http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/liberal/ en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:08:06 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418010/posts ...“I hope the terrorists don’t think this is a good time to attack,” I said, looking protectively at the White House, which always looks smaller and more vulnerable and beautiful than you expect, no matter how often you see it up close. I thought our guard might be down because of the holiday; now I realize our guard is down every day. ...Before he left for vacation, Obama tried to shed his Spock mien and juice up the empathy quotient on jobs. But in his usual inspiring/listless cycle, he once more appeared chilly in his response to the chilling episode... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418010/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:08:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417653/posts Alumni Gifts Empowering Left? Malcolm A. Kline, December 30, 2009 Jane Shaw over at the John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy is having second thoughts about her annual alumni gift to her alma mater. “One point in WellesleyÂ’s favor, by the way: its president hasnÂ’t signed the ‘PresidentsÂ’ Climate Change Agreement,Â’ an expensive will-oÂ’-the-wisp effort to ‘take a standÂ’ on global warming,” she writes. “And English majors are still required to study Shakespeare.” “Are those good enough reasons for me to support Wellesley with my money?” she asks herself. “Probably not.” Jay Schalin, also of the Pope Center,... Accuracy in Academia http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417653/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:25:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416089/posts The latest numbers from the Census Bureau show that there is a mass exodus of taxpayers happening in all the most liberal states. This means that such states are not only losing urgently needed revenues at the worst possible time, but also representation both in the electoral college and in the House. As I have noted before, studies also unsurprisingly show that these states are the most bankrupt. This is how liberals "help" people. As usual, California topped off the list. Even including the illegal immigrants perpetually pouring into the state, it still managed to lose almost 100,000 more residents... The Macon County Conservative Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416089/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:13:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415274/posts From FDR’s self serving “New Deal” through the 1960s, there was a legitimate debate about the role of government, particularly the Federal Government, in our lives. Was there an implicit mandate long hidden in our Constitution that sanctioned government redistributing benefits to one group at the expense of another? Even absent a Constitutional “penumbra”, was the need so dire and the disparity so obnoxious that the government should step in anyway? In the thirties and forties, many extremely bright and well educated persons became liberals, socialists, or Communists as part of their belief that government could and should be the... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415274/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 13:38:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415194/posts "The Ghost of Christmas Past" shows you why presents in the past didn't lead to fat kids down the road. NOTE: The author of this comic requests that you visit his web site and please refrain from copying the cartoon within this thread. Thanks, and Merry Christmas! Geeks On Caffeine - Cartoons done just RIGHT!! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415194/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:52:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415089/posts Media Bias Is Real, Finds UCLA Political Scientist By Meg Sullivan December 14, 2005 Category: Research While the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal is conservative, the newspaper's news pages are liberal, even more liberal than The New York Times. The Drudge Report may have a right-wing reputation, but it leans left. Coverage by public television and radio is conservative compared to the rest of the mainstream media. Meanwhile, almost all major media outlets tilt to the left.... http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/Media-Bias-Is-Real-Finds-UCLA-6664.aspx?RelNum=6664 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2415089/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 22:14:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413510/posts On this epsiode of the Conscience of Kansas radio program I talk with KSDB New Wave director Clifford Watkins. Next, I talk about Tim Carney's new book, "Obamanomics". WE hear from the boys from Red State Update and the from musician and political thinker Roger Weber. I also talk to retired Colonel Mike Angley about his exciting ChildFinder book series. The Conscience of Kansas radio program http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413510/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:30:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412672/posts Take a look at the future of America at the hands of Democratic leadership! blueloriblogspot.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412672/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 01:56:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410314/posts Health reform is shuffling toward its endgame, and even though the bill's popularity resembles George Bush's circa 2007, Democrats seem determined to push the bill through. Browse through certain liberal blogs, or listen to Democratic leadership speeches, and you'll read the same justification again and again: However bad passing this bill might be, politically speaking, not passing it would be much, much worse. I've been skeptical of this line of argument for quite some time. This summer, I showed that Democrats from Republican-leaning districts who supported President Clinton's agenda fared significantly worse in the 1994 midterm election than those who... Realclearpolitics.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410314/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:57:15 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-chat/2409157/posts OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's opposition Liberal Party has taken down from its website a doctored photo of Lee Harvey Oswald being shot and killed in which Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper's face was substituted for Oswald's. A Liberal official said on Tuesday the assassination picture, submitted as part of a photo contest in connection with the Copenhagen climate talks, should never have been there. The party on Tuesday also took down another doctored photo of Harper with his fist in a cow's posterior, which it had offered as one of the "best seven" depicting where Harper would rather be than... reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2409157/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:14:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408993/posts The Obama administration's support for an individual insurance mandate without a public option is triggering what appears to be a full-fledged liberal revolt against the Senate's healthcare compromise, and for the first time raises the realistic prospect that reform could die amidst internecine Democratic bickering. An ominous sign resonant of the contentious 2007 standoff over immigration reform: The conservative right and the hardcore left are both beginning to attack the current proposal, terming it a "monstrosity" and lambasting its cost. "Insurance companies win," DailyKos founder Markos Moulitsas declared Tuesday. "Time to kill this monstrosity coming out of the Senate." If... Newsmax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408993/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:37:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408878/posts A San Francisco-based wireless company is unabashedly mixing its liberal political activism with business, a strategy that has won the praise of President Obama but not the confidence of marketing analysts. A San Francisco-based wireless company is working liberal political activism into its business plan in a unabashedly partisan marketing strategy that experts say could catch on in today's polarized culture -- but also could alienate many potential customers. The company, CREDO, even boasts that it has the support of President Obama as it markets itself as an agent of social change. It pitches its mobile phone services with a... Foxnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408878/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:21:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2407752/posts The Planned Parenthood Federation of America is listed as a “career and professional resource” within the women’s and gender studies discipline on the University of Detroit Mercy’s web site. “The Women's Studies Mission is global in its pursuit of equality, justice and humanity for all,” according to the web page, which lists Planned Parenthood as one of nine “career and professional resources” and describes it as the “best known pro-choice organization in the U.S. Provides information about planned parenthood, AIDS, Congressional action, and more.” The web page on which Planned Parenthood is listed “is endorsed by the University of Detroit... CatholicCulture.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2407752/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:21:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407415/posts America Under Barack Obama - An Interview with Nat Hentoff - By John W. Whitehead - December 11, 2009 Nat Hentoff has had a life well spent, one chock full of controversy fueled by his passion for the protection of civil liberties and human rights. Hentoff is known as a civil libertarian, free speech activist, anti-death penalty advocate, pro-lifer and not uncommon critic of the ideological left. At 84, Nat Hentoff is an American classic who has never shied away from an issue. For example, he defended a woman rejected from law school because she was Caucasian; called into a... Review Messenger http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407415/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:30:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2406793/posts Absent from the big screen for over a decade now, Oscar-winning director James Cameron returns armed with a reported half-billion dollars, a story he’s been desperate to tell for 15 years, and the very latest in cutting-edge visual technology. The result is “Avatar,” a sanctimonious thud of a movie so infested with one-dimensional characters and PC clichés that not a single plot turn – small or large – surprises. I call it the “liberal tell,” where the early and obvious politics of the film gives away the entire story before the second act begins, and “Avatar” might be the sorriest... Big Hollywood http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2406793/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:22:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2405693/posts Liberal vs. Conservative vs. Southerner Scenario: You're walking down a deserted street with your wife and two small children. Suddenly, a dangerous looking man with a huge knife comes around the corner, locks eyes with you, screams obscenities, raises the knife, and charges. You are carrying a Glock 45 and you are an expert shot. You have mere seconds before he reaches you and your family. What do you do? Liberal Answer: Well, that's not enough information to answer the question! Does the man look poor or oppressed? Have I ever done anything to him that would inspire him to... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2405693/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:18:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1549217/posts Till death do us part? An unusual wedding ceremony was held in the southern resort town of Eilat on Wednesday, as Sharon Tendler, a 41-years-old Jewish millionaire from London married her beloved Cindy, a 35-year-old dolphin, Israel's leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported Thursday.  The groom, a resident of the Eilat dolphin reef, met Tendler 15 years ago, when she first visited the resort. The British rock concert producer took a liking to the dolphin and has made a habit of traveling to Eilat two or three times a year and spending time with her underwater sweetheart.  "The peace and... YnetNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1549217/posts#comment Fri, 30 Dec 2005 14:19:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2398883/posts I am wondering if this scenario makes any sense. Say you are one of the liberal presidents, prime ministers, Governors, Rulers, or Commanders... etc of the many "developed" countries around the world. MajorThomas http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2398883/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 00:59:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398661/posts I always thought that I had a permanent case of Attention Deficit Syndrome...until now. Once this man became president, he got my full attention and I haven’t been able to get rid of him since. We can now note that amongst his many self-acclaimed attributes is that of a therapist. He has solved my self-induced affliction. I now know -- and we all should know by this time -- that our culture, our way of life, our idealistic ideologies are being attacked as never before in our history. Honor, ethics, logic, morality and common sense no longer permeate the sensibilities... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398661/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 19:32:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398129/posts Either MSNBC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews let one slip tonight, or it was an extremely poor choice of words. Following President Barack Obama's Dec. 1 speech, which he announced his intentions for increasing troop levels in Afghanistan, MSNBC followed with wrap-up coverage of his speech with arguably three of their most prominent on-air personalities - "Countdown" host Keith Olbermann, "The Rachel Maddow Show" host Rachel Maddow and Matthews. Matthews referred to a scene from "Gone with the Wind" about the American Civil War as an example of "excitement" going into a war. He said that was lacking in the room... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398129/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 02:48:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397465/posts After reading Sunday’s Herald, I’m thinking seriously about becoming a deadbeat. And you know what? I feel great about it! That’s because I read in Sunday’s Herald how people who owe more on their homes than they are worth should just stop making their payments. Better still, we shouldn’t feel any guilt about it, or any sense that we’re “doing something morally wrong” either. That’s according to liberal academic Brent White of the University of Arizona. (How liberal? He’s argued that patriotic activities like the Pledge of Allegiance don’t belong in public schools.) In a new academic paper White says... Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397465/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 10:30:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397256/posts As President Barack Obama and his party conspire to destroy -- not reform -- the greatest health care system in the world in their quest to remake America into a full-blown Eurosocialist state, it is instructive to remember the premise upon which Obama launched this disaster. In July, Obama said that if we do not control our health care costs, "we will not be able to control our deficit." He continued: "I've also pledged that health insurance reform will not add to our deficit over the next decade, and I mean it. ... In addition ... the bill I sign... davidlimbaugh.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397256/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 00:44:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396112/posts Rep. Tom Periello is holding a town hall via telephone next Monday, November 30, from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. You can call in by dialing 1-877-269-7289. You will need to enter the PIN number “14581″ Feel free to let Tom know your opinion about his support of the 2 worst bills in United States legislative history: Cap and Trade and the so called Health Care Reform bill. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396112/posts#comment Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:14:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394743/posts “I hope they Mirandized this Ahmed Hashim Abed guy before they punched him.”—Rush Limbaugh On March 31, 2004, a small convoy guarded by four American civilian contractors was ambushed at Fallujah, Iraq, and the guards were killed. The bodies of the four Blackwater security guards were burnt, hacked, and two of the mutilated bodies were hung for display on a bridge over the Euphrates river. The San Francisco Chronicle reported that in ” a macabre and murderous town fete, locals cheered as one corpse was attached to a car tow rope and pulled triumphantly up and down the main road….”... CFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2394743/posts#comment Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:07:41 GMT