http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/myth/ en-us Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:53:33 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412014/posts John Coleman founder of the Weather Channel shreds the AGW theory. Enjoy! Video at the link. http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-7715-Portland-Civil-Rights-Examiner~y2009m12d20-John-Coleman--The-global-warming-hoax-debunked http://www.kusi.com/home/78477082.html?video=pop&t=a Examiner.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412014/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 03:53:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402709/posts Sixty-eight years ago today, Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941 – a date that will live in infamy – the United States was attacked by the Japanese Imperial Navy at Pearl Harbor, at the cost of more than 2,000 lives. My father, who never talked about the war because he was in it, did tell me this once: When he heard about Pearl Harbor “I couldn’t get my hands on a gun fast enough.” It was a different time then in America. It was not unusual to find a Model 94 Winchester or even a bolt-action 1903 Springfield in the average household,... Seattle Gun Rights Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402709/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 11:59:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397068/posts (CNN) -- Catholic, Orthodox and Evangelical Christian leaders last week issued a bold political statement. They intended to target the Obama administration. Inadvertently, they may have also hit probable Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney ought to rank atop the Republican candidates for president in 2012. He finished second in votes cast in the primaries of 2008. He is a candidate with immense private-sector economic expertise in a time of urgent economic debate. But Romney has a political problem: his Mormon religious faith. A Gallup survey in December 2007 found that 18 percent of Republicans would not vote for... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397068/posts#comment Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:55:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387739/posts WASHINGTON (CNN) – Fewer than three in 10 Americans think Sarah Palin's qualified to be president, according to a new national poll - the least of any of the five potential candidates included in the survey. But another woman tops that list in the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Monday: two-thirds of the public thinks that Secretary of State HIllary Clinton's qualified for the Oval Office. That's more than Vice President Joe Biden, who's currently next in line for the presidency. According to the poll, 28 percent of Americans say Palin is qualified to run the White House, with seven... CNN - Political Ticker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387739/posts#comment Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:27:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383412/posts Mitt Romney is heading to Reagan country. The former Massachusetts governor is scheduled to speak this Friday to the Young America's Foundation at the Ronald Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, California. Romney is expected to be the dinner banquet speaker for the foundation's West Coast Leadership Conference, which consists of young conservatives from 44 colleges and universities across 12 states. "Young people provide much of the energy in the conservative movement, and if we are going to be successful as a party we need to harness that energy and put it work on behalf of the principles we all... CNN - Political Ticker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2383412/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:27:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382812/posts (snip) Although some in the party believe that it should be tilting right in whom to support in future elections, he said, "I will be by and large supporting conservative Republicans" but would not rule out backing some moderates, referencing former President Reagan. "He was the one who coined the term 'the big tent.' He also said that you don't build something by subtraction. So we welcome people who agree with us on most issues. Some will be very conservative on some issues. Some will be less so on others. We welcome you into the party." (snip) "We have a... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382812/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:04:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381122/posts The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded Arizona State University two grants for alternative energy research that are part of a special DOE program to pursue high-risk, high-reward advances with the potential to change the way the nation generates and consumes energy. ASU’s grants, totaling more than $10 million, are among 37 new DOE grants totaling $151 million to support the program. ASU’s grants are for work on a new class of high-performance metal-air batteries and the use of photosynthetic bacteria to produce automotive fuel from a combination of sunlight, water and carbon dioxide. “ASU is the only university... ASU News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381122/posts#comment Sat, 7 Nov 2009 22:56:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380499/posts <p>Sure, Election Day 2009 will scare moderate Democrats and make passage of Obamacare more difficult. Sure, it makes it easier for resurgent Republicans to raise money and recruit candidates for 2010. But the most important effect of Tuesday’s elections is historical. It demolishes the great realignment myth of 2008.</p> NationalReviewOnline http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380499/posts#comment Sat, 7 Nov 2009 01:04:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2371782/posts Two physicists who debunk global warming as a result of man - made carbon emissions. http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.1161 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2371782/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:52:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336216/posts Statistics, even at their best, don't tell a whole story. A variety of people employ medical statistics dubiously to push pet causes. A perfect example: infant mortality statistics. The officially reported U.S. infant mortality rate has been indisputably high compared with similarly industrialized countries since at least the 1920s. That fact has led to public health officials in the U.S. to conclude the rates are "caused" by poorly distributed health care resources and can be "solved" with a socialized, government-run health care system. However, there's a basic problem with the numbers: Different countries count differently. According to the World Health... OC Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336216/posts#comment Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:22:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2335297/posts From Fox: Though the United States has by far the highest level of health care spending per capita in the world, we have one of the lowest life expectancies among developed nations Everybody else skews their data. It's not a reflection on our system. Here: "Doctors told me it was against the rules to save my premature baby" Instead, doctors told her to treat the labour as a miscarriage, not a birth, and to expect her baby to be born with serious deformities or even to be still-born. The doctor didn't just come up with that out of thin air,... Fox http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2335297/posts#comment Wed, 9 Sep 2009 11:25:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2334228/posts One of the biggest myths about the great depression is that FDR's NEW Deal and the related government intervention and public works projects got us out of the Great Depression. The truth is that the New Deal did not work. Instead of creating growth in the private sector, it created government growth that squeezed out the private sector. Of course, the number one public golf course in the country Bethpage Black (where the US Open played this year) was a was a New Deal Federal works project, but that only cures MY depression, it did little for the country. As... UK Telegraph/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2334228/posts#comment Mon, 7 Sep 2009 23:07:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2323028/posts Israel’s deadly 1967 attack on U.S. spy ship is personal for S.C. author The inexplicable attack by a U.S. ally — and subsequent efforts to sweep the incident under the rug by U.S. and Israeli officials alike — is the subject of Charleston author James Scott’s book, “The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel’s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship.” In compiling his book, Scott, 34, a former reporter for The (Charleston) Post & Courier and The (Rock Hill) Herald, makes use of interviews with survivors, sailors’ correspondence with loved ones, ship records and declassified... The State http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2323028/posts#comment Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:38:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2302459/posts http://www.examiner.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2302459/posts#comment Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:17:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2295922/posts Who knows how the Sarah Palin story will play out? It seems as if every political pundit in America has a take on PalinÂ’s resignation as AlaskaÂ’s governor. They can be mean-spirited (SheÂ’s hiding a scandal!), or cynical (Since she can rake in $60 grand and up for a simple speaking engagement, sheÂ’s taking the money and running like hell.) Some wonder whether this is her way of tuning up for a presidential run in 2012, or is the resignation a case of a hometown girl unable to stand the heat in her kitchen? We will get more information, but... The Schenectady Daily Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2295922/posts#comment Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:55:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284184/posts Harry Potter fans are looking forward to the boy wizard’s next screen adventure, when Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince opens this month. Pottermania broke loose when J. K. Rowling’s first book appeared on bookstands in 1997, prompting the creation of films, fan websites, and dozens of similarly themed books. Rowling’s world of wizardry has even inspired the name of a dinosaur fossil, Dracorex hogwartsia. But serious researchers are seeing evidence that dragons were more than just fantastical creatures... ICR http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2284184/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 16:21:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2279464/posts Three years ago I mentioned to a Catholic friend that I was starting to work on a book critiquing the Left Behind novels. I explained that it would thoroughly examine premillennial dispensationalism, the unique apocalyptic belief system presented, in fictional format, within those books. Premillennial dispensationalism teaches that the “Rapture” and the Second Coming are two events separated by a time of tribulation and that there will be a future millennial reign of Christ on earth. “Why?” she asked, obviously bewildered. “No one really takes that stuff seriously.” That revealing remark merely reinforced my desire to write Will Catholics... Skadi Forum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2279464/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:58:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247706/posts In politics, conventional wisdom can be slow to die, even when the so-called wisdom is neither true nor wise. So I was reminded on a recent visit to Capitol Hill, when I asked several lawmakers and senior members of their staffs to explain the Democrats’ timidity about standing up to the National Rifle Association by pressing needed measures to curb gun violence. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Obama tossed cold water a few weeks back on Attorney General Eric Holder’s well-founded enthusiasm for reviving the assault weapons ban that Congress and the Bush White House let expire in 2004.... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2247706/posts#comment Sat, 9 May 2009 21:01:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224728/posts 1. Fact: The murder rates in many nations (such as England) were ALREADY LOW BEFORE enacting gun control. Thus, their restrictive laws cannot be credited with lowering their crime rates.(1) 2. Fact: Gun control has done nothing to keep crime rates from rising in many of the nations that have imposed severe firearms restrictions. * Australia: Readers of the USA Today newspaper discovered in 2002 that, "Since Australia's 1996 laws banning most guns and making it a crime to use a gun defensively, armed robberies rose by 51%, unarmed robberies by 37%, assaults by 24% and kidnappings by 43%. While... Opposing views http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2224728/posts#comment Wed, 8 Apr 2009 11:18:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2215816/posts ‘But the New Testament does not make a big deal out of the Age of the Earth…’ by Peter Milford ... The issue of the age of the earth parallels circumcision. In my experience, the first response from Christians who do not accept the age of the earth that the Scriptures indicate, is to say something like “The New Testament does not make a big deal out of the age of the earth” or “It is not the purpose of the Bible to give the age of the earth”. Their point is that (1) the issue of the age of... CMI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2215816/posts#comment Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:20:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2207712/posts Affirming the reality of an intelligent design for the creation and development of the universe is not a scientific theory, but a statement of faith, said the preacher of the papal household. Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa, offering a Lenten meditation to Pope Benedict XVI and top Vatican officials March 13, said the controversy that has arisen between scientists supporting evolution and religious believers promoting creationism or intelligent design is due mainly to a confusion between scientific theory and the truths of faith. The intelligent-design theory asserts that the development and evolution of life is such a hugely complex process that... cns http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2207712/posts#comment Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:17:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2203073/posts March 9, 2009 — The Permian extinction – one of the most dramatic events in the history of life on Earth, in which some 90% of species went extinct...is now being interpreted as a “nonevent” by four geologists. ... Robert Gastaldo and two geology colleagues from Colby College in Maine, and geologist Johann Neveling from Pretoria, studied the Permian-Triassic boundary in the Karoo Basin of South Africa and published a paper in Geology this month,1 titled, “The terrestrial Permian-Triassic boundary event bed is a nonevent.” ... Well, isn’t this an upset.  How much lag time will it take to change... CEH http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2203073/posts#comment Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:09:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2201080/posts It's CPAC weekend - the grand rallying of the conservative clan here in Washington. It's a season where conservatives from across the country meet to compare notes, share stories, and seek political consensus. The consensus forming this year however is an ominously dangerous one - ominously dangerous to conservatives themselves that is. Conservatives live in thrall to a historical myth, and this myth may soon cost us dearly. The myth is the myth of the Goldwater triumph of 1964. It goes approximately as follows: In 1964, after years of watered down politics, Republicans turned to a true conservative, Arizona Senator... New Majority http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2201080/posts#comment Sat, 7 Mar 2009 00:35:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2200341/posts Terrible lizards trapped by terrible Flood Tas Walker A trail of fossilized claw marks found in northern Spain reveals the desperation of animals struggling to escape drowning in the Genesis Flood. ... That the footprints were preserved at all indicates the dinosaurs were engulfed by abnormal conditions. Today footprints are quickly obliterated, especially on a beach or in a strong current. But in the sandstone in Spain even the delicate features of the scratches were preserved, which means that sediment covered the tracks (and the ripple marks) soon after the dinosaur struggled past... Journal of Creation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2200341/posts#comment Fri, 6 Mar 2009 02:57:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2195183/posts CBNNews.com - CROSSROADS BIBLE COLLEGE, Ind. - Darwin's book on human evolution, The Descent of Man, revealed him as what John West calls "a virulent racist." "He did write extensively about how evolution by natural selection creates unequal races, and that in the evolutionary scheme of things, blacks are the closest to apes," he explained. West is the author of Darwin Day in America. "It's not just residual racism," he added. "He's using his scientific theory as a justification for racism and countless scientists after Darwin latched on to that." Hosea Baxter directs reconciliation ministries at Crossroads Bible College. He... cbn.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2195183/posts#comment Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:31:37 GMT