http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/new/ en-us Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:46:46 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395994/posts The World Health Organization tried this week to dampen fears about mutations seen in the swine flu virus in several countries, noting that both mutations had been found in very few people. A change that created Tamiflu resistance has been found in about 75 people around the world, said Dr. Keiji Fukuda, chief flu adviser to the W.H.O.’s director general. Two clusters, in cancer units at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina and a hospital in Wales, were both among patients whose immune systems had been severely suppressed by cancer treatment; some had had their bone marrow, which produces... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2395994/posts#comment Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:46:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399760/posts WASHINGTON, Dec. 3, 2009 – Realignment of military medical facilities in the national capital region ordered by the Base Realignment and Closure Commission is on track to meet the commission’s deadline, senior Defense Department officials said here yesterday. Walter Reed Army Medical Center here is consolidating with the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., and a new hospital is under construction at Fort Belvoir, Va. “Recommendations proposed a transition from a legacy service-specific medical infrastructure into a premier, modernized joint operational medicine platform,” said Allen W. Middleton, acting principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for health affairs. “We are... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399760/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 23:54:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392763/posts Just hours after Sen. Charles Grassley and Rep. Darrell Issa released a report Friday on their investigation into the abrupt firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin, the Obama White House gave the lawmakers a trove of new, previously-withheld documents on the affair. It was a twist on the now-familiar White House late-Friday release of bad news; this time, the new evidence was put out not only at the start of a weekend but also hours too late for inclusion in the report. Washingtion Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392763/posts#comment Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:54:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2387171/posts Sunlike stars that harbor planets are low on lithium, according to a recent study that may offer a new tool in the hunt for planets beyond our solar system. Stars are made almost entirely of hydrogen and helium. A small percentage of a star's mass comes from heavier elements, which astronomers refer to as metals. Young, yellow stars like our sun usually have more metals than older, redder stars, although the exact mix of those metals can vary. But astronomers have been unable to explain why otherwise similar sunlike stars have widely different lithium levels.The new study suggests that the... National Geographic News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2387171/posts#comment Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:15:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390106/posts by Dana Blanton , FOXNews.com President Obama's approval rating has hit a new low of 46 percent, even as a majority of Americans says he is providing the kind of leadership they expected. print email share recommend (2) President Obama's approval rating has hit a new low of 46 percent, according to a FOX News poll released Thursday. An equal number -- 46 percent -- disapprove of the job he's doing. Breaking down the numbers by political party shows how sharply split American voters are over the president's job performance. While 85 percent of Democrats approve of their party leader,... FoxNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390106/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:45:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387368/posts She is a striking brunette with a decidedly outspoken attitude. She lambasts President Barack Obama as a socialist and has become the darling of America's right-wing activists who flock to her appearances. She is hated by liberals and loved by conservatives. Sarah Palin? Not quite. Meet Michele Bachmann, a Republican congresswoman from Minnesota who is being hailed as a new and increasingly powerful voice in American politics The Guardian (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387368/posts#comment Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:53:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387388/posts Today is November 16, 2009. Our country is in deep trouble. We have a President who is demonstrably anti-American. His background and history remain a mystery. His goals and programs are the antithesis of traditional American values of freedom, capitalism, and representative democracy. He is anti-military, tying their hands with inappropriate and dangerous rules of engagement on the battlefield, and prolonging the inability to make a timely decision to send requested manpower to the front lines of the War on Terror in Afghanistan. This President cannot even utter the phrase “War on Terror”, and he is uncomfortable with the term... Self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2387388/posts#comment Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:33:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382233/posts MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- With just 300 or so Muslims in all of Nicaragua, it became an instant mystery here when a big new mosque suddenly seemed to spring up recently in a residential neighborhood. Like, who paid for it? WSJ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382233/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 17:53:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381637/posts Fearing Israel will launch an assault on Hizbullah before a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, the Lebanese guerrilla group is getting ready for a new war, the Observer reported on Sunday. According to the British newspaper, Hizbullah has been "busy reinforcing fixed defense positions" north of the Litani River, and after losing many of its bunkers in the south during the Second Lebanon War, is preparing "a new strategy" to defend villages there. Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381637/posts#comment Sun, 8 Nov 2009 19:25:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2365113/posts I am a student of history. Professionally, I have written 15 books on history that have been published in six languages, and I have studied history all my life. I have come to think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is simply a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus. Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what... aarp http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2365113/posts#comment Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:43:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360400/posts After months of collaboration on President Obama's attempt to overhaul the nation's health-care system, the insurance industry plans to strike out against the effort on Monday with a report warning that the typical family premium in 2019 could cost $4,000 more than projected. The critique, coming one day before a critical Senate committee vote on the legislation, sparked a sharp response from the Obama administration. It also signaled an end to the fragile detente between two central players in this year's health-care reform drama. Industry officials said they intend to circulate the report prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers on Capitol Hill and... WaPo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360400/posts#comment Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:29:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350546/posts The goal was to build a reporting system that allows the public to follow the zigzagging paths of dollars awarded under the $787 billion federal stimulus package. A financial GPS of sorts. But despite federal lawmakers' pledge of transparency, the final stages of most money trails, along with key information about job impacts, will remain invisible to users of the Recovery.org website when it debuts next month. Only details of a stimulus grant's passage through its first two stops after it leaves the federal government must be reported, according to guidance memos from the White House Office of Management and... Denverpost.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350546/posts#comment Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:35:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2347007/posts The Obama administration has decided not to seek legislation to establish a new system of preventive detention to hold terrorism suspects and will instead rely on a 2001 congressional resolution authorizing military force against al-Qaeda and the Taliban to continue to detain people indefinitely and without charge, according to administration officials. Leading congressional Democrats and members of the civil rights community had signaled opposition to any new indefinite-detention regime, fearing that it would expand government powers and undermine the rule of law and U.S. legal traditions. Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2347007/posts#comment Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:35:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346883/posts WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Riki Ellison, Chairman and President of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA) www.missiledefenseadvocacyalliance.org has developed a White Paper that analyzes the recent missile defense decision by President Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. The White Paper states that the protection of our homeland population is a risk we are facing with the new missile defense plan. Ellison has shared the White Paper with members of Congress, and it is detailed below: breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346883/posts#comment Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:14:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2333617/posts JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel defied U.S. pressure to halt construction in its West Bank settlements Sunday, with key leaders speaking out in support of the contentious enclaves and preparing to sign orders to allow building of hundreds of new housing units there. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak are expected to approve orders for about 500 new apartments Monday, said Israeli officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because the plans have not been finalized. breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2333617/posts#comment Mon, 7 Sep 2009 00:02:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2330069/posts WASHINGTON (AP) - The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday urged the government to impose stricter controls on emergency helicopter operators, including requiring the use of autopilots, night-vision systems and flight data recorders in an industry that suffered a record number of fatalities last year. The NTSB recommendations for training and safety equipment to the Federal Aviation Administration are in addition to others made in 2006, such as requiring installation of terrain awareness monitoring to help pilots navigate when weather conditions are poor. The safety board, which cannot require such changes, also wants the Health and Human Services Department to... breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2330069/posts#comment Wed, 2 Sep 2009 04:04:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2329156/posts CYPRESS, Texas, Aug. 31, 2009 – Hundreds of people arrived today at the home of retired Marine Capt. Dan Moran, a warrior severely wounded in Iraq, to see Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates present him the keys to his new home on behalf of the Helping a Hero organization. They came to see Moran lauded as a hero by a host of luminaries: Astros legend Craig Biggio, Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurt, U.S. Rep Todd Tiahrt from Kansas , and hundreds of others from the community. What most didn’t expect is that Moran would steal their hearts in the process,... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2329156/posts#comment Tue, 1 Sep 2009 03:44:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2327411/posts For too long conservatives (those who respect religion, patriotism, and freedom) have had to satisfy themselves with meager success. Conservatives may win an election or pass a bill, but we are starving for real victory. To win real victory we must colonize the left. We must create a conservative socialist party. The only selling point for the left is socialism, so we must detach socialism from the main body of leftist dogma. When a conservative right battles a conservative left we can achieve real, lasting victory. Both sides would espouse our core principles. I support a conservative socialist or populist... Click here for a tour of Lebanese architecture http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2327411/posts#comment Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:31:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324471/posts SOUTHWEST ASIA, Aug. 25, 2009 – An airman assigned here witnessed the birth of his third child, and he did so without leaving his post. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Rafael Garcia talks via webcam with his wife, Monica, and daughter, Carmella Fe, Aug. 18, 2009. Garcia experienced the birth of his daughter via webcam from Southwest Asia. He is deployed from Ramstein Air Base, Germany. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Jason W. Edwards  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Instead, Air Force Tech. Sgt. Rafael Garcia of the 379th Expeditionary Mission Support Group saw the birth live via... Face of Defence http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2324471/posts#comment Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:23:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2322909/posts DUBLIN -- The Irish government plans to bring into force a new law in October that critics say is a return to medieval justice. The legislation, aimed at providing judges with clear direction on the 1937 Constitution's blasphemy prohibition, imposes a fine of up to 25,000 euros -- about $39,000 -- for anyone who "publishes or utters matter that is [intentionally meant to be] grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion, thereby causing outrage among a substantial number of the adherents of that religion." National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2322909/posts#comment Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:01:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2318979/posts We already have a structural trade deficit with most countries of the world and we are spending money outside the U.S. at an alarming rate on two active wars and countless military installations worldwide as well as an expanding foreign aid program. All of this while we and other countries like Spain are in a jobs depression. We are still losing more than 300,000 jobs a month, and Challenger/Grey said recently that layoffs would get worse in the months ahead going into year-end. The Street http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2318979/posts#comment Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:15:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2315338/posts WASHINGTON (AP) - Tighter limits on the amount of lead the government allows in children's products and a requirement for new tracking labels are stirring fear among small business owners, already hurting in a tough economy. Starting Friday, the new limits and labels are required as part of a consumer product safety law passed by Congress last summer in the wake of dozens of recalls of lead-tainted toys. Consumer advocates hailed the measures. But some small businesses, like American Educational Products in Fort Collins, Colo.—it sells classroom teaching aids like flash cards, animal models, globes and relief maps—say the testing... breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2315338/posts#comment Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:07:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2312952/posts WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration is preparing a set of about 50 benchmarks for Afghanistan, senior officials said Monday, redefining how to measure success in a war now widely assessed as a stalemate. The benchmarks will test how well the U.S. military and civilian "surges" ordered by President Barack Obama are working. The new measures, ordered by Congress, are due Sept. 24 amid creeping skepticism among many Democrats about the war's prognosis and costs. breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2312952/posts#comment Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:55:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2291589/posts NeW Kind of Women by: Brittany Fortier, July 13, 2009 Young conservative women have an organization to call their own. The Network of Enlightened Women (NeW) held its fourth annual conference at the Heritage Foundation on June 26, 2009. Karin Agness, a University of Virginia law school graduate and the founder of NeW, said that the organization serves a two-fold purpose: first, as a book club, which provides a “structural and educational component,” and second, as a network to “cultivate a community of conservative women.” Agness says that NeW women are different from their liberal counterparts because they believe... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2291589/posts#comment Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:54:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2290171/posts In the process of searching for a used car for my children to use to go to school and get to work (summer jobs), I have made a couple of significant discoveries. Many used cars are selling for way below book value because there is no book value due to the incentives for buying new cars and economic conditions. Few banks will give loans on a used car at this time. Many, many used cars are for sale and remain for sale for quite some time. Cars that should have elevated used values are selling for well below "usual" values.... Personal Research http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2290171/posts#comment Sat, 11 Jul 2009 03:29:16 GMT