https://freerepublic.com/tag/by:kara2008/ en-us Fri, 29 Jun 2012 03:37:48 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2900774/posts Today the Supreme Court struck down portions of Obamacare as unconstitutional --states cannot be "dragooned" into expanding their Medicaid programs according to the law’s dictates. However, a list of 50 particularly onerous or egregious provisions in Obamacare (with sections from the statute duly noted) reveals just how much of this bad law remains. By the most generous interpretation, the Court struck down only four of the 50 egregious policies, illustrating why Congress should immediately repeal the entire measure once and for all.  Among many other bad policies, the law:1.      Imposes $800 billion in tax increases, including no fewer than 12... Jim Demint https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2900774/posts#comment Fri, 29 Jun 2012 03:37:48 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2861292/posts On Monday's Mark Levin Show: Mark talks about Executive Order, "National Defense Resources Preparedness" that he recently signed. Mark says that he is very troubled at what the Order says and what is inside of it. This can be abused in the wrong hands regardless of the what the circumstances are and gives a lot of power to the President. And if we already know that Obama doesn't respect the Constitution, what will he do now with the capability of having more power? Mark Levin https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2861292/posts#comment Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:21:31 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2841270/posts The Senate has confirmed our fears and on Thursday they will be proposing a new tax on Internet purchases. During a full-fledged recession, leave it to the Florida Legislature to propose a new tax - and one that they have questionable constitutional authority to enact.On Thursday morning the Senate Subcommittee on Finance and Tax, chaired by Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff, will propose SB 7206 for consideration. This bill would institute a new sales tax on Internet purchases if the retailer uses affiliates or referrals in the state. This bill aims to tax transactions by companies like Amazon, and has been proposed... Americans for Prosperity Florida (via email) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2841270/posts#comment Wed, 1 Feb 2012 23:59:04 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2818448/posts The entire episode is now available free here! Watch Glenn explain why he is organizing "Restoring Love" next summer in Dallas, TX! http://web.gbtv.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=20025171&topic_id=24584158 Glenn Beck GBTV https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2818448/posts#comment Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:40:34 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2803107/posts Mark Levin gave a sobering yet stirring keynote at the Defending the Dream Conference hosted by Americans for Prosperity. Here’s the full video: [video at link] The Right Scoop https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2803107/posts#comment Sat, 5 Nov 2011 23:44:39 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2802817/posts Glenn Beck clearly works hard to make sure that each segment of his GBTV show ranks high in measures of quality and content. But you can tell when he classifies a topic as a “must watch” segment. There are two such clips in this post. Consider this a story of a destiny reclaimed. One town, best by squabbles and scandals, rises up to chart a new and very American course. Until November 2010, Vernon Township, New Jersey did not have a Mayor. Instead, the town functioned under the Faulkner Act – a “council-manager” – form of government. Under this system... The Blaze https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2802817/posts#comment Sat, 5 Nov 2011 03:36:05 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2798917/posts FREE GBTV! The Truth About the Occupy Wall Street movement - Monday's full 2 hour episode is now available for free. Watch it and spread it to everyone you can. Glenn Beck GBTV https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2798917/posts#comment Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:39:20 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2779580/posts [ Joe McGinniss interview on The Today Show 9/16/11 ]Sometimes, I think it’s a public service to sit through some of this garbage so that you don’t have to.The Today Show calls Joe McGuinness “longtime political author” — but I can think of a few better descriptive words more apt for a man who moved next door to the Palin family to stalk them and peep into the windows of young girls, the way McGuinness did last summer. “Longtime political author” is not the word I’d use to accurately convey the disgust his behavior generates.I have no idea what this... HillBuzz.org https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2779580/posts#comment Fri, 16 Sep 2011 22:11:24 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2675687/posts Members of Florida's Congressional Delegation and the Florida Legislature are plotting to circumvent Governor Scott's decision to reject $2.4 billion in federal funds to build a high speed rail from Orlando to Tampa.  Unlikely bedfellows were made today when a group of 26 State Senators, including ten democrats and led by high speed rail supporter Paula Dockery, sent a letter to Obama’s Transportation Secretary asking him to circumvent Gov. Scott and send the dollars directly to a state commission created in 2009.  They noted that politics should have no place in the future of Florida’s transportation, but they are doing... Americans for Prosperity https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2675687/posts#comment Fri, 18 Feb 2011 07:02:11 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2635038/posts I mentioned last week that a new Big Foodie bill opposed by a diverse coalition of limited government activists, small family farmers, and left-leaning “locovores” was coming down the pike.Today, I’m disappointed to tell you, the regulatory expansion bill masquerading as a “safety” measure passed by a large margin — with stomach-turning Republican support.Here’s the roll call vote.The 15 power-grabby Republicans who voted for it:Alexander (R-TN) Brown (R-MA) Burr (R-NC) Collins (R-ME) Enzi (R-WY) Grassley (R-IA) Gregg (R-NH) Johanns (R-NE) Kirk (R-IL) LeMieux (R-FL) Lugar (R-IN) Murkowski (R-AK) Snowe (R-ME) Vitter (R-LA) Voinovich (R-OH)The Senate bill must be reconciled with... Michelle Malkin https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2635038/posts#comment Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:01:45 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2559932/posts [snip] Update 3:55pm Eastern Cloture vote falls short, DISCLOSE Act fails 57-41.Schumer won’t let go:Sen. Charles Schumer, the sponsor of the stalled campaign finance bill, promised Tuesday that Democrats would hold round-after-round of votes on it until it passes.Schumer (D-N.Y.) spoke to reporters following the weekly caucus luncheons, slamming Republicans for holding up the response to the Citizens United Supreme Court case, which allowed unlimited political spending by corporations and unions.“And we will go back at this bill again and again and again until we pass it,” he said. “It’s that vital, not to Democrats, not to Republicans, but to... Michelle Malkin https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2559932/posts#comment Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:16:19 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2542617/posts The A-Whale bills itself as the largest open-water oil skimmer in the world, and it’s at least very impressive. Originally an oil and ore tanker, the ship’s owners recently refitted the ship to do exactly the kind of work that the US so desperately needs in the Gulf of Mexico, and to do it on a vastly larger scale than current operations can handle. According to the ship’s project manager, the entire American effort in 66 days has skimmed off 600,000 barrels of oil. The ship’s owners claim that A-Whale can skim 500,000 barrels a day. So where is the... Hot Air https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2542617/posts#comment Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:58:29 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2542310/posts This is better than Rick Santelli's rant. Here is a successful businessman giving us the reality of the situation. Hotel owner Steve Wynn describes this administration and Congress's policies. As he says repeatedly, it is a combination of the insane spending and regulatory policies of the Democrats and the complete uncertainty this creates for business. American Thinker https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2542310/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jun 2010 23:38:58 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2538102/posts Until this week, the general impression of the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf has been that the explosion took everyone by surprise, and that neither BP nor a dysfunctional MMS had any idea that the well had reached a critical stage. Two days ago, however, Bloomberg reported that both BP and MMS were well aware of the high risk of a blowout at that particular well. BP and its subcontractor Transocean had in fact been fighting against a blowout for over two months, and MMS was well aware of the situation: Hot Air https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2538102/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jun 2010 19:26:08 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2503166/posts Remember this?(Video of Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so you can see what's in it.")Cato’s Chris Edwards has found another of Nancy Pelosi’s surprises in ObamaCare, and this one’s a doozy. We have already noted the strange assignment of health-insurance approval to the IRS, an agency with no expertise in the field whatsoever. Now it appears that the IRS will have to hire a lot more people to track an avalanche of paperwork, too: Most people know about the individual mandate in the new health care bill, but the bill contained another mandate that could be far more... Hot Air https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2503166/posts#comment Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:10:00 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2475437/posts [snip] Unhinged smear-mongering spread on the Internet today — and it has been swiftly and definitively debunked and deconstructed.From the Freedom Alliance: March 18, 2010Dear Friends of Freedom Alliance: This week, false and malicious allegations about Freedom Alliance were posted on the Internet and we want to address them with you. We donÂ’t know the motivation for these vicious smears, but we will not allow them to go unanswered. First, we want to thank you for your support and assure you that Freedom AllianceÂ’s record of financial stewardship and programmatic achievements not only meets, but exceeds standards of program efficiency... Michelle Malkin https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2475437/posts#comment Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:46:06 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2368618/posts Rep. Michele Bachmann from Minnesota offered sound advice this morning during an interview with Lee Rodgers on KSFO (audio here and MP3 here) in San Francisco, on how to turn back the various healthcare proposals working their way through Congress. The key she says is call volume -- old-fashioned telephone call volume.  Every morning, Monday through Friday she advises us to call our Congressional delegation, our two Senators and Congressional Representative, with the goal of achieving 10,000 calls every day.  With staff tied up just answering this volume of calls, there is no way that healthcare can survive.  And if... American Thinker https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2368618/posts#comment Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:42:49 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2356911/posts Rangel dodges the bullet again with a little help from his corruption-enabling friends. Final vote tabling Carter’s resolution to remove Rangel from W&M chairmanship: 243-156. 19 voted present. 3 REPUBLICANS joined the Democrats. Will post roll call vote as soon as it is up. Michelle Malkin https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2356911/posts#comment Wed, 7 Oct 2009 18:12:51 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2354893/posts With David Letterman back in the news, a top ten list is in order. Let's illustrate the panoply of weirdness that are the health care bills working their way through Congress. 10. Doctors who treat the oldest patients will be fined by the government: The government will create a “hit list” of doctors who are in the top 10% of Medicare costs per patient nationwide. Those doctors on the list automatically lose 5 percent of their total Medicare reimbursements, which are already abysmally low. Because the most aged patients are the most costly to treat, doctors will shy away from... Hot Air https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2354893/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2009 00:46:35 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2353990/posts From Michelle Obama’s failed pitch to the International Olympic Committee: “Some of my best memories are sitting on my dad’s lap, cheering on Olga and Nadia, Carl Lewis, and others for their brilliance and perfection.”Um. Ew. Oof.Mrs. Obama was 20 years old when Lewis first competed in the Olympics in 1984.Senior White House adviser and Chicago slumlord overseer Valerie Jarrett promised earlier this week that “there wouldn’t be a dry eye in the room” after FLOTUS spoke. She probably wasn’t expecting tears of…laughter.Mrs. O is looking more and more like Mrs. Clinton every day. Michelle Malkin https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2353990/posts#comment Sat, 3 Oct 2009 08:21:50 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2353940/posts The last parody in this vein has done 100,000 views on YouTube. This one, from Catholic Vote Reaction(!), deserves to do more. My professional opinion? Racist. Hot Air https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2353940/posts#comment Sat, 3 Oct 2009 03:51:35 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351907/posts Tons of readers are asking about the American Police Force jail contract in Hardin, Montana.Neil Katz at CBS News reported: This is the strange story of how American Police Force, a little known company which claims to specialize in training military and security forces overseas, has seemingly taken control of a $27 million, never-used jail, and a rural Montana town’s nonexistent police force.After arriving in this tiny city with three Mercedes SUVs marked with the logo of a police department that has never existed, representatives of the obscure California security company said preparations were under way to take over Hardin’s... Michelle Malkin https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351907/posts#comment Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:16:58 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346577/posts Last week, FNC’s Sean Hannity traveled to the San Joaquin Valley to report on the man-made drought that’s wreaking havoc on farmers in the name of saving the Delta smelt: {video}...Earlier tonight, GOP South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint tried to turn the water back on. The Senate voted down his amendment, 61-36. Here’s the roll call vote. Michelle Malkin https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2346577/posts#comment Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:36:15 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2343451/posts BREAK TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Now, we all know that yesterday the House of Representatives, in voting to eliminate all private sector student loans and turn that into a totally government-run program, we were also told that Darrell Issa slipped in a bill there that would defund ACORN and that the house overwhelmingly voted for that. Ah, ah, ah, ahhh! Representative Virginia Foxx also with WPTF radio, the Bill LuMaye Show, asked her a question. "Do we at some point defund them entirely where both the Senate and the House come together and say, 'No more federal tax dollars'?" FOXX: They'll let... Rush Limbaugh https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2343451/posts#comment Sat, 19 Sep 2009 05:59:04 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2339455/posts President Obama stood in New York at "high noon" and talked about how we must have "change", and that we have "helped homeowners avoid foreclosures", how "we must put in place reforms" and that "we have helped come back from the brink" and "an irresponsible period of crisis."In fact, in his speech he said: So I want to urge you to demonstrate that you take this obligation to heart. To put greater effort into helping families who need their mortgages modified under my administration's homeownership plan. To help small business owners who desperately need loans and who are bearing the... The Market Ticker https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2339455/posts#comment Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:18:38 GMT