http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/larrysinclairslover/ en-us Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:39:01 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417753/posts The CIA on Wednesday rejected accusations that it failed to share vital information with other US intelligence agencies that might have helped prevent last week's attempted plane bomb attack. The intelligence agency rejected charges that it possessed, but failed to disseminate, information about Nigerian suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab that might have led to his being placed on a no-fly list. "We learned of Abdulmutallab in November, when his father came to the US embassy in Nigeria and sought help in finding him. We did not have his name before then," said CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano. "Also in November, we worked... Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417753/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:39:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417692/posts (CNN) – In blistering new comments Wednesday, former Vice President Dick Cheney says President Obama's reaction to the botched terrorist attack on Christmas Day is proof the president "is trying to pretend we are not at war." In his first statement since the Christmas Day terror attempt, Cheney hits Obama for what he describes as the president's "low key" response to the events last week, and criticizes the administration's broader approach to national security. "He seems to think if he gives terrorists the rights of Americans, lets them lawyer up and reads them their Miranda rights, we won’t be at... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417692/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:19:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417687/posts Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., said he was encouraged that President Barack Obama talked openly about the "systemic failures" involving the attempted Christmas bombing of Northwest Flight 253, but criticized him for not focusing more on terrorism since taking office. "The president has downplayed terrorism since he took office. He doesn't use the word anymore," DeMint told "Early Show" co-anchor Harry Smith. "He waited eight months to nominate someone as head of [the Transportation Security Administration] and then they wanted to rush it through without any debate or roll call vote. So the focus on terror as a threat is real... CBS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417687/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:13:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417453/posts Congressman Steve King says the suspected terrorist who tried to blow up a plane bound for Detroit should be taken to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. King, a Republican from western Iowa, says the man should be not be tried in the American court system. “We ought to be taking a look at taking people like this ‘Christmas Day Bomber’ and declaring them to be an ‘enemy combatant’ even if they have set foot in the United States. This plot took place in a foreign country and I don’t even know if he was over U.S. airspace when this actually happened. This... Radio Iowa http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417453/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:57:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416498/posts CNSNews.com) – Wind-power projects funded in part by the $787-billion Recovery Act (stimulus law) are coming under scrutiny at a time when President Obama and other Democrats have promoted alternative forms of energy production. Two New York Democrats – Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Eric Massa – are among the lawmakers criticizing specific wind-power projects that are getting hundreds of millions in taxpayer subsidies. A “definitive agreement” was reached on one of those projects two weeks ago, according to a Dec. 20 news release from the Austin, Texas-based Cielo Wind Power. The deal is between Cielo, U.S. Renewable Energy Group... CNS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416498/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:44:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416486/posts NBC News Washington Bureau Chief (and former Newsweek editor) Mark Whitaker penned an evaluation of President Obama’s first year for Monday’s Washington Post that was heavy on the flattery and blamed everything that went wrong on the "unruly forces of cynicism, egotism, and self interest" in Washington, not to mention the capital’s "meanness and mayhem." In this narrative, Obama is the white knight in a dark town, the idealist in a cynical swamp, and nothing he has done can be assailed as cynical or egotistical. Whitaker writes as if he’s trying to insinuate himself into Obama’s inner circle of advisers... News Busters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416486/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:21:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2416479/posts Just what every 7th grader needs to know… Obama’s Safe Schools Czar’s organization held teen conferences where not only did they talk about fisting and hand out fisting kits but they distributed needle handling instructions: Mass Resistance posted this pamplet from a 2000 GLSEN conference. Barack Obama’s “Safe” Schools Czar founded GLSEN in and was the director. And the pamplet also included safe d*ld* instructions for your young curious male/female teen Big Government http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2416479/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:13:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416470/posts Now that our attention is focused on airline security measures thanks to the failed airline attack on Christmas Day, it's worth mentioning that one Senator took money away from aviation security to line the pockets of constituency that supported his presidential campaign in a big way. Back in July, Senator Chris Dodd, D-Conn., proposed an amendment reducing aviation security appropriations by $4.5 million in favor of firefighter grants -- a notoriously inneffective program. In fact, the money was specifically "for screening operations and the amount for explosives detection systems." The amendment was also sponsored by Sen. Lieberman, D-Conn., and Sen.... Wash Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416470/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 20:05:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416418/posts HONOLULU, Hawaii — President Barack Obama was expected to break his public silence on the thwarted attempt to down a US airliner on Monday, as a political storm brewed over the attack. The White House warned Republican foes on Sunday not to inject politics into the aftermath of the bid by a 23-year-old Nigerian to destroy a Northwest jet carrying 290 people, as a sweeping national security operation unfolded. The president, vacationing in Hawaii, has not commented on television about the Christmas Day drama, apparently seeking to project calm and avoid the political pointscoring and panic seen after past terror... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416418/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:51:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415987/posts Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) said Sunday that it is fair to blame the Obama administration for the attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight bound for Detroit on Christmas Day. Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House Select Intelligence Committee said that the administration has not taken the threat of terrorist threats on the U.S. seriously. Asked by Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace if it is fair to blame the Obama administration for the attacks, the Michigan Republican replied ""Yeah, I think it really is." Hoekstra said that increased domestic threats have made themselves more evidence this year, with... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415987/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:53:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413896/posts A liberal group, the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (P.C.C.C.), is launching a television ad, criticizing President Obama for endorsing a Senate health care bill which includes a mandate to buy insurance but no government insurance option. The ad was produced overnight, according to the group’s co-founder, to respond “to the anger” that progressives are feeling about President Obama telling today’s Washington Post: “I didn’t campaign on the public option.” The ad, which is starting with only $40,000 behind it, is being launched in Wisconsin, in addition to Washington, D.C., in the hopes that Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., will “be a... ABC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413896/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:28:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413812/posts Senators Jim DeMint (R-SC) and John Ensign (R-NV) raised a constitutional point of order that will compel a vote by the full Senate on the constitutionality of the Senate Health Care bill's requirements for individuals to procure health insurance under the threat of fines or incarceration. The vote could take place as early as this afternoon. DeMint has stressed that a mandate compelling citizens to purchase any product from a private company is clearly an illegal and unprecedented form of federal action: "Forcing every American to purchase a product is absolutely inconsistent with our Constitution and the freedoms our Founding... Wizbang http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2413812/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:47:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412775/posts BOGOTA — Colombia's defense chief joked Monday that Venezuelan troops might have mistaken Santa's sleigh for a spy plane, dismissing accusations by President Hugo Chavez about drones flying over Venezuela. Chavez on Sunday accused the United States of violating Venezuela's airspace with an unmanned spy plane and ordered his military to be on alert and shoot down any such aircraft. The Pentagon has declined to comment on Chavez's accusations. Colombian Defense Minister Gabriel Silva and armed forces commander Freddy Padilla told reporters Monday that Colombian aircraft couldn't fly the kind of espionage mission described by Chavez. "Colombia doesn't have that... Google/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412775/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:10:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410869/posts Here’s something for you ponder, as more and more comes out about Tiger Woods, including, at last report, the possibility that one of his many lovers has photographs of him naked that she’s selling to Playgirl (move over Levi Johnston, and his teensy weiner!). Apparently, “everyone” knew about Tiger Woods’ affairs and his behavior off the course, but the MSM narrative was that Woods “is a hero” and the Woods brand was something the MSM protected at all costs — refusing to write negative stories about him, or tell the truth about any of his shennanigans. “Everyone” knew Woods was... Hillbuzz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410869/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:20:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410667/posts A new and unusually entertaining skirmish from the blossoming Democratic civil war. Don’t be shocked by this: Matthews’s history with the online left is as long and bitter as his history with the right, although I am a bit surprised that he’d take it quite this far. Remember, the modern-day Murrow made an uber-nutrootsy empty threat just last night to go to prison rather than buy ObamaCare insurance. Are we to assume from this that Chris sees Olby in the same light as he does grassroots progressives? (Keith is, after all, a contributor to Daily Kos.) If not, why not?... Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410667/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:06:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410623/posts SEATTLE - Record low temperatures in Washington last week are resulting in something of a record in insurance claims. Seattle's PEMCO Insurance says claims of nearly $4.3 million rank the cold temperatures from Dec. 7 through 13 among Washington's top six severe cold weather events of the past 25 years. "And when I say it's the sixth most severe, that's based on gross claims dollars paid out - in other words, severe enough that people are filing a lot of claims with PEMCO," said company spokesman Jon Osterberg. KOMO News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410623/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:22:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409685/posts Title and link only allowed. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601130&sid=a5wStc0K6jhY Bloomberg http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409685/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:16:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409206/posts Over at ICECAP.us Meteorologist Joe D’Aleo has posted an item on a “Russian Bombshell” highly relevant to the ClimateGate scandal. The Russian media first posted the story and now some Brits are loving it. The long and the short of it is best summarized by the Telegraph’s James Dellingpole: “What the Russians are suggesting here, in other words, is that the entire global temperature record used by the IPCC to inform world government policy is a crock.” That is, we have yet further evidence that the data is being cooked to make the long-running claim of an increase in global... Big Government http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409206/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:22:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409144/posts President Obama pushed back against critics, including the former head of the Democratic Party, who have said that the health care bill in the Senate is fatally flawed and should be scrapped altogether. In an interview with ABC News' Charles Gibson, the president said he laid out for Congress specific things he wanted to see in the health care legislation -- including providing insurance for millions of uninsured and not driving up the deficit -- and that the current bill still has those benefits. "Now, if you can tell me that those things are not worth it, then you and... ABC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409144/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:05:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408925/posts Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., had some harsh words for Democrats aiming to make President Obama’s healthcare program law. In an interview with Newsmax.TV Monday, the Senate’s leading conservative Senator said his Democratic colleagues are not considering their constituent wishes, but are helping President Obama “make history” in putting through a radical government takeover of private healthcare. DeMint said Congressional Democrats “have drank that Kool-Aid,” adding that they are even willing to “walk the plank” to see Obama’s plan rammed through Congress. He noted that most members of Congress don’t even know what’s in the bill, since it is being drafted... Newsmax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408925/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:21:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408922/posts Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) Thursday vowed that Republicans would take all steps necessary to halt the Democrats' healthcare reform bill in the Senate. The conservative senator voiced his support for Sen. Tom Coburn's (R-Okla.) requested that Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-Vt.) 767-page amendment that would establish a single-payer healthcare system be read aloud on the Senate floor in its entirety. DeMint took to Twitter, saying: Coburn forced Dems to read 767 pg Sanders amendment, we'll do everything we can to stop this government takeover of health care If Reid won’t slow down this debate, we will do it for him. Coburn's... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408922/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:18:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408183/posts The diplomats commented on a Times of London report about what it called a confidential Iranian technical document describing a four-year plan to test a neutron initiator, the part of a nuclear warhead that sets off an explosion. The Times, diplomats and analysts reached by Reuters said such a device had no conventional military or civilian use. In Tehran, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told the semi-official Fars news agency the report was "baseless ... Such statements are not worthy of attention. These reports ... are intended to put political and psychological pressure on Iran." Iran, the world's No. 5... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408183/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:45:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407475/posts ‘Welcome to Obamaville’ Sign Marks Colorado Homeless Tent City Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407475/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:52:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405214/posts STAR BULLETIN EDITION OF AUG. 14TH, ON FILE AT BERKLEY IDENTICAL TO PUBLISHED IMAGES by John Charlton The Post & Email has just received PDF files from a highly credible source, establishing that the birth annoucement in the Star Bulletin Edition of Aug. 14, 1961, for Barack Hussein Obama, is authentic. (Excerpt) Read more at thepostemail.com ... The Post and Email http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405214/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:04:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403497/posts EDITOR'S NOTE: The following includes descriptions of adult themes and objectional subject material. More than four dozen members of Congress have signed a letter to President Obama urging the removal of Kevin Jennings, the pro-homosexual activist appointed to head the nation's office of safe schools. The campaign is available online under the website StopJennings.org. The site tells why signers believe Jennings is unfit for the office. WND reported last week that books promoted for children by the homosexual advocacy organization Jennings founded, the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network, include descriptions on child molestation, adult-child sex, explicit descriptions of sex acts... WND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403497/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 05:11:51 GMT