http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/veterans/ en-us Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:50:33 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2476352/posts Facebook page is on fire with support for Stupak's opponent Daniel Benishek is running for Congress against Bart Stupak. Since Stupak announced that he cut a deal with Barack Obama and will now support Health Care Reform, Benishek’s Facebook page has been on fire with well-wishes, and commitments of donations. Benishek is pro-life, and as a surgeon knows a little about Health Care. TheCypressTimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2476352/posts#comment Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:50:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2476392/posts We’re making Bart Stupak the next target in our project to identify the wealthy individuals and law firms that keep funding bad Democrats. He and Louise Slaughter will be our test cases — where we work together as a group to identify all their major campaign contributors, and direct the public’s ire at the rich men and women on the Left who keep writing checks to send people like Slaughter and Stupak to Washington to do their bidding. If these people wish to exercise their right of free speech by way of funding these Leftists’ campaigns, then we the people... Hillbuzz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2476392/posts#comment Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:49:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2475688/posts Great Obama Billboard!! Obama holding a sign: Only 2 Things Scare Me...The Boogyman And Sarah Palin! Does anyone know where it is from? Citizen Palin 4 President http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2475688/posts#comment Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:22:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2475150/posts When President Barack Obama stops by Ann Arbor May 1, Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska and 2008 vice presidential candidate, will be nearby. The Detroit Free Press reported Palin will speak at the Defending the American Dream Summit in Clarkston May 1, the same day Obama is set to address University of Michigan graduates and pick up an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. The Free Press picked up the news from a statement released by Americans for Prosperity, a national organization connected to the Tea Party Movement, which advocates for low taxation and limited government, its story says.... AnnArbor.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2475150/posts#comment Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:12:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2473148/posts It is our firm belief that the way to prevent the Healthcare Rationing bill from passing is to put an intense fear of the public’s ire into the wealthy people and law firms who fund the campaigns of the following Democrats:.........You need to accept, as we do, that Democrats in Congress have stopped listening to their constituents and the American people. Nancy Pelosi, Tim Kaine, Harry Reid, and Barack Obama have built up a mental wall between Democrats in the House and reality. Whatever they are telling these people, it’s working, because they have taken their office phones off the... HillBuzz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2473148/posts#comment Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:02:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2472429/posts I have seen plenty of hate filled videos featuring Muslims, but this is one of the most powerful ones that I have ever seen. In it they preach against infidels, democracy, gays, and pigs. The main spokesman in the video states how we cannot give them their rights (Democracy), but the day is coming when they will give us our rights (Sharia), and we will be on our knees asking for mercy. They are deadly serious, and in the meantime most of us do not even want to face the reality that Islam is at war with us. Please ask... Logans Warning http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2472429/posts#comment Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:43:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2471585/posts It may be tempting to feel worn down as we take one step after another towards the “fundamental transformation of America” that Barack Obama promised. But we mustn’t let our energy be sapped, even in the face of the mind-boggling leap the Obama Administration just took that fundamentally shifts us towards more reliance on foreign energy sources. Hang on to your hat and take a look at this. Months ago I discussed Washington’s decision to allow U.S. dollars to flow to Brazil for that nation’s off-shore oil drilling projects, while D.C.’s attitude towards America’s own offshore developments appeared less-than-enthusiastic. We... Citizen Palin 4 President http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2471585/posts#comment Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:22:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2470865/posts If Senator Reid, Speaker Pelosi, and President Obama get their way, soon our country will be changed forever. Using every partisan parliamentary trick in the book (including some they invented just last week), Washington’s Left intends to ram through their takeover of our health care system regardless of the consequences. The latest twists and turns in the Obamacare drama seem almost surreal. One minute the Democrat leadership is trying to amend a bill before the president has even signed it into law, and the next minute they’re trying to draft a new rule that will allow the House to “deem”... Governor Palin 4 President http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2470865/posts#comment Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:50:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2470112/posts "Listen, o' ordinary barbarians for if you listen intently you will hear the sounds of the clarion call on the winds that blow from the North..." A month from now, something historic will occur in New Orleans, Louisiana. I speak of the Southern Republican Leadership Conference (SRLC), April 8-11, 2010, the message that Governor Palin will deliver there, and the hordes of ordinary barbarians that will turn out in support of this commonsense conservative. It is of the utmost importance that we are there to support her in full force. You don't have to take my word for it. I'm... conservatives4palin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2470112/posts#comment Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:37:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2469961/posts MERCERSBURG, Pa., March 12, 2010 – Matthew Bilancia addresses the slopes like a man on a mission, cutting and edging his snowboard down the mountain with the confidence and passion of someone who’s been doing it all his life. Army Spc. Tonya Jacobs, injured in an on-the-job accident in Kuwait in 2008, laces up her ski boots for a wounded warrior adaptive sports session March 11, 2010, at Whitetail Ski Resort in Mercersburg, Pa. The USO of Metropolitan Washington and the Two Top Mountain Adaptive Sports Foundation sponsored the event. DoD photo by Army Sgt. 1st Class Michael J. Carden  (Click... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2469961/posts#comment Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:19:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2467933/posts Breazeale for Congress is pleased to announce California Congressman Duncan Hunter will spend two days in District 7 campaigning for Will Breazeale on the 20th and 21st of March. Captain Hunter, United States Marine Corps Reserve, will appear at a host of fundraisers with Breazeale, as well as at the Brunswick-GOP County Convention. "It's really an honor to have Congressman Hunter throw his unwavering support behind Will," said Finance Director Kathryn Johnston. "The big names are lining up for us because they know Will is the best candidate to take down Mike McIntyre this November." Breazeale's relationship with Congressman Hunter... www.awilltowin.net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2467933/posts#comment Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:44:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2467503/posts The state-run media was sooooo desperate to find something to attack Sarah Palin on yesterday that they forgot to factcheck their latest smear. On Monday, the leftist media was thrilled to report that Sarah Palin used the Canadian health care system when she was a child. The Huffington Post, the Washington Post and Matthew Yglesias were happy to report this line this line from her speech this past weekend in Calgary: “We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada. And I think now, isn’t that ironic? ” This, they suggested, proved she endorsed the... Gateway Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2467503/posts#comment Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2467329/posts Barack Obama, in his first press conference after his election, called Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons "unacceptable." He repetitively offered Iran "engagement." He set a deadline of year-end 2009 for Iranian compliance, now unilaterally extended another three months. Iran contemptuously and repetitively responded that it had no intention of abandoning its nuclear program. Obama's Iran policy is collapsing to the accompaniment of open mockery around the globe. Obama assured us that his "engagement" would make it easier to enlist other countries to stop Iran. The result is the opposite: Virtually every country Obama approached has rebuffed him. Without a credible... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2467329/posts#comment Tue, 9 Mar 2010 19:24:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2466599/posts It's all supposed to be voluntary, those "home visits" that are tucked into the mammoth Obamacare bill. If you have a strong stomach, and a stronger bottom, you can find home visitation on pages 568-595. That's Section 2951 of H.R. 3590, the Senate bill that Harry Reid brought down the chimney on Christmas Eve. All voluntary, they say, but once you "volunteer" to have the oh-so-helpful folks from Social Services come in to help with your newborns, or with a number of other specified issues, will you ever be able to get rid of them? The bill provides for federal... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2466599/posts#comment Mon, 8 Mar 2010 19:55:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2466512/posts FR Exclusive American Heroes; Neil Armstrong, Gene Cernan, Jim Lovell, Steve Ritchie Forbidden To See Troops In SWA I am just off phone with a member of the American Heroes tour group stuck in Qatar. The four, Armstrong, Cernan. Lovell and Ritchie have been planning this tour to see the real front-line troops for months, so they could give some visual support and morale boost to the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. But now they are stuck in a rear area in Qatar, because some Washington Weenie claims it would be too dangerous for them to move any farther forward,... Personal phone call http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2466512/posts#comment Mon, 8 Mar 2010 18:01:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2466473/posts Kokesh's campaign website states: "After receiving an honorable discharge in November of 2006, Adam moved to Washington, DC to pursue a master's degree in Political Management at George Washington University. Since then, he has taken it upon himself as an activist to continue to honor his oath to the Constitution and the principles of liberty behind it. " Although this was true at one time, it no longer is fact and Kokesh knows it, per mulitple websites including Fox News, http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,281936,00.html As stated by Fox, " A superior officer e-mailed Kokesh, saying he was being investigated because he might have... Adam Kokesh for Congress http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2466473/posts#comment Mon, 8 Mar 2010 17:02:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2465571/posts Tens of thousands of Vietnam veterans with ischemic heart disease, Parkinson’s disease or B cell leukemia should file claims now with the Department of Veterans Affairs for disability compensation, and not wait until VA publishes a regulation officially linking these diseases to wartime service. Advocacy groups are urging the swift filing of claims because veterans eventually found eligible for disability pay for these diseases will be able to receive compensation back to the date their claims were filed. Those who wait for a regulation to add these ailments to VA’s list of diseases presumed caused by exposure to Agent Orange... SIERRA VISTA Herald/Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2465571/posts#comment Sat, 6 Mar 2010 18:05:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2464680/posts A program enacted in August 2009 promised military veterans attending college increased educational benefits for their time served, but, seven months later, some students at the University of Colorado have seen little or none of that money. At least 231 students at CU rely on funding from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs as part of the post-9/11 G.I. Bill, which pays a portion of tuition, fees, books and living expenses for students who served at least 90 days of active service since Sept. 11, 2001. The bill nearly doubled the benefits to military and veteran students nationwide, but CU... Daily Camera http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2464680/posts#comment Fri, 5 Mar 2010 13:03:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2463768/posts (KLTV) - Millard Parker received a Bronze Star for saving lives in Vietnam. But the lives he saved were through building, not fighting. Parker admits he was shot at during his two years in Vietnam during the Vietnam war. But it is what he and others did for the people of Vietnam that he remembers best. Parker was in an Army Engineering unit that built roads, bridges, infrastructure and water purification plants for the villages of Vietnam. He is especially proud of the water purification plants because without them the villagers would have had to continue drinking the polluted river... KLTV.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2463768/posts#comment Thu, 4 Mar 2010 05:31:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2462941/posts Veterans For Congress   Written by James Simpson - DC Independent Examiner    Tuesday, 02 March 2010 16:16 James Simpson writes in the Examiner.com:"I will go to Washington to do battle against Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Steny Hoyer and the rest of them. They have never seen anything like the Southern fried butt whipping that's coming at them!" Lt. Col. Allen West (Ret.)A common complaint we hear about members of Congress is that they have never served in the military. A total of 95 veterans of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and the National Guard are current House... DC Independent Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2462941/posts#comment Wed, 3 Mar 2010 03:16:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2460295/posts Pentagon Reports Document Continuing Lockheed-Martin Failures Under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the CDI Straus Military Reform Project has obtained almost two years of monthly reports from the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) on Lockheed Martin’s production of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The documents do not paint a pretty picture, explains Straus Military Reform Project Director Winslow Wheeler. The Defense Contract Management Agency’s (DCMA) most recent reports cover the months July through November 2009. The full reports are available below. Their major points, as summarized by Winslow Wheeler, are as follows: The F-35 assembly line at Forth Worth,... Center for Defense Information http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2460295/posts#comment Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:45:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2459828/posts Although Election Day is just over two months away, for Will Breazeale, candidate for United States Congress, country still comes first. Starting Saturday, Breazeale will fulfill his annual active duty obligation to the United States Army Reserve by serving for two weeks in a full time status. The decorated Iraq War veteran will proudly report to the United States Army War College in Carlisle Barracks, PA where his mission is to serve on a staff in charge of training future U.S. Army Generals. "The duty was scheduled months ago when there were no announced candidates in the primary. Even though... Will Breazeale press releases http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2459828/posts#comment Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:42:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2459623/posts “There’s no easy answer, but there is a simple answer.” Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2459623/posts#comment Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:30:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2459621/posts Steven’s latest is awesome. Red State http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2459621/posts#comment Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:21:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2459324/posts The House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday that would grant Native Hawaiians special rights as reparations for the 1893 peaceful overthrow of their Queen Liliuokalani which led to the eventual annexation of their island by the United States. The bill creates a new Hawaiian government that would negotiate with the U.S. over things like land rights and natural resources, and could cede large tracts of land that became U.S. government property when Hawaii became a state in 1959, back to Native Hawaiians. The bill defines “Native Hawaiians” as a distinct ethnic group that can trace its lineage directly to... The Daily Caller http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2459324/posts#comment Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:08:11 GMT