http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/unitedstates/ en-us Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:16:57 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411777/posts It's ironic that the more we describe our Constitution as a "living document," the more we turn it into a dead letter.  As to this terminal state, consider the current debate over healthcare reform.  How many politicians give the constitutionality of the mammoth bills spawned by the Houses even the slightest consideration? Why, Nancy Pelosi must not have, as she was so "shocked" when asked about it that the only reply she could muster was "Are you serious?  Are you serious?!"  When leftists do deign to consider the matter seriously, they may take a leaf out of esteemed intellectual Ruth... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411777/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:16:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2407090/posts Columnist Bill Turner says that all of your complaining and joining the Tea Party, and other groups and websites and emailing your Congressman is a big fat waste of time. Are you ever really going to do something about taking America back? TheCypressTimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2407090/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:29:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400157/posts MUSLIM MANIFESTO UNVEILED by Paul L. Williams, Ph.D. thelastcrusade.org Hezbollah, the Shi’ite terrorist group that serves as arm of the Iranian government, announced today that it will not disarm – as demanded by U.N. resolutions – and that it regards the United States as “the enemy.”The declarations came from Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, Lebanon. Releasing Hezbollah’s first party manifesto in 24 years, Mr. Nasrallah listed America’s offenses as follows: (1) support for Israel; (2) “domination of international institutions,” and (3) “meddling” in the affairs of Islamic states. Such offenses, he said, “places the American administration in the... December 3rd, 2009 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400157/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 14:31:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2395274/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/518988/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2395274/posts#comment Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:16:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388545/posts States in New England top a new set of rankings, while the South still lags. If you want to be healthy, live in Vermont--or at least act like you do. It is the healthiest state in the country, according to a new report from the nonprofit United Health Foundation. Forbes http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388545/posts#comment Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:57:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388533/posts It seems like there was a bit of a kerfuffle in Paris that has him fuming mad. An internet marketing company decided to stage a promotional stunt: they were going to drive a bus through the city throwing money at passers-by. The event was advertised heavily (Duh - it's a marketing company) and attracted large crowds. So large, in fact, that police became nervous at the size of the crowd, estimated at 7,000 strong, and its composition — young, low-income males from bad parts of Paris' suburbs. Given the risk of violence and traffic chaos caused by the crowd, the... National Post [Canada] http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388533/posts#comment Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:36:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385668/posts In the wake of the murder of 13 and the wounding of 38 soldiers at Fort Hood on November 5, media analysts, politicians, and other sundry experts scrambled to present the accused perpetrator of the acts, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, 39, as a victim. In so doing they served, knowingly or otherwise, as apologists for radical Islam. From CNN to the New York Times, NPR to the Washington Post, the killings were presented as a result of racism. They were attributed to fear of deployment in Afghanistan and harassment from other soldiers. Cited were Major Hasan’s supposed maladjustment to his... Center for inquiry http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385668/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:24:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2385351/posts Are our bishops all Republicans?! By Phil Lawler | November 12, 2009 1:14 PM On the Commentary blog, Eduardo Peñlaver reports that he is uncomfortable with Bishop Tobin's public denunciation of Patrick Kennedy.Bishop Tobin’s attitude towards being Catholic — accept teachings X, Y, and Z, or go to another institution that does not affirm them — strikes me as nothing if not supremely un-Catholic in its ethos.Peñlaver's argument is profoundly confused, I think. But it is not an unusual one; you'll find roughly the same reasoning put forward by many other liberal Catholics. And Peñlaver is not an unintelligent observer... CatholicCulture.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2385351/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:00:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381463/posts IsraelNN.com) The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), attempting to help Arabs in Samaria take over a plot of land bordering the Tapuach Junction checkpoint, says it will return tomorrow to complete the project. Early Sunday morning, IDF soldiers at the Tapuach checkpoint were surprised to see an empty field suddenly come to life. Some 50 local Arabs, accompanied by three Red Cross jeeps, arrived on the scene for an attempted “land grab.” Eyewitnesses said they saw Arabs emerging from the jeeps. Over the past decade, a local Jewish shepherd has grazed his goats on the large plot of... Arutz Sheva/ INN news http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381463/posts#comment Sun, 8 Nov 2009 13:54:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377722/posts Budapest, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- Investor and philanthropist George Soros forecast in Budapest on Friday that China would emerge as the big winner of the global financial crisis. Soros called on Chinese leaders to "rise to the occasion" and take an active role in the creation of a new multilateral financial order urgently required to reinvent the "broken international financial system." Soros also warned that "the worst financial crisis since WWII" may not be over. The Hungarian-born billionaire sounded a pessimistic note throughout the week and said that those who believe the global economy is stabilizing are wrong. In the... China View http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377722/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 22:09:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2375504/posts (T)he Chinese are concerned about the viability of the American economic system and about the long-term value of their more than $1 trillion of investments in American bonds. They are also dependent on the market even a recession-mired America offers, with exports to the United States still near $300 billion a year. Americans are worried about the effect of lower-cost Chinese labor on U.S. jobs, even though most of the lost jobs were lost long ago and have as much to do with the corrosive effects of technology on labor as they do with cheap production in China. Meanwhile, China... AsiaLynx.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2375504/posts#comment Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:09:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375293/posts thelastcrusade.orgA soft-spoken and sedate Staten Island Muslim woman tried to slit her husband's throat as he lay sleeping in the middle of the night. Rabia Sarwar, 37, was enraged that her husband Sheikh Naseem, 41, asked her to eat pork and to wear non-Islamic attire, officials said. "It's time for you to die!" the Muslim woman screamed as she pounced on hubby and hacked at his neck with a butcher knife, sources said. He woke early Wednesday to find her straddling his chest and hacking at his neck with a knife. Naseem, a burly teacher at Susan Wagner High... The Last Crusade http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2375293/posts#comment Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:49:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369385/posts I just watched a video at Pamela Geller’s Atlas Shrugs blog of then-candidate Barack Obama telling 7 outrageous lies in a row in 1minute and 46 seconds time, which helped propel him into the White House. This has to be a world record for a politician lying. The main reason that he is in the White House is because the Republican Party and Libertarian Party put him there. That is right, not the Democrats, they simply believed his lies, but we could have stopped his election. We all have our work cut out for us if we want to get... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369385/posts#comment Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:17:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366060/posts The recent defection of the daughter of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s film advisor to Germany is the latest clue to a non-military "cold war” against a nuclear Iran. Iranian filmmaker Narges Kalhor, whose father is Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s cultural affairs advisor and a media spokesman, has applied for political asylum in Germany. Israel National News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366060/posts#comment Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:53:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2365142/posts The Constitution of the U.S.S.R. - (1918, 1936, 1977) At first glance, it would appear that the citizens of the USSR had more rights than their American counterparts. Stalin's constitution guaranteed the people the right to work, the right to rest and leisure (no overtime), maintenance in old age (Social Security), right to education, economic equality, right to form unions, right to privacy, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of the press. Unfortunately, the constitution doesn't explain exactly how these freedoms are guaranteed. For instance, the US Constitution grants freedom of speech with the following paragraph:... Newspeakdictionary http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2365142/posts#comment Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:37:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2364551/posts All nations eventually fail. Some go peacefully; others in paroxysms of violence and bloodshed. All that I have examined were guilty, at least in part, of nurturing the process. Even given that, one is hard pressed to imagine how a democratic or an autocratic government can be expected to survive. To wit: Democracies do not start wars (with the exception of the US under Lincoln). Further, citizens are not by nature war like and see no need to shed blood and treasure to acquire an empire. Empires acquired by any means eventually will cause their own demise. FDR had to... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2364551/posts#comment Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:58:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359130/posts The United States flag, which Robert E. Lee had defended as a soldier, flew at half mast in Lexington, Virginia and throughout the USA. Huntington News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359130/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2009 23:00:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2354961/posts In an attempt to gain favor with China, the United States pressured Tibetan representatives to postpone a meeting between the Dalai Lama and President Obama until after Obama's summit with his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, scheduled for next month, according to diplomats, government officials and other sources familiar with the talks. For the first time since 1991, the Tibetan spiritual leader will visit Washington this week and not meet with the president. Since 1991, he has been here 10 times. Most times the meetings have been "drop-in" visits at the White House. The last time he was here, in 2007,... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2354961/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2009 03:33:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2348481/posts For years the mantra of the Left was that continuing to fight in Iraq would embolden terrorists and that reversing Bush-era policies would help ease al Qaeda's 'concerns.' Guantanamo Bay prison is on its way to being closed. Fighting has nearly ceased in Iraq and troops are being pulled out. Obama lauded the Muslim world in a Cairo speech. And in less than a month, five possible plots to attack the United States have been uncovered. Right Handed Pitcher http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2348481/posts#comment Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:08:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2348320/posts My son who is 10 years old is going to the Montgomery County school system in Maryland this year to give him some wider experience after having all of his previous education in either Israeli or Jewish community schools. It certainly is an experience! In some ways, it seems like a parody of multiculturalism. My children are tough, well-informed and have strong characters, largely informed by an Israeli world view. But they also have a very American persona, though one that may be becoming increasingly rare among upper middle class elite counterparts. Here are some highlights of fourth-grade life in... Rubin Reports http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2348320/posts#comment Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:29:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346377/posts "More than likely, a US collapse will have direct and balkanizing effects not only on the US but also on the weak Canadian confederacy, tied economically to the hip of the US economic might or there lack of, and to the civil war torn Mexican giant. As such, from what was originally four states: Canada, USA, Mexico and Cuba, as well as the dozen or so small island statelits of the north Caribbean, will form thirteen new entities, separated politically and economically. We will now review each and everyone of these, starting from the West and moving to the East.... Pravda http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346377/posts#comment Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:42:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2344509/posts But, what's interesting is to see the parallels between what this paper finds and how it stacks up to how ethnic Koreans are perceived or how Koreans are expected to be in the United States. Considering that China too is a very diverse, multiethnic country and that, at least on paper, the Chinese have a similar definition of identity as that of the United States, I'd like to argue that it can be shown that the expectations or beliefs that Americans may hold towards Korean-Americans can indeed be validated. We can show by seeing if these same expectations can be... Breaking Down Borders: Korea http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2344509/posts#comment Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:04:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2343087/posts Why We Are Going to Hell – Part 2,036 Radical Jew-Hating Muslims Welcomed by Rabbi bythelastcrusade.org On Friday afternoons and other times during the week, a synagogue in Reston, Virginia is used as a mosque, where hundreds of Muslims remove their shoes, unfurl their prayer rugs, and bow to the east in adoration of Allah.The members of the Northern Virginia Hebrew Congregation, who worship at the synagogue on Friday nights, see no problem with this arrangement which grants an additional $300 a day in revenue.And the Jewish congregants appear to be blissfully unaware that many of the Muslims who... The Last Crusade http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2343087/posts#comment Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:44:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2340432/posts    The SPEAKER pro tempore.: Under a previous order of the House, the gentlewoman from Minnesota (Mrs. Bachmann) is recognized for 5 minutes.    Mrs. BACHMANN.:    Mr. Speaker, the context of my remarks is engaging the issue of the current financial situation that the United States finds itself in.    Mr. Speaker, it was less than 1 year ago that the government began Bailout Nation, which was $700 billion in tax money that was given to the United States Treasury Secretary for the purpose of stabilizing America's financial situation. Let's take just a brief history of what has happened... www.thomas.gov http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2340432/posts#comment Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:08:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2339935/posts But, what makes East Asia different is that the Communist leaders were first and foremost, popular national heroes, who, by the above logic and the U.S. decision to support colonial colloborators or participants of past institutions, that happened to choose to be communist. You see, while I'm not exactly writing part IV in this installment, I'm setting the argument up for how economic development, or these so called "miracles" in East Asia seem to keep happening over and over again. Also, it has been pointed out that Mongolia is a state that does not enjoy economic development, which is geographically... Breaking Down Borders: Korea http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2339935/posts#comment Tue, 15 Sep 2009 10:01:50 GMT