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After reading some positive FR reviews I decided to give the movie a try. Yes, the movie is blatantly political. The plot revolves around a mishmash of liberal lunacy about healthcare and immigration. But the worst thing I can say is the movie stinks. Damon's acting is weak. The plot has huge holes in it. The characters are one dimensional. The big fight scene at the end looks like a bad imitation of a WWE fight. Worst of all, the futuristic scenario is not written in a way that has any logic of its own. Sure, I could believe that...

It’s no secret that one hundred years of progressivism has twisted the American mind. A once proud and independent people have become increasingly meek and dependent on the decisions and goodies disbursed by faraway masterminds. Part of that twist shifted our attention and expectations from the dispersed power in our states, and toward a single focal point, Washington, DC. For any real or imagined problem, the perceived answer no longer resides within our communities or states. No, there must be a national program to deal with and regulate everything. This top-down imperial approach, that treats the fifty states no better...

08/08/2013-MOTION REINSTATE AND CONTINUANCE AGAINST ABOVE NAME DEFENDANT GEORGE ZIMMERMAN

The way D.C. political operatives are reacting to the news that Liz Cheney is challenging Sen. Mike Enzi in the Wyoming GOP primary, you’d think the Republican Party had another Sharron Angle on their hands — someone so much more conservative and rhetorically unrestrained than the incumbent or establishment candidate that she wins the primary only to lose a winnable general election race by a wide margin.Well, Cheney is famously unrestrained. But that’s about where the similarities end. Wyoming is so deep red that the winner of the GOP primary will sail through the general, no matter who it is....

Obama has denied FEMA money to the victims of the Yarnell Fire. This fire was started by lightning. The Prescott Valley Granite Mountain Hotshots lost 19 firefighters in this fire, along with 129 homes and structures.

Fox News just aired a preview of an hour long special tonight on the growth of food stamp usage under Obama.The preview was reported by John Roberts who filmed and interviewed a 29-year-old California beach bum in La Jolla who gets $200 per month in food stamp benefits with no work requirement.

I have been a lifelong republican and am even serving as a member of our city council as a Republican. The republican turncoats who are pushing forward with 'immigration reform' have pushed me and many others over the edge. There’s a long list of issues that they’ve been impotent on, but 'immigration reform' issue is one in which many congressional members have crossed over and are deliberately hastening the demise of our country, on the off-chance that some Hispanics may help republicans win an election cycle 10 yrs down the road.

Given the monumental increase in CORRUPTION in government at all levels, I thought it might be a good idea to send this around once again.  As you'll see, this relates to the Georgia Constitution. I'd urge you to investigate YOUR state constitution to see if it contains a clause on JURY NULLIFICATION. If it DOES NOT, why don't you FIND OUT WHY? Thanks to the wisdom of the Founders, we have -- or once HAD -- 4 bulwarks against TYRANNY: They were the 1) SOAP BOX (First Amendment), 2) the BALLOT BOX, 3) the JURY BOX and (pray that...

Mountain goat and lion found dead on a closed road in Glacier National park. It seems they both fell to their deaths when the cougar attacked the goat far up on the cliffs out of sight and to the right. (Not sure where to post this, but I think it was is interesting)

Just listening to Hannity and they jipped in on Obama's speech right as he flubbed LeJeune. What a doofus. I don't have the audio, so if anyone can dig it up and post it here, it will be appreciated.

Which city will be the next to suffer the fate of Detroit (bankruptcy, alarming crime rate, exceptionally low property value, etc.)? What's your reasoning behind the city you picked?

Zillow is an on-line real estate company. They are hosting Obama today in a Q&A about real estate. Considering that Obama's policies have done more to damage our economy and the real estate market than any foreign enemy could, that's pretty stupid. This company obviously has a strong ideological bent towards progressivism. Send this to all the realtors you know.

The Navy has decided that it will not repair the nuclear-powered submarine USS Miami after concluding that the cost of repairing damage from a fire set by a civilian worker is more than it can afford due to mandated budget cuts.

Saw an individual on the pedestrian bridge over Highway 85 this morning with colorful "Impeach Obama" banners. Made my morning. Well done.

I have to ask, think this through, what has been the reason for a series of embassies to ever close in our past history? Are we so scared of a group that was once defeated that we cower in fear like this? Or does Obama have other plans? Embassies, closed, this many, at the same time...only in time of war, folks, only in time of war

Since we don't know the specifics of the message(s) intercepted, all we have to speculate from is what little was released, along with what we know about AQ. One thing I have heard from several sources that have seen the messages is that the plot would be large or massive. This could mean one spectacular attack as was 9/11, or many simultaneous attacks in different locations, with the sum of the attacks being large. We are also told that AQ has some sort of "media plan" for after the event(s) so that it can be replayed on every TV all...

Japan has unveiled its biggest warship since World War II, a huge flat-top helicopter carrier.

Back in the early 2000's the Fish & Wildlife Service was caught on tape clubbing Salmon to death returning to streams here in either Washington or Oregon. Meantime, the government was passing draconian landuse regulations "taking" private property due to low Salmon returns. Does anyone remember this and help we with a link? Thank you!

I am planning to move to one of the Christian Healthcare coops that are legal under Obamacare. It is not insurance but all of them have a pretty good reputation of paying the bills. However, since we seem to be ruled by despots these days instead of rational law, there is always the possibility that the government will make these coops illegal and if that is the case, I would be uninsured, and if I am unfortunate, I would owe the medicinal industrial complex a lot of money. The more I look at the Obamacare package and the direction of...

Nancy Mace, candidate for SC senate and challenger to Linseed Graham on Cavuto right now

“Don’t be scared,” was Crazy Dave’s advice as I set out to document some of San Francisco’s sexual quirks (writing can be a dirty and dangerous profession). It was and remains good guidance that applies to most matters, especially politics. But politicos and their propagandists have long recognized the value of fear for creating herd mentality and inciting reaction ahead of thought. The Lie of Fear (“creating a false sense of fear in order to motivate people to action while easing them past critical thinking”) was the very first entry in the Catalog of Canards included in Shooting The Bull....

How much is the economy improving?

I have long thought that we needed an radio show to address politics from a constitutional angle, one that educates the people on the benefits of our design of limited government and set a foundation for arguing with liberals. Hearing no such shows, I started my own. My second radio show airs tomorrow, Tuesday (August 6, 2013). We will be discussing the constitutional duties of the Executive, his fulfillment of those duties (not!), the cult following that he surfs, the lack of knowledge of his followers, and how to argue these points with the liberal. This is on latalkradio.com The...

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Unlike Clinton who actually knew how to govern and be a strong leader (even though often in the wrong direction), Obama is a worthless punk from the streets of Chicago who can't cope with the fact that he is neither white nor black, but a sad mixture of sleazy parents. But he and his leftist advisors are smart enough to create distractive news items that the lap dog press will happily trumpet to cover up all of his stupid mistakes that are now becoming blooming scandals.

It seems that most of the television media is owned by liberals. Is this a coincidence or can it be that Democrats have controlled the FCC for years and have given licenses to liberals while rejecting conservatives?

CNN's sudden "discovery" of Benghazi ("Look! There's there there!") has, I've noticed, begun awakening the small but vocal contingent of "Sleeper FReepers" -- who of course are not FReepers at all. These "sleepers" -- actually liberal Democrat sympathizers -- lie in wait until an event deeply threatens one of their cherished liberal figureheads, quite often Hillary Clinton, and/or when an event comes just a leeeetle too close to disclosing what a nest of incompetent vipers the Democrat "leadership" really is, from Obama on down. Therefore, especially for new members, here is what to be on the lookout for as the...

Shifts in climate are strongly linked to increases in violence around the world, a study suggests. US scientists found that even small changes in temperature or rainfall correlated with a rise in assaults, rapes and murders, as well as group conflicts and war. The team says with the current projected levels of climate change, the world is likely to become a more violent place. The study is published in Science. Marshall Burke, from the University of California, Berkeley, said: "This is a relationship we observe across time and across all major continents around the world. The relationship we find between...

Last year, New York Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, suggested that illegal immigrants be sent to Detroit. See: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/bloomberg-make-immigrants-live-detroit-if-they-survive-7-years-make-them-citizens I think that this is a great idea. Because of America's highest crime rates, 65 percent of the population of Detroit left the city, so there is a lot of room in the city. The illegal immigrants should be forcibly transported to Detroit, and not receive any government welfare of any kind, and the government should block all exits from Detroit to prevent the immigrants from fleeing from Detroit for two years.

Last thing I remember hearing on the IRS targeting of conservative groups was that none of them nor their attorney's had been contacted. That aspect has dropped off the face of the earth. Have they been contacted?

CNN's Dana Bash reports via Twitter that Barack Obama was incredibly arrogant in a private meeting on Capitol Hill with Congressional Democrats today:apparently POTUS got hot with dem ed perlmutter for asking about karry summers (sic) for fed chief. POTUS went off about wash game & "huff post"ALso told POTUS was snarky w/ member asking about jobs in his district. Dem told me "he cant get thru a meeting of dems w/out chastising us"Dem source tells me POTUS was "rude and dismissive" to freshman dem maloney who asked about a loan guarantee program/jobs for ny district

Went to the local Social Security Administration Office today with my wife who will be retiring in near future. The office is in a rural low crime area in Western Kentucky. We were greeted by two armed, courteous "Rent-a-Cops" upon entry. While waiting to be served we observed the Rent-a-Cops doing a thorough search of a an elderly lady's purse prior to her being allowed to see the Social Security worker. These guys were opening every thing in the purse, unzipping every zipper. Voicing our disapproval over the search, we departed. The entire scenario was ridiculous. Does anyone know the...

Ok people here's the problem: Property taxes I am sure you agree are un-American! Why should we ~rent~ our own property from the various government entities rather than owning it outright, for all of time for our personal use/posterity!? So here's the question: what do we need to do to END PROPERTY TAXES? (I know we are a smart bunch, much smarter than the left-so we CAN get this done, somehow..).

Just a heads up. If you want to see Rush in all his whatever glory. Great announced this at the end of her show. Rush must be fired up about something!!!

C-Span2 has announced that Dr. Ben Carson will be the scheduled guest on this month's "In-Depth" program on Sunday, August 4th. Dr. Carson is the chief surgeon in the pediatric neurosurgical section of Johns Hopkins who told Obama to his face exactly what he thought of his policies and activities at a prayer breakfast last winter. In-Depth is C-Span2's first-Sunday-of-every-month program which features authors who are interviewed about their work and life and who respond to e-mails and calls from viewers for three hours - a chance to hear more about Dr. Carson's philosophy, disagreement with many things Obama, and...

Thursday, July 25, 2013 Congressman McCarthy, The Oath of Enlistment I took in March, 1968 word for word. "I, [REMOVED], do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God." "I, [REMOVED], do solemnly swear that I will support and defend...

Your comments please on whether you agree or not on this American Voter Registration procedure. I consider myself a normal U.S. Citizen (my wife may disagree). Whether I am Caucasian, Hispanic, Asian, African American (This is a term I disagree with since the “entire” Human Race is of African origin). All of the above should be termed “American” regardless of ethnicity. 1. Everyone of voting age and that is a legal US citizen that wishes to participate in voting in public elections, Federal and Local, should have an “authorized” Voter I.D. card. 2. The VID card could be obtained at...

A prominent Marxist educator, Shakti Butler, uses the following definition of "racist": Racist - A racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality. Butler then uses the following term to describe "reverse racism": Reverse racist - A non-term. The term was created by whites to deny responsibility for systemic racism, to maintain an aura of innocence in the face of racial oppression, and...

On July 10, Ann Coulter made the amusing observation that George Zimmerman would make a better US Senator than Marco Rubio. What makes the statement amusing, is that Ann was not joking, and that the statement is true. A man like Zimmerman who cares about the quality of his neighborhood, would also care about the interests of his country. http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2013-07-10.html But we can take Ann's comparison much further, and ask ourselves whether Trayvon Martin would have made a better President than Obama. We know for sure, that President Trayvon would have done a better job defending traditional marriage, and opposing...

There has been talk about having a new party, some have called it the Freedom Party. If there were to be a Freedom Party what would be the party platforms? Here are some thoughts that I have and I would welcome your suggestions. 1) Based on the Constitution 2) Government that serves not rules people 3) Restoring power to the individual citizen, towns and states 4)Respect for life from conception to natural death 5) Respects moral institutions based on the Ten Commandments 6) Respect for the hard earned money of the tax payers 7) Protecting self defense and 2nd Ammendment...

Given that the Trayvon Martin verdict has been used by demagogues to divide America, we need to remind ourselves that Black Americans are among the greatest American patriots. I refer you to this brief 4 minute video by Alan Keyes, where he speaks with great passion in defense of the economic future of the American people: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DlTgrMCxPg According to Keyes, the Obama administration is being managed by "insane children". He talks about a budget deficit of 2 trillion dollars, which was eliminated by the printing of paper money, instead of real wealth. Keyes warns America with great emotion, that the...

Politics: A veto of the defense authorization bill is threatened unless the president gets his way. He wants health care insurance premiums and co-pays increased for troops and scheduled military pay raises to be reduced. Being used as photo-ops for presidential speeches and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for your country apparently does not exempt our troops from the rising health care premiums that President Obama said, along with sea levels, would not rise under his administration. The next time a soldier hears "give me 50," it might be dollars and not push-ups. The White House has threatened to...

I figured somebody had to do it...fire away

Is It Ignorance or Intent That Will Destroy American I had penned something in a chat room without fully recognizing what I suggested. What I posted was “Americans' ignorance of America's past could destroy America’s freedom.” What if it is intent and not ignorance causing America’s decline. I have the belief that if more people were aware of how America became an exceptional country they would have a better appreciation of freedom. America did not become exceptional because of what the government did, America became exceptional because of what the Constitution prohibited the government from doing. The generations’ immediately following...

Fifty years of socialist rule in Detroit has achieved a revolution in cheap housing. Because 60 percent of the population of Detroit fled from the city because of high crime rates, there are more houses than people in Detroit. This article from Bloomberg Businessweek says that you can buy a house in Detroit for $6,000. http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/hotproperty/archives/2009/03/the_median_home.html This is less than what most people pay for a used car. Advocates of "affordable housing" must be very happy.

As part of the fund raising why not offer T-shirts, bumper stickers, etc? It would be great if I had a Free Republic T-shirt to help show my Free Republic pride.

Fox News just introduced that they have hired major community organizer Progressive Marxist Sally Kohn as a Fox News Contributor? If you are not familiar with her....she is left of Rachel Maddow with the same hair and voice. She is on the All Star Panel right now....this is pure insanity.

Inspired by an FR solicitation for donations, actually. I listened to the interview of one of the jurors, who said Zimmerman was guilty of bad judgment. I scoffed at the time, but couldn't put words to it, and then I saw the FR ad. Was Rosa Parks guilty of bad judgment? Should she have just stood? At what point does an assertion of our right to be secure in our homes become an act of bad judgment? Should we hand over our wallets, car keys, and possibly our children, should someone of color demand them of us at the point...

Students in a prestigious university in Thailand, recently painted a mural depicting their favorite Western superheros. These include Superman, Batman, the Hulk, Captain America....and....Hitler. Here is a link to the crazy story: http://www.3news.co.nz/Superman-Batman-Hitler/tabid/417/articleID/305117/Default.aspx A couple of year ago, the Telegraph, a British newspaper, had a story about how Hitler, Nazi clothing, and Nazi memorabilia were very fashionable among youth in Asia. The article was titled: "Nazi chic: from Mongolia to Tel Aviv, angry teenagers think Hitler is cool" http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100049486/nazi-chic-from-mongolia-to-tel-aviv-angry-teenagers-think-hitler-is-cool/ But given the Israel-bashing that goes on in American and European universities, are Western youth able to educate Asian youth on...