http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/keyes/ en-us Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:09:19 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416602/posts *snip* Conservative reviews of Avatar (e.g. by Movieguide's Dr. Ted Baehr and WND's Drew Zahn) definitely worked to prejudice my mind against James Cameron's reportedly groundbreaking blockbuster. They led me to expect an idol worshipping, anti-American screed calculated to draw impressionable minds into the moat of self-hatred that separates the zombies of the Obama faction from those still loyal to the American creed. Sometimes such reviews would be enough to convince me not to waste time on the glamorous evil of America hating propagandists, or add my resources to the treasury that finances their power. But since childhood I've been... Loyal to Liberty http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416602/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:09:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406615/posts As I wrote my most recent article for WND.com (the subject of my previous posting) I found myself thinking about Christianity's unique effect on our understanding of the justice (and injustice) of human action. The last point made in the article is about the connection between arrogant elitism and the self-inflation the Pharisee derives from comparing himself with other people. In light of this connection we can better understand why the elitist forces that strenuously promote the specious doctrine of the separation of church and state are so often guilty of favoritism. They invoke the doctrine to repress Christian... Loyal to Liberty http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406615/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:38:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405509/posts I don't know Tiger Woods. And as a rule I avoid public comment on the private travails of others, even when their fame or notoriety inevitably makes them the subject of public attention and comment. For a long time, though, I have pondered the significance of the publican's prayer, the simple prayer Jesus recommends by contrast with the self-righteous conceit of the scrupulous Pharisee (Luke 18:9-14). As we come to know the dark passage of such an admired and popular public figure, the thoughts it inspires seem particularly timely and appropriate. The Pharisee thanks God "that I am not as... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405509/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 17:24:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395379/posts   I was not at all surprised to hear that Rudy Giuliani has lately expressed views that welcome the rising prominence of Sarah Palin in the GOP. Giuliani is the archetype of the politicians who wear the Republican label but staunchly support the pro-abortion agenda. Of course, he imitates the pro-abortion Democrats by using the "pro-choice" label to dress his position in deceptively American garb. The use of that term is one of the most clever rhetorical ploys in the history of American politics. If the slaveholders had thought of it, people like me might still be doing stoop labor... Loyal to Liberty http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395379/posts#comment Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:18:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392033/posts Former ambassador and presidential candidate Alan Keyes blasted President Obama and his policies in a speech to a Wichita audience Saturday night. "It looks like nothing any rational person would do if he was hoping for a positive outcome," Keyes said. Keyes spoke to about 200 people at the Beech Activity Center, 9710 E. Central, in support of Republican congressional candidate Jim Anderson. Keyes criticized Obama for both his foreign and domestic policy decisions. He said Obama was fiscally irresponsible for the federal bailout of financial institutions and the auto industry, saying it has saddled future generations with huge debt.... The Wichita Eagle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392033/posts#comment Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:59:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387496/posts Obama apparently doesn't realize that the occupant of the office he lays claim to is supposed to represent the sovereign people of the United States.  At newsmax.com the following picture accompanied a story reporting his clearly deliberate bow to the Japanese Emperor Akihito. Given the decidedly outraged reaction to his bow to the King of Saudi Arabia, there's no way this new affront is anything but a deliberate repudiation of respect for the republican form of government (of, by and for the people) established by the Constitution of the United States.  Given the cult of personality Obama worshippers have tried... Loyal to Liberty http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387496/posts#comment Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:44:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386350/posts   The headline reads "Newt Gingrich warns of 'destructive' GOP primaries". Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich predicted disaster for his party if the conservative wing of the GOP continues to field independent candidates to the right of the party's nominee. "If we get into a cycle where there are tea parties and there are conservative third-party candidates, we will make [Nancy] Pelosi speaker for life," Gingrich told POLITICO in an interview Thursday, calling the practice "totally destructive." There is a telling confusion in this POLITICO.com piece that should be carefully pondered. Gingrich's quoted words discourage conservative third party candidates. But... Loyal to Liberty http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386350/posts#comment Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:53:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385767/posts Behind all the supposed debate over issues like health care, cap-and-trade and the spending frenzy involved in fueling the freight train to national socialism looms the simple question that pervades them all: Do Americans still care to be free? Of course, I don't use the word in the narrow sense of doing whatever pleases you at the moment. Whether they were confronting the harsh realities of frontier life, accepting the discipline of working to care for a family, or striving to develop the skills and talents that have been the cutting edge of America's economic success, that silly libertarian idea... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385767/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:13:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384654/posts Word in from NY 23 that Conservative Doug Hoffman now trails by just 3000 votes as the official  tabulation process continues. "The new vote totals mean the race will be decided by absentee ballots, of which about 10,200 were distributed."  Among the absentee ballots that remain uncounted are "military and overseas ballots received by this coming Monday (and postmarked by Nov. 2)..." But Bill Owens "was quickly sworn into office on Friday, a day before the rare weekend vote in the House of Representatives.  His support sealed his party's narrow victory on the health care legislation." By what right does... Loyal to Liberty http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384654/posts#comment Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:18:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382497/posts   This morning, in an article by Lt. Colonel Allen B. West (US Army, ret.) about the Ft. Hood terrorist attack, a phrase arrested my attention: "The Saudis are not our friends and any American political figure who believes such is delusional." It took my mind back to the days when I was hosting a commentary show on MSNBC. I remember on several occasions presenting thoughts based on the theme, 'the Saudis are not our friends.' (Not long after came the events that led to the demise of the show.) And that was before the current corrupt Party system produced... Loyal to Liberty http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382497/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 23:05:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381430/posts There are times when even Obama's critics seem to have difficulty putting into words their reaction to his strange behavior. I think that's because they refuse to consider the simple premise that makes sense of it all: He feels no love for the USA. He seems in fact to feel himself to be no part of this country. The occupant of the office he lays claim to is supposed to represent the body politic. People expect that his reactions will reflect its joys and pains i.e., the joys and pains of the American people as a whole. They expected him... Loyal to Liberty http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381430/posts#comment Sun, 8 Nov 2009 12:42:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376665/posts With the withdrawal of Dede Scozzafava from contention in the special election in NY's 23rd Congressional District, we see a clear result of implementing Michael Steele's infamous 80/20 approach to candidate selection. Grassroots conservatives still hampered by their allegiance to the Republican Party need to consider the lessons to be drawn from the Republican party's disappearance from that race. Scozzafava was a candidate typical of the predilections of GOP Party bosses and the majority of its big money fundraisers. They believe that the Party's formula for political victory requires people who oppose or just give lip service to conservative... Loyal to Liberty http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376665/posts#comment Mon, 2 Nov 2009 17:48:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2375954/posts We’re not sure it’s exactly newsworthy anymore when a lawsuit challenging President Obama’s election on the grounds that he wasn’t born in the U.S. gets dismissed. (Though rest assured, we’ll be all over it if and when one gains significant traction.) But an opinion issued on Thursday dismissing one of these suits (this one, like others, brought by Orange County lawyer/dentist Orly Taitz) caught our attention. The opinion issued on Thursday, by Santa Ana, Calif., federal judge David O. Carter (a Clinton appointee), delved deeply into standing problems he felt many plaintiffs in the suit suffered. But in the suit... Wall Street Journal Law Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2375954/posts#comment Sun, 1 Nov 2009 17:41:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375874/posts Watch video HERE. There was a time when what the people in this video experienced would have had liberty loving Americans manning the ramparts. Have the Congressional leaders of the Obama faction decided to deny "the right of the people...to petition the government for a redress of grievances"? Obama promised "change", and as I predicted what we are getting is a regime change- from a free society to a totalitarian government dictatorship. The Constitution is being systematically shredded. At first it took a bit of thinking and discernment to notice it. Now they are openly behaving like the apparatchiks of... Loyal to Liberty http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375874/posts#comment Sun, 1 Nov 2009 15:25:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375651/posts http://giveusliberty1776.blogspot.com/2009/10/orlys-case-still-alivedid-judge-screw.html SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2009 ORLY'S CASE STILL ALIVE?...DID JUDGE SCREW UP OR DID HE LEAVE DOOR OPEN ON PURPOSE?... Carter’s not yet given a final Judgement October 30, 2009 by John Charlton HAS FAILED TO IMPLEMENT RULES 54 AND 58 Legal analysis by John Charlton (Oct. 30, 2009) — Despite all his rancor and loony constitutional theories, Judge David O. Carter has failed to give final judgment in the case Barnett vs. Obama, leaving the door open to further filings and proceedings. His ruling has not dismissed the case, but rather merely dismissed arguments presented so far. This is... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375651/posts#comment Sun, 1 Nov 2009 02:37:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374426/posts "Congress has never before required citizens to purchase any good or service, but that is what both House and Senate health bills would mandate." With these words, Donald Lambro of the Washington Times reports the unprecedented destruction of liberty that is the real aim of the Obama faction's so-called health-care plan. Because most Americans have never thought much about the doctrine of unalienable rights that has until now been the presumed basis for America's form of government, the politicians and the controlled media may get away with treating the central goal of the health sector takeover as a secondary issue.... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374426/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:13:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373919/posts A California judge has dismissed a complaint challenging President Obama's eligibility to be president citing the "birth certificate from the state of Hawaii" that apparently refers to an Internet image of a "Certification of Live Birth" released during Obama's campaign. The ruling came this morning from Judge David Carter who as WND reported last night apparently recently hired a law clerk out of the law firm that has been paid nearly $1.7 million to defend Obama from such eligibility challenges. A Wikipedia page has been cited by dozens of bloggers after it listed Siddarth Velamoor as one of the newest... WND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373919/posts#comment Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:46:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370319/posts When you see Orly Taitz deliver her impassioned, Eastern European-accented arguments on Fox News or CNN or YouTube, you're getting just the first hint of the outsized features of her life. She was born in the USSR, then lived in Israel and Romania before getting married and immigrating to the U.S. The mother and former swimsuit model established a successful dentistry business with two Orange County offices – then, in her spare time, studied law and passed the state bar. Her growing national notoriety is the result of her long-shot legal efforts to have Barack Obama removed as president, claiming... OC Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370319/posts#comment Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:29:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364066/posts In a column on Catholic Online, Deacon Keith Fournier reacts to Obama's speech to the Human Rights Campaign, an anti-natural family advocacy group, saying that "[Alleged] President Obama sent the signal. He will not defend authentic marriage." In the article that follows he provides an excellent summary of the natural right arguments that justify the Catholic Church's stand against so-called "homosexual marriage." I highly recommend it. On one point, though, I must take issue with the impression Deacon Fournier's article creates. It is written as if a doubtful world was waiting for some indication of Obama's determined refusal to defend... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364066/posts#comment Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:36:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363286/posts Last night I posted as the 'featured link' on this site a link to what purports to be a 2004 article, from the online archives of a Kenyan newspaper, about the withdrawal of Obama's original Republican opponent in the 2004 race for the U.S. Senate in Illinois. What is of interest for present purposes is that both the headline and body of the article refer to Obama as Kenyan born. Given the sophisticated possibilities for fabrication in both the virtual and real world these days, it would be foolish to assume that by itself this 'proves' anything about Obama's birthplace.... Loyal to Liberty http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363286/posts#comment Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:18:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361814/posts As I was working on what became the two most recent postings on this site I came across a Charles Krauthammer offering, Decline is a choice: The new liberalism and the end of American ascendancy. In it he offers a cogent critique of the Obama faction's calculated surrender of America's position of leadership in the world. He also suggests an opposing alternative which begins with the notion that we should "accept our role as hegemon" for the simple reason that "we are as benign a hegemon as the world has ever seen." "…resistance to decline," he declares "begins with... Loyal to Liberty http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361814/posts#comment Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:42:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361068/posts [This is the follow-on to my previous post and must be read in context with it.] We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats feet over broken glass In our dry cellar Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men The failure to articulate the connection between moral concerns and limited government has allowed the emergence of a sham approach to moral issues. On... Loyal to Liberty http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361068/posts#comment Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:37:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359693/posts I recently read a newsmax.com article (California Becomes Fiscal Basket Case) summarizing California's fiscal woes that included an observation from USC professor Kevin Starr that "California is on the verge of becoming the first failed state in America." Recounting the history of California's current woes, the article notes that "Had California lived within the limitation imposed under the 1979 Gann Amendment, which limited the growth of spending to the rate of economic growth, some analysts say the state would be in a far better fiscal situation today. But former Gov. George Deukmejian allowed exemptions to budget items, such as education,... Loyal to Liberty http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359693/posts#comment Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:16:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2358331/posts In these portentous times, there are days when I feel as if I've strayed into the gloomy bits in a colorized version of Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life." In that Christmastime TV favorite, "an angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed." I definitely had that feeling this week as I read an article about a Vatican meeting of Roman Catholic bishops with the headline "Africa Bishops Speak of Obama in Religious Terms." According to that report: The archbishop of Kinshasa, Congo, Monsignor Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, told... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2358331/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2009 14:13:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2356926/posts By Alan Keyes October 7, 2009Loyal to Liberty  I just received a call from Orly Taitz, my attorney in the case seeking proof of Obama's eligibility for the Office of President of the United States. Judge Carter has released a statement declaring that the dates he set for the hearing and trial on the eligibility issue are confirmed, and it will move forward as scheduled. Apparently he was not swayed by the Obama lawyer's arguments.Loyal to Liberty ... AIPNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2356926/posts#comment Wed, 7 Oct 2009 18:23:53 GMT