http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/lefties/ en-us Sun, 3 Jan 2010 17:25:06 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420043/posts Now that we have said "good riddance" to 2009, let's acknowledge the best thing about it - it wasn't as bad as 2008. That was the year that saw the worldwide financial meltdown, leading to the collapse of real estate markets, banks and other businesses and necessitating the biggest bailout since the Ark took on water. Even though it has seemed like 2008's crisis, 2009 actually brought the end to that economic crunch, or at least brought its end into sight (depending which economists you want to listen to.) All in all, 2009 was a pretty good year, considering the... Southtown Star - Chicago http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420043/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 17:25:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409797/posts President Barack Obama is on a path to becoming the greatest con man in history. He conned the Nobel Committee into awarding him the Peace Prize, even as he continues military occupations and escalates and expands his wars. He conned many peace advocates into voting for him, but now he continues President George W. Bush's military policies. He conned many environmental activists into voting for him, but now his administration promotes nuclear power, persecutes endangered species such as wolves, and promotes an ineffectual, loophole-filled "cap and trade" carbon scheme. He conned many health reform advocates into voting for him, but... Salt Lake Trbinune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409797/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:34:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405208/posts Climate deniers are on the offensive, even here. Check out the press release to see the way these guys operate. In the advisory, they call themselves the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT) and they are inviting the press to an International Climate Eco-Summit (ICE 2009). Sounds so smooth. Meanwhile tomorrow's event comes after another one organized by the Americans for Prosperity just yesterday where a group of fifty U.S. clean energy youth activists stormed the stage in Copenhagen during a live webcast also featuring endless climate crisis denier Christopher Monckton. He goes buck. Here's the video (Monckton spills the... Now Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405208/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:16:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2388363/posts On Tuesday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Maggie Rodriguez previewed an exclusive interview with Levi Johnston on the CBS entertainment show, The Insider: “Levi Johnston says he is winning the war of words between Sarah Palin and him. We’ll hear from him.” Later, correspondent for The Insider, Chris Jacobs, declared: “Sarah Palin lashing out at Levi and now Levi fires back.” Rodriguez has conducted three exclusive interviews with the estranged father of Palin’s grandson in the last six months, the latest on October 29. In The Insider interview, Johnston is given the opportunity to continue his vicious, personal, and unsubstantiated attacks... Newsbusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2388363/posts#comment Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:27:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368817/posts He's not a Cabinet member or an ambassador, but Sen. John Kerry has ascended to the unofficial role of President Obama's global adviser on key issues that could reshape the nation's image around the world. Mediating Afghanistan's presidential election vaulted Mr. Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, from the already prominent chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee into the most exclusive circle around a new president who is juggling but has yet to resolve a variety of domestic and foreign policy matters. Beyond policy, Mr. Kerry knows how Washington works. The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368817/posts#comment Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:26:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368183/posts As I recall, during implementation of the previous administration's strategies in the War on Terror, members of the far left bleated their resentment toward those who questioned their patriotism. Given the left's pathetic deportment in response to terrorism, and reckless sympathetic tendencies where terrorists were concerned, they had come under criticism of the more circumspect among us. Still, they claimed that their dovishness, objection to such measures as the Patriot Act and support of sanctuary city statutes didn't make them any less patriotic than anyone else, damn it. WorldNetDaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368183/posts#comment Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:17:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2338684/posts Tuesday, August 25, 2009 Information Wars We are losing the information wars. A story on yahoo states that people (especially Republicans) believe the distortions that are out there regarding healthcare reform. They are believing that a pubic option means that the government will choose your doctor. They are believing that there will be death panels and they are believing that the healthcare reform bill means their costs will go up. How is it that we have allowed the conservatives to gain control of the message. I agree with Howard Dean. The Republicans are lousy at governing but are masterful at... Marchforhealthcare http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2338684/posts#comment Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:19:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2338647/posts We will be marching on September 13th @ 12:00 PM in every city across the country for affordable healthcare. We demand a public option. Let the president and congress know that we will not accept a watered down bill. Click on events to see locations that are confirmed for the march. We will need help to organize all of these rallies. Please fill out your information in the contact us section if you can help. List of Cities Washington DC New York City San Francisco Los Angeles Chicago Boston Portland, OR Seattle, WA Austin, TX Atlanta, GA Madison, WI Wilmington,... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2338647/posts#comment Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:29:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2335377/posts What is it about Americans? Change terrifies us. Even little changes. We fought the introduction of ZIP codes. We resisted direct dial telephony. We battled fluoridated water -- some fight still -- as a communist plot. What's our problem? Just plain crazy? Or are we so self-satisfied, do we really believe our present reality, whatever it happens to be, so wonderful that any conceivable derivation from the status quo would be, by definition, a decline? Do we really believe that? We are able to adopt certain new things. Everyone in America picked up a cell phone easily enough. There was... Chicago Sun-times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2335377/posts#comment Wed, 9 Sep 2009 13:49:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2334067/posts "He was swift-boated," said Medea Benjamin, a co-founder of the anti-war group Code Pink and a San Franciscan who has known Jones for 15 years. She spoke to him recently and said he was "very conflicted" about whether to resign. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/07/MNT319JJCF.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0QRiEAMHs SF Gate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2334067/posts#comment Mon, 7 Sep 2009 18:19:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2328331/posts By the time this year's tally for gay service members discharged under the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy had hit 250, Rep. Alcee L. Hastings said he could wait no longer. The Florida Democrat decided in June to send a letter to President Obama demanding that the policy be repealed. Mr. Hastings said he was surprised when 76 other members - most of them fellow Democrats - agreed to add their signatures, and even more surprised when the letter went unanswered for the next two months. "We're being ignored," he said. The president won't be able to ignore the... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2328331/posts#comment Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:19:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2323043/posts COMMENT: It's all in the mind - and the desktop PCs and Macs are very different machines. There are probably more obvious statements than that in the world but not many. From the design of the computers, to their strengths and weaknesses, the sweeping contrasts between the two are enormous but sometimes it's the smallest variations that are the most telling of the them all. For example, have you ever taken a good look at something as simple their desktops? There's the recent addition of the Dock and obvious graphic subtleties but one thing, although noticeable, that barely seems to... Pocket Lint http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2323043/posts#comment Mon, 24 Aug 2009 07:27:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316062/posts Dick Durbin, you spoilsport. The state's senior U.S. senator may (or may not) have made a wise decision to forego hosting health care town halls in his home state, but in any case he's denying us of a spectacle we deserve. After all, who isn't dying to see how a relatively close, personal friend of the president (and the No. 2 man in the Senate as Harry Reid's assistant majority leader) would handle the (planted or not) mobs that would turn out to shout him down? Some of those mobs may even be made up of liberals, now that Durbin... NBC - Chicago http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2316062/posts#comment Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:39:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2312584/posts Scary how a lot of bitter McCain backers oppose Obama at every turn Comments BY Opening shot . . . At any given moment, 40 percent of Americans are dead wrong. Four out of 10 colonists would have happily remained under British rule -- some even fought on the side of the Redcoats. Forty percent of the country -- if not more -- were content with the Nazis overrunning Europe and would have never considered taking up arms against Hitler had not the Japanese attacked us and the Germans -- unwisely, as it turned out -- joined them in declaring... Chicago Sun-Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2312584/posts#comment Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:18:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2308004/posts In case you haven't heard, President Obama is a member of a secret Kenyan terrorist cell who is scheming to dispatch waves of government bureaucrats to tell grandmas and grandpas how to off themselves. Such is the intellectual weight of a segment of the Republican Party these days. Or as one commentator recently put it, the GOP has decided "to double down on crazy." We're talking about two controversies here, one involving the so-called birther movement, which questions the citizenship of the president; the other involving mandatory "end-of-life" counseling that's supposedly part of the president's health care plan. The controversies... Chicago Sun-Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2308004/posts#comment Tue, 4 Aug 2009 17:10:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2306671/posts Some speculate that left-handedness was repressed during the late 1800s and early 1900s, that it was seen as an abnormality and a hindrance to getting manual labor done in a timely fashion. Today, it is much more accepted and sometimes even coveted as studies show that the left-handed population tends to produce a higher percentage of overachievers and that left-handed men tend to be richer than their right-handed counterparts. And in many sports, polo notwithstanding, left-handedness is a distinct advantage. Look how much closer the left-handed batter is to first base. Researcher Alan Searleman recently wrote that, in general, southpaws... SouthtownStar (Chicago) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2306671/posts#comment Sun, 2 Aug 2009 21:05:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2296995/posts BOSTON — Henry Louis Gates Jr., the nation's pre-eminent black scholar, is accusing Cambridge police of racism after he was arrested while trying to force open the locked front door of his home near Harvard University. Cambridge police were called to the home Thursday afternoon after a woman reported seeing a man "wedging his shoulder into the front door as to pry the door open," according to a police report. An officer ordered the man to identify himself, and Gates refused, according to the report. Gates began calling the officer a racist and said repeatedly, "This is what happens to... ap http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2296995/posts#comment Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:50:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2296986/posts In 1989, Cronkite spoke to a dinner organized by People for the American Way... In 1999, he appeared at the United Nations to accept the Norman Cousins Global Governance Award from the World Federalists Association. He told those assembled, including Hillary Rodham Clinton, that the first step toward achieving a one-world government – his personal dream – is to strengthen the United Nations...as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace," he said. "To do that, of course, we... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2296986/posts#comment Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:38:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2288971/posts Victoria Cobb, President Thursday, July 9, 2009 Information Alert: VEA-NEA says ‘I Do’ to Same Sex Unions Read Our Latest Blog Posts @ www.familyfoundationblog.com Sign Up for Our Twitter Updates @ www.twitter.com/TFFVA Join Fans of The Family Foundation On Facebook @ www.facebook.com Visit Our YouTube Channel @ www.youtube.com/user/TheFamilyFoundation According to its website, the Virginia Education Association (VEA) delegation to the National Education Association’s national convention earlier this month tackled issues like “reducing the dropout rates, properly managing charter schools, controlling infectious diseases in schools, providing resources for boosting teacher quality, protecting substitute teachers, and expanding opportunities for preschool education.” What... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2288971/posts#comment Thu, 9 Jul 2009 17:02:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280834/posts HR 2998 American Clean Energy and Security Act. The Congressional record minutes of yesterday can be accessed at Thomas.gov. The Corporations and Associations that are backing this legislation can be found on pages H7685 & H7686. Listing below: Thomas http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280834/posts#comment Sat, 27 Jun 2009 20:19:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2277241/posts If you thought yesterday's DUFU EDITION, in which the DUmmies expressed deep disappointment with the Bamster, was an oddity you would be wrong. Right now DUmmieland is chock full of disappointment in The One as you can see in the very title of this THREAD, "Obama's promise of a new beginning now hollow." And the main reason for this disillusionment centers on health care. Yeah, there will probably be some sort of meaningless health care bill with a feel good theme such as RESOLVED: Adequate health care is a good thing. It would have just as much actual effect... DUmmie FUnnies http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2277241/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:34:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271666/posts June 14, 2009Obama's Other Controversial ChurchBy Andrew Walden "This is a guy (former Weatherman terror-bomber Bill Ayers) who lives in my neighborhood ... the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago - when I was 8 years old - somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense." -- Barack Obama on the Campaign trail, 2008 As President Obama prepared to commemorate D-Day, the Associated Press dug up old details and photos to write a warm fuzzy story about the WW2 service record of Obama's maternal grandfather... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271666/posts#comment Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:06:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266699/posts Black Agenda Report’s Bruce Dixon joined Sirius XM’s Left channel’s Mark Thompson on May 27th and questioned some of Mr. Obama’s policies. Mr.Dixon, the managing editor of blackagendareport.com asks some telling questions about why those who opposed former President George W. Bush on particular policies support Mr. Obama who is continuing many of those same Bush era policies. He told Sirius/XM radio host Mr.Thompson, Washington Times-Water Cooler Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266699/posts#comment Sun, 7 Jun 2009 17:45:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264451/posts President Obama is just killing the progressive movement. For the past few years, liberal activists have gathered in Washington each spring for the Take Back America conference, where speaker after speaker -- Obama sometimes among them -- would give rollicking denunciations of the Bush administration before packed rooms of partisans. But now that Obama has actually taken back America, the activists at this year's gathering feel a bit like the dog that finally caught up with the car. Organizers changed the name from Take Back America to America's Future Now, but that didn't prevent a sharp decline in participation. At... Washington comPost http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264451/posts#comment Thu, 4 Jun 2009 08:42:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2243909/posts (MYFOX NATIONAL) - Last week Google brought in a herd of goats to mow the grass on its Mountain View, Calif. headquarters rather than using lawnmowers. The company said that it wanted to take a more "low-carbon" approach with the goats reducing the company's contribution to air and noise pollution. The cost of hiring the 200-some goats is about the same price as mowing, but the goats were "a lot cuter to watch." PETA responded to a TechCrunch call about the goats saying that though they have no problem with letting goats do what they do, they do have concerns... MyFOXDC.COM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2243909/posts#comment Mon, 4 May 2009 17:25:01 GMT