http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/nakedcommunist/ en-us Tue, 5 May 2009 19:31:36 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2244745/posts GLENN:  From Radio City in Midtown Manhattan, hello, you sick twisted freak.  Welcome to the program.  I'm glad you're here.  Ashley is with us from Oklahoma and KTOK.  Hello, Ashley.  CALLER:  Hi.  GLENN:  What is ‑‑ where do you go to school, Ashley?    CALLER:  It's a very conservative Christian university in Oklahoma.  GLENN:  A very ‑‑ is it the one with the big praying hands?    CALLER:  No.  GLENN:  You don't want to say?  Okay.  It's a very conservative Christian school in Oklahoma.    CALLER:  Yes.  It's a Baptist College.  GLENN:  Got it, okay.  So what happened with you and your professor?    CALLER:  Well, I'm in... GlennBeck.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2244745/posts#comment Tue, 5 May 2009 19:31:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2240507/posts In what is arguably his most significant gift to friend and former South African President Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton is lending his name to the effort to establish a global Mandela Day around his July 18 birthday. The campaign and Clinton's involvement will be announced today by the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the humanitarian group named after his prison number: 46664. Bubba, referring to the name friends give Mandela, says: "More than any human being, Madiba has been the great inspiration for the life I lead and the work I do, especially in the area of HIV/AIDS. In return for... US News & World Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2240507/posts#comment Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:07:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2236826/posts FYI: The org "World Can't Wait" is an "anti-war" front for the Revolutionary Communist Party. The RCP, on their website, calls for the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. Former Abu Ghraib Brigadier General, Janis Karpinski, is listed as an "endorser" of the WCW movement on the World Can't Wait website. House Judiciary Committee chairman/Bush administration "torture investigators", democrat John Conyers Jr of Michigan, and HJC member, Maxine Waters, have also each given their endorsements to the Revolutionary Communist Party movement/organization, "World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime" (they'll probably be dropping the "Drive Out the Bush Regime" portion of... various sources http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2236826/posts#comment Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:43:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2236024/posts Thanks to Rupert Murdoch, Bill Ayers’ “comrade” and Weather Underground terrorist Mark Rudd is on a book tour, trying to cash in on his bloody record. Murdoch’s Harper Collins published Rudd’s book, Underground: My Life With SDS and the Weathermen. This week he is in the San Francisco/Oakland, California area. According to Rudd’s website, he has other speeches and lectures scheduled around the country. [snip] On Thursday [today, April 23, 2009!], we are holding a news conference in San Francisco to demand justice in the case of the bombing murder of Sgt. McDonnell. If you are in the San Francisco... Accuaracy n Media - AIM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2236024/posts#comment Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:37:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234485/posts When new information about Americans who had cooperated with the Soviet KGB began to emerge in the 1990s, no individual case generated as much controversy as that of the journalist I.F. Stone, who had long been installed in the pantheon of left-wing heroes as a symbol of rectitude and a teller of truth to power before his death in 1989. Commentary Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2234485/posts#comment Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:15:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2224813/posts ''We believe it is time to open dialogue and discussion with Cuba,'' Lee told a news conference in Washington upon the caucus members' return. ''Cubans do want dialogue. They do want talks. They do want normal relations.'' ARE YOU KIDDING ME? THE ASSOCIATED PRESS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2224813/posts#comment Wed, 8 Apr 2009 13:35:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2182527/posts What do you do if you're a street artist turned marketing phenom who uses other people's images when someone uses one of your designs? If you're Shepard Fairey, apparently, you call your lawyers. Fairey, of Obama HOPE poster fame, is defending himself against charges he infringed on an Associated Press copyrighted photo in making the poster. He's also been criticized by artists for using others' work without attribution. His lawyers claim in the AP case that he is protected by fair use provisions of the copyright law. It turns out, however, that the activist art appropriator is a wee bit... Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2182527/posts#comment Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:30:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2220038/posts What's the one thing Las Vegas needs more of? Light, according to Carlos Santana, who figures he's just the guy to bring it during a Sin City residency he'll begin May 27 at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. Santana, the man and the band, will play about three shows a week through 2010 at the Hard Rock's expanded and refurbished concert theater, the Joint, which another classic rocker, Paul McCartney, will inaugurate April 19. "Santana is going to bring a lot of joy, light, peace and happiness into a place that is basically based on illusion," the multiple Grammy-winning... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2220038/posts#comment Wed, 1 Apr 2009 18:44:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2218870/posts Obama and the case of the missing 'thesis' By Jim Popkin, NBC News Senior Investigative ProducerJuly 24, 2008 excerpt: The hunt for Obama’s senior “thesis” began with a throwaway line in a newspaper article last October. The New York Times story, on Obama’s early New York years, mentioned in passing that the presidential contender had majored in political science at Columbia and had spent his time “writing his thesis on Soviet nuclear disarmament.” Journalists began hounding Columbia University for copies of the musty document. Conservative bloggers began wondering if the young Obama had written a no-nukes screed that he might... various sources http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2218870/posts#comment Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:26:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2218021/posts Sean Penn is going slapstick. MGM says the double Oscar winner has signed on to play Larry in the Farrelly brothers' big-screen update of The Three Stooges. Jim Carrey was in negotiations for the role of Curly, said MGM spokesman Grey Munford. The studio first featured the Stooges in a series of shorts and features beginning in 1933. Munford would not confirm reports that Benicio Del Toro will play Moe. He said filming begins this fall on the comedy, which is expected to be released in 2010. Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2218021/posts#comment Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:34:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2216279/posts The Canadian government’s recent decision to prevent the odious British MP George Galloway from entering the country has prompted a storm of criticism, mainly from Canadian editors that find Galloway’s pro-jihad views despicable, but nevertheless think his freedom of speech is being violated.... Galloway is quite the ham pseudo-radical of a species that only Britain, in its venerable, centuries-long tolerance of cranks and eccentrics, could condescend to produce. He is unafraid of abasing himself before tyrant and transsexual alike (see his unforgettable performance as a kitty lapping at a saucer of milk at the behest of Dead or Alive singer... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2216279/posts#comment Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:54:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2216184/posts What generates more controversy at nominally Catholic university Boston College: A crucifix in the classroom, or an unrepentant domestic terrorist in a lecture hall? Based on the media coverage and faculty reaction, it's the crucifix. Because terrorist William Ayers is speaking at Boston College this Monday, and nobody seems to care. How ironic that Ayers' likely route to BC will take him right through Brighton, where members of his Weather Underground murdered Officer Walter Schroeder of the BPD. It won't bother Ayers. As he's said repeatedly, he has no regrets over his terrorist past. In fact, he wishes he'd blown... http://www.michaelgraham.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2216184/posts#comment Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:01:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2212414/posts Saturday night’s Real Time With Bill Maher was an all-leftist panel of 5: Bill Maher, Keith Olbermann, Kerry Washington (Actor/Activist), Andrew Ross Sorkin (columnist for the NYT) and Senator Bernie Sanders. Sanders is labeled as an “Independent “ but his loyalty was no secret when Howard Dean stated on MTP's May 22, 2005 show that "Bernie Sanders votes with the Democrats 98 percent of the time." Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2212414/posts#comment Mon, 23 Mar 2009 04:26:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2208548/posts Here we see the current head of AIG Financial Products and former vice chairman of Morgan Stanley, Gerry Pasciucco, at an event called “Fiesta Cuba,” wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt. [PHOTO AT LINK] The photo comes from this page at Fairfield County Look, where we learn more about the fun-filled evening: "Family Centers took a trip back in time where the sound of salsa music filled the air, La Tropicana was the place to be and relaxation was a way of life.The sights, sounds and tastes of 1940s-era Havana filled the air on the evening of Friday, June 6 for... LittleGreenFootballs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2208548/posts#comment Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:55:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2202549/posts I have one example of media bias, which will demonstrate that the biased, dishonest and fraudulent mainstream media has the potential to destroy America and is in the process of doing exactly that. That is so because it presents such a distorted picture of the world to most Americans who rely on it for news and information, that it will lead to policies and laws, which are likely to bring the country down. Put the case that a president of the United States appoints an official to a top intelligence and foreign policy post who has a long history of... The Bulletin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2202549/posts#comment Mon, 9 Mar 2009 16:03:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2200308/posts DENVER -- William Ayers, the former Weather Underground radical whose past made him a lightning rod in the 2008 presidential campaign, said Thursday that fired Colorado professor Ward Churchill became the victim of a "witch hunt" after comparing Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi. "There's no doubt in my mind he was persecuted because of his politics," Ayers said before appearing with Churchill at a student rally on academic freedom at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Ayers, Churchill and writer-activist Derrick Jensen were to speak later at an event titled "Forbidden Education and the Rise of Neo-McCarthyism." Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2200308/posts#comment Fri, 6 Mar 2009 02:03:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2197529/posts President Obama offered to consider scrapping plans for a missile defense shield in Europe if Russia helps rein in Iran's nuclear program, the Russian newspaper Kommersant reported. -------snip---- Obama inherited plans to build the system in Poland and the Czech Republic from the Bush administration, but the new administration has equivocated over the project. Though the plans were put in place to deter nations like Iran and North Korea from launching attacks and developing nuclear weapons, Russia has interpreted the planned installation as a threat. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2197529/posts#comment Mon, 2 Mar 2009 21:23:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2197467/posts A Chance to Make Change Millions of people have responded to the Obama campaign’s request for input on what the priorities of the new administration should be. Labor, the women’s movement, and other people’s organizations are already making proposals that include the following: -- A stimulus package of a half trillion dollars or more, to create millions of jobs, including a public works program. -- Emergency help for the jobless and the victims of the sub prime mortgage crisis. -- Passage of the Employee Free Choice Act, so more workers can have unions. -- A concrete timetable for pulling out... Communist Party USA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2197467/posts#comment Mon, 2 Mar 2009 19:54:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2190216/posts "Obama is a radical communist and I think it is becoming clear. That is what I told people in Illinois and now everybody realizes it is coming true. He is going to destroy this country and we are either going to stop him or the United States of America is going to cease to exist." - Alan Keyes Video available at the link... America's Independent Party http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2190216/posts#comment Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:45:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2187533/posts If you’ve heard it once, you’ve probably heard it a hundred times – in politics, perception is reality. In the age of Obama, that is more true than ever. Facts don’t always matter so much in politics. It’s more about image. “Peter Perfect” is a reality show my family watches from time to time. The star of the show, Peter Ishkans, goes into struggling small businesses and helps them create a new look and a new marketing strategy to hopefully set them on the track to success. Ishkans sums up the philosophy behind his approach at the beginning of each... TownHall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2187533/posts#comment Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:22:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173518/posts Visit the Museo de la Revolución in central Havana, and two things about the museum’s photo displays will immediately capture your attention. First, it’s clear that the battle to control Cuba in the late 1950s was ultimately won by the cool guys. Young, bearded and ruggedly handsome, the rebel warriors of Fidel Castro’s 26th of July Movement look like Beat hipsters and rock stars—Fidel tall and imposing in his fatigues; Camillo Cienfuegos grinning under his broad-brimmed cowboy hat; Ernesto “Che” Guevara looking smolderingly photogenic in his black beret. By contrast, the U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista and his cronies look... World Hum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173518/posts#comment Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:17:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2163869/posts Carol Browner a Socialist? By Doug Bandow on 1.12.09 @ 6:16PM There's a tendency of conservatives to carelessly toss about the "S" word. Like John McCain, who opposed the Bush tax cuts while spouting left-wing rhetoric, then accusing Barack Obama of being a socialist because the latter proposed to increase taxes on the rich. The American Spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2163869/posts#comment Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:38:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2163832/posts The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has agreed to change the wording on the plaque accompanying a portrait of President George W. Bush in response to a complaint by Sen. Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.). Sanders objected to the sign's language because he believed it suggested a linkage between the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 and the subsequent U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. The plaque reads: “Expecting that the success of his presidency would hinge, as it had when he was governor, on his negotiating skills and ability to solve problems, Bush found his two terms in office were instead marked... Cybercast News Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2163832/posts#comment Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:42:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2161076/posts Obama and Spider-Man appear in comic together WASHINGTON (AP) - Spider-Man has a new sidekick: The president-elect. Barack Obama collected Spider-Man comics as a child, so Marvel Comics wanted to give him a "shout-out back" by featuring him in a bonus story, said Joe Quesada, Marvel's editor-in-chief. Breitbart/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2161076/posts#comment Thu, 8 Jan 2009 19:28:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2161041/posts By Katie O'MalleyThe College of DuPage (COD) in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, has announced the February speaker for their Living Leadership Program. Based on the desired goals of the series, COD students, parents and the taxpayers of DuPage County should have much to be excited about. The program, according to their website, is based on the following philosophies: “Leadership is a skill, therefore anyone can learn it, practice it, and become better at it. Leadership is not tied to position, title or authority. Leaders use 1) Conscious Decision-Making 2) Active Participation, and 3) Understanding of Multiple Perspectives to impact their... Modern Conservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2161041/posts#comment Thu, 8 Jan 2009 18:18:34 GMT