http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/misc-news/ en-us Sat, 2 Jan 2010 05:48:45 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419354/posts WEST CHESTER, Ohio, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- It wasn't a Spam lamb local police in Ohio found in a display microwave at home furnishings store IKEA -- it was a real lamb's head, officials said. An IKEA employee told the West Chester Township store's management of the grisly find, which was immediately removed, The Oxford (Ohio) Press reported Thursday. UPI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419354/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 05:48:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419353/posts What might explain the inexplicable like the following? A president comes into office facing a $500 billion deficit and grows it to $2 trillion. A president comes into office facing a threat of radical Islamic terrorism, and at home changes the very name of the struggle from war on terror to a variety of wishy-washy euphemisms. A president comes into office facing a variety of Middle East thugs, from al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and Hamas to Syria and Iran, and employs the ancient kowtow, the postmodern apology, and the Carteresque reach-out to allay the threat? A president comes into office after record... pajamasmedia http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419353/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 05:47:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419342/posts Rasmussen: Obamacare Disapproval at New High (More than 2:1 among independent likely voters) Weekly Standard ^ | December 30, 2009 | Jeffrey H. Anderson Posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 5:44:59 AM by Zakeet Rasmussen's health-care polling results since Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid orchestrated the Christmas Eve vote are full of undeniably bad news for Democrats. In roughly ascending order of bad news (if one is a Democrat)... 13 Republican Attorney Generals Threaten Lawsuit Over Health Care (Bribes To Other States) Fox News ^ | 12/31/2009 | AP Posted on Thursday, December 31, 2009 6:26:21 AM by tobyhill Republican... varies http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419342/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 04:42:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419312/posts Anti-hunger aromas that make one feel full could help fight the global obesity epidemic, scientists now suggest. Everyone is familiar with scents that arouse the appetite, as well as odors that turn the stomach. But apparently molecules that make up a food's aroma can also activate areas of the brain that trigger the feeling of fullness. As people chew food, scents wafting up to the back of the nose from inside the mouth help quench the sensation of hunger, food technologist Rianne Ruijschop at NIZO Food Research in Ede, The Netherlands, and her colleagues found. "These were quite unexpected results,"... LiveScience.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419312/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 03:06:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419257/posts Scott Brown’s campaign is picking up steam in the race for US Senate. Online donors helped the charismatic Republican raise $700,000 in the past 6 weeks. And, his creative advertising on fiscal responsibility is helping to lift his campaign. In this ad Scott Brown and John F. Kennedy take turns reading from the same 1962 Kennedy speech calling for tax cuts. Republican U.S. Senate candidate Scott Brown and President Kennedy are two different people, from different parties and different eras, but they agree that broad-based tax cuts will create jobs and stimulate the economy. Gateway Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419257/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 00:53:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419177/posts Rush Limbaugh just addressed the media in Hawaii where he told reporters he did undergo an angioplasty, but he's doing just fine. He did not suffer a heart attack or any kind of coronary episode and test show nothing wrong. Limbaugh was hospitalized Wednesday night after experiencing chest pains. Limbaugh made it a point to thank the staff of the hotel he was staying at, the Kahala Hotel and Resort, and he proclaimed (several times) the U.S. has the best health care service in the world. He called the outpouring of support from fans very "humbling." We're told after the... TMZ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419177/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 22:18:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419158/posts He said people needed to change how they live their lives and called for "ecological responsibility" to be taught in schools..... U.K. Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419158/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 21:45:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419029/posts Best of 2009: Daniel Hannan’s viral European parliament speech By Michelle Malkin • December 31, 2009 11:19 AM A fiscal conservative shot heard ’round the world on March 25, 2009: michellemalkin.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419029/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 17:51:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418976/posts Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418976/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 16:11:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418949/posts DFW Security Checkpoint Left Unattended for 90 Minutes Agency suspends 3 agents, calls incident "serious and unacceptable" By GRANT STINCHFIELD Updated 8:05 PM CST, Thu, Dec 31, 2009 The Transportation Security Administration has launched an internal investigation after a security checkpoint at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport was left unattended and unsecured for 90 minutes earlier this month. Three agents have been suspended pending the outcome of the investigation. The agency said the agents left the checkpoint at Gate E8 from 8:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Dec. 16. Personnel from the airport's Department of Public Safety discovered the gate was... NBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418949/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 15:00:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418858/posts In his first interview since being fired as coach of Texas Tech, Mike Leach denied reports that he had mistreated the sophomore receiver Adam James after James sustained a concussion. Leach said in a 38-minute phone interview late Thursday that James acted as if he were entitled to special treatment and that he was lazy. He also said the player and his family’s claims of mistreatment were the result of bitterness over a lack of playing time. Leach said that he felt that James’s father, Craig James, tried to leverage his position as an ESPN analyst to get more playing... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418858/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 08:08:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418815/posts Negotiations between Fox and Time Warner Cable continued beyond a midnight deadline. The two television giants were negotiating over fees in Los Angeles. They had agreed to a three-hour extension beyond the deadline, Fox-owned WOFL-Channel 35 announced shortly before midnight.Time Warner represents programming partner Bright House Networks, which serves 850,000 subscribers in Central Florida.The three-hour extension means the Fox signal will stay on Bright House at least until 3 a.m. With no deal, Fox could go dark on Bright House as the new year begins. Fox later today will present the Sugar Bowl between Cincinnati and the University of Florida.... Orlando Sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418815/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 05:11:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418657/posts http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=6689418 ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418657/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:11:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418630/posts To honor our brave men and women in the military, we list below the names of the fallen. This post identifies these wonderful souls by name, listing the heroes who sacrificed everything for you and I. This is the list author and Conservative American talk radio star Mark Levin spoke of and listed on his website. They gave their lives to protect and preserve our freedom. We thank them, we remember them and we honor them. Unlike other lists you may see, our list includes deaths from both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars as well as other military deaths (including... Conservative American org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418630/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:21:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418573/posts WASHINGTON (AP) - The Associated Press has learned that the suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees at a remote outpost in southeastern Afghanistan had been invited onto the base and was not searched. A former senior intelligence official says the man was being courted as an informant and that it was the first time he had been brought inside the camp. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418573/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:18:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418574/posts PEORIA — Dodge City was once known as a true frontier town of the Wild West, where lawlessness and gunslinging were common during the cattle drives of the late 1800s. But the city also became an unusual reference point during the first public debate Tuesday on whether Peoria should serve as a pilot city for a statewide concealed-carry law. At-large City Councilman Gary Sandberg questioned how residents will be able to possess concealed handguns at restaurants, taverns and other locations of Peoria that abut nearby cities that wouldn't have a concealed-carry law, such as Peoria Heights and West Peoria. Sandberg... Peoria Journal-Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418574/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:20:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418474/posts In the autumn of 1913, two farmers were arguing about hominid skull fragments they had uncovered while digging a drainage ditch. The location was Boskop, a small town about 200 miles inland from the east coast of South Africa. These Afrikaner farmers, to their lasting credit, had the presence of mind to notice that there was something distinctly odd about the bones. They brought the find to Frederick W. Fitz Simons, director of the Port Elizabeth Museum, in a small town at the tip of South Africa. The scientific community of South Africa was small, and before long the skull... Discover http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418474/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:53:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418367/posts The US has released the leader of an Iranian-backed Shia terror group behind the kidnapping and murder of five US soldiers in Karbala in January 2007.Qais Qazali, the leader of the Asaib al Haq or the League of the Righteous, was set free by the US military and transferred to Iraqi custody in exchange for the release of British hostage Peter Moore, US military officers and intelligence officials told The Long War Journal. The US military directly implicated Qais in the kidnapping and murder of five US soldiers in Karbala in January 2007. “We let a very dangerous man go,... Live War Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418367/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:43:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418407/posts For some strange reason, the Daily Kos has gained the reputation in the mainstream media for somehow being composed of "reasonable progressives" in stark contrast to their Democratic Underground cousins whom even many in the MSM will admit are flat out loons. However, certain events prove that the Kossacks are every bit as crazed and full of hate as the DUers. And one such event that has proved this to be true is the reaction of the two sites to the news that Rush Limbaugh has been hospitalized in Hawaii. Of course there was a DU thread full of hate... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418407/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:44:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418451/posts YRC Worldwide Inc. reached its goals in the 11th hour to complete a debt-for-equity swap, allowing the trucking company to avoid a possible bankruptcy filing by deferring looming debt payments. Chairman and Chief Executive Bill Zollars called the results "a major turning point" and said, "With our significantly restructured balance sheet and enhanced liquidity, we will move forward from a more solid financial foundation." YRC shares fell 14% to 85 cents in Thursday morning trading, and shares of rival trucking companies also declined. The stock was above $3 when terms of the proposed debt-for-equity swap was announced last month. The... WSJ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418451/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:24:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418427/posts Tonight's Blue Moon: All a Big Mistake By Robert Roy Britt Editorial Director Posted: 31 December 2009, 08:38 am ET Revelers can ring in the new year with a cosmic flourish tonight, celebrating the first New Year's Eve blue moon since 1990. In truth, tonight's full moon won't be much different than any other full moon. In fact the term "blue moon" as it's used today originates from a writer's mistake. "The 'blue moon' is a creature of folklore," says Philip Hiscock, a folklorist at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. "It's the second full moon in a calendar month." If... Space.com News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418427/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:58:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418401/posts Nine Big Stories the Mainstream Media Missed in 2009 From radical advisers in the Obama White House to hacked e-mails showing questionable work by climate scientists, 2009 has seen its share of scandals. But if you only followed the mainstream media, you might have missed some of the biggest stories of the year. Here's a list of the top nine stories the mainstream media ignored in the past year. Van Jones White House Green Jobs adviser Van Jones resigned from his post in September after weeks of pressure over his radical past. A former self-avowed Marxist and anarchist, Jones signed... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418401/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:29:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418396/posts Rush is an Inspiration. The morning of New Years Eve 2009 and reports from Honolulu are sketchy at best. They indicate that Rush Limbaugh has been hospitalized for chest pains. For more than twenty years Rush has provided lessons from his perch in front of the Golden EIB (Excellence in Broadcasting) microphone articulating and sometimes embellishing a conservative perspective. Rush has never been shy about describing the incongruence as he found it which, articulate the difference between the political right and left. When he had a bone to pick with a liberal newsmaker, he went out of his way to... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418396/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:19:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418205/posts Evangelical pastor Rick Warren is begging parishioners at his Southern California megachurch to cough up $900,000 before Jan. 1 to keep the parish out of the red. In an urgent letter posted on the Saddleback Church Web site on Wednesday, Warren says expenses are up because parishioners are out of work and "the bottom dropped out" when year-end donations dropped dramatically. He asks parishioners to donate before the new year to keep the Orange County church out of debt, The Orange County Register reports. A spokeswoman for Warren said the church does not release financial details, so it's difficult to... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418205/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:22:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418153/posts Files released to the National Archives show that soon after becoming prime minister, Lady Thatcher privately complained that too many Asian immigrants were being allowed into Britain. The prime minister, who had publicly said that she sympathised with fears that Britain was being “swamped” by immigrant cultures, reacted sharply to the ministers’ suggestions that thousands of the Vietnamese refugees should be welcomed.She said that "with some exceptions there had been no humanitarian case for accepting 1.5 million immigrants from south Asia and elsewhere. It was essential to draw a line somewhere". Telegraph UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418153/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:49:42 GMT