http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/pitchforkpat/ en-us Wed, 9 Sep 2009 22:56:32 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2335852/posts We like to think Islamism represents only a fringe of the world’s 1.4 billion Muslims. But that’s because we confound Islamists and terrorists. The terrorists — those who commit and materially support violent attacks — are a fringe (bigger than we’d like to think, but still a tiny minority). By contrast, Islamists may be a majority, and, if they’re not, they constitute a very substantial minority. Islamism is not terrorism. To be sure, Islamism includes terrorism in its arsenal. Still, there is major disagreement among Islamists about when violence should be used and how effective it is. In any event,... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2335852/posts#comment Wed, 9 Sep 2009 22:56:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2299557/posts A video that outlines some of the many lies Obama has been passing around over the years. This video is not in support of any political party as they are all bought and paid for by International banks, corporate interests and the Global elite. Think you voted for change? Think again! You can expect more of the same bullshi- agenda of policing the world and nation building at the expense of the tax payer (you and me). It will be interesting to see as the days grow closer Obama realizing he can't change shi-! This should make for some interesting... notoriouslyconservative.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2299557/posts#comment Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:02:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2288911/posts If Barack Obama's idea of ending the occupation in Iraq is to transfer most of the troops to Afghanistan, he won't have accomplished much. The Daily Crux http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2288911/posts#comment Thu, 9 Jul 2009 15:53:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265563/posts “I have to admire the residents of Iroquois territory for assuming that they have a right to determine where Jews lives in Jerusalem.” Thus did Israeli government press director Daniel Seamen caustically dismiss President Obama’s opposition to Israel’s right to “natural growth” of its settlements in Arab East Jerusalem and on the West Bank. Though Obama’s address in Cairo broke no new ground, it confirmed to the world that a new day has arrived and a sea change has taken place. The Israel-centric Middle East policy of George W. Bush is dead. And with the policy change has come rhetorical... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265563/posts#comment Fri, 5 Jun 2009 15:45:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2251083/posts (ChattahBox)—Jesse Ventura appeared on Larry King Live this week and spoke his mind, pulling no punches, telling it like it is, as only a former pro wrestler, former Navy Seal and former Governor of Minnesota can. Larry King asked Ventura his opinions on a variety of political subjects and Ventura began the interview by calling former Senator Norm Coleman a hypocrite and that was just the beginning (Videos below). Ventura took on Norm Coleman for delaying the inevitable and refusing to concede to Al Franken when Coleman himself, called for Franken to concede before the recount, saying Coleman has always... Chattahbox http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2251083/posts#comment Thu, 14 May 2009 21:09:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249533/posts Alleged Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk has arrived in Germany after a flight from the United States. He is expected to stand trial in Germany on charges of helping to murder 29,000 Jews. Demjanjuk arrived in Munich Tuesday after a flight from the northern U.S. city of Cleveland, Ohio. Immigration officials took the 89-year-old Demjanjuk to the airport from his house in an ambulance. Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his final appeal against extradition to Germany. His family unsuccessfully argued that the flight would further endanger his poor health. Germany has charged the former auto worker with being... VOA News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249533/posts#comment Tue, 12 May 2009 21:07:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2242432/posts Rand Paul, son of former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, says he is poised to enter the race for U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning's seat. Paul, who has been stumping across Kentucky, told The Associated Press that "every bone in my body says there is going to be a race." But the Bowling Green physician said he won't run unless Bunning opts out. Paul is a fan of Bunning's conservative fiscal philosophy and said he simply wants to be ready to jump into the race quickly if the 77-year-old senator decides to retire instead of seeking re-election next year. Bunning has... WBKO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2242432/posts#comment Fri, 1 May 2009 23:53:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2214006/posts "The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency," said Lord Keynes. Ben Bernanke disagrees. A student of the Depression, the Fed chair appears far more fearful of deflation -- a vicious cycle of falling prices, debt defaults, home foreclosures and rising unemployment. Deflation is what America underwent in the 1930s. A Fed-created bubble burst, causing margin calls to go out to stockholders, who ran to their banks that, besieged, collapsed, wiping out a third of our money. As Milton Friedman, who won a Nobel for his thesis that the Federal Reserve caused the Great Depression,... Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2214006/posts#comment Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:55:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2215836/posts Barack says we need to have a conversation about race in America. Fair enough. But this time, it has to be a two-way conversation. White America needs to be heard from, not just lectured to. This time, the silent majority needs to have its convictions, grievances and demands heard. And among them are these: First, America has been the best country on earth for Black folks. It was here that 600,000 Black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity... Westside Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2215836/posts#comment Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:03:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2205817/posts It’s an explosive charge, one that I’m not in a position to evaluate. So let me just lay it out. On today’s Morning Joe, Pat Buchanan suggested that the Obama administration might like to see Afghani President Hamid Karzai given the same treatment as Ngo Dinh Diem. Readers will recall that Diem was the first President of South Vietnam. He was executed by rebels after the Kennedy administration reportedly signaled Vietnamese generals that the US would not interfere if they carried out a coup d’etat against him. Here’s the exchange: SCARBOROUGH: You know, Pat, I read over the weekend that... FinkelBlog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2205817/posts#comment Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:50:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2200610/posts Heeding the advice of Gen. David Petraeus, Barack Obama has committed 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan and will keep 50,000 in Iraq after U.S. combat operations end in August 2010. But are U.S. vital interests more threatened by what happens in Anbar or Helmand than in the war raging along our southern border? Prediction: After all U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and Korea have come home, there will be a U.S. army on the Mexican border. For this is where the fate of our republic will be decided, as the fate of Europe will be decided by the millions streaming... humanevents.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2200610/posts#comment Fri, 6 Mar 2009 14:27:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2175678/posts Mark Steyn: Stimulated right into being another Europe Plan also could trigger protectionist backlash, just like during the Depression. Mark Steyn Syndicated columnist Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, is on TV explaining the (at this point the congregation shall fall to its knees and prostrate itself) "stimulus." "How," asks the lady from CBS, "does $335 million in STD prevention stimulate the economy?" "I'll tell you how," says Speaker Pelosi. "I'm a big believer in prevention. And we have, er… there is a part of the bill on the House side that is about prevention. It's about it being less... ocregister http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2175678/posts#comment Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:26:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2141814/posts Arguably the most successful act of revolutionary terror was the June 1914 assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand in Sarajevo. Believing his mission to murder the heir to the Austrian throne had failed, Gavrilo Princip suddenly found himself standing a few feet away from the royal car. He fired twice, mortally wounding the archduke and his wife. Tactically, that act of terror eliminated the reformist Ferdinand, who meant to address the grievances of his Slav subjects by granting them greater autonomy and equality with Austrians and Hungarians inside the empire. Strategically, the assassination succeeded beyond the wildest dreams of its... Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2141814/posts#comment Wed, 3 Dec 2008 00:54:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2139922/posts Barack Obama and George W. Bush seem to have come away from their study of the Great Depression with similar conclusions: To wit: After the Crash of 1929, the Federal Reserve did not move fast enough to save the banks and inject cash into the economy. Second, the New Deal, far from being wastrel deficit spending, was not bold enough. So it was that America wallowed in depression for a decade until the unbridled spending and mammoth deficits of World War II pulled us out. Bush and Obama seem determined not to make the same mistake. We are all Keynesians... WorldNetDaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2139922/posts#comment Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:32:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2136071/posts Who killed the U.S. auto industry? To hear the media tell it, arrogant corporate chiefs failed to foresee the demand for small, fuel-efficient cars and made gas-guzzling road-hog SUVs no one wanted, while the clever, far-sighted Japanese, Germans and Koreans prepared and built for the future. I dissent. What killed Detroit was Washington, the government of the United States, politicians, journalists and muckrakers who have long harbored a deep animus against the manufacturing class that ran the smokestack industries that won World War II. As far back as the 1950s, worldnetdaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2136071/posts#comment Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:05:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2149673/posts "GOP to Detroit: Drop Dead!" So may have read the headline Friday, had not President Bush stepped in to save GM, Ford and Chrysler, which Senate Republicans had just voted to send to the knacker's yard. What are Republicans thinking of, pulling the plug, at Christmas, on GM, risking swift death for the greatest manufacturing company in American history, a strategic asset and pillar of the U.S. economy. The $14 billion loan to the Big Three that Republican senators filibustered to death is just 2 percent of the $700 billion the Senate voted to bail out Wall Street. Having gone... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2149673/posts#comment Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:41:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2151368/posts “GOP to Detroit: Drop Dead!” So may have read the headline Friday, had not President George Bush stepped in to save GM, Ford and Chrysler, which Senate Republicans had just voted to send to the knacker’s yard. What are Republicans thinking of, pulling the plug, at Christmas, on GM, risking swift death for the greatest manufacturing company in American history, a strategic asset and pillar of the U.S. economy. The $14 billion loan to the Big Three that Republican senators filibustered to death is just 2 percent of the $700 billion the Senate voted to bail out Wall Street. Having... The Bulletin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2151368/posts#comment Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:42:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2154346/posts George Bush, Protectionist by Patrick J. Buchanan (more by this author) Posted 12/26/2008 ET "I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system," President Bush told CNN, defending his offer of $17 billion in loans to the Big Three "to make sure the economy doesn't collapse." Thus did Bush concede that protectionism, if a critical U.S. industry is in peril, must trump free-trade ideology. For in offering the bailout to GM, Ford and Chrysler, Bush, by omission, excluded BMW, Mercedes, Honda, Toyota, Nissan and Hyundai -- though all operate auto plants here in the United States and all are... HumanEvents http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2154346/posts#comment Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:46:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159368/posts he moment Israel began its war of defense against the missiles being fired at her citizens from Hamas launching pads in Gaza, the United Nations, the communist and dictatorship countries, the Europeans and the Arab/ Muslim states began their predictable condemnation of Israel. Though not as severe as those just mentioned, Pat Buchanan embarked on a journalistic blitz with the similar goal of stopping Israel from defeating its terrorist attackers and asking the upcoming Obama administration to declare it will not support Israel. Buchanan ("Bush, Obama, and the Gaza Blitz", 12/30/08, HUMAN EVENTS) questions “the wisdom of so savage a... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159368/posts#comment Tue, 6 Jan 2009 02:51:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2156084/posts Unwilling to control its fighters, who fired scores of missiles into Israel at the end of their six-month ceasefire, Hamas gave Israel the provocation it needed to deliver a savage blow to the Palestinian enclave in Gaza. Saturday was the bloodiest day in the history of the Palestinian people since being driven from their homes in the War of 1948. One thousand were killed or wounded, as the Israeli Air Force conducted over a hundred strikes -- on graduation ceremonies for Hamas fighters, police stations and storage sites for rockets. About Israel's right and duty to defend its border towns,... Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2156084/posts#comment Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:26:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2155338/posts (...) By traditional free-trade theory, a nation should import what it does not produce from the nations that produce it most cheaply. But in 1946, Japan produced almost no steel, no TVs and no cars. Instead of buying them from America, Tokyo subsidized its own steel, TV and auto industries for decades, and protected their market. Now, as Sony did to Philco and Dumont, Toyota, Honda and Nissan are taking down Ford, GM and Chrysler. Were the Japanese foolish to subsidize their industries and protect their market? Were we wise to let our TV industry be taken down, and watch... Creators Syndicate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2155338/posts#comment Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:26:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2161537/posts Here is video of conservative pundit Pat Buchanan on MSNBC yesterday making comments about Israel that are just amazing. Buchanan likens Israel's Ground Offensive in Gaza to the Nazi "blitzkrieg," actually using the word in describing it. He also went a step further and says that Gaza is an "Israeli concentration camp," where "cruelty" by Israel is taking place. Let's step back for a moment. I have always liked Pat Buchanan's analysis when he is talking about inside the Beltway political matters. He is a very good analyst on those things. But he has real blinders when it comes to... Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2161537/posts#comment Fri, 9 Jan 2009 14:13:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2161315/posts I like Pat Buchanan. I do. He's wise, funny and charming. But every once in a while . . . Like tonight. If Buchanan wants to criticize Israel's conduct of the current war, and its treatment of the Palestinians, so be it. But in doing so, is it really necessary to employ terms associated with the Nazis? Appearing on "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue," Buchanan accused Israel of carrying out a "blitzkrieg" against Gaza and turning it into a "concentration camp." View video here. NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2161315/posts#comment Fri, 9 Jan 2009 01:34:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2160610/posts * The 20 percent spending increase projected for 2009 represents the largest government expansion since the 1952 height of the Korean War (adjusted for inflation). * In 2009, federal spending is projected to reach 25 percent of GDP—the highest level in American history outside of World War II. The next economic “stimulus” package would push this total even higher. * From 2001 through 2008, federal spending surged 60 percent—6.9 percent per year, on average. Had spending increases been limited to 35 percent—4.4 percent annually—the 2008 budget would have been in balance. * The projected 2009 budget deficit of 8.6 percent... Heritage Foundation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2160610/posts#comment Thu, 8 Jan 2009 00:47:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2136294/posts Who killed the U.S. auto industry? To hear the media tell it, arrogant corporate chiefs failed to foresee the demand for small, fuel-efficient cars and made gas-guzzling road-hog SUVs no one wanted, while the clever, far-sighted Japanese, Germans and Koreans prepared and built for the future. I dissent. What killed Detroit was Washington, the government of the United States, politicians, journalists and muckrakers who have long harbored a deep animus against the manufacturing class that ran the smokestack industries that won World War II. As far back as the 1950s, an intellectual elite that produces mostly methane had its knives... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2136294/posts#comment Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:03:08 GMT