http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hunter/ en-us Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:56:48 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408226/posts Rumors have been circulating for several days through Charlotte’s Eastover neighborhood that former U.S. Sen. John Edwards bought a home here for his admitted former mistress, Rielle Hunter. And now the National Enquirer is reporting in its Dec. 21 issue that Edwards has, in fact, bought a house here that the Charlotte Business Journal has identified as a residence on Providence Road. Edwards, the vice presidential nominee on the 2004 Democratic ticket and a presidential candidate last year, saw his political career derail after details of the affair emerged. In late 2007, the Enquirer first reported claims from an... Charlotte Business Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408226/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:56:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2403745/posts CLINTON, N.J. (AP) -- In a wooded area up a dirt road off an interstate highway, Jamie Cap peers down the sight of his new shotgun at a target about 40 yards away. He adjusts the angle by nudging a toggle switch, then fires. An ear-shattering report echoes off the trees and nearby cars, and Cap is pushed back a few inches by the force of the blast. He turns and nods his head - the only part of his body he can completely control.... hosted. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2403745/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 16:02:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395470/posts WASHINGTON — After several years of fighting the U.S.-Mexico border fence, a coalition of Texas elected officials is working with the Obama administration on ways to improve border ports and facilitate trade while fighting drug smuggling. The Texas Border Coalition's involvement with policymaking comes after a bitter tangle with the federal government over construction of the fence that Congress and the White House approved, but border business leaders and human rights groups opposed. “We've got to work together,” said Chad Foster, Eagle Pass mayor and the coalition's chairman. “But that is where the wheels came off the cart — when... San Antonio Express-News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395470/posts#comment Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:27:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2385639/posts Friday is a travel day for me, so be aware that comment moderation will be slow and sporadic. I just have time to get in word about the upcoming launch of the WISE mission, slated for December 7. NASA is planning a media briefing next Tuesday (November 17) to discuss the mission, which is designed to scan the entire sky at infrared wavelengths, spotting perhaps hundreds of thousands of asteroids and studying a wide range of stars and galaxies.The technology is fascinating in and of itself. WISE will image the entire sky in the infrared, using detectors kept below 15... Centauri-Dreams http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2385639/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:58:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385038/posts Democrat Bill Owens delivers his victory speech at his headquarters in Plattsburgh last week. Owens declared victory after Conservative nominee Doug Hoffman conceded the 23rd Congressional District race election night. Now recanvassing shows the special election has narrowed to a 3,000-vote difference, and will be decided by a count of absentee ballots. The Associated PressDemocrat Bill Owens delivers his victory speech at his headquarters in Plattsburgh last week. Owens declared victory after Conservative nominee Doug Hoffman conceded the 23rd Congressional District race election night. Now recanvassing shows the special election has narrowed to a 3,000-vote difference, and will be decided... Syracuse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385038/posts#comment Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:09:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2378862/posts Former Congressman Duncan L. Hunter was kind enough to interrupt his extended Idaho vacation once more to answer a few questions and put his two cents in on the issues of the day. He and Lynne had their daughter-in-law and grandkids join them in Idaho over the Halloween weekend. He also extended his vacation plans for another week or so. After 28 years in the US House, then writing a book, he certainly deserves to enjoy his family, the R&R, and the hunting and fishing opportunities this weeks long vacation has afforded him. Hunter mentioned his son Duncan D. could... Conservative Central http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2378862/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 02:55:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2375690/posts There's TRUE hope. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2375690/posts#comment Sun, 1 Nov 2009 03:43:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2375654/posts OSSIPEE, N.H. – A New Hampshire deer hunter has accidentally shot himself in the right hand while trying to lift his loaded rifle into a tree stand using a rope tied around the weapon. A state conservation officer says a branch or stick apparently got stuck in the trigger of Robert Lapointe's .50-caliber muzzleloader, setting it off at around 1:45 p.m. Saturday. ... ..Lapointe is expected to survive, but "shouldn't have been doing what he did." AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2375654/posts#comment Sun, 1 Nov 2009 02:46:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372055/posts As a Marine lieutenant in Iraq in 2004, Duncan Hunter was poised for an assault on Fallujah when the order came down from Washington to pull out instead. It was the kind of top-down military decision — which in this case had to be reversed when security in Fallujah later deteriorated — that Hunter hopes will not be repeated in Afghanistan. Now, five years later and a freshman congressman from California, Hunter is in a much better position to have his voice heard. As an Iraq war veteran, he has been enlisted by the House Republican leadership to help make... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372055/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:19:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2365910/posts HUMAN INTELLIGENCE IS IMPORTANT The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the gentleman from California (Mr. Hunter is recognized for 5 minutes. Mr. HUNTER. Mr. Speaker, it is important, obviously, to have what is called human intelligence. That is, when a group of terrorists are planning to bomb an embassy or do something else that takes life and property, it is good to know ahead of time what is going to happen, because this is not a big military operation where, by national technical means, that means by satellite overheads and other things, we can see... Congressional Record http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2365910/posts#comment Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:23:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2362704/posts Congressmen: get aid to fight guerrillas The Ledger, June 25, 1983 Washington - Nineteen congressmen, eight of them just back from Central America, urged President Reagan on Friday to "hang tough" in his demand for another $110 million from Congress this year to help fight communist guerrillas in El Salvador. Elsewhere, Senate Democratic Whip Alan Cranston of California, a candidate for the 1984 presidential nomination, said he would introduce legislation designed to avert "the danger....that Ronald Reagan will want to send troops to El Salvador." Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., said that the amount should be increased to $300 million and... Google Archives/various http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2362704/posts#comment Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:08:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2360735/posts This interview is a first in a series of weekly interviews that former Congressman Duncan Lee Hunter will be conducting with bloggers and media types in order to help get his message out to the American people and to his former colleagues in congress. That message is that we must all fight to derail the foolishness, cowardice and socialism that is being pushed by the Obama administration, the democrats, as well as by some republicans; an agenda that threatens to undermine the very foundations of our Republic. Mr. Hunter is currently finishing up a book on Iraq and Afghanistan wars.... PA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2360735/posts#comment Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:15:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2357212/posts Former GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter was in Boise on Tuesday raising money for 1st District candidate Vaughn Ward. Hunter, who represented a San Diego district for 18 years, had campaigned for former Rep. Bill Sali in the past. Hunter said he phoned Sali to tell him he wants Ward to face Democrat Walt Minnick in 2010. Before the $100 per person event at the Arid Club, the former chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and 2008 presidential candidate sat down with the Idaho Statesman. Q: You have supported Bill Sali. Why the change? A: "I explained to Bill that... Idaho Statesman http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2357212/posts#comment Thu, 8 Oct 2009 01:25:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2353697/posts ---"...........Elizabeth dropped the divorce bombshell after learning a former campaign aide is claiming Rielle Hunter, the mother of Edwards’ love child, isn’t the only woman he seduced on the campaign trail! Furious at his betrayals, Elizabeth - still battling Stage 4 breast cancer - has vowed to destroy her husband of 32 years by disclosing everything she knows about his political career in divorce court, insiders say......" Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2353697/posts#comment Fri, 2 Oct 2009 20:16:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351942/posts When John Edwards returned to North Carolina in the course of his long quest for the presidency, Andrew Young always met him at the airport in Edwards’s big black Chevy Tahoe. Young drove, and Edwards rode shotgun, silently raising his left hand whenever he wanted a Diet Coke, which Young would wordlessly supply. Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351942/posts#comment Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:03:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350945/posts Butternut Squash Soup is calling, but Joel Hunter stands glued to CNN in his living room in rainy Orlando. Lunch can wait another minute, because details about President Barack Obama's meeting with a foreign leader might be coming. When the news anchor switches topics, Hunter, satisfied, quickly joins his wife, Becky, at their glass dinner table. One of Hunter's megachurch staffers gleefully picks on his boss, recalling when Hunter sat next to boxing legend Muhammad Ali at Obama's inauguration: "You should've given him a little nudge on the shoulder, just to say you've been in a fight with Ali." "Oh... Christianity Today http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350945/posts#comment Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:31:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2211574/posts Hunter: Hello, Duncan Hunter here PA: Hello congressman, how are you?. Hunter: I’m here in my hotel room with a couple of hours to kill before I go on the Sean Hannity show. I thought I’d call and we could finish up. PA: Great. Did Hannity out of the blue get a hold of you or… Hunter: His producer called us. They got this panel they put together on the show, kind of a panel, his sounding board, if you will. PA: Oh, OK. Hunter: Well how are you doing old fella? How are politics up there? PA: Actually, the... PA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2211574/posts#comment Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:20:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2343895/posts A man who once claimed to have fathered the child of John Edwards' mistress says in a book proposal the former presidential candidate is the real father and that Edwards and worked with his campaign finance chairman to hide that secret, according to a newspaper report published online Saturday. The New York Times said the book proposal by former Edwards aide Andrew Young states he helped facilitate the affair between Edwards and Rielle Hunter. According to the newspaper, Young wrote that Edwards once told Hunter they would wed after Edwards' wife, who has cancer, died. Edwards told Hunter that the... Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2343895/posts#comment Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:40:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2342031/posts I took a poll yesterday of whom Freepers would like to see as the Republican Presidential candidate in 2012. As you can see Sarah Palin was a hands down winner. However, you can still vote in that poll if you haven't and change the outcome, but the trend is obvious. Of 785 votes Sarah received 496 for 62%. Next was Duncan hunter with 70 votes for 8%, trailing a distant third was Mitt Romney with 43 votes at 5%. The other category received the same total as Romney did, while the rest received such low amounts of votes they are... Gate Of The City http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2342031/posts#comment Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:53:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2327574/posts To the surprise of no one, Rep. Duncan Hunter is following closely in the footsteps of Rep. Duncan Hunter. Like his father, who retired in January after 28 years in Congress, the younger Hunter is a combat veteran whose top legislative priorities are national defense and immigration. They are both avid outdoorsmen who often go hunting and fishing together. And both, of course, are staunch conservative Republicans. “It was a seamless transition from one to the other,” said Mike Cully, president of the San Diego East County Chamber of Commerce. “They're cut from the same cloth.” Seamless indeed. Hunter didn't... San Diego Union Trib http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2327574/posts#comment Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:46:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2325813/posts August 25, 2009 (Rancho Sa Diego/El Cajon)—The setting was serene, but the political exchanges were rocky at “Politics in Paradise,” a community legislative forum sponsored by the San Diego East County Chamber of Commerce Friday evening at Cuyamaca College’s Water Conservation Garden. “Welcome to East County’s first town hall yelling match on healthcare reform,” emcee Barry Jantz quipped, though the forum covered a broad range of issues. Congressmen Bob Filner D-San Diego) and Duncan Hunter (R-Alpine) took center stage (photo, above) in a rare dual appearance, along with Assemblyman Joel Anderson (R-Alpine) and supervisor Diane Jacob. (Assemblyman Marty Block (D-Lemon... East County Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2325813/posts#comment Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:55:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320553/posts "My expectation is that, at some point, something happens," Elizabeth saidThe wife of philandering former Sen. John Edwards said she expects a paternity test will take place soon to determine the father of the 18-month-old child of her hubby's former mistress. In an interview on CNN's "Larry King Live," Elizabeth Edwards confronted rumors that her cheating husband was set to claim paternity of little Frances, his alleged love child with ex-mistress Rielle Hunter. When asked about testing the paternity of the baby, Edwards said her "expectation is that, at some point, something happens. And I hope for the sake of... NBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2320553/posts#comment Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:27:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2299448/posts While construction on the border fence in Cameron County is at a standstill because of pending lawsuits, at least one local landowner is surprised by a California congressman’s introduction of legislation that calls for more fencing construction along the United States-Mexico border. The bill, known as the Unlawful Border Entry Prevention Act and introduced Wednesday by U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-California, gives Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano discretionary authority to build 350 miles of additional reinforced fencing where she deems is necessary. More than 650 miles of fence have already been approved along the U.S.-Mexico border. If approved... The Brownsville Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2299448/posts#comment Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:35:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2288199/posts By Duncan Hunter, U.S. Rep. (ret.) Chairman, Armed Services Committee, 2002-2006 At the height of the Cold War the United States maintained more than 32,000 nuclear weapons and the Soviet Union deployed more than 45,000 such weapons. Ronald Reagan, having rebuilt U.S. military strength during the l980s, initiated, with Mikhail Gorbachev, a reduction regimen which continued through the break-up of the Soviet Empire. Since the Reagan breakthrough, the strategic armories of the U.S. and Russia have fallen to a few more than 2,000 nuclear weapons apiece. Now, five months before the expiration of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (which was... Schotline http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2288199/posts#comment Wed, 8 Jul 2009 18:21:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2278370/posts The folks at Pharyngula have gotten a hold of it and swayed it up to 85%+ in favor.Do you support a government imposed healthcare policy? Congressman Duncan Hunter http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2278370/posts#comment Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:04:06 GMT