http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/news-forum/ en-us Sat, 25 May 2013 23:43:41 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023876/posts Some call it wishful thinking, but President Barack Obama has all but declared an end to the global war on terror. Obama is not claiming final victory over extremists who still seek to kill Americans and other Westerners. Instead, he is steering the United States away from what he calls an equally frightening threat: a country in a state of perpetual war. In a landmark speech Thursday in which he sought to refine and recalibrate his counterterrorism strategy, Obama asserted that al-Qaida is "on the path to defeat," reducing the scale of terrorism to pre-Sept. 11 levels. That means that... Breitbart's Big Peace / The Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023876/posts#comment Sat, 25 May 2013 23:43:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023874/posts WASHINGTON, D.C., May 24, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Democratic congressman has a unique solution for the atrocities perpetrated by late-term abortionists who botch their delivery in utero: Build more abortion facilities. CNSNews.com reported that New York Congressman Jarrold Nadler said, “Dr. Gosnell represented the poor quality of health care services available in poorer communities” during a hearing on Trent Franks' 20-week “fetal pain” bill on Thursday before the House Judiciary Subcommittee . Rep. Jarrold Nadler, D-NY Rep. Jarrold Nadler, D-NY “If that means funding a Planned Parenthood clinic in every neighborhood to put guys like Gosnell out of business, so... Life Site http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023874/posts#comment Sat, 25 May 2013 23:38:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023872/posts (VIDEO-AT-LINK) Group of Swedish vigilantes on night patrol May 24. (FriaTider) Immigrant rioting continued for the sixth night on Friday. (VIDEO-AT-LINK) FriaTider reported: Faced by another night of terror at the hands of predominantly immigrant rioters, Swedes grown tired of the police’s inability to put an end to the unrest took to the streets Friday night to defend their neighborhoods. The vigilantes were described as a motley crew of homeowners and concerned citizens, as well as neo-Nazi activists and football hooligans. In the Stockholm suburb of Tumba the police decided to abandon their earlier non-intervention policy as a large group... Gateway Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023872/posts#comment Sat, 25 May 2013 23:35:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023870/posts The Illinois House of Representatives on Friday voted overwhelmingly to allow residents to carry concealed guns, taking the state one step closer to joining all others in allowing some form of carrying guns in public. Illinois is the only state in the nation to ban most people from carrying a concealed gun outside the home. Lawmakers acted on Friday after a federal appeals court in January struck down the ban, saying it violated the right to bear arms enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. The court gave the state six months to pass a new law that would be constitutional. The... Chicago Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023870/posts#comment Sat, 25 May 2013 23:25:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023869/posts For 40 years, the Republican Study Committee has prized ideological purity over partisan loyalty. That mindset now dominates the GOP. Inside This Week's Cover Story An interview with the author On a frigid Wednesday afternoon in January, Speaker John Boehner sat in a conference room at the Kingsmill Resort in Williamsburg, Va., acknowledging the limits of his authority. For the past two years, the Republican Study Committee—a caucus of the most conservative representatives—had defied his leadership, plotted against his policy proposals, and, just two weeks earlier, organized a revolt to dethrone him. A group of RSC malcontents, exasperated with Boehner’s... National Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023869/posts#comment Sat, 25 May 2013 23:23:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023867/posts Kootenai County Sheriff Ben Wolfinger says he’s compelled to drop the department’s Boy Scouts of America charter after the organization opened its ranks to gay Scouts. Wolfinger said the organization is promoting a lifestyle that’s against Idaho law. The sheriff said he sent a copy of the state law banning sodomy to the Inland Northwest Council of Boy Scouts, according to the Coeur d’Alene Press. “It would be inappropriate for the sheriff’s office to sponsor an organization that is promoting a lifestyle that is in violation of state law,” Wolfinger said. Tim McCandless, CEO of the Inland Northwest Council, said... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023867/posts#comment Sat, 25 May 2013 23:14:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023866/posts We all drive on bridges, overpasses, and viaducts that we assume must be safe because, surely, somebody inspected them and determined that they are safe. We pay taxes so somebody makes sure the bridges and roads are safe, right? That trust is badly misplaced. For decades, we have been using up our infrastructure faster than we have been replacing it. Every day, cars and trucks carrying more than 200 million people cross over bridges in urban areas that remain in use even though they have exceeded their design life or are in such serious need of major repairs that engineers... Daily Beast http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023866/posts#comment Sat, 25 May 2013 23:12:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023865/posts On Friday, television and radio host Tavis Smiley celebrated the 10th anniversary of his Tavis Smiley show on PBS and defended his right to critique President Obama, reports the Huffington Post (sic The AP). But Smiley says freedom of speech hasn't come without its price.Smiley contends that members of the Obama administration, whom he didn't identify, have pressured sponsors to drop their support of his projects, including his anti-poverty initiatives. The White House had no comment, said a spokesman, Kevin Lewis. Smiley declined to identify the companies, saying he wasn't authorized to disclose their names. SNIP (More from the AP... The Root http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023865/posts#comment Sat, 25 May 2013 22:59:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023864/posts YBOR CITY - Officially recognized by the Hillsborough County Commission for the first time, this year's GaYbor Days events continue Sunday in Ybor City. GaYBOR Days, a weekend packed with shows and events to promote gay-owned and gay-friendly businesses in Tampa, is hosted every year by the GaYBOR Coalition. The coalition is made up of almost 300 businesses throughout the Tampa Bay area, said Carrie West, the group's president. The weekend is meant to promote the Ybor City area, showcase businesses and show that Tampa is a good destination for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people. “We're doing very good,”... The Tampa Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023864/posts#comment Sat, 25 May 2013 22:55:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023863/posts The Turkish Parliament’s General Assembly adopted on Friday an alcohol bill proposed by the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), tightening restrictions on the sale and advertising of alcoholic beverages, the daily Hurriyet reported. The approval came despite strong objections against the bill by the opposition on the grounds of personal freedom and respect for lifestyle choices. Secularist opponents accused the Islamic-rooted ruling party of gradually imposing an Islamic agenda on Turkey. According to the bill, retailers will no longer be allowed to sell alcoholic beverages between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. Advertising campaigns will be completely banned, such as... INN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023863/posts#comment Sat, 25 May 2013 22:47:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023861/posts On Friday’s Mark Levin Show: Mark talked about Attorney General Eric Holder’s testimony to the Judiciary Committee regarding the Associated Press. Mark pointed out that Holder lied when he said he didn’t know about Justice targeting journalists. Now we know that Holder signed off on the DOJ going after James Rosen of Fox News. Will Holder be held accountable for deliberately lying to Congress? Mark calls for a Special Prosecutor in the IRS case, the Associated Press case and others. “I assume the committee will charge him with perjury.” thegatewaypundit.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023861/posts#comment Sat, 25 May 2013 22:43:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023856/posts The trial involved an aging Philadelphia abortion doctor, a desperate and pregnant 13-year-old, and a baby born alive during an abortion and left to die. But this trial occurred 24 years before that of West Philadelphia's Kermit Gosnell, sentenced Wednesday to three consecutive life terms after a jury found that he murdered three babies born alive in illegal late-term abortions. Philadelphia Inquirer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023856/posts#comment Sat, 25 May 2013 22:31:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023854/posts On March 14, 1948, Douglas Hyde handed in his resignation as the news editor of the London Daily Worker and wrote "the end" to twenty years of his life as a member of the Communist Party. A week later, in a written statement, Hyde announced that he had renounced Communism and, with his wife and children, was joining the Catholic Church. The long pilgrimage from Communism to Christ carried Douglas Hyde from complete commitment to Marxism, to a questioning uneasiness about Soviet Russia’s glaring contradictions of ideology and action, to a final rejection of the Party. In Dedication and Leadership,... Goodreads.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023854/posts#comment Sat, 25 May 2013 22:26:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023852/posts A Washington state Democrat is accusing Republicans of “throwing American infrastructure … under the bus” after a bridge collapse there this week. The portion of Interstate 5 in Washington that runs over the Skagit River collapsed on Thursday after a truck hit an overhead support structure, but Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) cited the incident in an interview as proof Republicans were blocking infrastructure investment to hurt President Obama politically. “Well, they have clearly spent the whole last five years trying to tear the president down, but they have done it by throwing the American infrastructure and the society under the... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023852/posts#comment Sat, 25 May 2013 22:17:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023851/posts Move over, Illuminati. Stand down, Wall Street. Area 51? Pah. It’s nothing. The biggest conspiracy of all? The College-Industrial Complex. Consider this: You have just paid about three times as much for your degree as did someone graduating 30 years ago. That’s in constant dollars - in other words, after accounting for inflation. There is no evidence that you have received a degree three times as good. Some would wonder if you have received a degree even one times as good. According to the College Board, in 1983 a typical private American university managed to provide a bachelor’s degree education... yahoo.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023851/posts#comment Sat, 25 May 2013 22:16:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023850/posts KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A woman shot a man who tried to get into her home on 106th and Greenwood Thursday afternoon in Kansas City, Mo.Shirley Roberts, 52, told police three young men tried to break into her home around noon Thursday.According to Roberts, the men pulled in front of her home and went to her front door and tried to get in. When the men couldn’t, Roberts said the men then put on blue rubber gloves and tried to get into her back door.It was then that Roberts, home alone, grabbed a gun and fired a single shot through... fox4kc.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023850/posts#comment Sat, 25 May 2013 22:16:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023849/posts The National Transportation Safety Board said it had dispatched a team to investigate the train crash. Two freight trains collided at a rail intersection in rural southeastern Missouri on Saturday, triggering the collapse of a highway overpass when at least a dozen rail cars derailed and struck a support pillar, authorities said. None of the seven people hurt in the fiery crash – two train workers and five people who had been in the two cars on the overpass – suffered life-threatening injuries, Scott County sheriff Rick Walter said in a statement. "One train T-boned the other one and... guardian.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023849/posts#comment Sat, 25 May 2013 22:14:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023845/posts Sweden is the best Islamic State." — Adly Abu Hajar, Imam based in Malmö. Hundreds of Muslim immigrants have rampaged through parts of the Swedish capital of Stockholm, torching cars and buses, setting fires, and hurling rocks at police. The unrest -- a predictable consequence of Sweden's failed model of multiculturalism, which does not encourage Muslim immigrants to assimilate or integrate into Swedish society -- is an ominous sign of things to come. ... At least 100 masked Muslim youths set fire to cars and buildings, smashed windows, vandalized property and hurled rocks and bottles at police and rescue services... Gatestone Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023845/posts#comment Sat, 25 May 2013 21:42:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023843/posts An Italian priest who stirred consciences with his anti-Mafia preaching and was gunned down by mobsters has been honored by the Vatican as a martyr. The Rev. Giuseppe "Pino" Puglisi was beatified in a ceremony Saturday in Palermo, the Sicilian capital where he worked in a mobster-infested, poor neighborhood. He was slain in 1993, a few months after Pope John Paul II visited Sicily and urged priests to rally the faithful against organized crime. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023843/posts#comment Sat, 25 May 2013 21:34:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023841/posts Car owners whose auto was torched during immigrant rioting aren’t getting sympathy from local officials… They’re getting tickets. The police chose to “wait” and “not to intervene” when the gangs burned cars. But those car owners who could not move their burnt-out wrecks, however, were fined. Rioting continued for the sixth straight night last night. Gateway http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023841/posts#comment Sat, 25 May 2013 21:26:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023839/posts A French soldier patrolling a business neighborhood west of Paris was stabbed in the neck and injured on Saturday by a man who fled the scene and is being sought by police, President Francois Hollande said. The 23-year-old was patrolling in uniform with two other soldiers as part of France's Vigipirate anti-terror surveillance plan when he was approached from behind around 6 p.m. and attacked with a knife or a box-cutter. A police union spokesman said surveillance footage of the attacker showed him as tall and bearded, aged about 35, possibly of North African origin and wearing a white Arab-style... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023839/posts#comment Sat, 25 May 2013 21:17:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023837/posts "The problem of U.S. President Barack Obama can be summed up in a single word: hesitation. The man is short-sighted, confused and diffident. It seems that the gist of his policy is disagreeing with every position of his predecessor, George W. Bush, and that is quarrelsomeness, not policy. "This assessment of Obama's policy is not voiced only by his Republican rivals in the U.S., or by those who hate some [aspects] of his global [foreign] policy, but also by some proponents of his own school of thought, like the well-known American author David Ignatius, who recently wrote a critique of... MEMRI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023837/posts#comment Sat, 25 May 2013 21:10:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023836/posts The Texas house and senate have passed a bipartisan bill that is on its way to Governor Rick Perry to sign which will allow schools to train and maintain teachers as “armed marshals” on campuses. A bipartisan 28-3 Senate vote gave final approval to the marshals bill, which was proposed after the December mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. It had already passed the House over the objection of the Texas State Teachers Association. Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, a Republican, had pushed lawmakers to help school districts provide teachers or other employees with special weapons and... Freedom Outpost http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023836/posts#comment Sat, 25 May 2013 21:07:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023834/posts (First Published in Gay Community News, Feb. 15-21, 1987 and also put into the Congressional Record. Author - Michael Swift) We shall sodomize your sons, emblems of your feeble masculinity, of your shallow dreams and vulgar lies. We shall seduce them in your schools, in your dormitories, in your gymnasiums, in your locker rooms, in your sports arenas, in your seminaries, in your youth groups, in your movie theater bathrooms, in your army bunkhouses, in your truck stops, in your all male clubs, in your houses of Congress, wherever men are with men together. Your sons shall become our minions... Rainbow Alliance http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023834/posts#comment Sat, 25 May 2013 21:03:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023832/posts KABUL - A would-be suicide bomber died when his explosives-rigged vest went off prematurely in Afghanistan's capital on Saturday morning, police said. The apparent failed attack came a day after a major Taliban assault on an international compound in Kabul left 10 people dead including the six attackers. Another blast in the country's east killed 12 people at a mosque during evening prayers late Friday. Authorities in Ghazni province say explosives transported by suspected Taliban fighters accidentally detonated while they were stopped at a mosque. The Canadian Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3023832/posts#comment Sat, 25 May 2013 21:01:13 GMT