http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/philosophytime/ en-us Sun, 2 Jan 2005 20:44:40 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1312551/posts Republicans have given up the pretense that their party is the party of small government. “One of the most misunderstood parts of Hoosier culture is that Hoosiers are reluctant of change of any kind,” State Rep. Luke Messer told Brian Howey, publisher of Indianapolis Eye News, in an article that identifies an undercurrent in Indiana to have a constitutional convention. “If we have a strong leader, Hoosiers are willing to step up and make big changes. Bob Knight and Larry Bird were pretty big figures in Hoosier culture and they have been willing to make big changes. What we want... www.lpin.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1312551/posts#comment Sun, 2 Jan 2005 20:44:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1311711/posts After being elected twice as a Republican to the position of county attorney in Anderson County, Kan., Fred Campbell decided following the Nov. 2 elections to drop his Republican Party affiliation in favor of the Libertarian Party, saying the GOP has abandoned the idea of minimal government. Campbell was re-elected in November with no opposition. He has been a Republican for years, primarily because he's "always been in favor of less government rather than more," he said. "I've always thought that the Republican Party was the major party that went along with that philosophy," Campbell explained. "But in the last... www.lp.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1311711/posts#comment Fri, 31 Dec 2004 20:18:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1307763/posts A 12-year-old New Hampshire boy who wanted to jolly up his junior high dance by dressing in a Santa suit instead got a lesson in political correctness when his Scroogelike principal turned the student away, fearing he might offend his classmates. Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1307763/posts#comment Fri, 24 Dec 2004 06:29:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1303584/posts Ashcroft v. Raich, the Supreme Court's medical marijuana case, isn't really about medical marijuana. It's about power -- the power of Congress to exert control, and the power of the Constitution to rein Congress in. The named plaintiff in this case is Angel McClary Raich, a California mother of two afflicted with an awful array of diseases, including tumors in her brain and uterus, asthma, severe weight loss, and endometriosis. To ease her symptoms, doctors put her on dozens of standard medications. When none of them helped, they prescribed marijuana. That did help -- so much so that Raich, who... TownHall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1303584/posts#comment Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:12:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1279906/posts NEW YORK (Nov. 14) -- For some New Yorkers, a shoe sale is an incidental thing, a chance to pick up a pair of loafers, or rummage through racks of heels. For Lorraine Koppell, shoes are a matter worth suing over. Ms. Koppell, a lawyer and the wife of G. Oliver Koppell, a city councilman and a lawyer himself, is part of a class-action lawsuit filed in Manhattan Civil Court this month. Her adversary is Bloomingdale's. The suit, filed by a neighbor who went to the same Bloomingdale's sale, claims that the store misled shoppers in a sale flier last... aolsvc.news.aol.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1279906/posts#comment Sun, 14 Nov 2004 22:35:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1279293/posts I just joined www.smartstocks.com and have created a group for freepers.Its a stock market simulation game that lets you pick real stocks from the stock market and track how well you do with them.They give you 1 million dollars to start out with and they track the rise or fall of the stocks in each group.The group I created is called freepers rule and the password to join the group is freeple.Once you sign up go to the left hand side of the page and click groups then scroll down the list of groups. freepers rule is about 1/4 of... smartstocks.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1279293/posts#comment Sat, 13 Nov 2004 22:03:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1277493/posts Inalienable Rights - what they are, and are not! Libertarianism is a political philosophy that holds that consent is the basis of morality and therefore that any activity - prostitution, "assisted" suicide, you-name-it between consenting adults ought to be legal. Libertarians also believe that man "owns" himself, and therefore may do anything to himself he pleases - use drugs, commit suicide, again, you-name-it. It is logically impossible for Libertarianism to be America's founding philosophy. At least 30 years ago, most Americans could quote the beginning of the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths to be... CitizenSoldier http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1277493/posts#comment Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:34:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1269453/posts Update at 4:30 pm nov 3 results for all presidental candidates ALL CANDIDATES CANDIDATE VOTE TOTAL VOTE % John Kerry, Democrat 55,104,702 48% George W. Bush, Republican (incumbent) 58,640,799 51% Ralph Nader, independent 392,219 0% Michael Badnarik, Libertarian 374,741 0% Michael Peroutka, constitution party 129,162 0% David Cobb, green party 104,591 0% Leonard Peltier, peace and freedom party 21,616 0% Gene Amondson, Prohibition Party 1,895 0% Andy Andress, Unaffiliated (no websites for candidate or party )716 0% Walter Brown, Socialist Party USA 10,258 0% Roger Calero, socialist workers party 5,263 0% Earl F. Dodge, Prohibition party 122 0% Thomas Harens,... chonlalonde.blogspot.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1269453/posts#comment Wed, 3 Nov 2004 22:46:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1265399/posts There's been a lot of vitriol hurled at both Democrats and Republicans this election, but I'd like to focus on one party that has, until this point, largely escaped some richly deserved criticism. The voters. That's right, the precious American voters: Sacred stewards of democracy. You don't have to spin around in an election cycle for long to discover that a shocking number of voters are in fact gullible, greedy, oblivious to facts, or simply fundamentally retarded. However, three types of voters deserve special mention for taking their constitutionally guaranteed right to vote, and essentially wiping their with it. Let's... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1265399/posts#comment Mon, 1 Nov 2004 22:50:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1235963/posts The vice presidential candidates' debate tonight between Republican Vice President Dick Cheney and Democrat Sen. John Edwards, touted by the mass media as a possible pivot point in the presidential election, is missing a vital component -- four other candidates for the same office. Because several candidates were excluded from the "official" debate, there will actually be two debates between vice presidential candidates tonight in Cleveland, Ohio. Libertarian Richard Campagna, Pat LaMarche of the Green Party, Ralph Nader's independent running mate Peter Camejo, and Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party all plan to take part in a debate for "third... www.lp.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1235963/posts#comment Tue, 5 Oct 2004 18:12:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1189168/posts The false spider mite has been revealed as the first known animal to make do with only one set of chromosomes, challenging traditional theories of evolution... Using standard sequencing techniques, Weeks's team found the mites' chromosomes to be very different. As far as the researchers could tell, none of the mites carried two identical copies of any particular gene. They conclude that the species is exclusively haploid. Weeks thinks being exclusively haploid might give the animals an evolutionary advantage... This genetic state may be rare simply because diploidy was "frozen" early in evolution and other animals haven't had the... New Scientist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1189168/posts#comment Wed, 11 Aug 2004 05:16:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/536123/posts I have created a public register of "bump lists" here on Free Republic. I define a bump list as a name listed in the "To" field used to index articles. Free Republic Bump List Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/536123/posts#comment Sun, 30 Sep 2001 11:46:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1145164/posts <p>The world of massively multiplayer online games is often a dangerous place, what with constant threats from bloodthirsty monsters and murderous non-player characters. But now players have even more peril to contend with: addictive drugs that can incapacitate or kill their characters.</p> wired news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1145164/posts#comment Mon, 31 May 2004 15:24:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1130791/posts Yes, I inhale. I am one of more than 100,000 California medical cannabis patients. I use cannabis, marijuana, pot or whatever you want to call it, to alleviate symptoms from post-traumatic stress and bipolar disorders. Cannabis allows me to forget about my neuroses and live a productive life as a student, volunteer, and activist. The U.S. government likes to paint cannabis as an evil monster, but that is not true. Most taxpayers are tired of billions of dollars being spent to wage a drug war that's done nothing but widen the profit margin of drug dealers and placed millions of... the orion http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1130791/posts#comment Thu, 6 May 2004 18:53:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1126214/posts A team of military intelligence and police drug enforcement units rounded up some 50 Muslim residents of the Al-Salam Mosque Compound in Barangay Culiat, Quezon City as part of intensified operations against illegal drugs and firearms in the metropolis. Senior Superintendent Procopio Lipana, chief of the Central Police District-Criminal Investigation Unit (CPD-CIU), said 12 suspects remained under their custody while the rest were released. Lipana identified the 12 as Dawabe Ben Albi Maulana, businessman from Basilan; Musa Sabaddin Abdurahman, 27; Awop Wadja Ignus, 26; Radjail Karawan Tirih, 34; Raquel Francisco Mabajo, 26; Pamaran Alain Awali, 48; Abubakar Cuevas Zunco, 34;... philstar.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1126214/posts#comment Wed, 28 Apr 2004 21:59:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1124079/posts KOZINSKI, Circuit Judge, dissenting from denial of rehearing en banc: Judges know very well how to read the Constitution broadly when they are sympathetic to the right being asserted. We have held, without much ado, that "speech, or... the press" also means the Internet, see Reno v. ACLU, 521 U.S. 844 (1997), and that "persons, houses, papers, and effects" also means public telephone booths, see Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347 (1967). When a particular right comports especially well with our notions of good social policy, we build magnificent legal edifices on elliptical constitutional phrases -- or even the... www.freepatriot.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1124079/posts#comment Sun, 25 Apr 2004 14:51:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1123457/posts A healthy society needs censorship to survive, 1950s musical icon Pat Boone said yesterday. He added that he would welcome strong content restrictions governing movies and other artistic works. "I don't think censorship is a bad word, but it has become a bad word because everybody associates it with some kind of restriction on liberty," said Mr. Boone, who is in Washington making the rounds as the national spokesman for the 60-Plus Association, a conservative senior citizen lobby. washington times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1123457/posts#comment Fri, 23 Apr 2004 23:32:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1123166/posts Amaani Lyle was fired four months into her job for Warner Brothers as a writers' assistant on "Friends" because she couldn't type fast enough to record the writers' dictation accurately. She sued for sexual harassment because the comedy writers would regularly make jokes about women and sex in the process of writing a sitcom about the sexual adventures of six thirty-somethings. A California appeals court has decided that a jury should resolve whether the jokes made by the comedy writers were appropriate for writing a sitcom or whether they created an actionable "hostile working environment for women." Summary judgment was... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1123166/posts#comment Fri, 23 Apr 2004 15:14:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1121099/posts LONDON – When is a spanking more than a spanking? When does parental discipline cross the line from an occasional spank to keep an unruly child in order to a beating? The great parenting debate is now a great federal government debate here. As a new children's bill makes its way through Parliament, ministers and officials are debating whether all forms of corporal punishment - even by parents - should be banned. The government has taken state interference in personal behavior to a new level; it now seems to distrust parents so much that it thinks they can't distinguish between... http://www.csmonitor.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1121099/posts#comment Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:51:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1120607/posts "I won’t go to jail." Bob Schulz announces this in late January to a rapt crowd of 200 gathered in an auditorium in Crystal City, Virginia. It’s the first national conference of the We The People Foundation for Constitutional Education, a nonprofit advocacy group Schulz founded and runs. He delivers his declaration not with reckless bravado but with a dignified, quiet, middle-management-lifer assurance, in keeping with his general mien. Schulz is a serious white male in a nice conservative dark suit, a former environmental engineer for both General Electric and the Environmental Protection Agency. He’s been married for 38 years... reason online.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1120607/posts#comment Mon, 19 Apr 2004 20:45:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1115523/posts PHILADELPHIA - Mark W. Potter, Special Agent in Charge of the Philadelphia Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and Patrick Meehan, United States Attorney, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, announced that Dwight Grant, known throughout the rap music industry as Beanie Sigel, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to violating the federal firearms and narcotics laws. ATF agents and officers of the Philadelphia Police Department arrested Sigel in July 2003, and charged him with being a felon in possession of a firearm. The arrest stemmed from an incident that occurred in April 2003, when... atfonline http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1115523/posts#comment Sun, 11 Apr 2004 16:05:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1113044/posts WASHINGTON (April 6) - Americans may say they know a lot about sexually transmitted diseases but they do not practice what they preach when it comes to defending against them, according to a survey published Tuesday. While one in four Americans will be infected with an STD -- and up to half of younger adults will be -- most of those surveyed believed they were not personally at risk. This is precisely why STDs spread so easily and so pervasively in society, said the American Social Health Association, which published the survey. ''The findings in our survey are quite disturbing.... aolnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1113044/posts#comment Wed, 7 Apr 2004 14:18:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1110665/posts EDMONTON -- Corrections Canada won't let guards at maximum-security prisons wear stab-proof vests because it sends a confrontational "signal" to prisoners, says a department spokesman. "If you have that kind of presence symbolized by (a stab-proof vest), you're sending a signal to the prisoner that you consider him to be a dangerous person," said Tim Krause. "It interferes with what we call 'dynamic security.' We want staff to talk to prisoners, to see how they're doing." At Stony Mountain Institution only guards in the emergency response unit are allowed to wear the stab-proof vests, said unit manager Linda Garwood-Filbert. The... winnipeg sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1110665/posts#comment Sat, 3 Apr 2004 16:01:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1107078/posts Oregon Libertarian Tom Cox is following up on his promise: He said last year -- when he was chairman of the state Libertarian Party -- that Republican legislators in his state who voted to approve a tax hike would be opposed when they came up for re-election. He is now running against one of those Republicans. And his move has been noted -- and applauded -- by local media and lawmakers alike. The Salem Statesman Journal, in the capital city, pointed out that both Libertarians and some Republicans said they would do their utmost to kick those lawmakers out of... www.lp.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1107078/posts#comment Mon, 29 Mar 2004 13:25:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1093086/posts When the World Health Organization (WHO) released its proposed "global strategy on diet, physical activity and health" calling for "fat taxes," the Bush administration noticed something conspicuously missing from the report -- any notion of personal responsibility. Thankfully, the former Director of Communications for WHO's European Office, Franklin Apfel, provides insight into this obvious omission. He recently told a conference in Dublin (as reported in The Irish Times): [W]e are all influenced by 'hazard merchants' selling us a false view of things like tobacco, alcohol and high density foodstuffs -- we're given the impression that these things represent personal choice,... center for consumer freedom http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1093086/posts#comment Mon, 8 Mar 2004 15:37:47 GMT