http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/politics/ en-us Mon, 4 Jan 2010 06:30:13 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420407/posts PLAINS, GA (WALB) – A doll found hanging off of a building in Plains is causing controversy.Controversial enough to get the United States Secret Service involved. Witnesses say it was an image of President Barack Obama with a rope around his neck and the display was found hanging in one of the city's most recognizable sites dedicated to former President Jimmy Carter.A few people were able to snap pictures of the black doll before it was taken down. The doll was hanging on a building on Main Street in Plains."I saw this stuffed thing hanging up," said Alonzo Davis, Plains... Hotair Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420407/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 06:30:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420317/posts State Sen. Robert Hurt has proposed the 5th District GOP host five debates before the June primary for the seven candidates hoping to challenge Democratic incumbent Rep. Tom Perriello in November. In a news release sent Thursday, Hurt called on all 21 Republican unit chairs in the district to work together to sponsor, schedule and plan the debates across the district in the coming months. “I believe that by having the local Republican committees develop the plan for these five debates, Republican voters across the 5th District will be well served by increased debate attendance, greater participation by smaller units... Danville News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420317/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 02:24:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420311/posts President Obama on Tuesday inadvertently blamed George W. Bush for a startling drop in U.S. crime in the first half of 2009. According to the FBI, murder and manslaughter fell by 10 percent, all violent crimes were off 4.4 percent, rape was down 3.3 percent and property crimes declined 6.1 percent, continuing trends begun in 2008. Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420311/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 02:08:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420296/posts A spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service said the agency is investigating an effigy of President Barack Obama found hanging from a building in the Georgia hometown of former President Jimmy Carter. Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan told The Associated Press that the large black doll was found Saturday morning along Main Street in the small town of Plains. According to footage from WALB-TV, the doll was hanging by a noose in front of a red, white and blue sign that says "Plains, Georgia. Home of Jimmy Carter, our 39th President." A witness told the television station that the doll... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420296/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 01:25:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420240/posts The internal threat from Muslim extremists in the military extends to high-level Defense Department aides who have undermined military policy. In fact, one top Muslim adviser pushed out an intelligence analyst who warned of the sudden jihad syndrome that led to the Fort Hood terrorist attack... Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420240/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 22:57:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420120/posts Yet new regulations proposed by the administration, and specifically by the ever-incompetent Securities and Exchange Commission, seek to pull one of these three core pillars from the foundation of the entire money market industry, by changing the primary assumptions of the key Money Market Rule 2a-7. A key proposal in the overhaul of money market regulation suggests that money market fund managers will have the option to "suspend redemptions to allow for the orderly liquidation of fund assets." You read that right: this does not refer to the charter of procyclical, leveraged, risk-ridden, transsexual (allegedly) portfolio manager-infested hedge funds like... zero hedge http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420120/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 19:29:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420150/posts The U.S. Government is offering the suspect charged with attempting to bomb an aircraft on Christmas Day, Omar Abdulmutallab, some kind of incentives to share what he knows about Al Qaeda, White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan said Sunday. Asked why Abdulmutallab should cooperate given his right, as criminal defendant, to remain silent, Brennan replied: "He doesn't have to but he knows there are certain things that are on the table... if he wants to engage with us in a productive manner, there are ways he can do that." Asked if Abdulmutallab's willingness to talk changed once he had an... politico.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420150/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 20:17:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420156/posts I am not sure I understand why we did not hear from Sarah Palin about Yemen - the terrorist bomber - AND why she is not speaking out to help Brown in MA. Your thoughts? fr http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420156/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 20:27:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420105/posts French President Nicolas Sarkozy has gone cold on his US counterpart Barack Obama, the Financial Times (FT) reported Monday. Sarkozy, whose pro-Washington stance has seen him nicknamed "Sarko the American," stressed that France and the US were "the same family" during his first face-to-face meeting with Obama in April since the US elections last year. But the French president has clashed since then with his US counterpart on a series of issues, raising the question of whether Sarkozy is reverting to the anti-US posture of his predecessor, Jacques Chirac. "He has now shifted from a pro-Bush position to an anti-Obama... The Global Times of China http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420105/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 19:10:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2420118/posts We elected you on a promise of hope and change. You've disappointed us. In 2010, we are taking the country back. Blue collar democrats, independents, and conservatives. We love our country. We are proud of our founders. And we will fight to protect our traditions. We don't want your revolution. Youtube video 3:11 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2420118/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 19:27:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420028/posts The Future Of The United States, Systemic Fraud, Corruption And Financial Instability Politics / US Politics Jan 03, 2010 - 01:16 AM By: Global Research Craig Harris writes: As we close out 2009 and look forward into 2010 and beyond, this has been a year of near financial catastrophe and monumental change, none of which benefited America or ordinary Americans. Late in 2008 and throughout 2009, events have happened in the US which would have been labeled unfathomable just a few short years ago, and yet already these monumental changes are expected to be filed into the memory hole and... The Market Oracle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420028/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 16:49:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420024/posts JANUARY: No primaries scheduled. FEBRUARY: Illinois [February 2] MARCH: Texas [March 2] APRIL: No primaries scheduled. MAY: Indiana, North Carolina, Ohio [May 4]; Nebraska, West Virginia [May 11]; Arkansas, Kentucky, Oregon, Pennsylvania [May 18]; Idaho [May 25]. JUNE: Alabama, Mississippi, New Mexico [June 1]; California, Iowa, Maine, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia [June 8]; Utah [June 22] JULY: Georgia [July 20]; Oklahoma [July 27] AUGUST: Kansas, Michigan, Missouri [August 3]; Tennessee [August 5]; Colorado, Connecticut [August 10]; Washington, Wyoming [August 17]; Alaska, Arizona, Florida [August 24]; Louisiana [August 28 (1st Party Congressional)] SEPTEMBER: Delaware,... America Chooses http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420024/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 16:40:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419963/posts Take President Obama’s poor timing in response to a failed terrorist attack on a U.S. jetliner, add the politicization of that event by his surrogates and a ridiculous message by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, and what do you get? A complete failure when it comes to a commander-in-chief’s most important job: Protecting Americans from harm. “It was arrogant and stupid,” one Democrat strategist, who supported Obama the candidate, admits privately. “The president needed to set the initial tone on a matter of such importance,” said Mark Rozell, professor of public policy at George Mason University. “Press secretaries don't calm... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419963/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 14:44:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420000/posts What Should Cheney Do? Internet Poll http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2420000/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 15:59:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419945/posts Video: Will the traditional newspaper survive the rise in news by collective content? Prediction: By the end of 2010 one of the "big 3" networks will no longer be doing an evening newscast! Dittos Rush! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419945/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 14:07:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419777/posts As you start to read all this, you'll laugh at how incestuous it all gets. Let's start with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which as I've noted in the past is tied in with the Soros foundation. Together, the two worked on something called The Project on Death in America.(PDIA) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2341083/posts And speaking of Mr Soros, he himself(his foundations) have given directly to NPR. Compared to some of the other numbers I'm seeing, it's a small amount of $250,000. But it doesn't matter. Soros money is soros money in my book. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2396058/posts Additional information about RWJF can be found here.... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419777/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 01:41:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419651/posts I have no grand insights to offer but this is too awful and too … astounding, really, to be relegated to Headlines. These people were the tip of the American spear against jihadist kingpins in the Afghan/Pakistani border region, the innermost circle in a big Venn diagram that starts with the CIA, proceeds to the units tasked with finding intel on AQ, and ends with the elite charged with building the target list for drone operators. In one split second, that last circle was practically erased. If you thought the biggest security breach of the past week was Flight 253,... Hotair http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419651/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 20:09:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419632/posts A handful of residents signed up to vote in towns across Cape Cod this week, as the registration deadline passed to be eligible to vote in this month's U.S. Senate election. From Barnstable to Chatham to Falmouth, most towns across the Cape saw fewer than 10 voters register Wednesday, the final day to register and be eligible to vote in the Jan. 19 special election between state Attorney General Martha Coakley, a Medford Democrat, and state Sen. Scott Brown, R-Wrentham. The pair are vying to fill the U.S. Senate seat held by Edward M. Kennedy until his death in August.... http://www.capecodonline.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419632/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 19:24:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419576/posts In his weekly radio address yesterday, President Barack Obama patted himself on the back for having "refocused the fight - bringing to a responsible end the war in Iraq, which had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks". He then told people to remember that "our adversaries are those who would attack our country, not our fellow Americans", before decrying "fear and cynicism" and "partisanship and division" - the code phrases for horrid Republicans used during his 2008 election campaign. Complacency, faux moralising and partisan shots at Republicans. It was a neat summary of where Obama is going wrong after... London Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419576/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 17:50:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419560/posts AP video: President Barack Obama took his daughters and a posse of about 20 people for a Hawaiian treat -- shaved ice. He ordered the combo named for himself -- the "snowbama." It's flavored with lemon-lime, cherry and passion-guava syrups. No, it's not tax-free! Dittos Rush! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419560/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 17:18:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419544/posts A series of conversations between Dr Thielicke and American Christians... book on Amazon http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419544/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 16:48:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419504/posts Congressman Barney Frank has fostered yet another queer deal for Americans. Having introduced HR 4173, better known as the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the Slobbering Congressman once again flouts his responsibilities as a defender of the Constitution, by introducing a bill that fleeces Main Street America in favor of his financial contributors in the banking sector. Bloomberg.com reports: [The bill] supports the biggest banks. It authorizes Federal Reserve banks to provide as much as $4 trillion in emergency funding the next time Wall Street crashes. So much for "no-more-bailouts" talk. That is more than twice what the... MyFreePress http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419504/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 15:23:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419500/posts As a Christian, it is your obligation to use the pulpit in America to defend Constitutional and political values. America was founded on Judeo Christian values, deferring to God, for the rights bestowed upon us. Those who have access to the pulpit must lead by example. Do not be shy about addressing the Islamic threat, the Marxist threat, the funding of abortion with parishioner money and any number of other issues that are wreaking havoc upon the lives of the folks who look to you for guidance. TheCypressTimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419500/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 15:11:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419498/posts AP Video: In his most direct public language to date, the president described the path through Yemen of 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian accused of trying to destroy Northwest Flight 253. The president also emphasized that the United States would continue its partnerships with friendly countries—citing Yemen, in particular—to fight terrorists and extremist groups around the globe. Dittos Rush! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419498/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 15:09:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419435/posts Fox News video: Conservative talk radio show host Rush Limbaugh said Friday that tests show nothing wrong with his heart after chest pains hospitalized him earlier this week. Limbaugh said at a Honolulu news conference that he was being released from The Queen's Medical Center, where he was rushed Wednesday during a vacation. Doctors said he did not have a heart attack or heart disease. Dittos Rush! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2419435/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 13:12:49 GMT