https://freerepublic.com/tag/by:onrightonleftcoast/ en-us Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:13:42 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060286/posts [Snip] That pesky press... straining at the bit under the pressures of non-restrained press outlets from "foreign countries" [read non-MSM media these days]...In the end that pesky press just had to get in the loop and spoil a perfectly good clandestine affair. American Digest https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060286/posts#comment Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:13:42 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059427/posts The mainstream media's reaction to the National Enquirer's reports on John Edwards' "love child" scandal has been reminiscent of the Soviet press. Edwards' name has simply been completely whitewashed out of the news. Say, why isn't anyone talking about John Edwards for vice president anymore? No, seriously –- hey! Why are we going to a commercial break? Ann Coulter.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2059427/posts#comment Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:02:35 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058240/posts A military jury gave Osama bin Laden's driver a stunningly lenient sentence on Thursday, making him eligible for release in just five months despite the prosecutors' request for a sentence tough enough to frighten terrorists around the globe. Yahoo News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058240/posts#comment Thu, 7 Aug 2008 21:31:51 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054382/posts In one of the more engaging, convincing and easily understood presentations I've ever seen, Prof. James Duane of the Regent University School of Law explains why even angels devoid of the slightest moral blemish should never speak to police officers, tax collectors or other law-enforcement agents investigating crimes. Tuccille.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054382/posts#comment Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:49:04 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054042/posts [Snip]...Seattle became on Monday one of the first major American cities to discourage the use of paper and plastic shopping bags by requiring grocery, drug and convenience stores to charge 20 cents per bag. In a related action, the City Council also banned plastic foam food and drink containers. Both laws will go into effect Jan. 1. Seattle PI.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054042/posts#comment Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:36:49 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054005/posts In one of the more engaging, convincing and easily understood presentations I've ever seen, Prof. James Duane of the Regent University School of Law explains why even angels devoid of the slightest moral blemish should never speak to police officers, tax collectors or other law-enforcement agents investigating crimes. Disloyal Opposition https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054005/posts#comment Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:21:36 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053896/posts John F. Cullinan of National Review points out that Obama is wrong in his characterization of present-day Belfast. Then Cullinan asks a question I think worth pondering, concerning Obama’s propensity towards such errors: ... Neoneocon.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053896/posts#comment Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:53:56 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053796/posts The coldest summer ever? You might be looking at it, weather folks say. Right now the so-called summer of '08 is on pace to produce the fewest days ever recorded in which the temperature in Anchorage managed to reach 65 degrees. Anchorage Daily News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053796/posts#comment Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:11:51 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053253/posts A moratorium on the opening of new fast food restaurants in one of the poorest areas of Los Angeles moved one step closer to reality on Tuesday in a measure aimed at countering obesity.A Los Angeles city council planning committee unanimously approved a one-year ban, which could be extended for a further year, on new fast food outlets in a 32-square-mile (82-sq-km) area of Los Angeles. Reuters https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053253/posts#comment Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:03:30 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050120/posts The difference between a politician and a statesman is the breadth of their horizons. But have we ever seen people with horizons as limited as our modern Congress? Of course their ratings are low – we return their judgment of us. They think we have no sense of deferred gratification; they think we are children – and not very bright, not very disciplined children at that. We return the compliment. Chicagoboyz https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050120/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:14:14 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049746/posts State police say they arrested a man early Tuesday whose blood alcohol level was 0.491 percent — the highest ever recorded in Rhode Island for someone who wasn't dead. Yahoo News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049746/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:15:35 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038453/posts Bill Clinton is so bitter about Barack Obama's victory over his wife Hillary that he has told friends the Democratic nominee will have to beg for his wholehearted support. Telegraph (UK) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038453/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:12:05 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035847/posts Reps. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.) have said in recent weeks that U.S. oil refineries should be "socialized" -- that is, nationalized and run by the federal government. But Waters apparently is now backing away from those comments... CNS News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035847/posts#comment Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:51:18 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035837/posts Senator Barack Obama is absent from the list of dignitaries with whom Prime Minister Raila Odinga is scheduled to confer during his current visit to Washington. Prime Minister Raila Odinga during a recent visit in London. Peter Ogego, Kenya’s ambassador to the United States, told the ‘Nation’ on Sunday that an Odinga-Obama meeting is “not in the programme” of official talks that get underway on Tuesday. [Snip]... Mr Odinga has said he is a cousin of Mr Obama’s, although the senator’s representatives deny that the two men are related... Daily Nation (Kenya) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035837/posts#comment Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:18:02 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035501/posts Just a theory, but so tantalizing that it warrants a post all its own.... Hot Air https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035501/posts#comment Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:47:32 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035266/posts God, Republicans are saps. They think that they’re running against some academic liberal who wouldn’t wear flag pins on his lapel, whose wife isn’t proud of America and who went to some liberationist church where the pastor damned his own country. They think they’re running against some naïve university-town dreamer, the second coming of Adlai Stevenson.rsations But as recent weeks have made clear, Barack Obama is the most split-personality politician in the country today... NYT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035266/posts#comment Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:06:24 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034839/posts Prisoners who go on the run could have the time cut from their sentence, internal Government papers revealed last night. Convicts will be able to count both the day they absconded and the day they were caught as time spent behind bars. A criminal could walk out of an open jail in the morning and hand himself in the next day, and both days would count as time served. The Tories accused the Government of 'rewarding bad behaviour'. Mail Online (UK) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034839/posts#comment Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:27:28 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032355/posts When the emergency room staff at Northfield City Hospital thought an obviously disturbed patient was about to turn violent, they did what many hospitals do in that situation: They called the police... Star Tribune.com (MN) https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032355/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:43:00 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031856/posts Two stories that were in the news yesterday offer interesting opportunities for speculation. Note: what follows is exactly that, speculation. Powerline https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031856/posts#comment Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:33:26 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031512/posts Hillary Clinton's mention of RFK's assassination was the final nail in the coffin of her candidacy. Along similar lines, can you imagine the howls of MSM outrage if John McCain were to suggest that he might "bring a gun" to his campaign against Barack Obama? Yet Obama has made just such a statement. Expect the liberal media to . . . yawn. Newsbusters https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031512/posts#comment Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:48:28 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031144/posts [ Snip ]... I'll bet deep in the heart of that skanky pants weasel Olbermann he's plotting how he can swing into Russert's shoes when he's not worthy to lick them. There will probably be some crocodile tears tonight and then a casual couple of 'chance' meetings with NBC execs just after the funeral. Then he'll get his agent to call and raise the issue. Maybe even get some bloggers to start a campaign.... And there will be nobody at NBC to say, 'How dare you, sir? Apologize, sir!' Yes, it will be Countdown time for Keith." American Digest https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031144/posts#comment Sat, 14 Jun 2008 19:40:25 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030355/posts You might have heard about the Colorado "Restroom Chaos" law signed by Governor Bill Ritter a couple of weeks ago. It allows men who "think" they're women or "feel" like women to use the ladies restrooms and locker rooms. But apparently the law had some more bad stuff in the fine print: politically incorrect Biblical truth has been outlawed in Colorado outside the walls of the church. Dakota Voice https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030355/posts#comment Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:45:46 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029828/posts Political correctness began as a reasonable adjustment of manners, but as an ideology, it corrupts language and dulls thought. The American Conservative https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029828/posts#comment Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:29:44 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029542/posts There is a stretch of North Glebe Road, in Arlington, Virginia, that epitomizes the American approach to road safety. It’s a sloping curve, beginning on a four-lane divided highway and running down to Chain Bridge, on the Potomac River. Most drivers, absent a speed limit, would probably take the curve at 30 or 35 mph in good weather. But it has a 25-mph speed limit, vigorously enforced. As you approach the curve, a sign with flashing lights suggests slowing further, to 15 mph. A little later, another sign makes the same suggestion. Great! the neighborhood’s more cautious residents might think.... The Atlantic.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029542/posts#comment Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:04:40 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028939/posts Barack Obama: Change We Can Believe In | NEW BLACK PANTHER PARTY -- Barack Obama: Change We Can Believe In | Mishal Al-Johar’s Blog: How Barack Obama Learned to Love Israel -- Barack Obama : : Change We Can Believe In | Socialists for Obama: An open letter to our next president Barack Obama -- Barack Obama: Change We Can Believe In | Marxists/Socialists/Communists for Obama Barack Obama: Change We Can Believe In | ZIONISM IS THE MAIN CAUSE OF ANTISEMITISM [more] ... LGF https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2028939/posts#comment Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:57:05 GMT