http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/myth/ en-us Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:08:42 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2047908/posts Reid Wilson of Real Clear Politics had a column yesterday, "Dems finding success in the center" about how democrats have been having success winning House seats by recruiting "conservative" democrat candidates, and they were following the model again in 2008. While it is true that the democrat party has had success in executing this tactic, this success is due more to their ability to fool the public about these candidates than anything else. Wilson mentioned a few members such as John Barrow of Georgia and Heath Shuler of North Carolina (perhaps better known in the South for his college football... Not Wright for America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2047908/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:08:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035630/posts Myth of Dwarf Dinos in Dracula Country Confirmed Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News June 13, 2008 -- In 1900, the sister of an eccentric Austro-Hungarian aristocrat named Baron von Nopsca found a tiny bone on the baron's family estate in Transylvania, a historical region in present-day Romania. The baron, who was a dinosaur buff, identified the bone as belonging to a dwarf dino that likely once lived on an island in the region. The motorcycle-riding baron's outrageous theories were ridiculed and largely dismissed, but now new evidence suggests his proposed island of dwarf dinosaurs did indeed exist in the land of... Discovery News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035630/posts#comment Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:21:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032866/posts (CNSNews.com) - Reports circulating on the Internet tell of an oil field spanning parts of western North Dakota and eastern Montana where 400 billion barrels of oil supposedly are just waiting to be tapped. However, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) tells Cybercast News Service that those huge estimates are "a myth." A USGS report issued in April estimates that there are between 3 billion to 4.3 billion barrels of oil in what is referred to as "the Bakken Formation" -- well below the 400 billion barrels discussed on the Web, but up from the previous estimate of 151 million... CNSNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032866/posts#comment Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:10:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032403/posts For years those who have repeated the simple truth that while there are Muslims who are moderate, there is no moderate Islam, have been vilified as bigots and “Islamophobes,” and marginalized in the same way by Beltway analysts and the mainstream media (both liberal and faux-fearless conservative) in favor of those who were determined to “engage moderate Muslims.” Cross Action News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032403/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:17:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030685/posts WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Dick Cheney's office acknowledged on Thursday that he was mistaken when he asserted that China, at Cuba's behest, is drilling for oil in waters 60 miles from the Florida coast. In a speech to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Cheney said on Wednesday that waters in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, long off limits to oil companies, should be opened to drilling because China is already there pumping oil. ''Oil is being drilled right now 60 miles off the coast of Florida,'' the vice president said. ''We're not doing it, the Chinese are, in cooperation... GOPUSA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030685/posts#comment Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:04:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029425/posts Drivers Seek Mileage Boost From Hydrogen, Oxygen BubblesBy TIM KNAUSS   Steve Kushnir's 'Hydrogen Hurricane' is an equipment package he sells that uses a car's electricity to make hydrogen and improve the way the engine burns gas. (Photo By Frank Ordonez)     [Liverpool, NY] -- Stephen Kushnir's 7-year-old Chevrolet Prizm used to get 35 miles per gallon on the highway. Not bad, but Kushnir thought he could do better. A month ago Kushnir, a middle school technology teacher in Liverpool, N.Y., popped the hood and installed a gas-saving gizmo he had purchased over the Internet. He got it from... Newhouse News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029425/posts#comment Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:44:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020636/posts Environmental extremists routinely assert a "scientific consensus" that global warming is occurring and that human activity somehow causes it. Environmentalists' mythical "scientific consensus" has served as a shroud by which they falsely claim a closed consensus to prevent any objective, scientific debate that might inhibit their POLITICAL agenda. That shroud was further torn asunder by a 31,000-strong petition organized by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM). It stated, "a review of the research literature concerning the environmental consequences of increased levels of carbon dioxide leads to the conclusion that increases during the 20th century have produced NO deleterious... Center for Individual Freedom http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2020636/posts#comment Sat, 24 May 2008 10:59:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2016318/posts If everyone from Al Gore to Newt Gingrich thinks global warming is indeed a serious problem. Why aren't they and the media allowing the opposing views to be given? The scientists who disagree with them are seldom seen or heard from. Why? Repercussions? That there has been a virtual black out on the opposing view is troubling to me. Associated Content http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2016318/posts#comment Thu, 15 May 2008 14:26:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007925/posts But assume that prices are “high”, which indeed they are by historic standards. We are mistaken when we think these “high” prices are causing inflation. High oil prices can force consumers to spend more on petrol and heating oil, at the expense of other purchases. Ask any suffering restaurateur or clothes retailer if you doubt that. But high oil prices can’t trigger a rise in the general price level – inflation – unless someone pumps money into the economy so that, to use an oldie but goodie from the economists’ lexicon, there is more money chasing the same amount of... Times Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007925/posts#comment Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:19:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2006524/posts John Judis has a provocative web article about how the Pennsylvania primary exposed Barack Obama's potential weaknesses as a general election candidate. It's defnitely worth a read. However, I'd add a couple points to balance out the gloomy picture he paints. First, you can't automatically assume that any constituency that didn't support him in the primary also won't support him in the general election. John details how Obama's share of white upscale voters diminished, and he attributes this to the Wright controversy. Maybe, or maybe those voters -- especially the women -- just preferred Hillary Clinton, but would also prefer... New Republic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2006524/posts#comment Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:16:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003553/posts CHICAGO (AP) — Newsflash for rock stars and teenagers: It turns out everything doesn't go downhill as we age — the golden years really are golden.That's according to eye-opening research that found the happiest Americans are the oldest, and older adults are more socially active than the stereotype of the lonely senior suggests.The two go hand-in-hand — being social can help keep away the blues."The good news is that with age comes happiness," said study author Yang Yang, a University of Chicago sociologist. "Life gets better in one's perception as one ages."A certain amount of distress in old age is... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003553/posts#comment Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:11:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1994678/posts t's the 800-pound gorilla of U.S. education. The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the sweeping legislation enacted six years ago to improve public schools, seems to make a lot of people unhappy. But President Bush, undaunted by the barrage of criticism aimed at this beleaguered measure by states, teachers' unions and politicians on both sides of the aisle, is pushing Congress to reauthorize it this year . Many Capitol Hill observers believe that it won't survive without the political clout a new president and Congress would bring -- but after a starring role in five straight presidential elections, education... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1994678/posts#comment Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:27:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1993484/posts Once again, the ‘man-caused’ global warming advocates are over blowing an insignificant event. A shelf of ice from the Antarctic has broken off, (an event that is totally natural by the way) and the Al Gore wannabees are crying bloody murder. The newspapers printed large page long articles about the event and completely ignored the evidence which shows that most of the Antarctic has been cooling and making record ice since the 1970’s. I’m surprised the news paper columnists were even able to type their articles- their hands must have been shaking quite badly when they received the earth shattering... The Inhofe EPW Press Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1993484/posts#comment Sat, 29 Mar 2008 05:53:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992994/posts What is it about Russia that drives the Anglo-American world mad? Soviet communism collapses, the empire is relinquished. Then come the wild hopes and failures of the 1990s—including the 1993 half-coup and the tank assault on Russia's legislature, the results-adjusted referendum on a new constitution (still in force), the dubious privatisations, the war in Chechnya and the financial default in 1998. But after all that, in December 1999 Boris Yeltsin apologises, steps down early—and names his prime minister and former secret police chief Vladimir Putin as acting president. To widespread consternation, Yeltsin predicts that the obscure spy is the man... Prospect Magazine, Political and Cultural Essays and Arguments http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992994/posts#comment Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:41:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976869/posts Now, in the midst of the surge, the Bush administration has done an about-face. Having lost the civil war, many Sunnis were suddenly desperate to switch sides — and Gen. David Petraeus was eager to oblige. The U.S. has not only added 30,000 more troops in Iraq — it has essentially bribed the opposition, arming the very Sunni militants who only months ago were waging deadly assaults on American forces. To engineer a fragile peace, the U.S. military has created and backed dozens of new Sunni militias, which now operate beyond the control of Iraq's central government. Rolling Stone Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1976869/posts#comment Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:51:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1976042/posts For more than 12 years we listened to Rush every day at our families software business.I distinctly remember hearing a call from a female who asked if there was a Mr. Snerdly.Rush said that he was made up and that he was merely an alter ego for bouncing ideas off of himself, Like Rush was being his own Devil's advocate.Someone has told me that they have actually heard Mr. Snerdly speaking on air.I know the person who told me that is a certifiable flake, but am I losing my mind? Thanks. Rush Limbaugh Show http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1976042/posts#comment Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:18:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1975644/posts It’s a lonely job, working the phones at a college rape crisis center. Day after day, you wait for the casualties to show up from the alleged campus rape epidemic—but no one calls. Could this mean that the crisis is overblown? No: it means, according to the campus sexual-assault industry, that the abuse of coeds is worse than anyone had ever imagined. It means that consultants and counselors need more funding to persuade student rape victims to break the silence of their suffering. The campus rape movement highlights the current condition of radical feminism, from its self-indulgent bathos to its... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1975644/posts#comment Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:19:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974181/posts ASHEVILLE, N.C., Feb. 21 (UPI) -- A U.S. climatologist said there was no consensus in the 1970s that the Earth was headed for a new ice age. Thomas Peterson of the National Climatic Data Center said a survey of scientific journals of the era showed that only seven supported global cooling, 44 predicted warming and 20 others were neutral, USA Today reported Thursday. "An enduring popular myth suggests that in the 1970s the climate science community was predicting 'global cooling' and an 'imminent' ice age, an observation frequently used by those who would undermine what climate scientists say today about... NewsDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1974181/posts#comment Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:07:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1970360/posts LOL. There was another article this weekend about big donor GOP liberals worried that the party was too right wing and demanding changes in the structure etc.... This story comes around every so often, usually because someone is trying to benefit financially or politically from the effort. Sometimes both. These articles always make me laugh. Why? Because it is all fantasy. The State GOP central Committee is not controlled by conservatives and hasn't been for the over 15 years I've been an actual member. I should point out I've been a member of the Executive Committee of the CRP for... FlashReport http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1970360/posts#comment Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:58:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1970320/posts You can't read a story about John McCain without seeing the word "maverick." But is it true? Now that John McCain is the all-but-certain Republican nominee for president, there is one thing we know for sure about how the general election will play out: The Democrat is going to be at a serious disadvantage in the media. This will be true even if that nominee is Barack Obama, who has gotten better coverage thus far than Hillary Clinton. Reporters find his candidacy a compelling story, but that attraction has its limitations. When it comes to John McCain, however, it's pure... The American Prospect http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1970320/posts#comment Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:49:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1965451/posts LONDON (AFP) - Britons are losing their grip on reality, according to a poll out Monday which showed that nearly a quarter think Winston Churchill was a myth while the majority reckon Sherlock Holmes was real. The survey found that 47 percent thought the 12th century English king Richard the Lionheart was a myth. And 23 percent thought World War II prime minister Churchill was made up. The same percentage thought Crimean War nurse Florence Nightingale did not actually exist. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1965451/posts#comment Tue, 5 Feb 2008 21:03:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1964609/posts Every once in a while, some pollster comes up with a survey that shows what idiots Westerners can be. They especially like to pick on Americans and their rather insular attitude towards geography, being unable in large numbers to actually find Iraq on a globe or to identify the correct continent for Guyana (South America, in case anyone asks). Jay Leno has a running gag on the Tonight Show where he goes out in the street and asks people simple questions and films them getting the answers spectacularly wrong. So I have some sympathy with our friends in Britain this... Captain's Quarters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1964609/posts#comment Mon, 4 Feb 2008 13:51:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1964423/posts Quarter of Brits think Churchill was myth: poll 1 hour, 1 minute ago LONDON (AFP) - Britons are losing their grip on reality, according to a poll out Monday which showed that nearly a quarter think Winston Churchill was a myth while the majority reckon Sherlock Holmes was real. The survey found that 47 percent thought the 12th century English king Richard the Lionheart was a myth. And 23 percent thought World War II prime minister Churchill was made up. The same percentage thought Crimean War nurse Florence Nightingale did not actually exist. Three percent thought Charles Dickens, one of... AFP/Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1964423/posts#comment Mon, 4 Feb 2008 01:25:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963425/posts The gods have made their choice. The Olympians have found their anointed one. Bow, bow, before the vessel of the Divine Spark! So sayeth the priestly class of the mainstream media as they witness the divine laying of hands from the Kennedys upon the New Deliverer, Barack Obama. He is, quoth ABC's Terry Moran, the "new son of Camelot." Moran continued: "Ted and Caroline Kennedy pass the torch to Barack Obama to carry the legacy of JFK." David Wright, also of ABC, proclaimed, "the audacity of hope had its rendezvous with destiny ... Obama is now an adopted son of... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963425/posts#comment Fri, 1 Feb 2008 20:46:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962575/posts LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney plans to run a "significant" level of television ads in California and other states that vote Tuesday in essentially a national primary, aides said Thursday, signaling a willingness to aggressively try to derail Republican front-runner John McCain. Associated Press via Google http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962575/posts#comment Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:25:08 GMT