http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/ratcrime/ en-us Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:05:57 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281389/posts Wichita, KS (Lifenews.com) -- An abortion advocate attacked the national headquarters of the pro-life group Operation Rescue on Friday. The attack saw someone attempt to disabled the pro-life organization's security system. LifeNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281389/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:05:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281421/posts The New Culture of CorruptionDemocrats step up their corruption game By ROBERT A. GEORGE Updated 7:45 PM EDT, Fri, Jun 26, 2009 New joke going around Washington: "Republicans hike the Appalachian Trail; Democrats hike your taxes. Either way, someone's getting screwed." As, the old saying goes -- some of the truest things are said in jest. Washington Republicans -- more in the minority than they have been in decades -- are somewhat haplessly hoping that the Democrats mess up their own policies, rather than figure out how to stop them themselves. So, in the meantime, they keep themselves busy by... NBC Philadelphia.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281421/posts#comment Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:27:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281049/posts William Jefferson's activities cast as "official acts" by witnesses in corruption trialby Bruce Alpert, The Times-Picayune Friday June 26, 2009, 9:20 PM ALEXANDRIA, VA. -- Prosecutors called five witnesses Friday they hope convinced jurors that former Rep. William Jefferson engaged in "official acts" to promote a telecommunications project in return for payments and promised payments they describe as bribes. The issue is critical to the government's corruption case against the New Orleans Democrat. Prosecutors contend Jefferson solicited payments and stock from iGate Inc., a telecommunications company, to the ANJ Group, a firm controlled by his wife, Andrea Jefferson, in return... NOLA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281049/posts#comment Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:59:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281068/posts Conyers says little about wife's legal troublesBy COREY WILLIAMS and JEFF KAROUB, The Associated Press 11:15 a.m. June 27, 2009 DETROIT — On the day City Councilwoman Monica Conyers stepped into a federal courtroom at home in Detroit to plead guilty to bribery, her husband was at home in Washington. Several of Rep. John Conyers' colleagues in the U.S. House said they weren't aware his wife could soon wind up spending five years in prison. Rather than take the easy shot, the top Republican on the House ethics committee declined to comment. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat and... Sign On San Diego http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2281068/posts#comment Sun, 28 Jun 2009 11:15:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280535/posts CHICO, Calif.—A Chico man has been arrested on suspicion of trying to run over an anti-abortion protester. Chico police say 40-year-old Matthew Haver was aiming his sport utility vehicle at 69-year-old James Cantfield, who was not injured. Investigators say Haver apparently became enraged when a child traveling with him asked about a sign Cantfield was holding. The sign showed an aborted fetus. Mercury News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2280535/posts#comment Sat, 27 Jun 2009 06:47:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2280552/posts We hope that Mrs. Conyers prison time will allow her an opportunity to UNITE, and will ultimately serve to gain much needed clarity that will see her embracing and protecting American FREEDOMS which were afforded to her by the great sacrifices of millions of Americans. The Daily Change http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2280552/posts#comment Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:37:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279547/posts House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. has backed off his plan to investigate wrongdoing by the liberal activist group ACORN, saying "powers that be" put the kibosh on the idea. Mr. Conyers, Michigan Democrat, earlier bucked his party leaders by calling for hearings on accusations the Association of Community Organization for Reform Now (ACORN) has committed crimes ranging from voter fraud to a mob-style "protection" racket. "The powers that be decided against it," Mr. Conyers told The Washington Times. The chairman declined to elaborate, shrugging off questions about who told him how to run his committee and give the... Wash. Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279547/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:15:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278786/posts Information compiled from the Washington Post, “Congressional Sex Scandals in History,” and other sources. Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2278786/posts#comment Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:01:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276049/posts The Clinton administration's interest in an international agreement to combat global warming also dovetailed with Enron's business plans. Enron officials envisioned the company at the center of a new trading system, in which industries worldwide could buy and sell credits to emit carbon dioxide as part of a strategy to reduce greenhouse gases. Such a system would curtail the use of inefficient coal-fired power plants that emitted large amounts of carbon dioxide, while encouraging new investments in gas-fired plants and pipelines -- precisely Enron's line of business. Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2276049/posts#comment Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:49:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2273291/posts The Obama surrogates have now committed a felony impersonation that is being investigated by the Pueblo Colorado Crime Stoppers, The US Postal Inspector and the Port Orange, Florida Police Department. I was notified yesterday that the management here received as did almost every single resident in this community a post card claiming to be from the Pueblo, Colorado Crime Stoppers. Well I just finished speaking with the Port Orange Police and providing them a copy of the threat to send out these items On Things Obama http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2273291/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:20:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2273288/posts City Council member Monica Conyers, the wife of a prominent congressman, sought political support from Baptist pastors and prayers from constituents Tuesday as her re-election bid collided with a corruption probe involving cash bribes handed over in fast-food parking lots. A person told The Associated Press that Conyers is the "Council Member A" listed in a court document as receiving more than $6,000 for her fall 2007 vote on a multimillion-dollar sludge contract. She has not been charged. The information comes from a person with knowledge of the investigation who asked not to be named because the person was not... MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2273288/posts#comment Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:14:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272509/posts Back in 2005, the Old Media was all atwitter over a supposed ”plant reporter” at a Bush press conference. The Old Media made a big deal out of this guy and used it to try and cast the Bush White House as employing some sort of underhanded control of information. Flash forward to today, President Obama held his Healthcare townhall in Green Bay, Wisconsin and it turns out that Obama’s first “spontaneous question” from the audience sure seems like a “plant” in the same way as the previously mentioned situation in 2005. Will the media take notice? Naturally, President Obama... CFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272509/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:34:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271238/posts My father's beliefs have been a constant source of verbal and mental abuse my family has had to suffer with for many years. His views consumed him, and in doing so, not only destroyed his life, but destroyed our family and ruined our lives as well. ***snip*** For the extremists who believe my father is a hero: it is imperative you understand what he did was an act of cowardice. To physically force your beliefs onto others with violence is not brave, but bullying. Doing so only serves to prove how weak those beliefs are. ABCNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2271238/posts#comment Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:41:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270964/posts Troubled Rhode Island congressman Patrick Kennedy’s slide back into rehab may have been triggered by stress related to his senator father’s grim cancer diagnosis, a relative said. “It’s sad,” Kennedy’s stepgrandfather, Edmund Reggie, told the Herald. “He’s been wrapped up in the senator so much. All of us expect (U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.)) to progress better than what’s realistic. I think it really gets to Patrick,” Reggie said of the senior senator’s diagnosis of a malignant brain tumor in May 2008. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) checked himself in to an undisclosed rehab center once again this week. The lawmaker... The Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270964/posts#comment Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:24:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270946/posts Your tax dollars paid the salaries of Cuyahoga County officials who prosecutors say swapped government contracts for a free gambling junket to Las Vegas. Your tax dollars paid for government leaders to lounge at a secret Flats condo and rake in tens of thousands of dollars in cash and gifts from contractors looking to land county business, according to prosecutors. And that tax levy you passed last year for the poor, elderly and sick? Prosecutors say one of your leaders suggested using some of it to reward a halfway house that flew him first-class to Las Vegas. The first major... cleveland.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270946/posts#comment Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:59:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270960/posts A new appraisal of the Irish cottage owned by Sen. Christopher Dodd concludes that it is worth about three times as much as Dodd has been reporting on his financial disclosure forms. The new value of the cottage, on Inishnee island in County Galway, is $658,000, according to Dodd's 2008 financial disclosure form released Friday. The two-page appraisal was done by the same man who did the original one in 2002 when the 1,200-square-foot cottage was valued at about $190,000. The new appraisal comes two years into a historic crash in property values in Ireland, which suggests that it might... Courant.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270960/posts#comment Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:10:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270844/posts John Bailey thought it was great when his neighbor was elected to the House of Representatives in 2007. "Not everyone lives next door to a congresswoman," he said. But two years later, he doesn't feel so lucky. The congresswoman's house is abandoned and in disrepair, "a blight on the neighborhood," Bailey said. He thinks the way that Rep. Laura Richardson (D-Long Beach) has treated her Sacramento home tells far more about her than her voting record. "I wouldn't want anyone that irresponsible to represent me," said Bailey, like Richardson a liberal Democrat. "What I don't get is how she has... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270844/posts#comment Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:04:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270710/posts John Kerry, D-Mass., a senior member of the Senate Finance Committee, is forever excoriating the rich for not paying their fair share of taxes and for dodging income and payroll taxes through shelters, loopholes, and plain old dirty tricks and schemes. It turns out Sen. Kerry knows something about the rich — the Center for Responsive Politics estimates his net worth is at least $284 million, the third highest in Congress — and about tax dodging. He is being sued by the Internal Revenue Service for nonpayment of $819,000 in payroll taxes for workers on his failed 2004 presidential campaign.... Waterbury Republican-American http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2270710/posts#comment Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:17:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2267047/posts Maria Baez (D-Bronx) gave $5,000 from her discretionary office account to Leo Martinez for his work with immigrants. City officials had cut Martinez's funding amid federal/city probes into his shady practice of holding tax allotments for phantom community groups then doling it out later. City Dept of Investigation froze 100 nonprofit contracts, including a $99,000 grant Baez had given Martinez.... The city had twice refused to allow Baez to fund Martinez's now-defunct Alliance for Community Services ..... Baez was undeterred..........She allocated another $198,214 to the group last June, but it was quickly blocked. Baez then tapped an account pols use... NY POST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2267047/posts#comment Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:59:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2267053/posts Just having the appearance of someone who might possibly vote for an opponent of Barack Obama could land them on the President's enemies list where proxies do the dirty work. Political appointees in the Justice Department killed a six-month investigation by career DOJ lawyers into the most blatant voter intimidation case in 40 years. Last November, jack-booted, uniformed, baton-wielding thugs from the New Black Panther Party calling themselves "security" obstructed a Philadelphia polling location and behaved in an intimidating manner toward white voters. Days after dismissing charges against the menacing thugs, the Justice Department moved in the opposite direction by... The American Spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2267053/posts#comment Mon, 8 Jun 2009 11:37:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266687/posts Money Stashed in Freezer Is Key in Jefferson TrialBy Allison Klein Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, June 7, 2009 The bribery and fraud case of former U.S. representative William J. Jefferson involves business ventures in seven West African nations, 16 criminal counts and a high-stakes legal battle over the raid of his Washington office. But when the trial begins Tuesday in Alexandria federal court, the case will be summed up to jurors with this key question: "Do you know the case of the congressman with the money in the freezer?" After nine terms in office, the Louisiana Democrat is most... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266687/posts#comment Sun, 7 Jun 2009 17:13:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2265887/posts WASHINGTON -- A retired State Department worker and his wife have been arrested on charges of spying for Cuba for three decades, using grocery carts among their array of tools to pass U.S. secrets to the communist government in a security breach one official described as "incredibly serious." An indictment unsealed Friday said Walter Kendall Myers worked his way into higher and higher U.S. security clearances while secretly partnering with his wife, Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers, as clandestine agents so valued by the Cuban government that they once had a private four-hour meeting with President Fidel Castro. State Department spokesman Philip... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2265887/posts#comment Sat, 6 Jun 2009 00:19:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265855/posts A 72-year-old former State Department employee and his 71-year-old wife have been arrested and charged with illegally aiding the government of Cuba for nearly 30 years, the Department of Justice announced Friday. Walter Kendall Myers retired from the State Department in October 2007. Walter Kendall Myers and his wife, Gwendolyn Myers, were charged with conspiracy to act as illegal agents of the Cuban government, providing classified information to that government, and wire fraud, according to court documents unsealed in Washington. The couple appeared briefly Friday before a federal magistrate in Washington, who ordered them held without bail pending a detention... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265855/posts#comment Fri, 5 Jun 2009 22:47:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265860/posts Note: The following text is a quote: Former State Department Official and Wife Arrested for Serving as Illegal Agents of Cuba for Nearly 30 Years Couple Allegedly Conspired to Provide Classified Information to Cuban Government A former State Department official and his wife have been arrested on charges of serving as illegal agents of the Cuban government for nearly 30 years and conspiring to provide classified U.S. information to the Cuban government. The arrests were announced today by David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security; Channing D. Phillips, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia; Joseph Persichini, Jr.,... US DOJ.GOV/opa - Press Release http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265860/posts#comment Fri, 5 Jun 2009 23:00:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265376/posts Yesterday, perennial presidential candidate Ralph Nader made a rather explosive claim about Terry McAuliffe, the former head of the DNC who is now running for Governor in Virginia. His charge? That in 2004-- just four years after Nader had played the spoiler role in the contest between Al Gore and George W. Bush by drawing tens of thousands of Florida votes away from the Democratic candidate--McAuliffe approached Nader with a proposition as to how to avoid a repeat: He said McAuliffe, who was the Democratic National Committee chairman at the time, had offered Nader's campaign an unspecified amount of money,... Politics Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265376/posts#comment Fri, 5 Jun 2009 12:14:52 GMT