http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/liberals/ en-us Fri, 1 Jan 2010 09:32:20 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418865/posts "Best (er, worst) of 2009: Hate mail edition" By Michelle Malkin December 31, 2009 12:24 PM SNIPPET: "Language warning, as always, as we head into the sewer for a year-end reminder of the depths of liberal intolerance for your humble “big mashed up bag of meat with lipstick:”" MICHELLE MALKIN.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418865/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 09:32:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418394/posts Back in February, I wrote a piece called I Really Don't Care Much About California, But This Stunned Me. The gist of it was that California politicians are so reckless in spending, taxing, and regulating that they have essentially bankrupted their own state. I didn't really care about what they did to their state because they have a right to govern themselves and far be it for me in Virginia to tell them how to live their lives. Well, it is getting worse. The state is truly toxic for business. . . . Now I am starting to care about... Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418394/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:15:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418140/posts Here are a few of the Twitter comments by users that I saw in the 15 minutes or so that I perused the site: @kenneth212 Rush Limbaugh was rushed to the hospital in Honolulu. Maybe Santa did get my letter. @MelechT Rush Limbaugh was rushed to the Hospital. Just when I thought Christmas was over… @tontocorazon RT @Pumpy_Beanis DIE RUSH LIMBAUGH YOU F***ING PIG MAN JUST F***ING DIE @phontigallo: I was scared of another death this year til I heard Rush Limbaugh was in the hospital. Come on 2009; don’t fail me now @amazingatheist: Ruch Limbaugh hospitalized with chest pains.... Race42008 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2418140/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:23:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417812/posts Barack Obama The "bowing" controversies. Calling Kanye West a "jackass." Seeing a number of his first picks for prominent positions having to withdraw their names from consideration. That silly Beer Summit. Gate-crashers strolling in to a state dinner. Gifting the British PM with 25 DVDs that aren't compatible with European players. The "Special Olympics" bowling joke. Probably not the most dignified first year in presidential history. Chicago Sun-Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417812/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:03:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417734/posts Rich. Educated. Westernized. Poor. Ignorant. Uneducated. Which is the group most likely to be a terrorist? Liberals would say the second. And they would be wrong. As usual. Neoavatara http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417734/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:10:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417545/posts Sen. Joe Lieberman was right to sound the alarm about Yemen in the wake of the Undy-Bomber's Christmas Day terror attack over American skies. But he was wrong to call it "tomorrow's war." The Yemen-based jihadist network has been at war with us for years — since before the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions, since before Sept. 11 and well before our current commander in chief had begun his vaunted work as a community organizer. The bleeding-heart ostriches of the left are blaming (who else?) cowboy George W. Bush for radicalizing poor, oppressed Yemenis. But the killer fruits of botched bomber... The Daily Jabber http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417545/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:37:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2417300/posts Interesting changes in Denver. Self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2417300/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:30:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416941/posts 'There is not a liberal America and a conservative America -- there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America -- there's the United States of America." With these words at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Barack Obama electrified a divided country, launching a victorious Senate campaign, and four years later, a triumphant presidential campaign. He took office amid the worst conditions facing any incoming president since Franklin D. Roosevelt -- a great recession, two wars, financial free-fall. In his first year he staved off depression,... Chicago Sun-Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416941/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:03:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416534/posts The Washington Post's Dan Balz thinks that "with new priorities, Obama and Democrats can recover in 2010." Sorry, Dan; it's about more than priorities. It's a matter of their worldview. Balz dutifully cites "the size of the problems President Obama inherited" and "the battles he chose to take on during his first year" as mitigating factors that may lead to the public's understanding and allow Obama an opportunity to hit "the reset button." Balz says Obama's advisers believe he can "pivot" in the first few months of 2010 and restore his standing with the American people. Balz offers four "elements"... davidlimbaugh.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416534/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:58:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2416380/posts "It was only minutes after Pope Benedict XVI was violently attacked on Christmas Eve by a woman described by authorities as mentally deranged, but leftist blogs lit up with joy over the assault. . . ." Patrick Madrid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2416380/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:54:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416210/posts It was not an unforeseeable or random act, and it was not coincidental that Islamists perpetrated it on Christmas. Blog theFinancialSkinny http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416210/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 13:49:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415722/posts Napolitano: "The system worked" DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said that the thwarting of the attempt to blow up the Amsterdam-Detroit flight this week demonstrated that "the system worked." Asked by CNN's Candy Crowley on "State of the Union" 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: "We're asking the same questions." Napolitano added that there was "no suggestion that [the bomber] was improperly screened." 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/2416057/posts The title of this post comes from remarks by Lt Gen. Honore at a press conference following hurricane Rita in 2005, when he was admonishing the press work with him cooperatively to communicate accurate information to the public for a change. It kind of sums up my view of NBC. This morning brought another example, when Andrea Mitchell was on a panel on Meet the Press spouting unfounded opinions about a vast array of issues. Here's one that really got to me. MR. GREGORY: Just be a little bit more specific, Andrea, whether we're talking about figures like President Obama... Wizbang http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416057/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 03:44:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415815/posts Barack Obama was never the progressive ideologue many of his supporters hoped he'd be. He ran as a fairly centrist, cautious candidate, and that's how he's governed. Though to his credit, he's been office for less than a year, and he's already decided to blow most of his political capital on a party-line vote to reform healthcare, something his predecessor George W. Bush never dared to try with, say, Social Security. But because healthcare doesn't include a public option, thus leaving the for-profit insurers to make a fortune on the great insuring of America, and because Wall Street reform seems... The Business Insider http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415815/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:16:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415644/posts Occasionally, when all the other news is quite and the momentum is on our side I venture across the lines to see what problems are brewing on the other side of the wire. What I've found is leadership with teeth (even though they don't agree with us) seems to be better than lots of speeches and no follow through. The lefties are moving in with both guns blazing...a couple articles in the Huff Po rail on Obama. Sometimes I feel they're just closet constitutionalists in hiding and need a couple more pushes to bring them into the light. Point of... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415644/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 07:27:31 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 "Will Santa Obama Deliver?" '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'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-news/2415042/posts Leaflets mailed to homes in heavily Jewish districts of Canada's major cities last November struck with uncharacteristic ferocity at the political party that Canadian Jews have long favored. Canada's Liberal Party, the Conservative Party broadsides charged, had "opposed defunding Hamas and asked that Hezbollah be delisted as a terrorist organization." The Liberals had "willingly participated" in the 2001 "overtly antiSemitic" Durban international conference on racism. And Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff had "accused Israel of committing war crimes," the leaflets charged. Only the last charge was incontestably accurate and free of distortion. But the mass mailing reflected a new facet... HaAretz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415042/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:35:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415010/posts On this glorious brisk Christmas morning, Loud Lion so graciously pounded this installment of the (quasi-)Weekly Roar. (He kind of had to; we’re at the sitting at the same table right across from each other.) What I want this Holiday Season‘Tis the season to make lists, lists of the best, lists of the worst, lists of lists. Speaking of which, I happen to be reading my local newspaper, the New York Daily News, and they had a list of the years worst parents, and in this list was the liberals’ newest and favorite punching bag, Sarah Palin. Now, how did... Vocal Minority http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415010/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 17:36:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414790/posts Dear Friends And Far-Flung Family, What a year of “hope and change” it has been. Just one year ago we had a president whose approval rating was below 50 percent, health care reform was politically unpopular and it looked like the war in Afghanistan would go on forever. Just look how far we’ve come! Sasha and Malia love living in the White House. It’s even better now that they have their new friend in the White House, too. He’s cute, he’s dopey, he’s always making messes for us to clean up, but what can you say? He’s the vice president,... Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414790/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 02:07:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414636/posts Each November and December, the presence of Christmas-specific decorations and signs in the malls and other shopping venues in this part of the country seems to diminish just a bit. It’s some consolation that at least we’re not to the point where we call the Christmas tree a “Unity tree,” which incredibly has been the case in Pittsburgh for a while. Less than benign neglect of Christmas describes the way the supposedly open-minded and progressive establishment press covers the season’s retail trade. I’ll have more on that later, but let’s first look at how the Christmas shopping season is going,... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414636/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:54:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414593/posts In his year-end interviews with friendly news outlets like The Washington Post and National Public Radio, President Obama had a curious choice for his biggest accomplishment of the year: the bailout of the financial sector. It seems odd that a president whose mantra is change, change, change would pick a program initiated by his predecessor. While the Troubled Asset Relief Program is surely the least popular initiative of President George W. Bush among conservatives, it is also widely reviled by many liberals and moderates. Obama's choice says a great deal about the state of things in Washington at the end... Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414593/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:44:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414384/posts The greatest gifts you can give your children can’t be boxed and bowed. Consider the timeless gift of self-sufficiency — a stubborn thirst to leave the nest, make it on your own and live as a free-willed adult. It’s a concept that Big Nanny Democrats are sabotaging at every legislative turn. Several times during the sneaky debate on the government health care takeover bill this past Sunday, Democrats hailed a provision..... The Daily Jabber http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414384/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:17:54 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-chat/2413878/posts A little more than a year ago, Dave Clifton, president and co-owner of Rational Radio (1360 on Your AM Dial), told Sam that his left-leaning station would be a success, no doubt about it: "More than half of the people who vote are on my side of the political fence, and they have very little to support their views on the radio." But that was before what Clifton now calls "The Great Bank Heist" of 2008 and '09 -- before, as he puts it this morning, "radio stations lost a lot of their value because the advertisers quit advertising." Clifton,... Dallas Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2413878/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:59:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413392/posts If you're keeping a list of who's been naughty or nice, you might want to sharpen your pencil for Chrysler and GM. In a special message of holiday cheer, Chrysler announced through filings last week that its pre-bankruptcy self doesn't appear to want to make good on its $3.7 billion loan from U.S. taxpayers. The money went to the old Chrysler (now called, officially, the "OldCar Co") through the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) in April of 2009 when the company announced its "fast track" Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Counter that against the letter http://autos.aol.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413392/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:12:05 GMT