https://freerepublic.com/tag/by:philsfan24/ en-us Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:11:56 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2314954/posts Uncomfortable town hall meetings are just the tip of the iceberg for Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter. He now trails Republican Pat Toomey by double digits in his bid for reelection next year and is viewed unfavorably by a majority of the state’s voters. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Pennsylvania voters shows 48% would vote for Toomey if the election were held today. Just 36% would vote for Specter while four percent (4%) prefer a third option, and 12% are not sure. These figures reflect a dramatic reversal since June. At that time, before the public health care debate... Rasmussen Reports https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2314954/posts#comment Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:11:56 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2277705/posts We have remained, since our Apollo days, locked in Earth orbit. But five years ago, NASA was tasked with returning to the moon by 2020, rerunning the moon race that we won 40 years ago. Not surprisingly, this new race has failed to ignite the imagination of young Americans -- or their leaders. What we truly need is not more Cold War-style competition but a destination in space that offers great rewards for the risks to achieve it. I believe that destination must be homesteading Mars, the first human colony on another world. By refocusing our space program on Mars... CNN https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2277705/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:29:37 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2216121/posts It looks like we can wake Green Day up: "September" has ended. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced Thursday that the 1,776-foot edifice that was to replace the World Trade Center will no longer be called the "Freedom Tower." Instead, it will have the less ornate appellation, "1 World Trade Center." Nice. The timing couldn't have been better. It follows on the heels of the Pentagon's ending the War on Terror. You didn't hear? You must have missed the memo. No, seriously. In a memo, following a request from the Office of Management and Budget, the... NBC Philadelphia https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2216121/posts#comment Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:04:51 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2134667/posts Series Finale next week on FX FX https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2134667/posts#comment Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:56:33 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2127933/posts GM reports $2.5B 3Q loss, says it's running out of money, suspends Chrysler takeover talks DETROIT, Mich. (AP) -- General Motors Corp. says it lost $2.5 billion in the third quarter and warned that could run out of cash in 2009. GM also said it has suspended talks to acquire Chrysler. The automaker also said its cash burn for the quarter accelerated to $6.9 billion due to a severe U.S. auto sales slump. The company on Friday reported a net loss of $4.45 per share during the quarter, compared with a record-setting loss of $42.5 billion, or $75.12 per share,... AP Business via Yahoo https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2127933/posts#comment Fri, 7 Nov 2008 16:53:17 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2127242/posts Philadelphia residents and workers are going find fewer programs, fire engines, libraries, pools and less snow removal in the coming year as all city departments are taking a budget cut hit. Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter announced some tough budget decisions. Mayor Nutter Addresses the City's Budget Crisis close Mayor Michael Nutter is expected to announce the city's plans for making up a $1 billion shortfall in the budget. 220 city workers will be fired and 600 currently open jobs will remain unfilled to save money. Mayor Nutter announced that the city has to cut $100 million from the current city... NBC Philadelphia https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2127242/posts#comment Thu, 6 Nov 2008 20:17:22 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2127159/posts Wall Street extends decline as Cisco comments, retailers' sales add to recession worries NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street recoiled again Thursday, sending stocks lower for a second day after Cisco Systems Inc. reported slumping demand and retailers turned in generally weak sales for October. Concerns about widespread economic weakness sent the major stock indexes down more than 3.5 percent, including the Dow Jones industrial average, which tumbled 400 points. Comments from Cisco that it saw a steep drop in orders in October and reports from retailers that consumers are skipping trips to the mall provided fresh evidence of the... AP Via Yahoo https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2127159/posts#comment Thu, 6 Nov 2008 18:50:45 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2056307/posts Robert Novak has announced his immediate retirement following the diagnosis of a brain tumor, a prognosis the Sun-Times' political columnist describes as "dire." "The details are being worked out with the doctors this week, but the tentative plan is for radiation and chemotherapy," Novak said. Chicago Sun Times https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2056307/posts#comment Mon, 4 Aug 2008 17:28:44 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1991297/posts She was captain of her high school cheerleading squad, a nearly straight-A student and a soon-to-be pre-med student at the University of Florida. But now, 18-year-old Stephanie Kuleba is dead, and her friends and family are pointing to breast augmentation surgery as the cause, The Palm Beach Post reported. "She was a role model for a lot of people," her friend Vicky Goldring, 16, told the paper. "She was incredibly smart. She wanted to help people. She was just a happy 18-year-old girl." Kuleba died Saturday of what friends believe were complications from the plastic surgery she had the previous... Fox News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1991297/posts#comment Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:26:26 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1958267/posts This is the first craft that is set to make regular tourist flights into space. The Virgin Galactic spacecraft, which was being unveiled in New York today, is already under construction. Test flights are expected to begin in June, with commercial flights starting 12 months later. More than 200 potential astronauts are believed to have already paid deposits for the £100,000 flights, including actress Victoria Principal, scientist Stephen Hawking, and Princess Beatrice. Flights will last for two hours and will include four and a half minutes of weightlessness. The 60ft ship is expected to reach an altitude of 110km -... Evening Standard https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1958267/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:55:14 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1955721/posts It snowed, but they still came. A heavy snowfall blanketed a global warming protest outside the State House in Annapolis this morning, but it did not dampen the shouts of about 400 activists who urged lawmakers to pass the nation's toughest greenhouse gas control law. As supporters waved signs, chanted and banged drums, 18 legislators walked down a symbolic green carpet to sign up as co-sporsors to a bill that would mandate that all businesses in Maryland cut emissions of global warming pollution by 25 percent by 2020 and 90 percent by 2050. "We are going to pass this bill... Baltimore Sun https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1955721/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:25:39 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1954680/posts And so it begins. A grass roots campaign to get CNN's Lou Dobbs to run for President has sprouted. A group called ALIPAC, which bills itself as "one of the largest organizations in America fighting for secure borders and immigration enforcement," has launched a website advocating a Dobbs candidacy. In a press release, a member of the group says, "Eighty four percent of our supporters say they would support Lou Dobbs for President, if the GOP primary fails to yield a candidate opposed to Amnesty." What say you, Lou? TVNewser https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1954680/posts#comment Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:34:35 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1948350/posts Barack Obama (D) 47% Rudy Giuliani (R) 37% Barack Obama (D) 45% Mitt Romney (R) 39% The latest polling shows Obama is now viewed favorably by 50% of Likely Voters nationwide and unfavorably by 46%. Perceptions of both Giuliani and Romney are sinking. Giuliani now earns positive reviews from 40% of Likely Voters while 57% say the opposite. This represents a stunning turnaround for a man whose favorable ratings topped 70% early in the year. Thirty-eight percent (38%) of voters have a favorable opinion of Romney, 51% unfavorable. Rasmussen Reports https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1948350/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jan 2008 18:36:40 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1916189/posts Nutter leads Republican mayoral hopeful Al Taubenberger 74 percent to 8 percent among registered voters, and 83 percent to 8 percent among likely voters. (For details, visit www.thenextmayor.com) "In all the 15 years I've been polling, I've never seen a major-party candidate in single digits two weeks before an election," said Terry Madonna, director of the Center for Opinion Research at Franklin & Marshall College. The widest margin in a Philadelphia election for an open mayoral seat over the past 56 years came in 1991, when GOP candidate Frank Rizzo died during the campaign. Democrat Ed Rendell beat replacement candidate... Philadelphia Inqurier https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1916189/posts#comment Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:51:31 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912990/posts A few weeks back I blogged about allegations of cheating at an online poker site called Absolute Poker. While things looked awfully suspicious, there wasn’t quite a smoking gun, and it was unclear exactly how the cheater might have cheated. A combination of some incredible detective work by some poker players and an accidental (?) data leak by Absolute Poker have blown the scandal wide open. Some opponents became suspicious of how a certain player was playing. He seemed to know what the opponents’ hole cards were. The suspicious players provided examples of these hands, which were so outrageous that... NY Times Freakonomics Blog https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912990/posts#comment Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:58:11 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912211/posts Ogonowski up 51%-46% with 49% reporting. Boston 5 ABC https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912211/posts#comment Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:03:33 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1885499/posts NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Famed bond fund manager Bill Gross said the White House should bail out the millions of American homeowners who face the dreaded prospect of foreclosure this year. "If we can bail out Chrysler, why can't we support the American homeowner?" Gross wrote in his monthly investment outlook on PIMCO's Web site. With nearly 2 million homeowners at risk of losing their homes this year and with housing prices rapidly receding, Gross said President Bush, not the Federal Reserve, is the best hope for "almost homeless homeowners." The mad dash for housing help "This rescue, which admittedly... CNN https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1885499/posts#comment Thu, 23 Aug 2007 17:56:22 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1874169/posts US SENATE - MINNESOTA Norm Coleman (R) 49% Al Franken (D) 42% Norm Coleman (R) 48% Mike Ciresi (D) 42% Norm Coleman (R) 49% Jim Cohen (D) 37% Survey USA https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1874169/posts#comment Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:14:38 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1864352/posts Click the link to see the table. Forbes https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1864352/posts#comment Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:11:30 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1843177/posts For the fourth straight month, the number of people identifying themselves as Republicans has decreased. For the third straight month, the number of people identifying themselves as Democrats has also decreased (see history). A Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of 15,000 adults in May found that just 30.8% now say they’re Republicans. That’s down slightly from last month and down more than six percentage points from the GOP peak of 37.3% during Election 2004. The number of Republicans has been falling fairly steadily since the middle of 2005. However, the survey also found that the number of people identifying themselves... Rasmussen Reports https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1843177/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jun 2007 16:23:21 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1842093/posts Wall Street Advances As Fed Minutes Fail to Surprise, S&P 500 Index Closes at Record High NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street advanced sharply Wednesday, sending the Standard & Poor's 500 index to its first record close in more than seven years, after minutes from the Federal Reserve's last meeting offered investors no major surprises about the economy. The Dow Jones industrials also reached a new high close. The S&P 500, considered by traders as the best barometer of U.S. stocks, surpassed the record of 1,527.46, set March 24, 2000, at the peak of the dot-com boom, closing at 1,530.22,... AP via Yahoo https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1842093/posts#comment Wed, 30 May 2007 20:14:44 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1834413/posts ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta, who gained national prominence by targeting illegal immigrants living in his small northeastern Pennsylvania city, cruised to the Republican nomination for a third term on Tuesday — and unexpectedly won the Democratic nomination, too. Barletta trounced GOP challenger Dee Deakos with nearly 94 percent of the vote. And he beat former Mayor Michael Marsicano for the Democratic nomination by staging a last-minute write-in campaign, all but guaranteeing himself another term, unofficial returns showed. "I think the message is clear," Barletta said. "The people of Hazleton want me to keep fighting for them."... AP via PennLive.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1834413/posts#comment Wed, 16 May 2007 13:14:41 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806920/posts DES MOINES, Iowa - Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed Monday to create a universal health care system if elected, saying she "learned a lot" during the failed health care effort of her husband's presidency. "We're going to have universal health care when I'm president ? there's no doubt about that. We're going to get it done," the New York senator and front-runner for the 2008 nomination said. AP via Yahoooo https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806920/posts#comment Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:34:24 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1792588/posts PRESIDENT - PENNSYLVANIA Rudy Giuliani (R) 53% Hillary (D) 37% John McCain (R) 45% Hillary (D) 41% Rudy Giuliani (R) 52% Barack Obama (D) 32% John McCain (R) 43% Barack Obama (D) 37% Keystone Poll https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1792588/posts#comment Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:31:48 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1788522/posts The ratings are in for The 1/2 Hour News Hour on FNC. The heavily-promoted premiere delivered 499,000 viewers in the 25-54 demo and 1,478,000 total viewers. The show gained about 170,000 demo and around 300,000 total viewers from its lead-in. Half the viewers immediately tuned out, giving The Line Up just 231,000 demo and 787,000 viewers at 10:30pm. > SF Chronicle, Feb. 16: "If 1.5 million viewers watched -- slightly less than Stewart's nightly 1.6 million audience and more than Colbert's 1.2 million -- Surnow said, 'it would be a huge number.' mediabistro.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1788522/posts#comment Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:04:14 GMT