http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/usefulidiots/ en-us Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:14:56 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388349/posts The "You betcha" lady is no more. In her $1.25 million memoir "Going Rogue" (Harper, $28.99), Sarah Palin introduces a new voice, and it’s that of a chronic complainer. So much so you want to shout at the pages, "Man up, woman!" The news from the book has already spilled, and it is essentially this: John McCain’s senior aides were mean to her. Katie Couric was mean to her. Her critics, who are by definition supposed to be mean, were mean to her. But rather than come back swinging, she comes back whining. They done her wrong, she tells us... New York Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388349/posts#comment Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:14:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2380540/posts James David Manning, PhD is disappointed with Rush Limbaugh . Rush never heard of Philip Berg or Larry Sinclair ?????? Check out other new videos while visiting the Atlah site . ATLAH http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2380540/posts#comment Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:06:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379605/posts Neither the CBS Evening News nor NBC Nightly News, in their East coast feeds Thursday night, noted the Muslim religious beliefs of the mass killer at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas, but ABC anchor Charles Gibson wasn't cowed by political correctness as he teased World News, “Fort Hood tragedy: An Army officer, a Muslim convert, is the suspect in a shooting spree...” Introducing his first story, Gibson referred to how Major Nidal Malik Hasan “an army officer, a Muslim, opened fire with handguns...” (With a range of frequency, during late afternoon/early evening coverage, CNN, FNC and MSNBC all... Newsbusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379605/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 01:34:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2379422/posts On the day I born, June 9th, 1954, Senator Joseph McCarthy was asked the famous question; “Have you no sense of decency sir?”. Some members of the media who saw an opening, pounced on the opportunity, and never looked back. This would become the beginning of the end of the anti-communist mood in America. It would be the birth of terms like McCarthyism, Redbaiting, and Blacklisting. The heirs of this movement are much more numerous today than in 1954, and the true journalists have been replaced by mere actors, playing the part of journalists. We have gone from a nation... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2379422/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 20:55:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378448/posts The National Education Association has made a glowing assessment of radical socialist community organizer Saul Alinsky and is enthusiastically recommending American public school teachers read two of his books, including one dedicated to Satan. On its website, the NEA dubs Alinsky "an inspiration to anyone contemplating action in their community! And to every organizer!" It recommends Alinsky's "Reveille for Radicals," a 1946 book about the principles and tactics of "community organizing," and "Rules for Radicals," a 1971 text that articulated a socialist strategy for gaining political power to redistribute wealth from the "haves" to the "have-nots." The NEA, the largest... World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378448/posts#comment Wed, 4 Nov 2009 17:48:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366788/posts <p>If, as the saying goes, the perfect is the enemy of the good, then Barack Obama is his own worst enemy. That becomes clear in the upcoming HBO documentary "By the People: The Election of Barack Obama," which is the product of many months of behind-the-scenes access to Obama during the presidential campaign. It reveals that Barack Obama is pretty close to the most perfect person you will never get to know.</p> New York Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2366788/posts#comment Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:46:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2363124/posts Civil War Generals, c. 1865 Generally regarded as the world's first commercially successful photojournalist, Matthew Brady was also one of the medium's most accomplished manipulators. In this group portrait of William Tecumseh Sherman and his top officers, he added one figure. For the record, the men are, standing, from left: Oliver Otis Howard, William Babcock Hazen, Jefferson Columbus Davis and Joseph Anthony Mower; seated, from left: John Alexander Logan, Sherman, Henry Warner Slocum and Francis P. Blair. The Original Image: Brady added Blair at the far right. One of Sherman's corps commanders in the critical final offensive in Georgia, Blair... Time http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2363124/posts#comment Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:18:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362279/posts DURHAM — The U.S. military is not just fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, America’s most renowned investigative journalist says. The army is also “in a war against the White House — and they feel they have [President] Obama boxed in,” Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Seymour Hersh told several hundred people in Duke University’s Page Auditorium on Tuesday night. “They think he’s weak and the wrong color. Yes, there’s racism in the Pentagon. We may not like to think that, but it’s true and we all know it.” In a speech on Obama’s foreign policy, Hersh, who uncovered the My Lai... The Herald-Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362279/posts#comment Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:41:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2356000/posts Today's Hope and Change-- Children in the Warsaw Ghetto 1943 and Children of Palestine Gaza 2009 Click to Enlarge After posting yesterday on the disgusting anti-Semitic hate speech on Barack Obama's website I received this from Rachel P. I was looking at your article, Obama's Website Carries Blogpost That Equates Israel to Nazi Germany. I tried linking through Israpundit directly to the Obama site and I received this Error, “Invalid page requested.” I tried looking through internet archiving sites and they all say that site does not allow you to search their database. I also tried searching through Obama’s website... Gateway Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2356000/posts#comment Tue, 6 Oct 2009 16:48:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351914/posts On the eve of the French Revolution, the aristocrats inhabiting the palace of Versailles enjoyed, “as an ironic lark, sporting the clothing of the working classes,” according to writer Charles Stenson. These pampered elites were undisturbed by the fact that their peasant getups mocked the real peasants, many of whom were dying as a result of the elites’ self-serving policies. These clueless aristocrats have descendents in spoiled college kids who think it’s trendy to idolize Communist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Che’s face is emblazoned on T-shirts, he was glamorized by the movie “The Motorcycle Diaries,” and Time magazine described him... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351914/posts#comment Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:24:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350718/posts On the eve of the French Revolution, the aristocrats inhabiting the palace of Versailles enjoyed, “as an ironic lark, sporting the clothing of the working classes,” according to writer Charles Stenson. These pampered elites were undisturbed by the fact that their peasant getups mocked the real peasants, many of whom were dying as a result of the elites’ self-serving policies. These clueless aristocrats have descendents in spoiled college kids who think it’s trendy to idolize Communist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Che’s face is emblazoned on T-shirts, he was glamorized by the movie “The Motorcycle Diaries,” and Time magazine described him... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2350718/posts#comment Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:58:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2348422/posts This homeowner made no bones about his feeling towards protesters.This 'winner' had a different reaction.These kids cheered the protesters. Ah, the future of America. Me http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2348422/posts#comment Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:27:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346251/posts A Republican member of President Barack Obama's cabinet blistered conservative talk-radio hosts and cable-television news yesterday, saying they have eroded civility and impeded the nation's ability to solve big problems. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told The Dispatch that the level of "harsh discourse in Washington has probably reached an all-time high," and he partly blamed it on "all of this trash talk about the process and about politicians 24/7" on cable television and talk radio. LaHood referred to criticism Obama received for appearing Sunday on five television news shows to promote his health-care overhaul. The secretary also indicated that even... The Columbus Dispatch (Ohio) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346251/posts#comment Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:36:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346079/posts Link only, due to Wired's copyright complaints. Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday MachineI'm posting this without any text, because I think it's important. The "Doomsday" machine is apparently real, and still operational. Read the article for more details. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346079/posts#comment Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:35:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344793/posts *NEA conference call full audio and transcript here** Should the National Endowment for the Arts encourage artists to create art on issues being vehemently debated nationally? That is the question that I set out to discuss a little over three weeks ago when I wrote an article on Big Hollywood entitled The National Endowment for the Art of Persuasion?” The question still requires debate but the facts do not. The NEA and the White House did encourage a handpicked, pro-Obama arts group to address politically controversial issues under contentious national debate. That fact is irrefutable. But some have claimed that... Big Government http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344793/posts#comment Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:12:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2345107/posts Back in the days of Joseph Stalin, that madman and his cabal made good use of the talents of filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, who had a natural ability to take the Soviet inclination to turn art and bend it to the will of the country's communist rulers and produce cinematic works that glorified Soviet accomplishment. ... Now, I'm not saying that Barack Obama is in any way similar to Joseph Stalin or Ivan the Terrible (especially Ivan, who'd have a peasant's head hacked off just for blinking the wrong way), but I'm sure one can see the parallels between Stalin and... Entitlement Syndrome http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2345107/posts#comment Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:49:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2341327/posts The ACORN-linked, “public option”-mongering Service Employees International Union has its own black eye to contend with. A former official with SEIU Local 1000 in California was slapped with a 25-year prison sentence for charges of child molestation and making/possessing child pornography. News10 reports [1] a troubling angle: Jaime Enrique Feliciano, who served as president of Service Employees International Union Local 1000 representing thousands of Sacramento-area state workers, had previous convictions for child molestation and failure to register as a sex offender. biggovernment.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2341327/posts#comment Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:44:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2328666/posts Me http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2328666/posts#comment Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:08:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2328179/posts What do Harvard president Larry Summers, Taliban John Walker, Delta Airlines officials and the editors of the New York Times have in common with Yanomamo tribeswomen in the Amazon jungle? To answer this question is to understand the root cause of liberal "white guilt." Lakes of ink have been splashed on newspaper, magazine and journal pages ruminating and anguishing over the bottomless guilt that pervades the liberal soul. NewsMax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2328179/posts#comment Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:51:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2326939/posts Sweetness and Light is forbidden, where they have the complete text of the letter, so, here's a repost from 2006. Text of KGB Letter on Senator Ted Kennedy Special Importance Committee on State Security of the USSR 14.05.1983 No. 1029 Ch/OV Moscow Regarding Senator Kennedy’s request to the General Secretary of the Communist Party Comrade Y.V. Andropov Comrade Y.V. Andropov On 9-10 May of this year, Senator Edward Kennedy’s close friend and trusted confidant J. Tunney was in Moscow. The senator charged Tunney to convey the following message, through confidential contacts, to the General Secretary of the Central Committee of... FR archives http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2326939/posts#comment Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:53:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2323354/posts (This is part three of a series. Read parts one and two.) at Freerepublic: both parts are hereObama Regresses to Cold War Mythology … and Switches Sides Obama’s Quest into the Magic World of Anti-American Mythology Oleg Atbashian, a writer and graphic artist from Ukraine, currently lives in New York. He is the creator of ThePeoplesCube.com, a satirical website where he writes under the name of Red Square. part three: A U.S. President, Raised on KGB Propaganda The former chief of Romania's espionage service sees an American president fully invested in the lies he helped disseminate along with the... pajamasmedia.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2323354/posts#comment Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:30:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2308448/posts The Obama administration is again pushing plans to move terrorists from the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility into the United States, initially to Michigan or Kansas.  Despite near unanimous objections from every state and nearly every member of the House and Senate, the President appears to be adamant about keeping this one campaign promise that would endanger American lives despite his reckless disregard for all of his other campaign promises. The Michigan option would include a $100 million revamp of the Standish maximum security prison which is slated to close due to the state’s calamitous financial situation brought to you... HumanEvents.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2308448/posts#comment Wed, 5 Aug 2009 03:01:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2305807/posts http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3179840 As some of you may have noticed, recently the Republican Party has begun cracking down on the "birthers", realizing that openly supporting the most crazy members of your party is, well, problematic for appealing to non-crazy people. This, of course, leads to even more crazy, as they turn on their leaders for hiding the "truth". It's a drat shame to let all this crazy go to waste, when properly cultivated and raised it could be so much more. So welcome to the first FreeRepublic Infiltration Contest! We're going to infiltrate freerepublic as agents provocateur. This can take several forms;... forums.somethingawful.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2305807/posts#comment Sat, 1 Aug 2009 07:31:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2305203/posts This is what appears to anger today's Russian historical establishment: accounts of Red Army crimes on the march to Berlin; assertions by the Baltic countries and others in Eastern Europe that Soviet forces came as occupiers as much as liberators; any suggestion that Stalin's Soviet Union and Nazi Germany were anything but complete opposites and bitter enemies. BBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2305203/posts#comment Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:51:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2303076/posts I was just surprised he didn't blame the arrest of Gates on Rush Limbaugh and Republicans that are standing in the way of a big tent, Lets just see if Mr. Powell has anything negative to say about the President for his "stupidly" comment... hotairpundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2303076/posts#comment Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:20:22 GMT