http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/obamabrownshirts/ en-us Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:02:08 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411823/posts The United States Civil Rights Commission, an eight-member agency that investigates accusations of discrimination, has launched a new offensive against a most unusual target: the Justice Department. The commission is investigating why the Justice Department dropped charges in May against three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in a voter intimidation case that the government won. The Justice Department has defended its actions, saying it obtained an injunction against one member while dismissing charges against the others "based on a careful assessment of the facts and the law." But that explanation hasn't satisfied the commission or Republican... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411823/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:02:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409199/posts Regulations: The Clean Water Act is being rewritten to give a government bureaucracy the power to regulate every body of water from the Mississippi River to a rain-flooded field. The first casualty may be American coal. With all the concern for the harm that cap-and-trade and regulating carbon dioxide as a pollutant might do to the American economy and free markets, the Environmental Protection Agency is doing quite enough damage with an existing law on the books — the Clean Water Act. Congress plans to revise it to make it an even more powerful bludgeon against industry, energy producers and... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409199/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:10:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408834/posts The Justice Department has told the federal attorneys who filed a civil complaint against the New Black Panther Party for disrupting a Philadelphia polling place last year not to cooperate with an investigation of the incident by the US Commission on Civil Rights. The commission last week subpoenaed at least two Justice Department lawyers and sought documents from the department to explain why the complaint was dismissed just as a federal judge was about to punish the New Black Panther Party and three of its members for intimidating voters. Joseph H. Hunt, director of the Justice Department's Federal Programs Branch,... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408834/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:32:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404562/posts Congress -- and possibly Citigroup -- may be gearing up to start funding the organized crime syndicate ACORN again. The current federal funding ban expires Dec. 18. On Tuesday evening the House Appropriations Committee rejected on a party line vote of 9 to 5 an amendment offered by Rep. Tom Latham (R-Iowa) that would have blocked federal funding of the radical advocacy group. The amendment was needed because the Obama administration thumbed its nose at a provision in spending legislation that banned ACORN funding until the end of next week. In a ruling revealed late last month by the Justice... American spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404562/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:53:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397107/posts Seventy-one percent (71%) of voters nationwide say they’re at least somewhat angry about the current policies of the federal government. That figure includes 46% who are Very Angry. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 27% are not angry about the government's policies, including 10% who are Not at All Angry........ The data suggests that the level of anger is growing. The 71% who are angry at federal government policies today is up five percentage points since September. Even more stunning, the 46% who are Very Angry is up 10 percentage points from September. Rasmussen Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397107/posts#comment Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:02:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404247/posts A new tipline targets Sheriff Joe Arpaio The tip line, 1-877-613-2137, is in both English and Spanish. By KFYI News (KFYI News) The U.S. Department of Justice has set up a tip-line as part of its investigation of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The tip line, 1-877-613-2137, is in both English and Spanish and asks those with information about the sheriff’s department to leave their names and numbers. The USDOJ is investigating Arpaio and his deputies regarding possible civil rights violations related to crime sweeps, traffic stops and immigration raids. KFYI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404247/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:10:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402460/posts Chamber of Commerce CEO Tom Donohue is a wanted man -- at least according to the liberal activist group that's put a de facto bounty on his head. A network of liberal groups known as Velvet Revolution started an ad campaign offering $200,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the man whose trade organization has become a thorn in the side of the Obama administration and congressional Democrats. The group is not leveling any specific charges of criminal behavior. Rather, it is casting a wide net, fishing for any whistleblowers from Donohue's past who might come forward... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402460/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 00:51:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402499/posts Justification and Options for Creating U.S. Capabilities Establishing security is the sine qua non of stability operations, since it is a prerequisite for reconstruction and development. Security requires a mix of military and police forces to deal with a range of threats from insurgents to criminal organizations. This research examines the creation of a high-end police force, which the authors call a Stability Police Force (SPF). The study considers what size force is necessary, how responsive it needs to be, where in the government it might be located, what capabilities it should have, how it could be staffed, and its... Rand Corporation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402499/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 01:22:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402309/posts Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa Jackson dismissed GOP calls to delay a critical finding on greenhouse emissions in light of hacked e-mails from climate scientists. EPA documents released Monday state that greenhouse gases threaten human health — a finding that is a precursor to planned regulations controlling emissions from power plants, vehicles and other sources.  RELATED ARTICLES EPA finds greenhouse gases endanger health Republicans including House Oversight and Government Reform Committee ranking member Darrell Issa (Calif.) said e-mails among climate scientists hacked from a British research institute show holes in the case that humans are causing global warming. Jackson... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402309/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 21:12:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402026/posts WASHINGTON – Officials tell The Associated Press that the Environmental Protection Agency has concluded greenhouse gases are endangering people's health and must be regulated. The EPA will announced its findings at a news conference Monday. The announcement is timed to boost the Obama administration's arguments at an international climate conference — beginning this week — that the United States is taking actions to combat global warming, even though Congress has yet to act on climate legislation. Under a Supreme Court ruling, the so-called endangerment finding is needed before the EPA can regulate carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases released... YAHOO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402026/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 15:27:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398074/posts Union Violence: An African-American is beaten up at a political rally by thugs shouting racial epithets, and after three months his assailants are charged with the moral equivalent of jaywalking. Why wasn't it a hate crime? The beating of Kenneth Gladney by people wearing the purple shirts of the Service Employees International Union outside a Missouri health care town hall meeting three months ago met all the classic definitions of a hate crime. Time was, the beating of a black man outside a protest rally, and the arrest and prosecution of the perpetrators, would be headline news. Gladney was working... Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398074/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 01:42:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382177/posts A state worker is recovering after a bloody brawl at a union hall. He says members of the local SEIU 1000 beat him up and sent him to the hospital all because he wanted to expose alleged corruption within the union. Ken Hamidi is a state worker at the California Franchise Tax Board. Last night he walked into a union hall in Sacramento for an SEIU local 1000 meeting."We had every right to be here, very simple; it wasn't anything private or anything exclusive," said Hamidi. But Hamidi says the union members did not want him there. "Three, four people... CBS13.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382177/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 17:03:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372868/posts The war on conservative speech has moved from the White House to your neighborhood pews. Left-wing church leaders want the Federal Communications Commission to crack down on "hate speech" over cable TV and right-leaning talk-radio airwaves. President Obama's speech-stifling bureaucrats seem all too happy to oblige. Over the last week, an outfit called "So We Might See" has conducted a nationwide fast to protest "media violence" -- specifically, "anti-immigrant hate speech, which employs flawed arguments to appeal to fears rather than facts." Their ire is currently aimed at Fox News and conservative talk-show giants. But how long before they target... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372868/posts#comment Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:20:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2372077/posts A strange anomaly occurs whenever the phrase “voter registration fraud” is searched. Who’s responsible for that? Perhaps the players? Search the Internet and you will find dozens of stories on the Association of Community Organizations For Reform Now or ACORN on a never ending stream of Google results. However, Project Vote (Voting for America) is often only listed as an affiliate. Articles posted by the mainstream media tend to downplay Project Vote’s role or is it something else? Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2372077/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:47:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372053/posts Congressional Democrats are set to announce Tuesday legislation aimed at squeezing more information from foreign banks and U.S. citizens with offshore accounts to ferret out tax evaders. The bill from Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D., Mont.), and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel (D., N.Y.), includes some of President Barack Obama's proposals to fight offshore tax cheating. According to a summary of the bill obtained by Dow Jones Newswires, it is expected to raise $8.5 billion for the U.S. government over 10 years. Foreign banks with U.S. customers would face a 30% withholding tax on income from... WSJ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372053/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:17:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371658/posts Just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government official, not even a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate but simply one of the many "czars" appointed by the President, could arbitrarily cut the pay of executives in private businesses by 50 percent or 90 percent? Did you think that another "czar" would be talking about restricting talk radio? That there would be plans afloat to subsidize newspapers-- that is, to create a situation where some newspapers' survival would depend on the government liking what they publish? Did you imagine that anyone would even be talking about... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371658/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:00:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2371310/posts The CDC has been trying to get into the business of gun control for many years. The U.S. House cut off funds to the CDC for that almost 13 years ago after complaints that the CDC was trying to get support from the public for gun control and the appearance of joining hands with gun control groups... The House believed then that the CDC should spend more time on preventing and controlling serious legitimate health issues such as infectious disease. Their mandate may be changing on their own initiative. What actually is infectious now is the public's fast and furious... http://secondamendmentfreedom.blogspot.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2371310/posts#comment Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:32:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368517/posts Andy Stern -- SEIU President: "People at the Chamber of Commerce have ruined the country." Naked Emperor News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368517/posts#comment Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:50:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367986/posts First Amendment: Diversity czar Mark Lloyd's FCC votes Thursday on the issue of net neutrality. Advertised as providing access to all, it will do to the information superhighway what Lloyd proposed for talk radio. Not much was said when $7.2 billion was included in the stimulus bill "to accelerate broadband deployment in unserved and underserved areas and to strategic institutions that are likely to create jobs or provide significant public benefits." The administration has big plans for the Internet — like controlling it. Susan Crawford, the so-called Internet czar, told the Wall Street Journal in April that the broadband billions... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2367986/posts#comment Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:43:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2367811/posts "Propaganda is not an end in itself, but a means to an end. If the means achieves the end then the means is good.........the new Ministry has no other aim than to unite the nation behind the ideal of the national revolution." Joseph Goebbels President Obama is a bully, he doesn't like being questioned or crossed. Like most of the bullying kind, if you disagree with him he will go after you with personal attacks full guns blaring. Just look at some examples of the people who have crossed the President and got smack down by the Bully-in-Chief or his... Politico/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2367811/posts#comment Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:31:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366873/posts POLITICO's Mike Allen and Josh Gerstein wrote today on the White House strategy of trying to delegitimize Fox News. Now MoveOn.org is getting involved. The liberal activist organization has started a petition aimed at Democratic members of Congress, urging them not to appear on the network as long as Obama stays away. politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366873/posts#comment Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:19:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366326/posts Sheriff Joe held a sweep in NW Phoenix, Friday October 16, 2009. He had a press conference after. US Department of Justice Officials (approximately 5) showed up at the conference, UNDERCOVER, POSING AS REPORTERS. When contacted by a Sheriff commander, the Federal Civil Rights officials posing as journalists, conducted themselves "unprofessionally" and "refused to provide official identification. Only one official from the "covert team provided any form of ID when pressed." That was the senior trial attorney, (phonetics) G. Yong Jung. She has been conducting the DOJ's investigation of the Sheriff's office re: allegations of racial profiling. Ms. Yong Jung... kfyi http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366326/posts#comment Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:33:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2330862/posts Security: A Senate bill lets the president "declare a cybersecurity emergency" relating to "nongovernmental" computer networks and do what's needed to respond to the threat. Didn't they just collect our e-mail addresses?We wish this was just a piece of the fictional "Dr. Strangelove" that fell to the cutting-room floor, but it's not. It is a real piece of disturbingly vague legislation sponsored by Sens. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., Bill Nelson, D-Fla., and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine. Senate Bill 773 would grant the administration emergency powers (where have we heard that before?) in the event of a cyberemergency that the president would have... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2330862/posts#comment Thu, 3 Sep 2009 00:34:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365983/posts Senator Obama was nearly 17 minutes into his July 2, 2008, speech in Colorado Springs, Colorado when he deviated from his pre-released script and performed without the teleprompter net saying: "We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt2yGzHfy7s In January, without any recognizable corporate media coverage, Rep. Bob Filner, a California Democrat, introduced H.R. 675. http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h675/show The bill would amend title 10 of the United States Code and extend... Oathkeepers.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365983/posts#comment Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:02:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361010/posts Public Discourse: Our energy secretary applauds and encourages companies to leave the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over its position on climate change. Should any Cabinet secretary, with the powers of government behind him, be threatening U.S. companies? Part of the climate-change mantra is that the debate is over and the science is settled. Just to make sure, environmental groups have sought to pressure businesses to go green or at least keep silent. Now it would appear the whole weight of the federal government is being thrown behind this campaign to coerce and silence real and potential opposition. On Thursday, Steven... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2361010/posts#comment Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:16:18 GMT