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Any info on the button Trayvon is wearing? Appears to be black and white with 75-80% black. You can see it enlarged a bit at theconservativetreehouse.com in the top video.

If it weren't for Sarah Palin, the last convention would have been the most uninspiring that I can recall going all the way back to Goldwater. Fox News has invested heavily in Obama's defeat. Can Rove and the Republican estblishment deliver or will Romeney insist on calling the shots given what happened in 2008. Any thoughts?

Wisconsin's Republican Governor Scott Walker, fighting a recall election, against his challenger Democratic Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, face-off June 5, 2012, in one of most important contests of our generation.. Background noise? Not even close..Make no mistake, this pesky little contest will determine the momentum, on both sides, and serve as a preamble of the major General Election this November.. All of the important Democrat lifeblood constituencies are at stake, and are being challenged, and hanging by a slim thread, thanks to a true hero, GOVERNOR SCOTT WALKER. He and the fighting spirit of his fellow Wisconsinites, dared to touch...

I just got back from 18 days in Spain. These are my personal observations mixed with comments from the locals. The driver who picked us up at the airport said the economy was bad and it was hard to get jobs, especially for the young people. Yet there was lots of construction around, both private and public. In Burgos, we witnesssed a college student march. They were protesting against, what else, cuts in education. They were calling for a general strike. Police were everywhere. As an aside, Burgos must be trying to repopulate Spain all by itself. Pregnant women and...

<p>I just got back from voting in the Texas Primary. What I saw was the place was packed. There were 50% lines for the Republican primary and 50% lines for he Dem Primary.</p> <p>Guess what happened? No a soul on the Dem Primary line. Not a soul!</p>

There's a story on the national journal about how tensions are rising again between the party's establishment and Demint. Does this mean that the GOP-E is planning on doing what it did in 2010 - that is, not support every candidate we the people nominated? Let's examine this logically: Deb Fischer is up in the polls by 18 points, yet the republicans have still found some reason to go out and whine. Why? There's only one answer. They're sick of us conservatives thinking that this is a conservative party, and they don't like it. They want the good old by...

I'm a long-time Freeper but my first post ever so please forgive any errors or if I missed this point before. Obama "fired" 100,000 American troops ( http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/26/us-usa-defense-budget-idUSTRE80P1SP20120126 )...and tens of thousands of auto workers ( http://factcheck.org/2012/03/bidens-manufactured-jobs-claims/index.html ) The jobs lost by companies related to Bain are miniscule compared to the damage Obama has done!

I just heard Debby Wasserman Schultz on Rush claim that Romney made hundreds of millions of dollars by deliberately bankrupting companies. Romney should offer to give Obama a $1 million campaign donation if Obama can do two things. First, create a hypothetical example of how this can be done and second, show a single example of how this was done by Bain Capital. A private equity company cannot get debt funding, much less equityfunding, to execute a takeover without a business plan showing a plausable turn around concept and profitable exit strategy. Once money goes into a troubled company, it...

Hawaii Can’t Confirm Obama’s Birth! Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio made a Probable Cause Finding that the birth document posted on the White House Website, by Barack Obama on April 27th, 2011, is a forgery. It’s simply a matter now of finding out who did it and who knew about it. In response to this finding Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett asked Hawaii to verify the information listed on that birth document. After months of stonewalling Hawaii sent Bennett a ‘Verification of Birth’ on May 22, 2012. Hawaii can not confirm Obama’s birth day or his birth year. The time...

It looks like FoxNews.com does not have comments on their stories anymore. I guess it was getting too divisive.

For the citizens of Denton County Texas, District 64, in the Republican Primary this Tuesday, May 29, Vote for Mike Brucia, the only true conservative, constitutional, Republican candidate.......whereas his opponent may have a {R} by her name but she's just as liberal as Boxer, Feinstein, Pelosi & Wasserman-Schultz!

How do you feel about President Obama's support for same-sex marriage? How do you feel about President Obama's support for same-sex marriage? I agree with his position I think he's wrong http://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/poll/poll/8171901?ana=e_du_pub&s=article_du&ed=2012-05-24

The Senate...The theater of the absurd. Maybe they are feeling a little self conscious with the word lunatic?

Who or What will the Obama team demonize this week? Rich people Bain Capital Venture capitalists Private equity Plumbers Roman Catholics John Wolfe (who beat him in Arkansas) High school seniors who refuse to be indoctrinated Seems like they are having a hard time choosing and sticking with just one.

Today at the Tazewell County Court House in Pekin, Illinois, our adoption of our children became final. They are Amber Agee and Nick Agee, ages 13 and 12 respectively. Amber and Nick are sister and brother and have been in our care for about 4 years and we have been actively pursuing this adoption for the past two years. Rejoice with us. God is truly wonderful! Our new children will be reading the comments. I'm pinging a few hundred of my close friends, if I omitted anyone it was unintentional. If you're pinged more than once, get over it. Just...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- NASCAR and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that provides a framework to encourage greater environmental awareness and adoption of green products and solutions with NASCAR fans and the entire industry. The MOU is a voluntary partnership around education and awareness. The agreement denotes some core areas NASCAR and the EPA will collaborate on moving forward including the following programs: E3: Economy, Energy and Environment; and Design for the Environment (DfE) labeled consumer and commercial products. Chase Predictor Play all season long Follow your favorite driver's chance of winning this...

1) Only in America could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000 a plate Democrat campaign fund raising event. 2) Only in America could people claim that the government still discriminates against Black Americans when we have a Black President, a Black Attorney General, and roughly 8% of the FEDERAL workforce is black. 12% of the population is black. 3) Only in America could we have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy Geithner, the head of the Treasury Department and Charles Rangel who once ran the Ways and Means Committee, BOTH...

Here you'll be able to pay a ticket, view how your traffic violation took place, and find answers...

President Obama is campaigning heavily for Congress to prevent the lapsing of a special low-interest rate on student loans. Specifically, unless deferred, the interest rate will rise from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent on federal Stafford student loans issued after July 1, says Curtis Dubay, a senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D–NV) has proposed to offset the cost of continuing to subsidize these loans by raising taxes on small businesses to the tune of $9 billion over 10 years.[2] This is the latest in a series of tax increases on small businesses pursued...

First of all, not a newb.. just a purge victim from the primaries. JimRob posted almost a month ago about a so called truce between Romney supporters and the rest of the FReeper community. Since then, it appears the left has little job to do in driving a wedge into the right wing, we are doing it still ourselves. Were is this truce? How come all I see on here is Alinsky tactics of divide and conquer? Today there was a post about Evil Mittie and him fundraising with morning after pill distributors. And the "true blue conservatives" pounce, little...

With the arrest of James D Willie, 28 in the road side murders of Tom Schlender, 74, of Raymond, Neb and Lori Anne Carswell, 47 I have searched for but unable to find any pictures of Lori Anne Carswell. What's up?...cover up?

Perpetually locked in a nebulous war over language and culture, Montrealers, lemmings trans-generationally mounting each other en route, have once again followed each other over the edge. As was the case in the October Crisis of 1970, it has happened under a red banner. The college (and High School and Post-Grad) students of the city have taken to the streets in a record-length, hugely popular “strike” against increasing tuition fees. The schools are empty and the streets are dangerous. Canadians, as you may know, generally seek academic degrees of one sort or another, on the taxpayers’ dime, while they ponder...

AND NOW . . . amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic first- and second-hand premium cigar smoke. . . it is time for . . . that harmless, lovable little fuzz ball, the highly-trained broadcast specialist, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, from behind the golden EIB microphone, firmly ensconced in the prestigious Attila-the-Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies, serving humanity simply by showing up, and he’s not retiring until every American agrees with him, do NOT doubt him, with shrieks of joy at the mere mention of his name...

I saw the Avengers Movie with some family on Mother's Day. I saw "Obama" as the evil one wanting to end freedom for the general population as freedom is bad. The Evil One wanted the Good Guys (Captain America, Hulk, Thor etc) to spend their time fighting each other. When Captain America was looking for his "outfit" he went to a museum and found the Stars and Stripes on display. He got it and said - "This is not as popular as it once was!" When the Good Guys joined to fight evil - they could not be stopped. At...

Salve That is what you are fighiting against, evil who pretends to be good. You are much smarter to know. We are all adults here. [Romanian native > ESL]

Former government attorneys and defense experts fear that foreign terrorists could capitalize on a new House proposal that would afford them full protection under the U.S. legal system, potentially spurring a domestic influx of would-be terrorists who may seek to exploit the legal loophole. The amendment, spearheaded by Reps. Justin Amash (R., Mich.) and Adam Smith (D., Wash), would implement an unprecedented reversal in longstanding U.S. policy by requiring that terrorists be prosecuted in civilian courts—a shift that would also allow them to be housed among general inmates in American prisons.

Look at the ceiling when all else fails If in doubt Stimulate The Teleprompter is your only friend College Students don’t stay stupid forever Separate vacations The next book will be “Dreams of Momma: Looking for My BC” You CAN fool some of the people all the time Send those people more bumper stickers Hope means never having to say your stupid Kill Osama, win a prize I really really like myself The Supremes are Mean Fake is Forever If you really don’t care get Obamacare Good and Evil… more or less relative Ultimate Power means Ultimate Golf Need Money?...

Freep a Poll: Do you agree or disagree with President Obama who believes that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry?

WILLARD M. ROMNEY THE RAT AND HORROR CONNECTION I would like to propose, as matter of political strategy, that all of those who are opposed to the dark shadow of godlessness, rebellion, i.e. RINOism that Willard M. Romney is casting upon the once bright landscape of the Republican Party, and it was a bright landscape during the Ronald Reagan years, that is for sure, that we make a simple change in our communication strategy. I see that most FreeRepublic members have stopped helping the homosexual movement advance their agenda by dropping the use of their propaganda term "gay", as homosexuals...

Below is an email from Mary Magnuson, a MoveOn member in Brookfield, Wisconsin, who created a petition on SignOn.org, the nonprofit site that allows anyone to start their own online petition. If you have concerns or feedback about this petition, click here. Dear MoveOn member, As a Wisconsin progressive working day and night for the recall of Scott Walker, I'm shocked: The Democratic National Committee still isn't giving financial support to the recall fight in Wisconsin. After more than a year of grassroots efforts, Wisconsin citizens have accomplished more than anyone thought possible. We now have a Democratic challenger to...

Forgive the vanity post...I firmly believe that Obama was the chosen one by his mentors, the powers that be on the radical far left to implement their master plan. Based on his upbringing, his associations, and his involvement in the Chicago community organizing movement he was groomed and promoted to higher office. From there he was launched by an incredible talent for oration, and a desire by the people for something other than the status quo. Change is what they wanted. The main stream media grabbed hold, forgot their jobs to investigate, and cheered all the way to his election....

Newly released, declassified files from the United Kingdom reveal U.S.officials' concerns that Kenyans studying in America, including President Obama's father, may have had ties to Kenyan terrorist groups that were supported by communist nations in the 1950s and early 1960s. As yet the documents exist only in physical form at the National Archives in Kew, Southwest London – but they are open to the public, a British police source told the Law Enforcement Examiner on Sunday. The declassified documents, which had been kept secret for decades, "were privately condemned by Obama administration officials," a British source told the Law Enforcement...

I never post on Free Republic, although I come here everyday, but something has been bothering me and I'm not exactly sure how to handle it. Ever since his holiness obama has made his gay marriage proclamation, my facebook feed has been inundated by posts from my gay friends about it. I haven't responded to any of the posts, because I know it would be go over well. None of my friends responses by others has been anything except positive (from the gay point of view). I'm smart enough to know that not everyone believes in gay marriage, and the...

Seriously, folks, there are legitimate debates about the problems that plague the black community from high incarceration rates to low graduation rates to high out-of-wedlock birth rates. But it’s clear that they’re not happening in black-studies departments. If these young scholars are the future of the discipline, I think they can just as well leave their calendars at 1963 and let some legitimate scholars find solutions to the problems of blacks in America. Solutions that don’t begin and end with blame the white man. http://chronicle.com/blogs/brainstorm/the-most-persuasive-case-for-eliminating-black-studies-just-read-the-dissertations/46346 In response, over 6500 academics signed an online petition demanding she be fired. She was...

When Obama was a kid he chased a young girl named Coretta around the playground and when teased he pushed her. Was this a hate crime because she was Black? Maybe it was sexual harassment.

Since it took the "coolest man in America" years of soul-searching and some "unwelcome prompting" from Dimwit Biden to finally come out of the closet on gay marriage, one must wonder: (1) how can liberal media chatterheards and their leftist Hollywood phonies be so quick to condemn anyone who opposes gay marriage when their standard bearer (who is eminently smarter than the rest of us) took years to see the light; (2) why is Biden being forced to apologize for (allegedly) forcing Obama to simply "do the courageous" thing - shouldn't he receive praise for prompting the otherwise cowardly Prez;...

Obama's Foreign Policy is a Mess, period. Consider for a moment that the US Department of State actively supports Gays in the Foreign Service (Read the end of this). Because there are so many Foreign Service Officers, and their partners now serving openly abroad, it may eventually become a policy issue with other countries. What would happen if France or one of the Islamic countries declared a sitting Ambassador or Political Officer persona nongrata and demanded their removal or recall for being GAY, or being the openly GAY State Department funded domestic partner? Does a country have the leverage to...

Looks like the end is drawing near, and one can smell sulphur. I will guess first. (Location is optional but I put one down anyway). Please join, too.

http://www.wepolls.com/p/9637685/Will-his-endorsement-of-same-sex-marriage-help-or-hurt-Obama-in-November 66 votes Hurt 30% 113 votes Help 51% 32 votes No Difference 15% 9 votes I don't know flag 4%

I thought someone did this back for the 2010 election but I have not seen anything related to the 2012 election cycle. I would be willing to help get this going. As I see it, if we are not capturing this info and then vetting these folks ourselves then we have no one to blame but ourselves. For example Pam Bondi and Connie Mack out of FLA had tea party support and even SP endorsed them in their races but they are far from the pure tea party conservatives we want to see elected right? If you are interested or...

Senator McCain, By now you must know in your heart that your pick of Sarah Palin was a great act, but was being undermined from the beginning by the Bush Family operatives who were assigned by the party to operate your campaign for their own Family's fortunes. These guys were behind the vile attacks on your adopted daughter Bridget in 2000, and they have been behind much of the fratricide within the GOP over the past 35 years or so. To think that Sarah Palin was being set up by these pricks back in 2008 when the country's future was...

N. Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un (28?) is reported to have hit the ceiling today when he took an "on the spot" guidance tour of the main North Korean amusement park in Pyongyang and saw it in a shoddy condition. It is probably his and his deceased father's ultimate blame, shifting all their cash reserves into meaningless, failed launches, but Mini-Me, Son of Chia Pet, had to have someone to bark at on national TV to rule the roost. The DPRK media is trying to create an image that this little fat so-and-so is somebody not to be messed...

According to the Arlington City Charter, City Council members elected in Districts 6, 7 and 8 shall “reside and be registered to vote within the boundaries of the city of Arlington at the time of filing for the election.” Hawkes-Vinyard listed an Arlington address as her residence on the city council application. However, she owns a home in Frisco and claimed it on a 2010 Residence Homestead Exemption.

Here is a link to WISH- TV showing live polls of Indiana: http://indiana.onpolitix.com/pages/72/indiana-election-results 12% Precincts Reporting 61% Mourdock 39% Lugar

I'm paraphrasing a Catholic Bishop during nazi Germany, who basically said ,they came after the Jews and I didn't care, and now they are coming after me.

“Justice delayed is justice denied” is a maxim generally attributed to 19th century British Prime Minister William E. Gladstone. We’ve heard that phrase often, and the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is based on this principle. “In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial,” it provides. Let’s place “speedy trial” on the back burner for a moment as we consider Saturday’s arraignment of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. Here’s a brief timeline of the life of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of 9/11, since his capture and custody at the military prison...

The Senate should take action. The House of Representatives should take action. Where are they?

The Obama campaign is floundering before our eyes, even if the Obama media won't characterize it that way. From the thousands of empty seats at the Ohio campaign kickoff on Saturday and the mystery burka woman ejected from the follow-on Richmond event to today's embarrassingly incompetent press release, the Axelrod PR machine is a shadow of its 2008 mastery. Reminding the American people of the Obamas' penchant for his & her luxury vacation travel via government jets is an unforced error on Team Axelrod's part.According to report by ABC News and MSNBC, the Obama campaign took umbrage to statements made...

Cats are genetically wired to behave in ways that humans see as insane. They often torment and play with their prey, for example, in a manner that we would call 'sadistic'. Sadism, to humans, is not a sane characteristic. Sometimes it seems that humans are also genetically wired to behave insanely. Let us look at the votes recently taken in Greece, France, and Germany. In all three cases, the concept of austerity (read: fiscal responsibility) has been completely rejected by their populations. In one case, France, the populace actually elected a labeled Socialist. The financial systems of most of Europe...

My son is in homeschool. He is an experiential kind of guy and is taking couses (some self taught) in tiling, heavy equipment and CDL. I may be able to graduate him as a two year senior with full CDL license. There are a number of other courses I could have him take after highschool, from building post and beam homes, to basic plumbing and electricity, engine repair, to gunsmithing and others. many are available to adults and provided by the private sector. I would love to be able to provide him with a post high school experiential program which...