http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/liberty/ en-us Thu, 4 Sep 2008 14:14:39 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074505/posts When Afraid, Attack is the Mantra. So who is afraid of Sarah Palin, and why are they afraid? Two weeks ago we saw Barack Obama select Joe Biden, a senator with decades of experience as his vice presidential running mate. Senator Biden's experience has been advertised as the reason he is such a good running mate. In today's papers, details about how he fought for Israel. How did he fight? By casting votes in the Senate. By talking to his colleagues about how to vote. Using this logic, I have been fighting for this nation for decades myself, talking to... NolanChart.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2074505/posts#comment Thu, 4 Sep 2008 14:14:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2073427/posts You need to go read the original post first. Here's the link: America, the new serfdom.Are you one of the few Americans who knows your American rights, knows the value of them, and knows how to defend them? Let's find out. 1) Explain the connection between rights and freedom. 2) Explain in legal terms how a right creates freedom. 3) Explain why a courtroom is the best place to claim and assert your rights. 4) List 10 of your fundamental American rights. There are way more than 10. I'm just asking for 10. 5) Cite the legal authority for those... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2073427/posts#comment Wed, 3 Sep 2008 01:42:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2072281/posts Good morning.Gustav heads inland s. of NOLA, and the R convention plans are on hold, day by day. All of Us http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2072281/posts#comment Mon, 1 Sep 2008 11:31:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067842/posts Central Planning is sold to a hopeful people as a way to solve societal problems, to right wrongs, and bring about perfect justice and equality. Central Planning promises you everything you are entitled to. As a bonus, goods and services produced by others are added to the list of commodities that everyone has a "right" to. Suddenly everyone is entitled to healthcare, housing, education, food, et cetera. It might sound nice that the state will magically provide all these wonderful things, but these rosy promises mask a dehumanizing, ugly reality. The other side of these entitlements is that now the... RealClearPolitics.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2067842/posts#comment Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:44:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2067440/posts Good morning!The Dems' Crazy Convention gets underway. How much of it can you stand to watch? I need a volunteer to watch my share...let me think of some inticement for this huge sacrifice...Fay - the Storm which Won't go Away - continues its tour of the South. All of Us http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2067440/posts#comment Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:45:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2067132/posts Liberal without even Trying From the times of the Great Depression through the 1950’s, some people were known as those who were just “passing through” town. During that time, one could pass through a town anonymously. Those days are gone. With fingerprint, information, a certifiable form of identification, a social security number, a speck of DNA or a face recognition photograph authorities have the ability to know everything there is to know about an individual. That individual had better have their legal ducks in a row before passing anywhere. This is but a tiny fragment of an example of those... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2067132/posts#comment Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:41:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2067021/posts Governments tend toward tyranny. Governments are comprised of selfish humans with personal desires for money, job security, and increased authority over fellow citizens. A citizen working for a government has opportunities to rule over and oppress fellow citizens, they would never have outside their government position. Therefore, government becomes a magnet for selfish power-seeking individuals. By their sheer size and superior firepower, governments tend to overrun and ignore personal rights. The machine capriciously devours it's victims. The Declaration of Independence declares that governments exist to protect the rights of citizens. The Constitution for the United States of America further states... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2067021/posts#comment Sun, 24 Aug 2008 06:20:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2063630/posts August winds down as we head into the last months of the '08 political season. Russia's withdrawal from Georgia is murky and ambiguous as is the US response to the situation. Pakistani President Musharef resigns today , and a TD moves over Cuba headed toward FL. All of Us http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2063630/posts#comment Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:07:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2062818/posts INVITATION BIBLICAL LAW CENTER NATIONAL SEMINAR “THE LORD, THE LAW & THE LIBERTY” Faith Baptist Church, Paris, Texas – August 25 and 26, 2008 The 24th Annual Unregistered Baptist Fellowship National Meeting will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana, October 13-15, 2008. Click Here for more details Dr. Dixon releases new book, The Trail of Blood Revisited: Christ's True Church, Its Past, Present and Future. Order today! Now in an updated 4th Printing! 170 pages, suggested donation $8 for single copies; $7 each for 2 copies; $6 each for 3 or more copies; $4 each for 60 copies (case lot). Includes... The Trumpet http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2062818/posts#comment Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:29:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2061418/posts Behind the attempt to regulate the Internet is an attempt at destroying our God given constitutionally guaranteed rights of free speech and an attempt to suppress the spread of opinions, news, and ideas. For the Multi-national corporations and it's leftist CEOs there is a need for greed and to limit our choices they way they do with Television. The chance to monopolize the Internet and the video games industry is met with the support of none other than RINOS as well as the far left. Hillary Clinton, John Mccain and to some extent even Obama have expressed support for regulating... mainestategop blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2061418/posts#comment Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:08:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061346/posts Today we update North Carolina where there's a bit of a surprise. * North Carolina: Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole's leads Democratic challenger Kay Hagan 46 percent to 41 percent with Libertarian Chris Cole drawing 7 percent and 5 percent undecided in a SurveyUSA poll conducted Aug. 9-11. This is the first time SurveyUSA included Cole in its poll, and it observed: "Hagan is flat, Dole is down. Cole gets 11% of male votes today, siphoning key votes Dole needs to win. Cole gets 12% of young votes today, siphoning key votes Hagan needs to win. Cole gets 9% of the... CQ Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061346/posts#comment Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:58:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2059810/posts Good morning!The non-partisan National Tax Policy Center has examined Obama's economic plans for us and predicts they would add 3.4 trillion dollars to the national debt. Not exactly fiscal responsibility is it?The Russian/Georgian war moves into its second, dangerous week. All of Us http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2059810/posts#comment Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:18:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058855/posts The Republican Party suffers from a pervasive and inexplicable failure to identify some key points of distinction between themselves and their Democratic opponents on issues that speak clearly and forcefully to the public consciousness - and to run with them. I.e. to put and keep those issues in the spotlight of the campaign. The latest case in point: Racial preferences - i.e. Affirmative Action. Many "red meat" Democrats as well as most Republicans see these measures for what they are - state-sponsored racism - plain and simple. More deeply - an attempted end run around the most basic tenet of... Red State Blue http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058855/posts#comment Sat, 9 Aug 2008 00:18:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2056104/posts Good Monday morning to all.A tropical storm approaches the Texas Gulf Coast.Obama has agreed to 3 structured presidential debate forums. RIP Alexander Solszenitsyn, witness & survivor of the horrors of the Soviet Gulag. All of Us http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2056104/posts#comment Mon, 4 Aug 2008 11:13:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056081/posts Text of Address by Alexander Solzhenitsynat Harvard Class Day Afternoon Exercises,Thursday, June 8, 1978I am sincerely happy to be here with you on this occasion and to become personally acquainted with this old and most prestigious University. My congratulations and very best wishes to all of today's graduates. Harvard's motto is "Veritas." Many of you have already found out and others will find out in the course of their lives that truth eludes us if we do not concentrate with total attention on its pursuit. And even while it eludes us, the illusion still lingers of knowing it and... Texts of Famous Speeches at Harvard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056081/posts#comment Mon, 4 Aug 2008 06:55:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2055298/posts Good morning!Our job: Make sure Obama has another bad week!And call your Senators and Reps to protest the Dems's No Drilling/High gasoline price Policy! All of Us http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2055298/posts#comment Sat, 2 Aug 2008 11:08:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054652/posts You might have thought the demented Americans with Disabilities Act — a bonanza for lawyers that requires any public facility to be designed with handicappers in mind or be sued out of existence — would be the last word in otherly-abled totalitarianism. Not so. Visitability is a concept that makes the ADA downright libertarian by comparison. The initial objective of Visitability proponents is to impose on every home a zero-step entrance, interior doors at least 32" wide, and at least one wheelchair-accessible bathroom on the ground floor. Once they've managed to have this mandated, we'll see where they go from... Moonbattery http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054652/posts#comment Fri, 1 Aug 2008 02:07:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052881/posts A pro-Second Amendment group is taking the unusual step of asking for financial help for the family of a gun owner caught up in a bizarre prosecution for a malfunctioning firearm. David Olofson is a U.S. Army veteran, Army Reservist and a gun enthusiast who loaned his personal 20-year-old AR-15 semi-automatic rifle to a neighbor who had expressed an interest in learning to shoot. A semi-automatic weapon fires one bullet each time the trigger is pulled. But – as Larry Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America, explains – when the neighbor took the gun to a range, it... One News Now http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052881/posts#comment Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:22:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2052377/posts Good morning.Supposedly a 9 point poll bump has boosted O on his return from his overseas tour. All of Us http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2052377/posts#comment Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:59:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052080/posts Steve Shippert, of ThreatsWatch.org just sent this email out on a small email ring of bloggers. It is simply and truly incredibly important, and eloquent. I beseech every blogger to post it on their blog. If all do, it will redound widely, and be widely heard, as it must be, if we care for our nation, our children's future, everything we value in life and liberty. This must get out. It can really shape the debate in this country, and sway many. In every election, there is a moment when it happens, and Shippert's message is that moment. PLEASE, everybody... ThreatsWatch.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052080/posts#comment Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:41:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050034/posts Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul have ramped up plans for a local counterweight to the GOP's national convention in September. Not content with a planned rally at the University of Minnesota's Williams Arena on Sept. 2, the Paul forces now plan a three-day "Rally for the Republic" that will climax in a 10-hour extravaganza at Target Center in Minneapolis. "It's getting exciting," said Marianne Stebbins, a longtime GOP activist who ran the Texas congressman's campaign in Minnesota. "We realized [Williams Arena] wasn't big enough for everything we wanted to do." Although Paul was a long-shot candidate who came... Minneapolis StarTribune (aka The Red Star) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050034/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:31:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048502/posts [note: You won't read this in five minutes] Nile Gardiner, Ph.D.: Good morning. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation and the fifth Margaret Thatcher Freedom Lecture.The Margaret Thatcher Lecture series began in Sep­tember 2006, with a major speech by former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky on the subject, "Is Free­dom for Everyone?" It was followed by lectures on economic freedom and religious freedom by Hernan­do de Soto and Michael Novak, and by Ambassador John Bolton's lecture "Does the United Nations Advance the Cause of Freedom?"Our distinguished speaker today is Victor Davis Han­son, who will address the theme, "In Defense of Liberty: The... The Heritage Foundation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048502/posts#comment Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:35:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048273/posts Address on behalf of Senator Barry Goldwater Rendezvous with Destiny October 27, 1964 This speech is a verbatim transcript of "The Speech" given as a portion of a pre-recorded, nationwide televised program sponsored by Goldwater-Miller on behalf of Barry Goldwater, Republican candidate for the presidency whom Ronald Reagan actively supported. 4,626 words Thank you very much. Thank you and good evening. The sponsor has been identified, but unlike most television programs, the performer hasn't been provided with a script. As a matter of fact, I have been permitted to choose my own ideas regarding the choice that we face... The Reagan Library http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048273/posts#comment Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:16:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047001/posts The judiciary is becoming an important election issue. John McCain is warning conservatives that control of today's finely balanced Supreme Court depends on his election. Unfortunately, his jurisprudence is likely to be anything but conservative. The idea of a "living Constitution" long has been popular on the political left. Conservatives routinely dismiss such result-oriented justice, denouncing "judicial activism" and proclaiming their fidelity to "original intent." However, many Republicans, like Mr. McCain, are just as result-oriented as their Democratic opponents. They only disagree over the result desired. Judge-made rights are wrong because there is no constitutional warrant behind them. The Constitution... The Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047001/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:28:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045727/posts Imagine a society where simply speaking out of turn or saying the "wrong thing" was openly discussed as a crime against humanity, and where sceptics or deniers of the truth were publicly labelled "criminals", hauled before the press and accused of endangering humanity with their grotesque untruths. Imagine a society where even some liberals demanded severe restrictions on freedom of movement; where people campaigned for travelling overseas to be made prohibitively expensive in order to force people to stay at home; and where immigration was frowned upon as "toxic" and "destructive". guardian.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045727/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:23:33 GMT