http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/nation/ en-us Mon, 7 Dec 2009 19:00:09 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2402202/posts "The terrorists today have the will to destroy us, but they don't have the power. We have the power to eradicate them, but we must now show that we have the will." - Benjamin Netanyahu - Sept. 14th, 2001 The United States has often been referred to as the world’s only super-power, but what does it really mean? The potential of a nation is only that. More often than not, the destiny of a nation is determined by will power and unity rather than potential or physical power. Potential will be realized only to the extent of the will and... Rantz and Reckonings http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2402202/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 19:00:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397596/posts As Britain approaches a general election, commentators on the present "British sickness" or "British crisis" usually dwell on one of several areas. Here are some of them: • Destruction of trust in the Parliamentary and political system. About half Britain's MPs have been found to have broken either the spirit or the letter of the law with dodgy expense claims, "flipping" primary and secondary residences to avoid capital gains tax and in other ways showing contempt for the taxpayer -- a contempt now being heartily reciprocated. It is hard to see how any major party will be able to find... American Spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397596/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 14:49:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393838/posts They must denounce exclusionary biases and embrace the vision. (Or else.) Do you believe in the American dream -- the idea that in this country, hardworking people of every race, color and creed can get ahead on their own merits? If so, that belief may soon bar you from getting a license to teach in Minnesota public schools -- at least if you plan to get your teaching degree at the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities campus. In a report compiled last summer, the Race, Culture, Class and Gender Task Group at the U's College of Education and Human Development... Star Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393838/posts#comment Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:45:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385955/posts Aaron Luke is only 7, but his father, Marcus Luke, is already coaching him on whom to marry when he grows up: a Native American. It's ironic advice from a man who married a white woman and still takes grief for it from relatives. But intermarriage has become so rampant, says Marcus Luke, that Natives are in danger of losing their culture. "It's a touchy issue. It's tough, really tough," says Luke, 38, who lives near the Umatilla Indian Reservation just outside Pendleton with his wife, Rachel, and their son. "Too much assimilation is what it comes down to. My... Oregon Live.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385955/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:38:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2383669/posts Sorry for the vanity...but I have been here for awhile and I just cannot stay quiet any more...if anyone is wondering...there are hundreds like me...by personal contact...not CNN estimates. Vanity (Speaking up for the silence) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2383669/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:55:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370460/posts Huge increases in immigration over the past decade were a deliberate attempt to engineer a more multicultural Britain, a former Government adviser said yesterday. Andrew Neather, a speechwriter who worked in Downing Street for Tony Blair and in the Home Office for Jack Straw and David Blunkett, said Labour's relaxation of controls was a plan to 'open up the UK to mass migration'. As well as bringing in hundreds of thousands to plug labour market gaps, there was also a 'driving political purpose' behind immigration policy, he claimed. Ministers hoped to change the country radically and 'rub the Right's nose... Mail Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370460/posts#comment Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:21:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346863/posts Need your help..running a test stream of The Savage Nation on my website..eventually the stream will end when the show goes off, but for now Hugh Hewitt may be on after Savage. Just want to make sure everyone else can see it-I tried to make sure the player was universal. If it works for you, you are more than welcome to listen on my site. Joe http://www.joeseales.com/savage Joe Seales http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346863/posts#comment Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:49:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2345973/posts Do we all remember when they left was saying that if Obama won the election, that things would get better with the Islamic world? Since he has taken office he has done nothing but cater to the Islamic world, yet the threat is as great as ever. Would anyone on the left care to answer why? Al-Qaida predicts Obama's fall by Muslim nation By PAUL SCHEMM and HADEEL AL-SHALCHI CAIRO – Al-Qaida on Tuesday released a new 106-minute long video predicting President Barack Obama's downfall at the hands of the Muslim world. Islam in Action http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2345973/posts#comment Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:07:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2345933/posts CAIRO – Al-Qaida on Tuesday released a new 106-minute long video predicting President Barack Obama's downfall at the hands of the Muslim world. The Arabic-language video, entitled "The West and the Dark Tunnel," is part of series of messages by the organization marking the eighth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Bin Laden released a short message of his own on Sept. 14. Like similar long messages on previous anniversaries, it featured testimony from several leading al-Qaida figures intercut with news footage from the past year. As in the past, al-Qaida attempted to conflate Obama with his predecessor, George W.... Associated Press Writer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2345933/posts#comment Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:08:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2333588/posts A dear FReeper FRiend reminded me that Glenn Beck is going to gather his family next Friday for a solemn day of fasting and praying for our nation. This post is a reminder for us ... for me ... to do the same. Glenn Beck http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2333588/posts#comment Sun, 6 Sep 2009 22:52:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2313936/posts The Townhalls: this is spiritual By Bill Randles The recent shockwaves of public frustration, coming out of townhall meetings across the nation , have stunned both the Media and elected representatives from both parties.It was becoming increasingly obvious that they don’t know what’s going on. The real problem is more than mere politics, and goes much deeper than the health care issue. The real problem is spiritual. This is a conflict between the traditional American vision , of personal responsibility, private property, productivity, individualism, and self government, as opposed to the new vision, ”change”- ie. collectivism, cradle to grave Government... Believersingrace.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2313936/posts#comment Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:12:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2295906/posts WASHINGTON – Walter Cronkite is dead at 92 – but most Americans, many of whom considered him "the most trusted man" in the country during his reign as CBS News anchor – still don't know what motivated him and how he secured such an influential and lofty position. He was like a grandfatherly institution in the early days of TV. People believed him. Uncle Walter wouldn't lie, America believed. Thus, when he gave his opinions, they had impact. One example was his report on the Tet offensive in Vietnam, which is credited with swinging the tide of opinion against the... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2295906/posts#comment Sun, 19 Jul 2009 05:52:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2248178/posts <p>When Old Testament Israel strayed from following God, Yahweh had unique and painful ways of getting the Hebrews’ attention. His first line of attack was to send in His prophets—who were not the shiny, happy-clappy, cliché-spewing, aphorism-addicted mega church pastors who are more interested in hawking their books than bearding the priests of Baal.</p> Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2248178/posts#comment Sun, 10 May 2009 21:54:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2236708/posts Oklahoma businesses experienced 17 mass layoffs that cut 1,483 jobs in March, level with the previous month, but substantially less than the 21 layoffs that cost 2,772 state jobs in January. Nationally, employers took 2,933 mass layoff actions in March that resulted in the separation of 299,388 workers on a seasonally adjusted basis, setting a record according to data back to 1995. Manufacturing was hardest hit, experiencing 1,259 mass layoffs that resulted in 155,909 new unemployment claims. Manufacturing accounted for 43 percent of all mass layoffs and 50 percent of initial unemployment claims in March. A mass layoff event is... The Journal Record http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2236708/posts#comment Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:14:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2233945/posts ... i've been hearing "hemmorhoid with ears" phrase a lot lately on savage ... exactly who is he referring to? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2233945/posts#comment Tue, 21 Apr 2009 02:30:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2214994/posts We need to share the bill for bail-outs By John Gapper Published: March 25 2009 21:16 | Last updated: March 25 2009 21:16 One thing we have learnt in the past year is that some banks are definitely too big to fail. We may yet discover something even more disturbing: that some are too big to save. Tim Geithner, the US Treasury secretary, who has staged something of a reputational recovery this week – helped by the fickle stock market – will this morning testify to Congress on his plans for reforming regulation and gaining more power to wind up... FT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2214994/posts#comment Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:01:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2200321/posts My dear fellows and you socialists lurking out there. This is not uplifting. I do wish someone could convince me that I am wrong and that there is cause for hope. If you suspect that this is a demoralizing plant by the left you would be wrong. It is however the most heart felt struggle to understand why this has happened to us all i can write. I am not alone. I looked to my Senator, whom I respect very much, to provide some encouragement that this wave of destruction could at least be held back and moderated...he gave no... FreeRepublic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2200321/posts#comment Fri, 6 Mar 2009 02:24:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2172625/posts On Obama's agenda, according to his White House website, is the goal to "encourage diversity in media ownership." Obama elaborates on the site that his aim is to "encourage diversity in the ownership of broadcast media, promote the development of new media outlets for expression of diverse viewpoints, and clarify the public interest obligations of broadcasters who occupy the nation's spectrum." The plan apparently aligns with longstanding Democratic suggestions to resurrect the "Fairness Doctrine." The policy was abandoned in 1987 under President Reagan when there were 75 radio talk shows in the U.S. Reagan opposed the policy because it required... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2172625/posts#comment Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:57:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2171459/posts WASHINGTON – One of President Barack Obama's top economic advisers says the nation can afford to spend hundreds of billions of dollars in an attempt to jump-start a weak economy. But Larry Summers warns that fiscal discipline will be necessary once the economy recovers. He says the government must spend money now to revive an economy that shed more than 2 million jobs last year. Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2171459/posts#comment Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:17:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2170005/posts Talk radio’s Rush Limbaugh and Democratic firebrand Rahm Emanuel agree on one thing: Barack Obama’s presidency could alter America for decades. Emanuel, the new White House chief of staff, recently told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that the financial meltdown provides an opportunity “to do things that Americans have pushed off for years.” Limbaugh offered the contrary view, with this warning: “We're about to see an encroachment by the left that will take a generation to roll back.” Here are a “dirty dozen” changes Team Obama is most likely to enact. Ratings Key [1 to 10 scale]: Probability Likelihood that the measure... NewsMax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2170005/posts#comment Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:03:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2166848/posts ... It seems to me and a lot of other folks that we might label the current bunch of bozos in Congress the Know-Nothing Party because, Democrat or Republican, they have reached a point at which they can be stampeded into voting for the expenditure of huge amounts of money without a clue why or to whom. Now it appears they are getting ready to “stimulate the economy” with a giant, political grab-bag in excess of a trillion dollars. Much like earlier efforts, it is likely to fail while at the same time plunging the nation into deeper and deeper... http://canadafreepress.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2166848/posts#comment Sun, 18 Jan 2009 14:16:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2165077/posts "Obama is merely a fop for the global elite" Have you ever wondered how capitalism was pushed over the edge of the cliff just six weeks before the American presidential election? According to financial experts, the world, as we know it will change dramatically by the year 2012. People, who provided for their families only three years ago, will be desperately searching for food. The story of the economic meltdown of 2008 begins and ends with the United Nations and its carefully managed One World Order. Behind the curtain of this dark chapter in human misery are ogres Maurice Strong... augustreview.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2165077/posts#comment Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:28:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2163005/posts George Washington – The Preservation of the Nation as a Whole Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits, and political principles. You have in a common cause fought and triumphed together; the independence and liberty you possess are the work of joint counsels, and joint efforts of common dangers,... Washington's Farewell Address http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2163005/posts#comment Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:35:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2162194/posts But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God, the eternal King. When he is angry, the earth trembles; the nations cannot endure his wrath. "Tell them this: 'These gods, who did not make the heavens and the earth, will perish from the earth and from under the heavens.' " But God made the earth by his power; he founded the world by his wisdom and stretched out the heavens by his understanding. (Jeremiah 10:10-12) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2162194/posts#comment Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:52:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2154935/posts The fruit of righteousness will be peace; the effect of righteousness will be quietness and confidence forever. (Isaiah 32:7) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2154935/posts#comment Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:02:37 GMT