177996/posts The mainstream media will never give him a break, but conservatives should probably be comfortable with new RNC Chairman Michael Steele. On CNN, Don Lemon asked the CNN political reporter, “Is the RNC pandering, is Michael Steele legitimate?” In an appearance on my radio program on Monday, Steele said “the Republican party is called racist when they don’t reach out and pandering when they do.” He went as far as to tell a reporter that asked him if he was legitimate to come back when he had a real question. If only the questions about his credentials were coming from... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2177996/posts#comment Wed, 4 Feb 2009 10:01:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2172588/posts Contact: Gregg Jackson, www.greggjackson.com; John Haskins, 818-397-7714 MEDIA ADVISORY, Jan. 27 /Christian Newswire/ -- Radio host and bestselling author Gregg Jackson and a growing list of other conservative leaders, lawyers and activists are calling on Eagle Publishing to dismiss editor Jed Babbin and take immediate and decisive steps to restore the credibility of Human Events. Among the names widely known in social conservative and pro-life circles are Dr. Ted Baehr, President of Movieguide; Ambassador Alan Keyes, former Reagan appointee and presidential candidate; Dr. William Greene of RightMarch.com; Coach Dave Daubenmire, talk show host and author; and Brian Rohrbough, President of... AIPNEWS.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2172588/posts#comment Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:00:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2153579/posts Yes, I know you guys and gals don't like vanities, but I need advice, and I don't who else to ask. Anyway, does anyone here subscribe to Human Events? How is it different from the online version? Is a subscription worth it? Which one is better: Human Events, National Review, or American Spectator? Those are the only ones I know. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2153579/posts#comment Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:12:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103246/posts Sen. John McCain's 2006 demand for regulatory action on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac could have prevented current financial crisis, as HUMAN EVENTS learned from the letter shown in full text below. McCain's letter -- signed by nineteen other senators -- said that it was "...vitally important that Congress take the necessary steps to ensure that [Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac]...operate in a safe and sound manner.[and]..More importantly, Congress must ensure that the American taxpayer is protected in the event that either...should fail." Sen. Obama did not sign the letter, nor did any other Democrat. Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103246/posts#comment Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:54:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2092471/posts Dear Colleagues, Our nation has been confronted by a serious crisis in our financial markets. The President and this Congress were right to act with all deliberate speed in addressing this crisis. We now have a deal that promises to bring near term stability to our financial turmoil, but at what price? Economic freedom means the freedom to succeed and the freedom to fail. The decision to give the federal government the ability to nationalize almost every bad mortgage in America interrupts this basic truth of our free market economy. Republicans improved this bill but it remains the largest corporate... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2092471/posts#comment Sun, 28 Sep 2008 17:53:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091773/posts “Optimism about housing values also led to a boom in home construction. Eventually, the number of new houses exceeded the number of people willing to buy them. And with supply exceeding demand, housing prices fell, and this created a problem.” -- President George W. Bush, explaining the origins if the housing meltdown in his emergency address of September 24, 2008 The now deflated Housing Bubble had many causes. These include promiscuous lending practices, low interest rates, federal policy aimed at turning human credit hazards into homeowners, the baby boomers entering their prime earning years, and HGTV. The bursting of the... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091773/posts#comment Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:21:04 GMT