http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hypocrisy/ en-us Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:31:33 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067516/posts When Pastor Rick Warren asked Barack Obama about what he considered America’s greatest moral failure at the recent Saddleback “Civil Forum on the Presidency,” Senator Obama answered by saying, “its insufficient help to the disadvantaged.” Senator Obama then referenced the Bible and quoted Jesus’ admonition that, “Whatever you do for the least of my brothers, you do for me,” commenting that this should apply to victims of poverty, sexism and racism. I couldn’t believe my ears. I immediately thought of my sister Terri Schiavo who was the perfect example of a “disadvantaged” person in desperate need of our help. If... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067516/posts#comment Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:31:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061199/posts First of all, let me say that I do not wish Ted Kennedy dead. I am not a fan of his but no one should wish such a thing upon another, regardless of past history. That said, Mr. Kennedy's recent diagnosis of a brain tumor brings up all sorts of political questions, many of which have been discussed here. One such issue is/will be will the Kennedy family pay estate taxes on Uncle Ted's fortune when he passes on? Based on recent family history, the chances of that happening aren't good. In 1994, during Ted's Senate run against Mitt Romney,... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061199/posts#comment Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:25:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060485/posts Schools: While Obama's children enjoy the best education money can buy, he wants to deny inner-city children the education change we can believe in — school choice. He prefers cradle-to-diploma collectivist education. When Barack Obama collected the endorsement of the American Federation of Teachers, he told the teachers that support for alternatives to the education monopoly amounted to "tired rhetoric about vouchers and school choice." He recently told an interviewer that he opposes school choice because "although it might benefit some kids at the top, what you're going to do is leave a lot of kids at the bottom." Not... IBD http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060485/posts#comment Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:25:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054867/posts NORFOLK, Va (WAVY.com)--It was supposed to be a news conference by supporters for Democratic Senator Barack Obama. They wanted to blast Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain's plan to give a brief 'gas tax' holiday. When State Senator Louise Lucas showed up in a gas guzzling Hummer to blast McCain for his stand on the oil crisis, the story changed. Lucas said, "While Virginia's families are confronting the reality of gas, the oil companies continue to record record profits." That, from an elected official who showed up in a vehicle that gets some of the lowest gas mileage per gallon. WAVY.com... WAVY-TV 10 Newsroom http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054867/posts#comment Fri, 1 Aug 2008 14:22:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051781/posts LOOK OVER THE DESCRIPTIONS OF THE FOLLOWING TWO HOUSES AND SEE IF YOU CAN TELL WHICH BELONGS TO AN ENVIRONMENTALIST. HOUSE # 1: A 20-room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house all heated by gas. In ONE MONTH ALONE this mansion consumes more energy than the average American household in an ENTIRE YEAR. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400.00 per month. In natural gas alone (which last time we checked was a fossil fuel), this property consumes more than... snopes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051781/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:32:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051357/posts Do as Al says, not as Al doesOn Thursday, former U. S. vice-president Al Gore delivered a major address calling on his country to abandon all fossil fuels within 10 years. By 2018, U. S. electricity and fuel should come entirely from "renewable energy and truly clean, carbon-free sources," he said. Tickets to the event encouraged attendees to "please use public transit, bicycling or other climate-friendly means" to reach the lecture hall. So how did Mr. Gore and his retinue arrive? In two Lincoln Town Cars and a full-sized SUV that sat idling with the air conditioners blasting while the... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2051357/posts#comment Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:14:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050111/posts Usually, celebrity magazines gush over celebrities, from what they're wearing to the stupid political causes they pimp. But I must hand it to Us Magazine. While the glossy celebrity tabloid is guilty of featuring a several-page spread in its July 28th issue, with quotes and essays from myriad celebs telling us what they do to be green, Us does devote almost a a full page at the end to slam them for their hypocrisy. I believe it's TMZ, which has no prob slamming and dissing celebrity hypocrisy, for pushing Us and other magazines to tone the drooling down a notch.... debbieschlussel.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050111/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:55:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047555/posts “This is our ethanol”So an exasperated Sen. Barbara Boxer screams that the farm-belt senators better support her regional selfishness in opposing California off-shore drilling against the national interest, in the same manner she went along with the ethanol boondoggle. Odd that she was so brazen in her confessional.Jackson’s N-wordI give some credit to Barack Obama. His ‘hope and change’ mantra drives some to near madness and has proved a wrecking ball of liberal careers. First, in 90 days he destroyed the Clinton political machine, leaving Bill’s past 7-year effort at PC rehabilitation, after Monica and the pardons, in shambles. Now... pajamasmedia.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047555/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:29:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044142/posts Como Se Dice? Obama Clarifies Comments Over Foreign Languages July 11, 2008 1:22 PM ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports: Sen. Barack Obama reiterated his belief Friday that America’s children to learn a foreign language, firing back against criticism he received from some conservative groups who suggested the Illinois senator wanted to make the United States a bilingual country. Speaking in Powder Springs, GA on Tuesday Obama told the crowd that it’s embarrassing when Europeans come to the US and they all speak English. By comparison, Obama said, America’s young people do not have matching language skills. “All we can say... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044142/posts#comment Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:34:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043231/posts Just a general query; when Jesse Jackson said he wanted to cut Obama's nuts off, wasn't he recalling a time when black men were lynched? I remember reading history and when such terrible events happened, black men were treated in just the way Jesse suggested. So would it be fair to say Jesse Jackson has done the equivalent of hanging a noose? I can imagine what the press would be doing today if John McCain had said he wanted to cut Obama's nuts off. Any thoughts? Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043231/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:41:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042242/posts rising prices and a global shortage of provisions. But yesterday the Prime Minister and other world leaders sat down to an 18-course gastronomic extravaganza at a G8 summit in Japan, which is focusing on the food crisis. The dinner, and a six-course lunch, at the summit of leading industrialised nations on the island of Hokkaido, included delicacies such as caviar, milkfed lamb, sea urchin and tuna, with champagne and wines flown in from Europe and the U.S. DailyMail.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042242/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 05:11:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2041661/posts Summary: AMAZING ANIMATION, Shame they wasted it on rank socialist agitprop My Wall E review on IMDB http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2041661/posts#comment Mon, 7 Jul 2008 02:57:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041458/posts What do you call a man who sermonizes about the evils of paying women less than men but allows that very practice in his own office? While a certain unflattering noun would leap to the mind of most, we can now apply a proper one: Barack Obama. Although the Illinois senator has vowed to make pay equity between the sexes a priority in his administration, it has been revealed that he doesn't practice what he preaches. Writes CNSNEWS.com: On average, women working in Obama's Senate office were paid at least $6,000 below the average man working for the Illinois senator... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041458/posts#comment Sun, 6 Jul 2008 15:20:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038914/posts According to Him -- meaning the amazingly pompous and holier-than-thou rockstar Sting -- the world is coming to an end if we don't stop global warming. Yet, the self-described "environmentalist" bassplayer for the rock band the Police continues to symbolize the hypocrisy of wealthy liberal elites that tell us we have to make sacrifices for the good of the planet...as long as they don't have to! In the most recent incident, the man who in 2005 arrogantly stated, "I think we need to convince Mr. Bush that global warming is in fact a reality" flew from England to Germany, in... newsbusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038914/posts#comment Tue, 1 Jul 2008 01:18:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036894/posts PARIS (Reuters) - Greenpeace France activists on Wednesday blocked for the second day the entrances of three of the four quarries used by EDF to build its new-generation nuclear reactor, the environmentalist group said. But French power group EDF said the action was not preventing building of the 1,600-megawatts reactor. "The action is not hindering the works," an EDF spokeswoman said, without giving more details. Work at the building site of Flamanville were partly halted at the end of May following an order from France's nuclear safety authority (ASN) due to several irregularities, but EDF was given the go-ahead to... al-Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036894/posts#comment Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:29:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035752/posts After nearly eight years in power, the Bush administration is winding down. You would think that the Bush-loathing fringe would be thrilled at his departure. But you would be wrong. Very wrong. Despite all their profane criticism, conspiratorial accusations, and pronographic Photoshops, the far Left is apparently as outraged that Bush is leaving office as they were for the past several years. So, how are they going to vent their boundless anger? By throwing one final, futile tantrum, of course! The “Bush Legacy Project” will circumnavigate the nation in a massive bus-cum-museum to show their fellow Americans that Bush is... ExurbanLeague.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035752/posts#comment Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:11:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2035516/posts - According to the media, a liberal standing over a dead body with a smoking gun is someone who is innocent until proven guilty. A conservative standing over a dead body with a smoking gun is a crazed, uneducated, KKK cracker, and proof positive that more gun control laws are needed. - Jimmy Carter is a celebrity these days because so many of those who have granted him that status are too young to remember what a colossal disaster he was as a president. - “Consensus” is one of those sissified terms that emerge when leadership is not around. -... RightBias http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2035516/posts#comment Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:24:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035514/posts An older article, but relevant today in light of the Dobson-Obama dust up! Christians of ALL races must be on guard against the deceivers who will try to convince us Obama's extreme agenda is compatible with a biblical faith!Burns Strider. Joshua DuBois. Shaun Casey. Eric Sapp. Mara Vanderslice. Not household names, these five professed evangelicals may hold the key to Democratic victory in the 2008 presidential election. Their mission: Convince white evangelical voters that a liberal agenda is consistent with the Bible and that the expressed Christian devotion of Democratic candidates is authentic. Three of the five are official religious... World Magazine/Faith in Public Life... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035514/posts#comment Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:14:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034733/posts In an astonishing stroke of irony, the New York Times has outed the name of the CIA operative who interrogated 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, over the objections of CIA Director Michael V. Hayden and a lawyer representing the operative. Agency officials and legal counsel told the Times that publishing the agent's name would "invade his privacy and put him at risk of retaliation from terrorists or harassment from critics of the agency." In an Editor's Note linked from the story on KSM's interrogation, the Times defended its decision by stating that "other government employees" had been "named publicly in... NewsBusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034733/posts#comment Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:49:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033833/posts Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama today said he will opt out of $84m in public campaign financing – and its attendant spending limits. Here is how his campaign stacks up with Republican John McCain's: Total raised this election cycle, as of April 30: McCain: $100.4m Obama: $272.1m Raised in April: McCain: $18.5m Obama: $32m Cash on hand as of April 30: McCain: $21.8m Obama: $46.6m The Guardian (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033833/posts#comment Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:28:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032565/posts In February of 2007 a small group named the Tennessee Center for Policy Research published an interesting little story that made Al Gore, the king of global warming alarmism, look a tad foolish. The report that TCPR sent out showed that Al Gore’s own home was an energy hog. The TCPR report revealed that Al Gore’s Tennessee mansion used more energy each month than the average American household uses in an entire year. In a response to this report, Gore claimed that he was diligently working to make his home more green, but now it looks like Gore is being... stoptheaclu.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032565/posts#comment Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:52:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029841/posts A new system for mapping carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. will help regulators figure out exactly where these emissions are coming from and how best to reduce them. Among human-produced gases that contribute to climate change, carbon dioxide is public enemy number one. A group of researchers at Purdue University, led by atmospheric scientist Kevin Gurney, created the interactive mapping system. Called Vulcan, the system tracks the hourly output of carbon dioxide—emitted when fossil fuels such as coal and gasoline are burned—from factories, power plants and other sources across the country. Vulcan shows carbon dioxide emissions at a scale... Popular Science http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029841/posts#comment Thu, 12 Jun 2008 03:07:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029604/posts WASHINGTON (AFP) - Anti-Americanism is at record levels thanks to US policies such as the war in Iraq, and Washington's perceived hypocrisy in abiding by its own democratic values, US lawmakers said Wednesday. A House of Representatives committee report based on expert testimony and polling data reveals US approval ratings have fallen to record lows across the world since 2002, particularly in Muslim countries and Latin America. It says the problem arises not from a rejection of US culture, values and power but primarily from its policies, such as backing authoritarian regimes while promoting democracy, human rights and the rule... AFP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029604/posts#comment Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:43:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029327/posts The McCain campaign's housecleaning of lobbyists is designed to strip away an issue easily targeted by Democrats, and even open a general-election line of attack by Republicans against Sen. Barack Obama's own ties to Washington insiders. By repeatedly trumpeting Sen. John McCain's ties to lobbyists, Mr. Obama is forcing his own ties into the spotlight, said Dan Schnur, a former McCain aide. "The Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee better be as clean as a whistle on this front, or they're going to be dealing with exactly the same problem," he said. By pushing active lobbyists out of his... The washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029327/posts#comment Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:46:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028477/posts How tax-friendly Obama cuts his own Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama would raise taxes on the rich, but as an investor, he seems eager to cut his own. By Tim Middleton Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama wants to raises taxes on the wealthy, but as a member of that social class, he isn't eager to fall victim himself. He has invested at least $1 million in a fund that yields tax-free income. The Illinois senator's latest campaign-finance disclosure shows that his investments have nearly tripled in the past two years to as much as $7.4 million, and his income in... MSN MoneyCentral http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028477/posts#comment Mon, 9 Jun 2008 20:45:02 GMT