http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/socialism/ en-us Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:40:17 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104299/posts ...The direction and the intention is thus clear, but the Left has learned from its earlier failures and this time is working in a disciplined and at times coordinated fashion to ensure Obama’s election. Cognizant of the backlash that has accompanied past left-wing power grabs, and the tendency of Americans to reject radicalism, the Left is attempting to slip Obama past the American people - a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The ever-quotable Michelle Obama, a woman whose pride in her country appeared with its embrace of her radical husband disappeared from the campaign trail months ago. So did Al Sharpton,... GOPublius.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104299/posts#comment Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:40:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2104292/posts 12 October 2008 Cold civil war: one year later. Recently, I've been getting a lot of feedback on a post I wrote a year ago regarding the term "cold civil war," (coined by William Gibson in Spook Country), a theme picked up and expanded upon by Mark Steyn in Maclean's. Truth be told, I never did finish that Gibson novel. I love Gibson very much, but at this point I just don't want to deal with more preachy moralizing from ageing, draft-dodging hippies. (As I wrote the previous sentence, I couldn't help but feel that it was an unfair characterization... violetrix.blogspot.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2104292/posts#comment Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:03:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104265/posts Gone are the days of the old Republican Party- a party that supported the principles of less government, low spending, low taxes, the rule of law, and the United States Constitution. Nowadays, Republicans spend as much as Democrats, burdening future generations with inevitable tax hikes, and making our federal government larger and more powerful than one could have imagined possible just a few years ago. Both parties waste billions, but the main difference is the Republicans are now wasting it overseas nation-building and being the world’s policeman. Sad to say, if it is going to be wasted, I would rather... United Liberty http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104265/posts#comment Mon, 13 Oct 2008 04:37:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2104085/posts Elaborating on his theme that the Bush tax cuts and McCain’s proposed tax cuts are “welfare for the rich,” Democratic presidential nominee, Senator Barack Obama (Ill) sought to “reassure the working class that they have nothing to fear from an Obama Administration.” “My tax policy targets those who expropriate the labor surplus value to satisfy their own personal greed,” Obama explained. “If you are a worker or own a small business where you work alongside your employees, you will not be denied a reasonable share of the nation’s income. Only those who take more than they justly need from society’s... A Semi-News/Semi-Satire from AzConservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2104085/posts#comment Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:08:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104034/posts If the Obamanation is elected and further corrupts our entire system of government, the number of those who actually pay income taxes will become the minority; subject to the increasing tyranny of the parasitic non-taxed. Tape-worm city... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2104034/posts#comment Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:15:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103975/posts Oh man. Marxism is alive and well with the First Lady of the Obamanation… Most Americans, she said, don’t want much. “They don’t want the whole pie,” she told the women. “There are some who do, but most Americans feel blessed just being able to thrive a little bit. But that is becoming even more out of reach.”… “If we don’t wake up as a nation with a new kind of leadership…for how we want this country to work, then we won’t get universal health care,” she said. “The truth is, in order to get things like universal health... And Rightly So! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103975/posts#comment Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:26:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103568/posts As requested, here’s a summary of what we’ve got on the New Party and Obama so far: What is the New Party? “The New Party believes that the social, economic, and political progress of the United States requires a democratic revolution in America — the return of power to the people. Our basic purpose — reflected both in our own governance and in our aspirations for the nation — is to make that revolution happen.” http://web.archive.org/web/20010204044200/www.newparty.org/about_the_np.html They describe themselves as “Social” Democrats: “We’ve already said that we see the NP as an explicitly progressive and democratic organization. This would give... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103568/posts#comment Sun, 12 Oct 2008 04:14:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103539/posts WHO is Barack Obama? Is he the thoughtful, moderate guy he's appeared to be in the first two presidential debates? Or is he a closet radical? The election is less than a month away, and we still don't know. In his campaign advertising, Sen. John McCain has made much of the association between Mr. Obama and William Ayers... Investigative reporter Jack Cashill has noted some intriguing coincidences between Mr. Obama's 1995 autobiography, Dreams From My Father, and Mr. Ayers' 2001 book, Fugitive Days, for which Mr. Obama wrote a dust jacket blurb... Both Mr. Obama and Mr. Ayers spoke at... Toledo Blade http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103539/posts#comment Sun, 12 Oct 2008 03:16:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103504/posts "They will be lined up against the wall and shot" Daily Motion.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103504/posts#comment Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:00:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103484/posts WASHINGTON — As international leaders gathered here on Saturday to grapple with the global financial crisis, the Bush administration embarked on an overhaul of its own strategy for rescuing the foundering financial system. New York Times, aka Socialist Workers' Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103484/posts#comment Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:31:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2103398/posts More charges of vote fraud were leveled at the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) this week. The latest “isolated incident” emerged from the state of Ohio where the Board of Elections uncovered what it characterized as “widespread voter fraud” where individuals were registered multiple times. Earlier in the week, Nevada election officials discovered that ACORN had submitted bogus registrations, including names from the roster of the Dallas Cowboys football team. The week before, ACORN was caught submitting multiple registrations for the same persons in Missouri. In Indianapolis, more people are now registered to vote than live in... Semi-News/Semi-Satire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2103398/posts#comment Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:59:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103269/posts link only to the ASS PRESS article. My Way News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103269/posts#comment Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:41:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102785/posts The Crash: "Why has the market dropped so much?" everyone asks. What is it about the specter of our first socialist president and the end of capitalism as we know it that they don't understand?The freeze-up of the financial system — and government's seeming inability to thaw it out — are a main concern, no doubt. But more people are also starting to look across the valley, as they say, at what's in store once this crisis passes. And right now it looks like the U.S., which built the mightiest, most prosperous economy the world has ever known, is about... IBD Editorials http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102785/posts#comment Sat, 11 Oct 2008 01:26:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103140/posts There has been a big buzz on the blogospere since US mega-blog Powerline picked up on evidence proving that Barack Obama was, in the mid '90s, a member of a short-lived socialist organisation, the Chicago New Party. Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), which also endorsed Obama that year and to which the Senator has longstanding and ongoing ties, has also been dragged into the fray. The Obama camp has countered in two ways. Firstly-claiming that while Obama was endorsed by the New Party he was never a member. That lie is easily disposed of. Here is a photo of Obama... New Zeal blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2103140/posts#comment Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:52:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102950/posts In a huddle with reporters earlier this week in Washington, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Chairman Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) acknowledged that his party's chances of reaching the 60-seat plateau were "better than they were two weeks ago" -- the result of an across-the-board collapse in Republican numbers due to the economic crisis and handling of the bailout bill by Congress. (Yes, we know Democrats control the House and Senate. But, the American public overwhelmingly blamed President Bush and House Republicans for the initial failure of the "rescue" legislation.) And, respected non-partisan observers are also beginning to openly speculate about the possibility.... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102950/posts#comment Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:38:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102749/posts Cuba is limiting how much basic fruits and vegetables people can buy at farmers' markets, irritating some customers but ensuring there's enough — barely — to go around... The government is delivering all items distributed each month on the universal ration that provides Cubans with up to two weeks of food — including eggs, beans, rice and potatoes... But the rest of the food Cubans supplement their diets with at supply-and-demand farmers markets and government produce stands has dwindled, prompting the government to limit consumer purchases and cap prices on items including rice, beans, root crops and fresh greens. Rodriguez... AP via Yahoo! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102749/posts#comment Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:35:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102852/posts WASHINGTON: The US government will buy an ownership stake in a broad array of American banks for the first time since the Great Depression, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said late on Friday, announcing the historic step after stock markets jolted still lower around the world despite all efforts to slow the selling stampede. Separately, the US and the globe's other industrial powers pledged to take "decisive action and use all available tools" to prevent a worldwide economic catastrophe. "This is a period like none of us has ever seen before," declared Paulson at a rare Friday night news conference. He... India http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102852/posts#comment Sat, 11 Oct 2008 02:43:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102717/posts U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said the U.S. is ready to pump capital into and purchase equity stakes in banks, investment houses and mortgage lenders if that is needed to help stabilize markets, rescue banks and ease clogged credit flows. “We are developing strategies to use the authority to purchase and insure mortgage assets and to purchase equity in financial institutions, as deemed necessary to promote financial market stability,” Paulson said Friday after meeting with finance ministers from the G7 industrialized countries. “As we develop plans to purchase equity, as in the approach we are taking to broad mortgage-asset purchases,... Phoenix Business Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102717/posts#comment Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:54:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102562/posts Campaign workers for Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama are under fire for displaying a flag featuring communist hero Che Guevara. But Obama has his own controversial socialist connections. He is, in fact, an associate of a Chicago-based Marxist group with access to millions of labor union dollars and connections to expert political consultants, including a convicted swindler. Obama's socialist backing goes back at least to 1996, when he received the endorsement of the Chicago branch of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) for an Illinois state senate seat. Later, the Chicago DSA newsletter reported that Obama, as a state... Accuracy in Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102562/posts#comment Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:10:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102485/posts For most of my life I've been told that the government was to protect our rights and freedoms in the United States, how is it doing these days? Not well as I see it and here's why: Socialist government now is to raise us all from cradle to grave so we can all be equally unhappy. Government now knows best what to do with your money; you are too ignorant! Do you really want this government to run your health care? They tried to run the mortgage industry, see where that got us - $800 trillion in debt and no... The Pantagraph, Bloomington, IL http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102485/posts#comment Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:28:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102459/posts If this is what restored confidence looks like, we could've gotten it a lot cheaper. Thank goodness Congress approved that bailout. Otherwise, the economy might be tanking. Just a couple of weeks ago, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke asked Congress to approve a $700 billion rescue of the banking industry. Without this sudden, massive infusion of federal cash, we were told, economic disaster loomed. Prompt approval, on the other hand, would assure the solvency of the financial sector, thaw frozen credit flows and give investors a badly needed dose of confidence. In the end, Congress... Minn. Star Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102459/posts#comment Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:59:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102433/posts <p>Obviously, the success of the bailout can't be judged on a couple of weeks in the stock market. Still, the rationale for ramrodding the bailout through Congress with essentially no debate over alternatives was that it was urgently necessary to do something immediately lest financial markets collapse. At the moment, that rationale isn't looking too persuasive.</p> Powerline http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102433/posts#comment Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:34:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102360/posts NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Stocks tumbled Friday morning in volatile trade - the Dow erased most of its nearly 700-point loss at the open, only to turn lower again as the credit crisis intensified. Credit markets remained tight, although short-term lending showed some improvement from recent days. Treasury prices fell, raising the corresponding yields. The dollar gained versus the euro and the yen. Oil and gas fell. Gold prices rose. The Dow Jones industrial average (INDU) lost 370 points or 4.4% around two hours into the session. Within the first five minutes of trade, the Dow had plunged 697 points,... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102360/posts#comment Fri, 10 Oct 2008 16:17:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102284/posts Just heard on Glenn Beck his friend Pat from (Texas?) mentioned the bailout bill DID have 500 million for ACORN. Can anyone confirm this? Glenn Beck http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102284/posts#comment Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:47:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102283/posts Local News | Memories of Obama's mother | Seattle Times Newspaper Memories of Obama's Mother   Nicole Brodeur  Tuesday, February 5, 2008 - Page updated at 12:00 AM Box called her friend "Stannie," a nickname for Stanley. She was named for her father, who wanted a boy — and the girl knew it. As a result, their relationship was strained. "He was hard on her, in that he picked on her," Box said of Stanley Dunham, a furniture salesman in downtown Seattle. "He had a sarcastic humor," Box said, "and she could give it back." Dunham's mother, Madelyn, a bank employee,... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2102283/posts#comment Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:46:18 GMT