http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/socialist/ en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:37:34 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418029/posts Are US Wars Fueling Domestic Terrorist Threats? posted by Katrina vanden Heuvel on 12/27/2009 @ 7:02pm Are the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan creating a domestic terrorist threat? The potential disaster of a Nigerian man attempting to blow up a US airliner on Christmas day forces us to confront the question. As the New York Times recently reported, there is increasing evidence that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are fueling a radicalization of young Muslims in the United States who are angry about the military occupation of Muslim lands and the killing of innocent Muslim citizens. There are legitimate... The Nation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418029/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:37:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417976/posts Did you hear about “Did You Hear About The Morgans?”? I'll bet if you haven't that you soon will. Let me see if I can sum it up for you in two words, "monumentally bad". Wait, let me see if I can sum it up for you in one word, "Ishtar". Columbia Pictures and Director Marc Lawrence offer up the romantic comedy, “Did You Hear About The Morgans?”, which promise to be the kind of bad which continues being discussed years after its DVD copies have been moved from the discount bin to the ash bin. We're talking epic... Hollywood, STFU. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2417976/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:30:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416817/posts         I remember The 80's. The Cold War was coming to a head. The Soviet Union saber-rattled and postured (in between swearing in new head's of state). America, helmed by a capable and unapologetic leader, was finding her feet after a season of malaise. The United Kingdom, itself helmed by 'The Iron Lady', stood a fast ally by our side. And the American and Worldwide Left, as usual, sniped at our heels with any undermining tactic which they could muster. The most memorable of these was the Post-Nuclear-War-Apocalypse movie. This Hollywood classic was The Left's attempt to convince the collective conscience... Hollywood, STFU http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2416817/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:55:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415773/posts Percy Sutton dies; His Obama revelation omitted from obituaries Legendary lawyer and politician Percy Sutton has died at the age of 89, and the major media are omitting mention of one of his most notable acts. The former Borough President of Manhattan, Sutton had a long and distinguished career as a lawyer (he was Malcolm X's attorney) and media mogul, who purchased radio stations in New York and other cities, making them into high rated black-oriented outlets. He also purchased and renovated (thereby saving from the wrecking ball) New York's legendary Apollo Theatre in Harlem. To top it off, Sutton... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415773/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:52:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415800/posts         Part big budget Hollywood Action/Adventure, part Victorian Period Piece, part Buddy Movie, there is one thing which “Sherlock Holmes” is not, a screed. The absence of any “message” beyond the story stood out to me as more memorable than even the fantastic interplay between Downey and Law as Holmes and Watson. While some might argue that the pervasive atmosphere of decay and filth portrayed in “Sherlock Holmes” might be a negative statement on industrialization, I would argue back that “The Good Old Days” had manure in the streets. Hollywood, STFU http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2415800/posts#comment Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:49:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412175/posts Kremlin position papers presented to Prime Minister Putin today on his upcoming meeting with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen state that the European-US military alliance has authorized an ‘emergency request’ from President Obama to utilize American and Canadian NATO troops to put down what is expected to be a “rebellion” after the expected January, 2010 ‘declaration of bankruptcy’ by the State of California. According to these reports, Obama’s fears of rebellion are due to the economic health of California (the United States largest State) after the 3rd largest US State, New York, declared a ‘fiscal emergency’ and refused to... Communists 4 Obama http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412175/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:58:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412171/posts         All I can say is, “WOW”.         “Avatar” is a 3-D feast for the eye which should propel James Cameron to the status of legend. In fact, after a decade or two of perspective, I fully expect that this groundbreaking work will be studied in the best film schools, right about the time they are covering Riefenstahl.         Seldom has a film been made which combines cutting edge technology, the highest standards of quality, and a deep, self-indulgent loathing of all things which The Left despises about America. I honestly don't remember the last time I found myself booing and hissing at... Hollywood, STFU http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412171/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:53:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411879/posts Once The 'Change' Candidate, Obama Now A Changed Man By Steven Thomma WASHINGTON — Nearing the end of his first year in office, President Barack Obama is in many ways a changed man. He's stayed the course on his highest-profile goals, still reaching for universal health care, still striving for a global pact to curb global warming. Governing has proved to be far different from campaigning, however. The world looked different once elected. The economy raced even faster toward collapse and Afghanistan worsened. Congress turned out more difficult. The world proved resistant to his charms. Also, the image of Obama... McClatchy Newspapers http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411879/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:46:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411159/posts Growing up in the United States, I was incessantly bombarded by propaganda about the Reds, namely, Russia and China. They were the enemies of freedom, prosperity, progress, and capitalism. We, on the other hand, were the champions of liberty and free markets. Of course, there was more than a little bit of truth behind the propaganda. With mass-murdering leaders such as Stalin and Mao, Russia and China caused the deaths of tens of millions of innocent victims with 5-year plans and Great Leaps Forward, and those numbers are probably way too generous. There is no way to tell how many... Anarchy Deluxe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411159/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:01:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408868/posts Sen. Tom Coburn has just demanded that the Senate clerk read the single-payer amendment offered by Sen. Bernie Sanders -- and it's 767 pages. Typically, Senators offering amendments will ask for unanimous consent to avoid reading the entire meausure, but all it takes is one Senator to object to demand its reading, and Coburn objected to Sanders attempt to dispense with the reading of the amendment. To give you a sense of how this could delay things, it took the Senate clerk 18 minutes to get through the first 6 pages of the amendment, which were the table of contents.... http://spectator.org/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408868/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:10:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407952/posts Of course, Sunday Night Football & NBC won the Sunday night ratings as usual, as NBC averaged a 5.7 adults 18-49 rating on the night, far ahead of second place CBS‘ 2.9 rating, which was itself boosted by an NFL overrun. ABC’s Christmas In the White House special did a 2.8 adults 18-49 rating, lower than the season average for Brothers & Sisters (of 3.17). 10:00 NBC Sunday Night Football: Philadelphia v. NY Giants 7.0 17 17.745 ABC Christmas at the White House: Oprah Primetime Special 2.9 7 11.847 CBS Cold Case / Criminal Minds (repeat) TV By The Numbers http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407952/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:42:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2407094/posts Liberal Columnist Bestows the Virtues of the Ninth Amendment and credits it with allowing for Abortion and Gay Rights - and therefore says it is his "favorite" Amendment TheCypressTimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2407094/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:31:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406668/posts One of the most significant Christmas presents President Obama ever received was a basketball from the father who was largely absent from his life, the president told Oprah Winfrey. This and other Xmas revelations are part of "Christmas at the White House: An Oprah Primetime Special," set to air Sunday night on ABC at 10 p.m. ET. Asked his favorite Christmas gift as a child, the president recalled a 10 speed bike and then said, "I do remember the one time I met my father he was visiting during Christmas and he gave me a basketball and - the degree... ABC News Blogs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406668/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:16:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406611/posts It's a good thing the health care debate has moved on to the Senate, because House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has completely lost her voice. Her vocal cords have shut down, her husband, Paul, told me when I ran into him at Ron Cowan's holiday party at Teatro ZinZanni the other night. Pelosi has been getting advice from everyone on how to fix it. President Obama told her, "hot water and lemon," at the recent Kennedy Center Honors gala. SF Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406611/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:31:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2406512/posts Must see video by one of the bravest and most patriotic men in America . ATLAH http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2406512/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 11:54:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405972/posts Date: Saturday, December 12, 2009 Time: 11:00am - 3:00pm Location: Washington, DC Lafayette Square across from White House (Metro: Farragut West or Farragut North) 10:30 AM YAF will counter protest the 9/11 "inside job" conspiracy theorists. They call it an anti-war rally, but the nuts and bolts are coming from the left coast for this!!! This just cam in last minute!!!! Contact: jordan@yaf.com or 202-596-7923 to join with YAF In Freedom, YAF Come protest the likes of: Scheduled Speakers Dennis Kucinich US Representative (D-Ohio) and former Presidential candidate, www.kucinich.house.gov Cynthia McKinney 2008 Green Party candidate for President, former six-term Democratic... Facebook http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405972/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 06:22:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404871/posts Linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky criticizes right-wing media outlets, which he describes as delivering a message of paranoia and economic populism comparable to Nazis during the Weimar Republic. "There were people with real grievances," says Chomsky. "The Nazis gave them an answer." Foratv http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404871/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:30:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403007/posts To a psychologist, climate change looks as if it was designed to be ignored. It is a global problem, with no obvious villains and no one-step solutions, whose worst effects seem as if they'll befall somebody else at some other time. In short, if someone set out to draw up a problem that people would not care about, one expert on human behavior said, it would look exactly like climate change. That's the upshot of a spate of new research that tries to explain stalled U.S. efforts to combat greenhouse-gas emissions by putting the country on the couch. Polls --... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403007/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 18:25:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402809/posts Who needs tanks on the lawn when you have the Environmental Protection Agency? Barack Obama’s use of the EPA to pressurise the Senate to pass his climate change Nuremberg Decrees shows his dictatorial mentality. He wants to override Congress, which is hostile to his climate gobbledegook because it is representative of the American electorate, and sideline the nation’s elected Senators by ruling by decree, courtesy of the EPA. This is a coup d’état. And what is the justification for this undemocratic action? The allegedly imminent threat from “Anthropogenic Global Warming”. There is always a supposed threat, when tyrants take the... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402809/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 14:28:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2400255/posts WASHINGTON -- Sidney Blumenthal, the Clinton Administration's famed servitor, saw it all coming. He predicted the Obama Administration's Carousel of Incompetence, as I like to call it. He was not thinking about the serious botches, the healthcare monstrosity, the spending spree, the criminal trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed planned for New York, the cap and trade extravagance. He probably agrees with these policy lurches. What he probably had in mind were the lesser bungles, the Administration's bizarre appointees (Van Jones, Anita Dunn), their embarrassing departures, and now the two imposters, who gate-crashed a state dinner for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh... American spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2400255/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 16:20:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398661/posts I always thought that I had a permanent case of Attention Deficit Syndrome...until now. Once this man became president, he got my full attention and I haven’t been able to get rid of him since. We can now note that amongst his many self-acclaimed attributes is that of a therapist. He has solved my self-induced affliction. I now know -- and we all should know by this time -- that our culture, our way of life, our idealistic ideologies are being attacked as never before in our history. Honor, ethics, logic, morality and common sense no longer permeate the sensibilities... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2398661/posts#comment Wed, 2 Dec 2009 19:32:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2397928/posts If I could give Obama an earful of what it means to be a good American, I think I might be inclined to say what Jack Webb said in a Dragnet episode. Well this was emailed to me by a friend who edited Obama into the video and edited out the Hippies Jack was speaking to. It works for me, and it hits the mark with a perfect bulls eye. Jack Webb Of Dragnet Fame Scolds Obama If for no other reason than you need a good chuckle it is worth the 1:34 it will take to watch. While there... http://www.jackwebbscoldsobama.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2397928/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 21:52:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2394947/posts Despite little public clamor for government controlled health care, the US Senate is looking increasingly likely to pass some kind of Healthcare Bill in the near future. How did this happen? Where did the pressure for change come from? The blunt truth is this. The push to socialize US Heathcare came, not from from the “people”, but from small clique of Marxists, led by a man with close personal ties to President Barack Obama. This group’s goal is fully socialized, government run “single payer” healthcare — as long promoted through Congressman John Conyers’ National Health Insurance Act, or HR 676.... barackobama.wordpress.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2394947/posts#comment Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:05:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393583/posts Not all revolutions begin in the streets with tanks and guns. Some advance slowly, almost imperceptibly, until a nation is transformed and the public realizes too late that their freedoms are gone. Such is the revolution now taking place in America. The '60s crowd has emerged from the ideological grave and is about to impose on this country a declaration of dependence in the form of government-run health insurance and treatment. It matters not what facts are known about this "coup," because to those from the '60s -- whether they lived in that decade or were born later and adopted... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393583/posts#comment Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:44:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2392969/posts Which do Socialist do Most? Which do Liberals and Socialist do more of, criticize President Bush...or...praise President Obama? I recently asked this question in a chat room and received no response. I did word it a bit differently in the chat room (Which do Liberals, Socialist, and other fools do more of...). I modified it a skoosh for Free Republic visitors. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2392969/posts#comment Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:07:06 GMT