http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/projection/ en-us Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:18:06 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412281/posts Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) today took shots at those who are not supporting the health care legislation. During a floor speech, he excoriated Senate GOP members for up holding the pending health care bill and accused their supporters of being birthers and fanatics in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups. Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412281/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:18:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385932/posts MUSLIM parents have told how their children were also victims of abuse and bullying from other students as they fasted during the daylight hours of Ramadan. The families said yesterday some "Christian" children provoked Muslim students by thrusting food or drinks in their faces during observance of the sacred religious month. They were responding to a couple's claims that their son Antonios Grigorious, 11, was bullied by Muslim students because he ate a salami sandwich during Ramadan at Punchbowl Public School in Sydney's southwest. A Muslim mother-of-two, Lourenz Mahmoud, said yesterday she had complained to teachers at Punchbowl Public about... Daily Telegraph (Sydney) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385932/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:09:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360663/posts NEW YORK (AP) - One of President Barack Obama's top aides says Fox News Channel acts like a wing of the Republican Party. White House Communications Director Anita Dunn told CNN's "Reliable Sources" on Sunday that Fox News operates "almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party." It's another sign of the White House's aggressively going after Fox. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2360663/posts#comment Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:59:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2338847/posts Yes, the picture is real, nutroots By Michelle Malkin  •  September 12, 2009 10:51 PM I was offline for most of the afternoon and early evening — and just learned that the nutroots are claiming that the screenshot of the 9/12 march in D.C. that I posted — taken from a livecam of the event that I linked to here — is somehow “fake.”The claim is that the shot came from the Kennedy procession or a previous left-wing protest and that the flag at half-mast proves that it was “fake.”Newsflash for the clueless: Flags were still at half-mast earlier today in... Michelle Malkin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2338847/posts#comment Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:37:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2335876/posts President Obama plans to argue Wednesday night in a high-stakes address to Congress that the country's health care system is at a "breaking point," as he urges lawmakers to stop "bickering" and pass comprehensive reform. "The time for games has passed. Now is the season for action," Obama said in remarks prepared for delivery before a joint session of Congress. "Now is the time to deliver on health care." Obama is stressing his resolve to bring lawmakers together and clear away hurdles to passing an overhaul package. "I am not the first president to take up this cause, but I... via drudge http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2335876/posts#comment Wed, 9 Sep 2009 23:33:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321566/posts WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration will raise its 10-year budget deficit projection to roughly $9 trillion from $7.108 trillion in a report next week, a senior administration official told Reuters on Friday. "The new forecasts are based on new data that reflect how severe the economic downturn was in the late fall of last year and the winter of this year," said the official, who is familiar with the plans. "Our budget projections are now in line with the spring and summer projections that the Congressional Budget Office put out." The CBO said in June that deficits between 2010... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2321566/posts#comment Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:31:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318801/posts Try this on for size: Palinism. What is it? It is an updated version of McCarthyism, which takes its name from the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin liar, demagogue and drunk, and means, according to Wikipedia, "reckless, unsubstantiated accusations, as well as demagogic attacks on the character or patriotism of political adversaries." As far as we know, Sarah Palin is not a drunk. But she certainly shares McCarthy's other attributes -- and this one as well: the ability to drive the debate. In McCarthy's day, it was anti-communism coupled with national security, and it hardly mattered that he frequently... Washington comPost http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2318801/posts#comment Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:26:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2312829/posts Talk about "manufactured outrage!" These people could give the right lessons in how to do it!Thanks "Missy" for passing this along: Now is our chance to make health care work. America’s health care system is broken. Health care costs are spiraling out of control, throwing families, businesses and government into financial crisis. Families are worried their health coverage won’t be there when they need it. Our country can’t afford to wait for health reform that keeps costs down and protects consumers. We can’t wait for affordable, dependable health care. We’re fighting for health care that will protect families’ financial health,... Flopping Aces http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2312829/posts#comment Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:25:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309331/posts Nancy Pelosi says townhall protestors carry swastikas. ... YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309331/posts#comment Thu, 6 Aug 2009 03:33:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271413/posts I still remember the knot in my stomach upon seeing the sea of white faces from the window of our school bus. It was the first day of school 1961. We came from a neighboring black community, about a hundred or so of us, to the newly integrated white Jr/Sr high school with thousands of students. Everything intimidated me, the massive school building, being around whites for the first time, feeling small, seventh grade school work (would I measure up) and my stutter. The night before, I shared my fears with my preacher dad. Dad gave his typical answer, "Trust God". Someone... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271413/posts#comment Sun, 14 Jun 2009 07:21:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2256974/posts Finally tonight, as promised, a Special Comment about Mr. Cheney's speech. Neurotic. Paranoid. False to fact and false to reason. Forever self-rationalizing. His inner rage at his own impotence and failure dripping from every word and as irrational, as separated from the real world, as dishonest, as insane, as any terrorist. MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2256974/posts#comment Sat, 23 May 2009 18:33:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2249216/posts ROSWELL, New Mexico, May 12 /Christian Newswire/ -- Alien Resistance, a Christian counter-cult outreach ministry, will hold an all-Christian-speaker Symposium on aliens during the annual Roswell UFO Festival July 3-5th, 2009. The 11 participants include 4 PhDs, 2 doctorates of ministry, 2 pastors, 2 ordained ministers, and several pastoral counselors, with 12 books written between them on the UFO/Alien topic. The Symposium will educate on the UFO/alien topic from a Biblical Christian perspective, with emphasis on counter-cult evangelism, creationism, and spiritual warfare. The event is free for the public to attend, and will be held at the Best Western Sally... Christian News Wire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2249216/posts#comment Tue, 12 May 2009 13:58:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2213775/posts Why is it that in descriptions of the words and activities of Rush Limbaugh, it is not pointed out the obvious similarity of Limbaugh and Adolph Hitler. Rush knows exactly what he has started. Do you remember how overbearing, intimidating and feared Sen. Joseph McCarthy became before his crudities and chilling attacks on patriotic citizens was stopped? The rise of Hitler came about through use of the same strident, rancorous and dangerous appeal to a populace who had suffered military defeat and in times of embarrassment for their loss of economic power – how the Germans suffered because of inflation... In Forum, ND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2213775/posts#comment Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:07:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2209607/posts Memory eventually fails us all, but apparently the decline strikes one party far more than the other. In recent weeks, my friends across the aisle have expended a lot of breath proclaiming that the Democrats caused the present financial crisis by failing to pass legislation to regulate financial services companies in the years 1995 through 2006. There is only small one problem with this story -- throughout this entire period the Republicans were in complete charge of the House and for the most critical years they controlled the House, the Senate, and the Presidency. In the House of Representatives, the... Huffington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2209607/posts#comment Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:54:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2207790/posts The New Scientist had a story by their book editor Amanda Gefter called "How to Spot a Hidden Religious Agenda". Today, it was pulled from their web site; the explanation being that they "received a complaint about the contents of the story." You can still find a copy here, and we've copied the text until we find out what caused them to pull the story. Here's the opening: ---------------------------------------------------------------- As a book reviews editor at New Scientist, I often come across so-called science books which after a few pages reveal themselves to be harbouring ulterior motives. I have learned to... Skepticism Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2207790/posts#comment Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:11:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2189117/posts Artist Says Slain Animal Was Not Meant to Be Obama An editorial cartoon in Wednesday's New York Post that some say compares President Obama to a chimpanzee is being denounced as insensitive at best and racist at worst. The cartoonist denied he had Obama in mind. The cartoon, drawn for the Page Six section by Sean Delonas, who has been criticized for previous work, shows two policemen, one with a smoking gun, looking at a dead chimpanzee. One says, "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill." The chimpanzee reference is to a 200-pound chimp that... Maynard Institute http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2189117/posts#comment Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:29:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2151233/posts On election night, hope was palpable. A sort of jittery excitement filled the air at the Catoosa Democratic Headquarters in Ringgold, Ga. A year ago, the local party was lucky to have 20 people at a breakfast meeting. Now, giddy Obama supporters edged past each other in the crowded banquet hall, sharing smiles and ogling the vast array of T-shirts and buttons. “Your grandparents were right,” read one sticker, “Vote Democratic.” For decades, this area has been Democratic. That’s the reason we are known for having some of the best public schools around. It’s the reason we have a fabulous... Catoosa County News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2151233/posts#comment Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:55:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2116282/posts “If no signs of intimidation techniques have emerged yet, launch a ‘pre-emptive strike.’” The manual said this should be done by placing stories in mainstream and specialty press “in which minority leadership expresses concern about the threat of intimidation tactics” and “prime minority leadership to discuss the issue in the media; provide talking points.” Town Hall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2116282/posts#comment Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:44:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2110803/posts Source link If your television declares John McCain the president elect on the evening of November 4th, your television will be lying. You should immediately pick up your pre-packed bags and head straight to the White House in Washington, D.C., which we will surround and shut down until this attempt at a third illegitimate presidency is reversed. A McCain "win" will not be illegitimate because I disagree with his policies, but because he himself has rendered it illegitimate. He and his campaign and allied supporters have sought to illegally remove hundreds of thousands of voters from the rolls, fraudulently registered... Global Research http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2110803/posts#comment Tue, 21 Oct 2008 02:05:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099255/posts TEN words keep ringing in my ears, long after Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin supposedly redeemed herself and put to rest the nation's worst fears about the bottom of the Republican ticket. "How long have I been at this?" she asked during last week's high-stakes vice presidential debate. "Like, five weeks?" Say it ain't so, Joe, she's right. No question, Palin killed. She's great on television when she's got rehearsed lines to deliver and no follow-up questions to answer. She's brash and disarming, and she makes you want to send her to Washington and give those boys a big whack on... The Seattle Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099255/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 02:57:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099221/posts BOSTON (AP) - Rep. Barney Frank said Monday that Republican criticism of Democrats over the nation's housing crisis is a veiled attack on the poor that's racially motivated. The Massachusetts Democrat, chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, said the GOP is appealing to its base by blaming the country's mortgage foreclosure problem on efforts to expand affordable housing through the Community Reinvestment Act. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099221/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 02:10:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098966/posts ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama counterattacked on Sunday against a new Republican tactic by saying rival John McCain was more interested in a smear campaign than fixing the U.S. economy. The Obama campaign unveiled an ad hitting McCain as one of the "Keating Five" senators who met federal regulators on behalf of a California savings and loan institution that collapsed in 1989. The ad faults McCain as unwilling to regulate the financial industry. With McCain losing ground in opinion polls, a campaign strategist was quoted as saying the Republican presidential candidate needed to "turn the page" on... yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098966/posts#comment Mon, 6 Oct 2008 21:09:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2092226/posts The personality is familiar to us all: the sweet old aunt, the loving grandfather or the generous widow down the street, each of them unfailingly kind toward friends and family but given to flights of shocking prejudice when the conversation turns toward ethnic groups to which they don't belong. Often the response is a nervous laugh, a wan smile or a hasty effort to change the subject. We assume that old people are the products of less-enlightened times; they're unlikely to change; and their comments, however ugly, are largely innocuous. Now, though, in the midst of the nation's first presidential... Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2092226/posts#comment Sun, 28 Sep 2008 06:01:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2090842/posts I spent the past week in New York, helping my mother recover from surgery. It was a new role for me, taking care of my mom. It must, I think, have been somewhat destabilizing. Perhaps when previously untapped wells of care-for-others are accessed, there’s no stopping the flow. Or perhaps it was just that, after five days locked in stare-downs with my mother’s cat, my eyes were playing tricks on me. This may explain why, on Tuesday afternoon when I went to The Times Web site and saw the photo of Sarah Palin with Henry Kissinger, a funny thing happened.... nytimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2090842/posts#comment Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:51:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088096/posts It sounds like the rabid rantings of some poor demented shlub posting at the Democratic Underground. Instead, it is Al Gore's former fashion adviser, Naomi Wolf, indulging in sanity-challenged fantasies on her Huffington Post blog. The target of Wolf's derangement is Sarah Palin and it is so over the top that one might suspect Wolf is an agent provocateur working for conservatives in order to discredit the left. Think I'm kidding? Check out this sampling of Wolf's plunge off the political deep end (emphasis mine): Please understand what you are looking at when you look at Sarah "Evita" Palin. You... Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2088096/posts#comment Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:14:58 GMT