http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/thugs/ en-us Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:03:53 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2471572/posts Pelosi: Controversial tactic an 'option' for moving healthcare By Jared Allen - 03/15/10 04:39 PM ET House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is leaving the door open on using a controversial procedure to move healthcare through the House. The process would allow the House to “deem” the Senate bill passed when it votes on a package of changes to that legislation, perhaps as early as this weekend. The procedure involves crafting a rule allowing for consideration of a reconciliation “fixers” bill that deems the Senate bill already approved by the House. Aides to the Speaker said the option is “under consideration.” Republicans... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2471572/posts#comment Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:03:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2469724/posts A restaurant owner yesterday branded the justice system a 'joke' after he was locked up for seizing two teenage yobs who broke into his beer cellar. Sal Miah spent five hours in a police cell after he chased down the hoodies and held them in the bar while his staff dialled 999. The married father-of-five assumed police would commend him for catching the young criminals. Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2469724/posts#comment Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:27:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2468979/posts A man with learning difficulties was 'tormented to death' after being bullied by yobs for more than a decade, neighbours claimed today. David Askew, 64, dropped dead after he tackled thugs who broke down his gate and invaded his garden. Neighbours said Mr Askew had been targeted before he was found dead at his home in Hattersley, Greater Manchester, last night. One neighbour said he had been 'tormented to death - like bear baiting'. Residents criticised police and officials for not supporting Mr Askew and his brother Brian and mother Rose, who was wheelchair-bound. Officers were called to the address... Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2468979/posts#comment Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:40:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2464672/posts While President Obama’s trading of a lifetime judicial appointment in exchange for a vote in favor of ObamaCare doesn’t quite rise to the level of an impeachable offense at a minimum it is an example of legislative horse-trading at its most obnoxious. On cue President Obama’s press secretary Robert Gibbs called the allegation that the nomination was a kind of bribe in exchange for a vote in favor of ObamaCare “very silly.” Of course no one who understands how Washington works believes Gibbs. It is patently obvious that the offer of a lifetime judicial appointment to the brother of healthcare... David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2464672/posts#comment Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:50:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2462715/posts On Saturday, two College of Charleston students, a former Citadel cadet and the current quarterback for The Citadel's football team were arrested and charged with kidnapping and robbing an assistant football coach at his West Ashley home. Live 5 News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2462715/posts#comment Tue, 2 Mar 2010 22:19:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2448868/posts 'Shame' Banners Aren't A Welcome Sign A carpenters union is 'bannering' an Arroyo Grande ice cream parlor because it plans to open a store in a mall where a nonunion drywall firm 'does not meet area labor standards.' It's a divisive move. By Steve Chawkins February 11, 2010 Reporting from Arroyo Grande, Calif. - For years, the owner of Arroyo Grande's old-fashioned ice cream parlor has likened the Central Coast community to Bedford Falls, the friendly little burg in the Jimmy Stewart film "It's a Wonderful Life." So he bristled when an out-of-town labor union unfurled a 15-foot-wide banner --... LATimes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2448868/posts#comment Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:06:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2447568/posts Obama Admin Admits It Tracked Abortion Groups in Wisconsin Madison, WI -- The Department of Homeland Security admitted today that it improperly conducted a threat assessment on pro-life groups in Wisconsin. The assessment came before an expected rally last year in response to the University of Wisconsin Hospital board decided to allow abortions. http://www.LifeNews.com/state4796.html LifeNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2447568/posts#comment Tue, 9 Feb 2010 16:21:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2447170/posts Socialism: The lights are flickering in oil-rich Venezuela, a victim of the same shortages that appear wherever socialism is tried. With the grid verging on collapse, the final irony is to see Hugo Chavez calling Cuba to fix it. Most leaders serious about fixing a collapsing power grid call up companies like Bechtel or APR Energy because they're capable of swiftly setting up small power plants in emergencies, even in infrastructure wastelands such as Haiti. But that's not whom President Hugo Chavez called when he got word that Venezuela's electricity is in a state of collapse and may go black... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2447170/posts#comment Tue, 9 Feb 2010 01:41:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2443737/posts Like father like son. Chicago Alderman Isaac “Ike” Carothers has pleaded guilty to corruption and faces 28 months in jail. His father, former Alderman William Carothers, was convicted of attempted extortion in 1983. Here’s how Chicago’s WGN TV News announced the 31st Chicago City Council Alderman since 1973 – but, hey, who’s counting – to be convicted of crimes that include paying a bribe, taking a bribe, extortion, attempted extortion, tax fraud, tax evasion, racketeering, and ghost-payrolling schemes. Ike was formally charged with fraud and bribery last May by U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the legal beagle who has former... Big Journalism http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2443737/posts#comment Wed, 3 Feb 2010 21:55:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2435208/posts Americas: Venezuela's Hugo Chavez has gone off the deep end again, claiming the U.S. engineered the Haiti earthquake. It's a laughable malevolence, of course. But given the spectacular U.S. aid effort, it's also a threat. Right now, the dictator's No. 1 foreign policy aim is to discredit the U.S. aid effort in Haiti. Shortly after Haiti's Jan. 12 earthquake, Chavez, trying to whip up paranoia, accused America of seeking a "military occupation" there. When that didn't work and U.S. aircraft carriers and hospital ships steamed in to rescue ravaged Port-au-Prince, Chavez told Spanish newspaper ABC that the earthquake was the... Investors.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2435208/posts#comment Sat, 23 Jan 2010 01:11:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2431791/posts Springfield, Mass. —A cameraman working on a ballot integrity initiative with Americans for Limited Government Foundation was wrapped up in a large Martha Coakley campaign sign by her supporters as he tried to video the campaign rally. According to Erich Heyssel, who was attempting to film a Coakley campaign event, “While filming at a Martha Coakley event I was approached by two men holding a 4×8 sign. They proceeded to hold the sign up in my line of sight, I tried to move, and was continuously blocked by these men and their sign.” Heyssel continued, “The situation escalated as they... Washington News Alert http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2431791/posts#comment Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:36:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2431037/posts *Gangs set up roadblocks in capital * Desperate looters stealing supplies The bullets whizzing over our heads are all the proof we need that things are starting to get ugly here. Desperation has gripped Port-au-Prince. Gangs are now in control of some parts, setting up roadblocks and seizing the scant amount of food or supplies that cross their paths. Post photographer Bill Farrington and I saw this anarchy firsthand as we drove through a particularly lawless part of town at around dusk. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/anarchy_4Ds5o4GBtvsuGINLCLFpPN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2431037/posts#comment Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:11:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2430950/posts Gang members who once ruled Haiti's largest slum with violence and intimidation have returned to the streets after stealing guns from prison guards at the collapsed National Penitentiary and destroying all records of their crimes. More than 3,000 inmates broke free from the prison after the earthquake hit last Tuesday, brandishing assault rifles and mounted on motorcycles, before returning to the Cite Soleil shanty town. Telegraph.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2430950/posts#comment Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:31:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2430809/posts Recent polls indicate that Republican US Senate hopeful Scott Brown has stolen a bit of Democratic nominee Martha Coakley's thunder. Now Coakley volunteers are accusing Brown supporters of stealing her campaign signs, too. About a dozen Coakley lawn signs disappeared in Wellesley and Needham last week, according to police reports. Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2430809/posts#comment Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:13:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2430666/posts (IsraelNN.com) The story behind the recent announcement of 700 new housing units in Jerusalem does not paint a pretty picture for future construction in new Jerusalem neighborhoods. The new units are a result of strong pressure and even threats by coalition partner Shas, a request by Prime Minister Netanyahu to the U.S., one-time permission for a precise amount of housing units, and a coordinated, weak condemnation. The information comes from an unnamed senior source in the Prime Minister’s Bureau and sources close to Housing Minister Ariel Attias, reports correspondent Haggai Huberman. Attias of Shas reportedly told Netanyahu that his party... Arutz Sheva/INN news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2430666/posts#comment Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:01:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2429156/posts President Barack Obama, right, stands with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., during the House Democratic Caucus retreat at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010, in Washington From left to right, Rep. Xaiver Becerra, D-Calif., Majority Whip Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-MD., speak to reporters following the Democratic Leadership caucus retreat at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2429156/posts#comment Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:50:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2427512/posts Auburn, NY -- Three days before Christmas, Auburn Police Chief Gary Giannotta laid down the law for his command staff. At the closed meeting Dec. 22 in the department basement, Giannotta gave this ultimatum: Tell your patrol officers to write more vehicle and traffic tickets — at least one each per shift — or there will be repercussions for those who don’t.... Threatening to punish employees who fail to make a ticket quota violates state labor law. Tuesday, the Auburn police union took Giannotta to task for his proclamation, and two college criminal justice experts questioned the ethics of his... The Post-Standard-Syracuse NY http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2427512/posts#comment Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:54:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419723/posts Democrats are turning their fire on Scott Rasmussen, the prolific independent pollster whose surveys on elections, President Obama’s popularity and a host of other issues are surfacing in the media with increasing frequency. The pointed attacks reflect a hardening conventional wisdom among prominent liberal bloggers and many Democrats that Rasmussen Reports polls are, at best, the result of a flawed polling model and, at worst, designed to undermine Democratic politicians and the party’s national agenda. On progressive-oriented websites, anti-Rasmussen sentiment is an article of faith. “Rasmussen Caught With Their Thumb on the Scale,” blared the Daily Kos this summer. “Rasmussen... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419723/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 23:41:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415074/posts LITTLE ROCK — Salvation Army Maj. Phillip Wise had Christmas plans. All he had to do was drop off the Christmas Eve donations at the Salvation Army headquarters in North Little Rock, pick up his wife, Cindy, who also is a Salvation Army major and was in the building waiting on him, and head home, to West Virginia, for the holidays. His three young children — 4, 6 and 8 — were with him. Then the unthinkable happened. Wise was robbed at gunpoint and as his children watched. He was then shot and bled to death in the parking lot... The Sherwood Voice http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415074/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:18:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415990/posts Arkansas police continue to search for two suspects in the shooting death of a Salvation Army major on Christmas Eve. Salvation Army Major Philip Wise was killed outside the organization’s community center in North Little Rock, Arkansas as his three young children looked on. Wise had worked for the Salvation Army for 16 years and had been at the Little Rock location for 3 years. "He was so important to that community," said North Little Rock Police Department spokesman Terry Kuykendahl told FoxNews.com. "This has been a tremendous blow to (them)." Thanks to private citizens' donations, police are offering a... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415990/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 01:04:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414880/posts In the eyes of the corruptocracy of the left, which group is evil and which is morally pure: SEIU thugs or US Navy SEALs? It seems to be no contest. Imagine if you will (as Rod Serling used to say) that innocent US citizen Kenneth Gladney, who gave away "Don't Tread on Me" flags outside of a Missouri town hall meeting, instead gave out SEIU buttons at a pro-labor rally. Also imagine that instead of being surrounded and beaten by SEIU thugs, he was attacked by US Navy SEALs. Would the treatment by the legacy media be the same? Would... The American Thinker Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414880/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 10:33:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/848112/posts "I was close to Chavez, but now he wants me dead." The million dollars from Chavez to Al Qaeda is just the tip of the iceberg in a long series of connections between worldwide terrorist organizations and the Venezuelan strongman, according to one of those who knows most about Chavez and the inside of his presidential palace: His former personal pilot. Major Juan Diaz Castillo is the man who flew the equivalent of Air Force One. In this interview with Venezuela's weekly news-magazine Zeta, he reveals formerly unpublished details of the operations that Chavez had him organize. By Maria Angelica... Militares Democraticos http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/848112/posts#comment Fri, 21 Feb 2003 00:17:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411006/posts [...] In the end, they decided to turn us away, which they did with an ill grace and in a bad-tempered manner. As soon as the decision was final, the Danish police moved in. One of them began the now familiar technique of manhandling me, in the same fashion as one of his colleagues had done the previous day. Once again, conscious that a police helicopter with a high-resolution camera was hovering overhead, I thrust my hands into my pockets in accordance with the St. John Ambulance crowd-control training, looked my assailant in the eye and told him, quietly but... planet gore, national review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411006/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:03:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408591/posts COPENHAGEN — Police are using tear gas and batons to disperse crowds of protesters trying to disrupt the U.N. climate talks in Copenhagen. Police spokesman Per Larsen says 230 protesters have been detained in the clashes outside the suburban conference center. Television pictures showed a man being pushed from the roof of a police van and stuck with a baton by an officer. Protesters said they wanted to take over the global conference — and turn it into a "people's assembly." The Associated Press (hosted on Google) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408591/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:27:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408905/posts The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) backed out of an event with other organizations promoting the Senate healthcare reform bill Wednesday over concerns about changes made to the legislation to accommodate centrist Democrats. The SEIU had planned to participate in a Capitol Hill press conference along with the AARP, the liberal advocacy group Families USA, Consumers Union and the American Cancer Society Action Network. As recently as Tuesday morning, the organizations distributed an advisory to the news media that included the SEIU. But the move by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to excise provisions of the healthcare reform bill... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408905/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:54:22 GMT