http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/threepeat/ en-us Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:50:10 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046977/posts The three network anchors will travel to Europe and the Middle East next week for Barack Obama's trip, adding their high-wattage spotlight to what is already shaping up as a major media extravaganza. Lured by an offer of interviews with the Democratic presidential candidate, Brian Williams, Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric will make the overseas trek, meaning that the NBC, ABC and CBS evening newscasts will originate from stops along the route and undoubtedly give it big play. washingtonpost.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046977/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:50:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044264/posts Should Barack Obama win this fall, 2009 will a busy year for enacting civil-rights legislation — perhaps the busiest since 1964. Numerous civil-rights bills have either passed the House or are pending in various committees, just waiting for a Democrat to be elected to the White House. Traditional civil-rights groups anticipate that without the threat of veto, expanded Democratic majorities in Congress will pass a number of these bills in the first few months of 2009. Here are just a few of the bills likely to be signed by a President Obama within the next year. Reparations Commission to Study... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044264/posts#comment Sat, 12 Jul 2008 01:58:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035554/posts Ex President Bill Clinton missing for some time since skipping on a lecture in Scotland has been found. A Canadian newspaper found Bubba holding hands with a new friend. (Picture Included) Stuck On Stupid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035554/posts#comment Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:07:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2026039/posts HOWARD -- Green Bay Packers running back Noah Herron thwarted a break-in at his home on Friday night by slugging one of the intruders with a bed post, the Brown County Sheriff’s Department reported today. Authorities went to Herron’s home at 11:19 p.m. Friday on a report of a burglary in progress, according to Chief Deputy John Gossage. Herron told police he heard glass breaking in the lower level of his home, and that an unknown number of people had entered. Herron hit the intruder who entered his bedroom with a post he’d unscrewed from his bed, Gossage said in... Sheboygan Press | http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2026039/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jun 2008 20:57:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025366/posts PARIS (AP) - Brigitte Bardot was convicted Tuesday of provoking discrimination and racial hatred for writing that Muslims are destroying France. A Paris court also handed down a $23,325 fine against the former screen siren and animal rights campaigner. The court also ordered Bardot to pay $1,555 in damages to MRAP. Bardot's lawyer, Francois-Xavier Kelidjian, said he would talk to her about the possibility of an appeal. A leading French anti-racism group known as MRAP filed a lawsuit last year over a letter she sent to then-Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy. The remarks were published in her foundation's quarterly journal. In... AT&T Enternatinment via the AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025366/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 17:49:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2008546/posts How the mighty have fallen! A day ago, the leftwing loons were high-fivin' each other about how helpful Rev. Jeremiah's Detroit speech would be to Barack Obama. By yesterday evening, cold cruel reality has set in and now the loons are pronouncing DOA for Obama's candidacy. While watching this VIDEO clip of Wright doing impressions of JFK and LBJ as well as doing an imitation of the Florida A&M marching band, one thought kept going through my mind: this clown was Obama's mentor and spiritual guide. If Obama looked up to this whack job what does that say about... DUmmie FUnnies http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2008546/posts#comment Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:15:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003667/posts U.S. Rep Calls for Revocation of Carter's Passport IPT News April 17, 2008As former President Jimmy Carter tours the Middle East, his plans to meet terrorist leaders have met with increasing criticism from authorities within the United States, including a senior U.S. Representative requesting Carter's passport be revoked by the State Department. On Tuesday, Carter physically embraced senior Hamas official Nasser Shaer, a former Deputy Prime Minister in the Hamas government, at a meeting in Ramallah. Additionally, Carter has voiced his plans to meet with the Hamas' top leadership, including Mahmoud Zahar and Said Siam, in Cairo and Hamas Supreme... Investigative Project on Terrorism http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003667/posts#comment Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:56:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992532/posts Are Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Elton John breaking U.S. laws by allowing the British pop singer, a foreign national, to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for Mrs. Clinton's presidential campaign by performing a concert on her behalf? That's the question Inside the Beltway put to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) yesterday, which does not rule out the possibility. First, some background supplied by the FEC: The goal of the 1966 Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) was to "minimize foreign intervention" in U.S. elections by establishing a series of limitations on foreign nationals. In 1974, the prohibition was incorporated... Washington Times - Inside the Beltway http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992532/posts#comment Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:51:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983577/posts Tucker Carlson Out at MSNBC NEW YORK (AP) — The bow tie is out at MNSBC. David Gregory is replacing Tucker Carlson as host of a one-hour show each evening. The news network is making a handful of changes to respond to heavy political interest. Gregory's new show is called "Race for the White House" and will be on each weekday at 6 p.m. starting next Monday. Carlson has been at MSNBC for nearly three years. MSNBC also says that Andrea Mitchell will anchor an hour each afternoon. Keith Olbermann's popular "Countdown" program will rerun every night at 10. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983577/posts#comment Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:25:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1893585/posts UNION CITY, Ga. - A McDonald’s employee spent a night in jail and is facing criminal charges because a police officer’s burger was too salty, so salty that he says it made him sick. Kendra Bull was arrested Friday, charged with misdemeanor reckless conduct and freed on $1,000 bail. Bull, 20, said she accidentally spilled salt on hamburger meat and told her supervisor and a co-worker, who “tried to thump the salt off.” ~~~ “If it was too salty, why did (Adams) not take one bite and throw it away?” said Bull, who has worked at the restaurant for five... MSNBC.Com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1893585/posts#comment Sun, 9 Sep 2007 18:28:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1891809/posts At 7:57 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday, while taping "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" for broadcast later in the evening, Fred Thompson finally said: "I'm running for president of the United States." The studio audience responded with thunderous applause. Thompson rejected the notion that he has waited too long to get into the race for the White House. "People treat politicians sort of like the dentist -- they don't have anything to do with them till they have to," he said. "A lot of people have been, of course, running for some time. Everybody kind of changed the rules. "... www.politico.com/news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1891809/posts#comment Thu, 6 Sep 2007 03:36:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1859840/posts WASHINGTON - President Bush spared former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby from a 2 1/2-year prison term on Monday, issuing an order that commutes his sentence. This is a breaking news update. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below. WASHINGTON (AP) — Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby cannot delay his 2 1/2-year prison term in the CIA leak case, a federal appeals panel unanimously ruled Monday. The decision is a major setback for Libby, who is running out of legal options and who probably will have to surrender to prison in... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1859840/posts#comment Mon, 2 Jul 2007 21:56:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1857764/posts A 71-year-old former Marine opened fire on two robbers at a Subway Sandwich Shop in Plantation late Wednesday night, killing one and critically wounding the other. According to Plantation police, two masked gunmen came into the shop at 1949 N. Pine Rd. just after 11 p.m. There was a lone diner -- retired Marine John Lovell, who was finishing his meal. After robbing the cashier, the two men attempted to shove the ex-Marine into a bathroom and rob him as well. They got his money. But then the ex-Marine ........ MiamiHerald.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1857764/posts#comment Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:16:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1854145/posts A heavy metal fan has been awarded sickness handouts after doctors said his addiction to music was a disability. The ruling means Roger Tullgren, 42, will pocket thousands of pounds in state benefits to help finance his 36-year obsession. His boss is also letting him play his ear-splitting music at work and giving him time off for concerts, reports the Daily Mirror. It marks an end to Roger's 10-year bid to have his "condition", which began when he started listening to Ozzy Osbourne's band Black Sabbath in 1971, officially classified as a handicap. Bedecked in his traditional heavy metal skull... Ananova http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1854145/posts#comment Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:34:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1852771/posts Carter: Stop favoring Fatah over Hamas By ASSOCIATED PRESS DUBLIN, Ireland http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1181813074587&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull The United States, Israel and the European Union must end their policy of favoring Fatah over Hamas, or they will doom the Palestinian people to deepening conflict between the rival movements, former US President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday. Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who was addressing a conference of Irish human rights officials, said the Bush administration's refusal to accept the 2006 election victory of Hamas was "criminal." Carter said Hamas, besides winning a fair and democratic mandate that should have entitled it to lead the Palestinian... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1852771/posts#comment Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:17:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1852735/posts VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Thou shall not drive under the influence of alcohol. Thou shall respect speed limits. Thou shall not consider a car an object of personal glorification or use it as a place of sin. The Vatican took a break from strictly theological matters Tuesday to issue its own rules of the road, a compendium of do's and don'ts on the moral aspects of driving and motoring. A 36-page document called "Guidelines for the Pastoral Care of the Road" contains 10 Commandments covering everything from road rage, respecting pedestrians, keeping a car in good shape and avoiding rude... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1852735/posts#comment Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:37:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1851824/posts HAVING been out of the country for 10 days I came back to find Britain obsessed with a chubby, snaggle-toothed mobile phone salesman from Port Talbot who sings like Pavarotti. I was determined not to watch Britain's Got Talent because I'd decided it was just another tedious reality show full of no-hopers. But a colleague sat me down and forced me to watch Paul Potts singing Nessun Dorma. And my heart did a back-flip. Within five seconds I was blubbing like a baby, within 10 I was praying with every fibre of my being that he'd hit all the high... www.sundaymirror.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1851824/posts#comment Sun, 17 Jun 2007 22:35:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1849050/posts The Air Force on Tuesday confirmed a report that in 1994 a military researcher requested $7.5 million to develop a non-lethal "love bomb" that would chemically alter the state of mind of enemy troops and make them want to have sex with each other rather than fight. Air Force spokeswoman Lt. Col. Cathy Reardon said the idea was proposed by an Air Force researcher at a lab at Brooks Air Force Base in Texas, but it was rejected by the Defense Department. Officials noted that the Air Force constantly is considering funding proposals. No money was spent, Reardon said, and... FOX http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1849050/posts#comment Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:58:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1846679/posts A 41-year-old man drowned Wednesday after getting stuck in a storm sewer trying to retrieve a cell phone, police said. The man weighed more that 300 pounds and was wedged with his head and shoulders underwater in a vertical storm drain in front of his home, said police Lt. Tim Eirich. The man's identity was not released pending notification of relatives. Neighbor Chris Van Erem said he saw the man kneeling over the sewer before he fell in. Police said the man pulled the iron gate off trying to get the cell phone. Then, a child from the neighborhood ran... Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1846679/posts#comment Thu, 7 Jun 2007 23:17:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1843438/posts The U.S. military executed a strike against a suspected Al Qaeda target from a Naval warship off the coast of Somalia Friday, a U.S. official confirmed to FOX News. Fox http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1843438/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jun 2007 01:03:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1823867/posts Sen. John McCain, who officially announced his bid for the 2008 White House Wednesday, stopped by "Good Morning America" to talk about his campaign and ended up defending himself about a joke. The Arizona Republican said that people upset by his comments about IEDs to Jon Stewart on Tuesday night's "Daily Show" should "lighten up." After being grilled by Stewart , McCain jokingly told him that he had a present for him -- an IED that he could place under his desk. Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., was furious and publicly assailed McCain on the House floor. "Imagine a presidential candidate... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1823867/posts#comment Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:58:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1820962/posts Ex-Miss America shoots thief's tires 82-year-old wielded snub-nosed .38: 'He was probably wetting his pants' Posted: April 20, 2007 2:18 p.m. Eastern © 2007 WorldNetDaily.com Venus Ramey (Photo: MissAmerica.org) Tough isn't a word necessarily associated with Miss America, but three thieves arrested after their truck tires were shot out by 82-year-old Venus Ramey might beg to differ. Ramey, who won the elite beauty crown in 1944, confronted one of the three robbers on her farm in Waynesburg, Ky., about 140 miles south of Cincinnati, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported. "He was probably wetting his pants," said Ramey, who balanced on her... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1820962/posts#comment Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:54:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1819424/posts By Jim Loney MIAMI (Reuters) - Global warming could increase a climate phenomenon known as wind shear that inhibits Atlantic hurricanes, a potentially positive result of climate change, according to new research released on Tuesday. The study, to be published on Wednesday in Geophysical Research Letters, found that climate model simulations show a "robust increase" in wind shear in the tropical Atlantic during the 21st century from global warming. Wind shear, a difference in wind speed or direction at different altitudes, tends to tear apart tropical cyclones, preventing nascent ones from growing and already-formed hurricanes from becoming the monster storms... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1819424/posts#comment Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:33:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1684002/posts Breast implants saves woman after Hezbollah attack Tue Aug 15, 8:07 AM ET JERUSALEM (AFP) - One Israeli woman has received an unexpected boost from her breast implants during the Lebanon war -- the silicone embeds saved her life during a Hezbollah rocket attack, a doctor said. "This is an extraordinary case, but it's a fact that the silicone implants prevented her from a more serious and deeper wound," Jacky Govrin, of the hospital in Nahariya that treated the woman, told army radio Tuesday. "The young woman went through surgery two years ago to have a larger chest," he said.... Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1684002/posts#comment Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:19:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1663090/posts "The FBI has drafted sweeping legislation that would require Internet service providers to create wiretapping hubs for police surveillance and force makers of networking gear to build inbackdoors for eavesdropping, CNET News.com has learned." "One source, who asked not to be identified because of the sensitive nature of last Friday's meeting, said the FBI viewed its CALEA expansion as a top congressional priority for 2007." CNET News.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1663090/posts#comment Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:38:18 GMT