http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/obama/ en-us Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:13:39 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416089/posts The latest numbers from the Census Bureau show that there is a mass exodus of taxpayers happening in all the most liberal states. This means that such states are not only losing urgently needed revenues at the worst possible time, but also representation both in the electoral college and in the House. As I have noted before, studies also unsurprisingly show that these states are the most bankrupt. This is how liberals "help" people. As usual, California topped off the list. Even including the illegal immigrants perpetually pouring into the state, it still managed to lose almost 100,000 more residents... The Macon County Conservative Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416089/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:13:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416108/posts If you felt a frisson of fear on news that the Senate had passed Obamacare the day before Christmas, then you now know what it was and is like to live in a dictatorship. The voice of the People was ignored in a demonstration of raw political power. There was a time when Americans took Communism seriously. It challenged us in the form of the Soviet Union and we witnessed its takeover of China. In Europe, uprisings against Soviet rule were crushed in East Germany in 1953, Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, and Poland in the 1980s gave proof... CFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416108/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:09:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416127/posts An attempted jihad attack on Christmas Day has revealed that Americans are much more vulnerable to such attacks than most have believed – while government officials whistle in the dark. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old son of a wealthy Nigerian banker, tried to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 just before it landed in Detroit. In response, Barack Obama chose not to cut short his golfing vacation in Hawaii; the White House announced that he would “likely” have something to say about this latest attempted jihad attack on U.S. soil “in the next few days.” Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano... Front Page Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416127/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 07:26:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416112/posts In post-Bush blame assignment operations. Obama-era lefties show a marked lack of cohesion and consistency on whether trying to ignite your explosive-laden underwear on a plane is a big deal or not, whether heads need to roll or not, and in which part of the fish the rots starts. News first. ABC: top Yemeni AQ bombmaker’s work. It was bigger than the shoe bomb. But this underwear bomb’s detonator failed. Apparently, this means they’ll need to see us with our pants off, one way or another. ABC again. The Times of London has more on the other way of detecting... Jules Crittenden http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416112/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 06:26:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416097/posts Sunday's chilling terror news wasn't the removal of a Nigerian man from the same Northwest Airlines route targeted by a would-be bomber two days earlier. Sunday's disruptive passenger just wasn't feeling well. No, the chilling news came from James Carafano, a defense and homeland security expert at the Heritage Foundation: The foiled Christmas Day plot, he says, is the 28th unsuccessful attempt to bring terror attacks to America since Sept. 11, 2001. This attempt, which could have scattered passengers and plane parts across frozen Michigan tundra, may trace to Yemen. That's where thwarted martyr Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab claims he obtained... Chicago Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416097/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:42:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416095/posts "Now beginning the Era of Captivity, the American people have entered a new stage in their once extremely productive lives. This new phase has been purposefully designed to be unproductive and will be called 'existence.' Existence, however, will soon degrade and devolve — with no one stopping the perpetrators of this abhorrence — into subsistence. After that chapter has been written and read, life will have become so essentially bitter and untenable that additional deteriorations in life-conditions will carry no significant meaning — other than base survival. Since the Usurper and Dictator in Chief Barack Hussein Obama assumed power and... renewamerica.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416095/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:36:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416092/posts Barack Obama’s Anti-Semitic Websiteby Pamela Geller During the 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama’s website, Organizing for America – over which Obama has editorial control — played host to a series of vile anti-American, Jew-hating posts and pieces. It was overwhelming. There were numerous, heinous calls for Jewish genocide and incitement to hatred. And it is happening again, right now, on the official website of the man who is supposedly the leader of the free world. The site was and is closely policed. The site moderators remove material that they consider to be “disrespectful to our other users” and to “detract... biggovernment http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416092/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:28:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416085/posts Senator John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) is reporting for duty again and again it is a task for which he is woefully unqualified. The former presidential candidate has suggested becoming the first high-level US emissary to make a public visit to Tehran, Iran since that country's 1979 Islamic revolution. While the Obama administration seems to be in favor of such a trip, the people of Iran who are risking their lives to protest the regime Senator Kerry wants to meet with have a very different opinion. continued TalkingSides.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416085/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:06:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416080/posts THE THWARTED Christmas Day airplane bombing raises three causes for alarm. First, it illustrates a screening system that remains porous enough to let a suspect board with the same explosive shoe-bomber Richard Reid attempted to use in 2001. Second, it exposes a terrorism bureaucracy too clumsy to catapult the suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, at least to a higher level of preflight scrutiny after his father came forward with warnings that he might pose a danger. Third, if it is true that the suspect received explosives training from al-Qaeda in Yemen, the incident underscores the emergence of that troubled nation as... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416080/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:51:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416066/posts As my brother Kevin headed off to Christmas Eve Mass in the Maryland suburbs, I asked him how he thought the first year of Barack Obama had gone. He didn’t have to pray long over that one. “Fine,” he replied, “if you like unmitigated disasters like the Hindenburg and the Redskins season.” If it’s Christmas, it must be time for my conservative brother to take over my column and turn it a blazing shade of red. So without further ado, here is Kevin unplugged, offering a perspective from “the real America,” as one of his favorite Republican philosophers, Sarah Palin,... The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416066/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:08:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416035/posts As some Houston leaders called on Sunday for measures to help guard against future terrorist attacks, others questioned why the Nigerian man charged with trying to destroy a Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit spent time last year in Houston. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is believed to have traveled to Houston in 2008, but no details of the trip were available Sunday. U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston declined to discuss any connection Abdulmutallab might have to the city, saying details of the investigation remain classified. U.S. government officials did confirm that they are looking into his travel itinerary, but the FBI... chron.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416035/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:53:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416044/posts Tonight it is National Security Council spokesman Mike Hammer speaking instead of President Obama. Regarding this weekend's violent crackdown on protesters in Tehran which has killed at least five people, Mr. Hammer condemned the "unjust suppression of civilians" and quoted Mr. Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech saying, "It is telling when governments fear the aspirations of their own people more than the power of any other nation". Why are we getting rehashed rhetoric from a third party instead of hearing from the president himself? continued TalkingSides.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416044/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 03:21:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416040/posts Now beginning the Era of Captivity, the American people have entered a new stage in their once extremely productive lives. This new phase has been purposefully designed to be unproductive and will be called ‘existence‘. Existence, however, will soon degrade and devolve—with no one stopping the perpetrators of this abhorrence—into subsistence. After that chapter has been written and read, life will have become so essentially bitter and untenable that additional deteriorations in life-conditions will carry no significant meaning—other than base survival. Since the Usurper and Dictator in Chief Barack Hussein Obama assumed power and rule over American citizens in January... canada free press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416040/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 03:09:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416039/posts Obama Addresses Airline Security in Low-Key Fashion By Anne E. Kornblut Monday, December 28, 2009 KAILUA, HAWAII -- President Obama has performed a difficult but familiar balancing act over the past few days: ordering new security measures in the wake of an attempted airliner attack without excessively alarming the public -- or triggering an outcry from civil liberties advocates. He has done so almost entirely out of sight. On vacation in Hawaii, tucked away in a lush neighborhood where his family is renting a waterfront home, Obama dispatched surrogates back in Washington -- chiefly Homeland Security Secretary Janet A. Napolitano... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416039/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 03:01:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416027/posts Veteran Civil Rights Division attorney Christopher Coates is no longer chief of the Voting Section, according to the division’s Web site. There was no official announcement of the personnel change in the long-troubled section, which most recently has been embroiled in the controversy over the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case. Main Justice noticed the change on the Voting Section Web site. Taking over for Coates in an acting role is Chris Herren, a deputy chief of the section, according to the Web site. Alejandro Miyar, a spokesman for the Civil Rights Division, wasn’t available for comment Sunday. Coates... MainJustice.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416027/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:42:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416021/posts Friday: nothing. Saturday: nothing. Sunday: nothing.The White House Web site has not been updated since Thursday, Christmas Eve.Following the refusal of Barack Obama to personally address the Christmas Day terror attack on Northwest Airlines flight 253, the Obama administration has not posted one word about the attack at WhiteHouse.gov. Zip. Zilch. Nada.It's like Obama can't be bothered. And really, he can't. Today he went to the gym, played basketball and had a picnic at the beach as part of his $4000 per day Hawaii vacation.The White House leaked to reporters this evening that Obama will make some remarks on the... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416021/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:32:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416020/posts President Barack Obama scores well among ethics watchdog groups in his first year in office, though they’d still like to see more from the president. Obama has wielded the power of the White House to craft an executive order that limited lobbyist hires in his administration, push federal agencies to share more of their data with the public and begin releasing visitor records for the executive complex on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416020/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:32:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416014/posts The current strategy from the White House is especially odd considering the issues the president did make an effort to address. Remember the Cambridge Cop Mr. Obama excoriated for "acting stupidly" on national TV this summer? The Chicago Sun Times columnist Lynn Sweet points out (H/T TWT's Amanda Carpenter) that the White House blog has made no mention of the terror attack. Apparently hanging out in Hawaii is more important to reporters who hated Crawford, Texas trips with former President Bush than reporting the importance of a presidential response on a terror matter, so Mr. Obama's avoiding them is not... Wash Times Water Cooler http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416014/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:21:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416010/posts The Twelve Days of Health Care On the first day of Health Care Obama gave to us: A Fine for no Health Coverage On the second day of Health Care Obama gave to us: Two Backroom Deals and a Fine for no Health Coverage On the third day of Health Care Obama gave to us: All illegals covered Two Backroom Deals and a Fine for no Health Coverage On the fourth day of Health Care Obama gave to us: Big Pharma payoffs All illegals covered Two Backroom Deals and a Fine for no Health Coverage On the fifth day of... VANITY http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2416010/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 02:13:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416007/posts Amazingly, these Obama lies, or to put it mildly, "broken promises", all are from the same speech given during his 2008 presidential campaign. When I first saw the title of this video, I assumed that the lies were snippets taken from several speeches, then sliced together. When I watched it, I realized that they were rifled off, one right after the other. Can you imagine what the press reaction would have been if George W. Bush had rattled off this many lies?... THE FREEDOM POST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416007/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:58:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415989/posts In the dead of night on December 17, 2009, President Barack Hussein Obama placed the United States of America under the authority of the international police organization known as INTERPOL, granting the organization full immunity to operate within the United States. Last Thursday, December 17, 2009, The White House released an Executive Order "Amending Executive Order 12425." It grants INTERPOL (International Criminal Police Organization) a new level of full diplomatic immunity afforded to foreign embassies and select other "International Organizations" as set forth in the United States International Organizations Immunities Act of 1945. By removing language from President Reagan's 1983... Examiner.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415989/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:00:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415973/posts Must see fresh videos of Iraninan Revolution in progress. http://www.youtube.com/user/2009IranRevolution You Tube 2009 Iran Revolution's Channel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415973/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:12:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415987/posts Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) said Sunday that it is fair to blame the Obama administration for the attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight bound for Detroit on Christmas Day. Hoekstra, the top Republican on the House Select Intelligence Committee said that the administration has not taken the threat of terrorist threats on the U.S. seriously. Asked by Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace if it is fair to blame the Obama administration for the attacks, the Michigan Republican replied ""Yeah, I think it really is." Hoekstra said that increased domestic threats have made themselves more evidence this year, with... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415987/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:53:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415986/posts The "ought" decade was one promise after another turned into trauma for California. It began with a popular Democratic governor, judging from the voter majority that put him in office. But his popularity plummeted in tandem with the state's nosediving finances. The decade ends with a Republican governor who, at first, was every bit as popular, judging from the wide voter margin that elected him. His popularity and the state's finances likewise hit bottom. The chief distinction between Democrat Gray Davis and Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger may be that the former was recalled from office, and the latter will be permitted... OC Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415986/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:51:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415982/posts One of Europe's solutions to the perceived global warming threat is trying to regulate carbon emissions through Carbon Credits The way it works is the government sets a or cap on the total amount of a pollutant that can be emitted. Companies or other groups are issued emission permits and are required to hold an equivalent number of credits. Companies that need to increase their emission allowance must buy credits from those who pollute less. In effect, the buyer is paying a charge for polluting, while the seller is being rewarded for having reduced emissions by more than was needed.... Times of London/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415982/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:34:35 GMT