http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/leftists/ en-us Sat, 2 Jan 2010 11:30:14 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419399/posts With threats from federal officials to seize control over the health care system and further intrude into our private matters, many Americans are trying to find ways to protect their lives and liberty. Given America's dysfunctional economic situation that the federal government caused and has been making worse, government can only make the health care system go from dysfunctional to despotic. The regulations, mandates, and restrictions currently in place already violate the individual citizen's God-given, inalienable natural rights to "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" referred to in the Declaration of Independence. The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419399/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 11:30:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419076/posts A major problem in fighting terrorism and insurgency today is the active support certain so-called “peace groups” provide to terrorist and anti-democratic movements, just as they did in the 1970s and 80s. This problem was highlighted in December, when a former officer of Colombia’s FARC rebels, one of the most vicious and murderous terrorist groups in the world, accused the Peace Brigades International, a human rights group monitoring Colombia’s decades-long civil war, of actively supporting the FARC terrorists. Mary O’Grady tells the story in an article in the Wall Street Journal. Although the Peace Brigades International has argued its innocence,... Telegraph Blogs (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419076/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 19:21:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415912/posts The announcement by Alabama Rep. Parker Griffith that he is switching to the Republican Party is just the latest warning sign that the Democratic Party -- my lifelong political home -- has a critical decision to make: Either we plot a more moderate, centrist course or risk electoral disaster not just in the upcoming midterms but in many elections to come. Rep. Griffith's decision makes him the fifth centrist Democrat to either switch parties or announce plans to retire rather than stand for reelection in 2010. These announcements are a sharp reversal from the progress the Democratic Party made starting... WaPo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415912/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:46:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415238/posts Ilya Somin writing at Volohk Conspiracy fleshes out what is sure to be a court challenge against the constitutionality of individual or business mandates to purchase health insurance. His point - there is no "consensus" among constitutional scholars on the issue "In an important recent speech, Senator Max Baucus claims that there is a broad consensus among legal scholars (that the individual mandate is constitutional. He claims that 'those who study constitutional law as a line of work have drawn th[e] same conclusion' as congressional Democrats. Similar assertions have been made in parts of the liberal blogosphere. For example, Think... The American Thinker Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415238/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:01:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414764/posts Christmas time is finally upon us, and as we contemplate the big lump of coal that the Democrats have given the country in the form of a so called health care bill, PopulistAggression.com has come up with a few gift giving ideas to reward them for all their hard work. PopulistAggression.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414764/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 00:48:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413861/posts The left is starting to believe President Obama is a “poser,” Glenn Beck said on his TV show. In their view, he has failed to achieve many of his campaign promises. He dropped the so-called public option from his healthcare legislation which is “the progressives’ ultimate prize.” Said Beck: "As the concessions are being made and this bill gets stripped down, the only thing left is a mandate to buy insurance, a giant boon, they’ll say, to those evil big insurance companies. That’s not exactly what the left had in mind, not Democrats — the left, and they are coming... David Horowitz's NewsRealblog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413861/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:41:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412865/posts One would think an entire think-tank university staff is behind Snopes. Not so. It's a couple — husband and wife. Their opinions are considered bible by countless who check out "the facts" by going to Snopes.com. These countless include college profs, Congresspersons, the National Review writers, and masses climbing all over the grassroots. RenewAmerica http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412865/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:33:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411577/posts Boy, this “Obama Derangement Syndrome” really has gotten out of hand. Why, just this past week the decreasingly popular president has been called a “bald-faced liar,” “an executive who can’t bring himself to lead,” and even an “Uncle Tom.” And that’s just by liberals. The progressive crack-up, before Obama even reaches the end of his first year, has been an awesome and occasionally humorous sight to see. Undead ’60s warhorse Tom Hayden got the ball rolling in early December with his dramatic announcement in The Nation that, with the president’s decision to increase troop levels, “It’s time to strip the... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411577/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 10:55:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2410319/posts The American Mainstream media and Washington D.C. are dominated today by a Leftist, Secular and Godless mindset. That isn't any secret. Not even the unregenerate (unbelievers) will disagree with that. As Lucifer (Satan) controls more and more of the Media today - with these Godless surrogates and talking heads - his agenda is moving along quite rapidly and increasing exponentially. Never in the history of this nation has the Main Stream Liberal Media pushed and supported a President’s leftist agenda as this one we have today. Today Lucifer’s American Leftist Media is ram-rodding, bulldozing, redefining and cultivating the U.S. ground... The Ignorant Fishermen Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2410319/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:09:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411100/posts The outrage among some of America’s most vocal liberals at President Barack Obama’s failure to expand government-run health care caps a year of disappointments for Obama’s allies on the left and raises worrying questions for Democrats in the 2010 midterm elections. The revolt led by former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean comes after a series of more contained disappointments among traditional Democratic constituencies that invested heavily in Obama — unions, gays, civil libertarians, Hispanics, and anti-war Democrats, among others — who have seen specific promises deferred and grand hopes of systematic change denied by an administration that has found itself severely... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411100/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:53:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411044/posts Politico's Ken Vogel is reporting that the Obama worshiping group Organizing for America -- 13 million strong -- was "activated" to call their senators in support of health care reform. Apparently, they didn't get quite the response they were hoping for: "The campaign yielded 150,000 calls - less than half the number of a similar effort in October - and it prompted a backlash among online and local activists who had logged countless volunteer supporting Obama's campaign and legislative agenda, but who felt betrayed by recent Democratic concessions in the healthcare reform fight. To be sure, the October effort targeted... The American Thinker Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411044/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 11:27:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410756/posts Paul Krugman, op ed columnist for The New York Times, wrote today that while Senator Joe Lieberman should be hung in effigy and President Obama should be chastised for caving completely on the public option, the health care bill as it now stands in the Senate should still pass. Unfortunately, none of us know what exactly is in that bill since Senator Harry Reid is playiing hide-and-seek with it. Nevertheless, Krugman lists the usual bunch of supposed benefits of the legislation, forgetting to mention that we will all be facing higher taxes, mandates and charges for four years before anyone... David Horowitz's NewsRealblog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410756/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:15:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410304/posts Wrote this one for NRB, thought you guys would enjoy it. In an interview with ABC News, President Obama once again proved to be one of the best spinners in Washington, D.C. The United States, he said, will go “bankrupt” if his multi-trillion dollar health care plan America cannot afford, isn’t passed by Congress. I know what you’re thinking: “that doesn’t make sense. If we’re already terribly in debt, we shouldn’t be adding to it.” Well, that may sound logical to your fiscally conservative and therefore terribly old-fashioned mind, but that’s only because you don’t understand the golden rule of... David Horowitz's NewsRealblog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410304/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:37:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410261/posts Keith Olbermann is ready to go to jail over it. Markos Moulitas is pre pared to see the health-care bill die over it. Howard Dean is assaulting the White House over it. It's the individual mandate, the source of rare cross-ideological agreement in the health-care debate. The provision to force everyone to buy health insurance long labored in obscurity, overshadowed by the more glamorous and controversial public option. No more. The public option's death left the individual mandate exposed. Disappointed Liberals now confront in the cold light of day a provision that will, by force of law, make people hand... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410261/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:58:25 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/2409635/posts So we’re going to shut down the detention center at the U.S. naval base on Guantanamo Bay and move the 200-plus terrorists detained there to a seldom-used civilian correctional center in Thomson, Ill. And we’re doing it, the Obama administration and Sen. Dick Durbin assure us, not because they want to use federal money to indemnify their home state for a white-elephant prison Illinois taxpayers should never have built, but because Guantanamo Bay simply must be closed. Gitmo, they say, causes terrorism. It’s worth remembering that the “Blind Sheikh,” Omar Abdel Rahman, perhaps the world’s most influential jihadist, was never... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409635/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:32:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407171/posts One of the most extraordinary features of Barack Obama's victory over John McCain was his capture of 78% of the Jewish vote. To be sure, there was nothing extraordinary about the number itself. Since 1928, the average Jewish vote for the Democrat in presidential elections has been an amazing 75%—far higher than that of any other ethno-religious group. Yet there were reasons to think that it would be different in 2008. The main one was Israel. Despite some slippage in concern for Israel among American Jews, most of them were still telling pollsters that their votes would be strongly influenced... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407171/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:38:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407149/posts Howard Zinn (left) with the very serious-looking actor Viggo Mortensen The small-screen version of Marxist historian Howard Zinn’s leftward-slanted history of America, The People Speak, aired Sunday night on the History Channel. The film, based on Zinn’s influential book, A People’s History of the United States, is chock full of useful idiot celebrities including Matt Damon, Marisa Tomei, Morgan Freeman, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Penn, Bruce Springsteen, and its executive producer Josh Brolin, all parroting the radical platitudes written for them. One scene in the shlockumentary tells the story of an organizer-agitator who rallied tenants against landlords during the Great Depression.... David Horowitz's NewsRealblog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407149/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:55:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406962/posts <p>In 1997, Matt Damon played the part of a janitor who turned out to be not only a math wizard, but one of the most brilliant men you could find anywhere. Trying to impress an arrogant Harvard student, who thought he knew everything, Damon’s character quotes from Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. He tells the Harvard kid and a psychiatrist at the hospital he works at that “you’re surrounding yourself with all the wrong fuckin’ books. You wanna read a real history book, read Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States. That book’ll [explitive deleted] you on your [explative].”</p> Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406962/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:57:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2406896/posts Sorry for the vanity, but the few minutes that I have seen is disgusting! vanity http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2406896/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:48:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406482/posts People such as George Soros and Michael Moore certainly talk a good game, but the next Mother Teresa they are not. Mother Teresa never criticized the free-market system; wealth just wasn't for her. Soros and Moore are quite the opposite. They will never take a vow of poverty and dedicate themselves to helping the poor. They just want our civilization to take a vow of poverty and become poor. This has caused many to wonder: How can someone preach socialism while being the most rapacious "capitalist" imaginable? Well, I have a theory about this. It has often been observed that... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406482/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:56:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2406505/posts Have you checked out that game-changing HQ for political news and analysis, the Huffington Post, lately? The site is a trove of deepthink policy analysis. Take “Political Grandstanding: Excessive Compensation and the Health Care Bill.” You tell ’em, Aaron Zelinsky! Your analysis of Section 162 (m) of the Internal Revenue Code drew 13 comments. President Obama’s freshly-announced effort to do something about Afghanistan inspired the op-ed, “Talking the Talk: An Exercise in Irony from West Point to Oslo,” that accused Obama of being a cog in Eisenhower’s military-industrial complex. It sprouted 14 comments. Keep scrolling down the front page on... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2406505/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:10:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406136/posts The purpose of all war is peace—Saint Augustine: The City of God While President Barack Obama was in Oslo, Norway yesterday accepting his Nobel Peace Prize (while at the same time justifying his troop surge in Afghanistan), back home Congressman and fellow progressive Democrat Dennis Kucinich was busy metaphorically pulling the red carpet out from under him by denouncing the surge and demanding an immediate withdrawal of all troops from that country. Amy Goodman reported on both events on Democracy Now!, a network which represents the Marxist ideology, an ideology which is itself no stranger to war and destruction. From... David Horowitz's NewsRealblog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406136/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:03:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405685/posts Hollywood & Howard Zinn’s Marxist education project by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2009 The two most important questions for society, according to the Greek philosopher Plato, are these: What will we teach our children? And who will teach them? Left-wing celebrities have teamed up with one of America’s most radical historians to take control of the classroom in the name of “social justice.” Parents, beware: This Hollywood-backed Marxist education project may be coming to a school near you. On Sunday, December 13, the History Channel will air “The People Speak” – a documentary based on Marxist academic Howard Zinn’s... http://cnsnews.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405685/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:10:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405917/posts History serving “a social aim,” rather than chronicling the past in a detached manner, is what readers get in A People’s History of the United States. With any luck, “The People Speak,” the History Channel documentary based on the book that premieres this Sunday, will be, like so many Hollywood productions, unfaithful to the original. Given A People’s History of the United States’ infidelity to facts, this might be the only chance viewers have of seeing anything resembling an accurate retelling of history.Through Zinn’s looking-glass, Maoist China, site of history’s bloodiest state-sponsored killings, transforms into “the closest thing, in the... Big Hollywood (breitbart) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405917/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 03:14:18 GMT