http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/liberalism/ en-us Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:47:52 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417799/posts Here is some examples of the left going after a vacationing George W. Bush, these are just a few, there are many more... hotairpundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417799/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:47:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416547/posts The 2009 political year began on a high note of &#x22;change&#x22; and &#x22;hope&#x22; and ended in a thud of stalemate, despair and public fury over the economy, health care reform and the war in Afghanistan. No wonder it may go down as the year of the angry voter. (snip) San Francisco Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416547/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:27:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415722/posts Napolitano: &#x22;The system worked&#x22; DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said that the thwarting of the attempt to blow up the Amsterdam-Detroit flight this week demonstrated that &#x22;the system worked.&#x22; Asked by CNN&#x27;s Candy Crowley on &#x22;State of the Union&#x22; how that could be possible when the young Nigerian who sought to set off the bomb was able to smuggle explosive liquid onto the flight, Napolitano responded: &#x22;We&#x27;re asking the same questions.&#x22; Napolitano added that there was &#x22;no suggestion that [the bomber] was improperly screened.&#x22; Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415722/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 14:40:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415709/posts In Britain, government-licensed pall-bearers are sometimes required to carry coffins on shopping carts rather by hand, thanks to regulations from the Department of &#x92;Ealth and Safety. In France, people are conditioned not to pick up garbage they accidentally drop on the ground. It would steal work away from public street sweepers, complete with government-issued brooms. In Hawaii, public schools are forced to be closed several Fridays out of the year, which means (because Wednesdays there are half days) children sometimes get 3&#xBD;-day school weeks. Why? The state doesn&#x92;t have enough money to keep schools open every Friday of the school... Vocal Minority < Mark Steyn http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415709/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 13:53:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415511/posts What is Classical Liberalism? The objective of classical liberals is to free as many people as possible from the tyranny of others. Classical liberals believe this requires replacing public policies that limit individual freedom with policies that respect and expand individual rights and autonomy. Modern classical liberalism, sometimes called the &#x93;freedom philosophy,&#x94; was articulated by prominent economists and political philosophers beginning in the 1930s and 1940s. That group included Gary Becker, Aaron Director, Milton Friedman, Baldy Harper, Friedrich Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, Frank Knight, Frank S. Meyer, Ludwig von Mises, Leonard Read, and George Stigler. (Source:&#xA0; Joseph L. Bast, Heartland... Intellectual Ammo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415511/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 23:42:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415082/posts Meanwhile, one Amy Wilkinson holds hope for the left that this disillusionment is a mirage in &#x22;Will Santa Obama Deliver?&#x22; &#x27;Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the land We hoped Santa Obama would bring fortune in hand... Small businesses hung stockings by the chimney with care, In hopes that stimulus funding soon would be there. With unemployment at 10 percent, we&#x27;re awake in our beds While visions of sugar-jobs dance in our heads. And, lately we wonder if Santa Obama is real Will he deliver on promises; hold up his end of the deal? Svelte and skinny we... Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415082/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:59:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414995/posts Well, here it is, my annual Top 10 favorite Dennis Prager articles of the year. Indeed Dennis had a lot to write about this year. It was so hard narrowing down his 46 pieces of 2009 down to just ten favorites, there are actually two &#x93;honorable mentions&#x94; at the end of this post. (Prager, in my opinion, is so intelligent, eloquent, and morally well-foiunded, that in all honesty, virtually all of his pieces deserve honorable mention.) Enjoy, and feel free to comment. Feb. 17, 2009 The Madoff Bill Feb. 24, 2009 From California to the Boy Scouts: Left Destroys More... Vocal Minority < Dennis Prager http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414995/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 16:58:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413143/posts The sociopolitical concept known as socialism and/or communism is not new. In fact, it is very ancient. Some ancient Greeks attempted to make communism a reality. That experiment ultimately failed. Plato spoke of it admiringly, even though he understood that it was not feasible. However, the first attempt at building socialism was in ancient Shinar. It came about when the terrible-willed Nimrod (Amraphel in the Old Testament, also Gilgamesh and Hammurabi) the great-grandson of Noah &#x93;killed&#x94; God and then declared himself &#x93;two-parts god, only one-part man.&#x94; The pyramid-shaped ziggurat (Tower of Babel) built by Nimrod symbolizes socialism/communism, a sociopolitical system... Conservative Underground http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413143/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:30:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2412867/posts Observing the spectacle in the U.S. Senate the last couple of weeks, and particularly last weekend, has really highlighted the confusion and desperation gripping the leadership in the U.S. Senate. The manic effort to push through a (so-called) health care reform bill is truly remarkable, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is going to extraordinary lengths to make sure some sort of bill is passed before Christmas. Millions of Americans, watching in astonishment as this tawdry episode unfolds, want to know, &#x93;What&#x92;s the hurry?&#x94; It&#x92;s not as if there is an urgent need for health care reform &#x96; the situation... Annuit Coeptis http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2412867/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:40:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2412553/posts Columbia was, he declared, &#x93;a citadel of the mind swaying in the vertigo of a civilization changing (without admitting it) the basis of its faith from a two thousand-year-old Christian culture to the new secular and scientific culture.&#x94; Whereas the Christian culture &#x93;placed God at the center of man&#x92;s hope,&#x94; the new secular faith, which was &#x93;exclusively rational and scientific,&#x94; replaced God with Man. This was not indoctrination into communism, at least not explicitly. &#x93;No member of the Columbia faculty ever consciously guided me toward Communism,&#x94; he stated. &#x93;Columbia did not teach me Communism. It taught me despair.&#x94; That despair... First Principles http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2412553/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:11:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412408/posts A young married couple, Paul and Nancy were neighbors of mine back in the seventies. Nancy was extremely excited. An unexpected opportunity arose for her to attend college. This would broaden her horizons and enable her to pursue opportunities beyond her current minimum wage jobs. Paul was dead set against it. He confided in me, &#x93;I&#x27;m afraid if she gets educated, she may not want me anymore&#x94;. I thought, &#x93;So rather than allowing Nancy whom you profess to love to be all she can be, you would prefer to keep her down&#x94;. In the eighties, I was a member of... LloydMarcus.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412408/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:33:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411440/posts In the continually harsh public discourse over the President&#x92;s proposals for federally-managed healthcare, the Big Government progressives in both the Democratic and the Republican parties have been trying to trick us. These folks, who really want the government to care for us from cradle to grave, have been promoting the idea that health care is a right. In promoting that false premise, they have succeeded in moving the debate from WHETHER the feds should micro-manage health care to HOW the feds should micro-manage health care. This is a false premise, and we should reject it. Health care is not a... facebook http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411440/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:27:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411087/posts The best summation of the U.N. climate circus in Denmark comes from Andrew Bolt of Australia&#x92;s Herald Sun: &#x93;Nothing is real in Copenhagen &#x97; not the temperature record, not the predictions, not the agenda, not the &#x91;solution.&#x92;&#x94; Just so. Reuters, for example, carried a moving account of the speech by Ian Fry, lead negotiator for Tuvalu, the beleaguered Pacific island nation soon to be underwater because of a planet-devastating combination of your SUV and unsustainable bovine flatulence from Vermont farms. &#x93;The fate of my country rests in your hands,&#x94; Fry told the meeting. &#x93;I make this as a strong and... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411087/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:33:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2410766/posts For those that don&#x27;t know about history ... here is a condensed version that will take about 2 minutes or less to read: Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers.. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter. The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. These were the foundations of modern civilization and together were the... e-mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2410766/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:34:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2407873/posts On July 9, 1970, President Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by executive order as an independent agency joining together a number of functions from different federal agencies. The EPA says its mission &#x93;is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment &#x96; air, water and land &#x96; upon which life depends.&#x94; An Administrator appointed by the President of the United States runs the agency, which is not a Cabinet agency, although the Administrator is usually given cabinet rank. Lisa P. Jackson is the current Administrator, and the EPA&#x92;s Website notes that the &#x93;FY 2010 Budget... Annuit Coeptis http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2407873/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:13:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407658/posts Week by week, New York magazine offers insight into the culture and consciousness of the nation&#x27;s trendy population in Manhattan. This magazine, combined with The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and The New Yorker, provides constant insight into the thinking of the New York elites. The magazine recently featured a major article on abortion, and it just might be the most important article on this issue in recent history. In &#x22;The Abortion Distortion - Just How Pro-choice is America, Really?,&#x22; writer Jennifer Senior offers an incredibly insightful and important essay on the moral status of abortion... Christian Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407658/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:17:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2406751/posts Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. ~ Bertrand Russell Atheists, Agnostics, and even large numbers of self-liberated Christians and secular Jews claim to have escaped the chains of shame and guilt. Not so fast... Charles Krauthammer (self-described as &#x22;not religious&#x22;) exposes the secular guilt that infests the environmental movement: Politically it&#x27;s an idea of genius, engaging at once every left-wing erogenous zone: rich man&#x27;s guilt, post-colonial guilt, environmental guilt. Nevermind that our carbon belching factories built the modern world and lifted... Western Hero http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2406751/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:42:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406452/posts ...I can&#x92;t decide if Obama is the biggest fool in history or the biggest liar in history. He seems to believe all of the ridiculous statements he uses in his speeches - or is it that he reads the teleprompter so well that he thinks we will believe he is sincere? He frequently uses conservative sounding phrases, and later follows them with contradictory socialist statements that marginalize or compromise what he previously said. He is a better double-talker than John Kerry was, but no more believable... CFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406452/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:15:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406016/posts President Obama&#x27;s complete lack of concern for the fraudulent science associated with global warming is contrasted with the common sense of Sarah Palin. The gutsy Alaskan suggested that Obama ought to hold his horses on the whole climate change thing until The real verdict is in. Of course, the smartest man in the world will have none of that. With the outrageous news of deceit, fraud and suppression of opposing evidence by top climate change &#x22;scientists,&#x22; many conservatives had expected to see the story unfold a little differently (with actual reporting and investigating). Global warming, aka, climate change has been... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406016/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:29:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405985/posts It wasn&#x92;t so long ago that Barack Obama&#x92;s speeches were being hailed as &#x93;extraordinary&#x94; &#x93;rhetorical magic&#x94; (Joe Klein in Time) that should be &#x93;required reading in classrooms&#x94; (Bob Herbert in the New York Times). Pity the poor grade-schoolers who have to be on the bus at 5 a.m. for a daylong slog through the 4,000-word sludge of the president&#x92;s Nobel thank you. Rich Lowry, my boss at National Review, writes that Obama has become a &#x93;crashingly banal&#x94; bore. The good news is that he &#x93;is not nearly as dull as, say, Herman van Rompuy.&#x94; Who? Oh, come on. Herman van... National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405985/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 07:21:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405476/posts House Democrats said Thursday that denying humans were causing climate change is like denying smoking causes lung cancer. Reps. Edward Markey (Mass.), Jay Inslee (Wash.) and Earl Blumenauer (Ore.) also compared climate change &#x22;deniers&#x22; to &#x93;teabaggers&#x94; who spread the false rumor about death panels and swift boaters who attacked Sen. John Kerry&#x92;s (D-Mass.) war record during the 2004 presidential race. The three members of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming called a news conference on Thursday in response to the controversy over the hacked emails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia,... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405476/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:52:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405439/posts Perhaps when the history of our times is written, ours will be called The Era of Narcissistic Catechisms. To understand why this is the case it is enough to consider the fortunes of two green movements. On the main stage of global affairs this week we have the much touted UN climate change conference in Copenhagen. Standing with 15,000 delegates representing green activism groups and politically correct scientists the world over are international celebrity leaders like Nobel Peace Prize laureates Barack Obama, Al Gore and Desmond Tutu and their fellow celebrities and Oscar and Grammy winners Al Gore, Leonardo Dicaprio,... Caroline Glick http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405439/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:08:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405222/posts With the ClimateGate revelations of flimsy &#x93;science&#x94; behind the man-made global warming theory, the role of the religious left in promoting this fraudulent scheme now deserves serious media scrutiny. Because that is unlikely, consider the following: Dr. James Wanliss, Associate Professor of Physics at Presbyterian College, has written The Green Dragon, a book about how environmentalism is actually committed to &#x93;the reconstruction of a pagan world order&#x94; and &#x93;rejection of Christian spirituality.&#x94; Wanliss argues that the environmental movement &#x93;is a religion with a vision of sin and repentance, heaven and hell. It even has a special vocabulary, with words like... WorldTribune.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405222/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:49:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2404406/posts If you love your country and are concerned about its future, I urge you to immediately click on the following link, http://www.marklevinshow.com/home.asp and watch Mark Levin&#x92;s address at Hillsdale College from December 3, 2009. In a clear, straightforward manner that reflects the knowledge of a scholar but is easily understandable to the layman, Mr. Levin explains the dangers modern liberals, whom he refers to as &#x93;statists&#x94;, pose for our nation and why they must be defeated. And for those Republicans and conservatives who feel they must make some compromises to remain relevant in the new political order established by our... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2404406/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:00:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402460/posts Chamber of Commerce CEO Tom Donohue is a wanted man -- at least according to the liberal activist group that&#x27;s put a de facto bounty on his head. A network of liberal groups known as Velvet Revolution started an ad campaign offering $200,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the man whose trade organization has become a thorn in the side of the Obama administration and congressional Democrats. The group is not leveling any specific charges of criminal behavior. Rather, it is casting a wide net, fishing for any whistleblowers from Donohue&#x27;s past who might come forward... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402460/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 00:51:03 GMT