https://freerepublic.com/tag/by:thehound/ en-us Mon, 5 Oct 2009 00:20:45 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2354874/posts New Project: Contract From America We would like to introduce you to the Contract From America website, our new initiative, where you can join your fellow Americans in a collaborative grassroots effort to create a document that offers real change in Washington, D.C. and the state capitols. Click here to go to the Contract From America homepage now. This website provides you with the opportunity to offer your innovative free market, limited government solutions to our nation’s pressing problems and to vote and comment on the ideas of others. We believe that the result of this grassroots-generated marketplace of ideas... https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2354874/posts#comment Mon, 5 Oct 2009 00:20:45 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336057/posts What do you think a Republic is and why do you think it should be Free? In the context of a Republic, what does free mean? In the context of a Free Republic, does the concept of individual rights exist? If so why? Your grades will be posted in the hallway outside of class. Self https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2336057/posts#comment Thu, 10 Sep 2009 03:26:55 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2330926/posts The time has passed for sitting around and talking about what is going on to the point we actually have do something! I beg you, find a way, be in DC. Don't look for the reasons you can't, find the reasons you can. It is just one day out of the thousands you have, use a couple of days of your life to support the American Way. Philosophy has never built anyrhing. Self https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2330926/posts#comment Thu, 3 Sep 2009 02:00:47 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2187116/posts My latest Quote: Below is the statement by Hank Reardon, CEO of Generald Motors, at his Federal trial under the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009".. (Oh how I wish this were true) "Surely, Mr. Rearden, you wouldn't want your attitude to be misunderstood. You wouldn't want to give the support to the widespread impression that you are a man devoid of social conscience, who feels no concern for the welfare of his fellows and works for nothing but his own profit." "No, I do not want my attitude to be misunderstood... I work for nothing but my own... Self https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2187116/posts#comment Tue, 17 Feb 2009 01:19:21 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2184483/posts My latest Quote: Those of us who aspire to conserve our inherited order and justice and freedom, our patrimony of wisdom and beauty and loving- kindness, have a hard row to hoe nowadays -- that I confess. But, I am heartened from time to time by a stanza from Chesterton's long poem, The Ballad of the White Horse. Chesterton is describing the prophets of doom, who tell us that nothing in life is permanent; that all is lost, or is being lost, in our culture; that we totter on the brink of an abyss. Such prophets of doom think themselves... Russell Kirk Web Site https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2184483/posts#comment Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:26:09 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2183562/posts Here is is my latest Quote. If we look beneath the surface of our public affairs, we can discern one fundamental fact, namely: a great redistribution of power between society[the individual] and State. He [the individual] has only a secondary or derived interest in matters like price-fixing, wage-fixing, inflation, political banking, "agricultural adjustment", and similar item of State policy that fill the pages of newspapers and the mouths of publicists and politicians. All these can be run up under one head. They have an immediate and temporary importance, and for this reason they monopolize public attention, but they all come... Self https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2183562/posts#comment Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:20:33 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2182023/posts Here is my latest quote. It occurred at the beginning of the end of state Sovereignty. I must first set the plate. After the War of 1812 the US was in debt, so it raised tariffs on imports. The tariffs weren't too extreme and a good deal of trade was occurring between England and the Southern States. The South supplied cotton to England and England manufactured products to the South. The Northern manufacturers could not compete on price with England, so they got the Tariffs of 1928 passed. These were called the "Abominations". This forced England to stop selling goods... Self https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2182023/posts#comment Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:12:01 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2181255/posts My latest Quote - Enjoy! I think the germ of disobedience is in our DNA. Who here doesn't feel a certain kinship with the rebellious spirit that tossed that tea into Boston Harbor? It's the same spirit that sent Thoreau to jail, that refused to sit in the back of the bus, that filled our streets with Vietnam War protesters. But let me warn you -- it ain't easy. Dr. King stood on a lot of balconies. The police dogs in Montgomery were vicious. The water cannons in Selma were painful. Modern versions of the same weapons of oppression exist... Self https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2181255/posts#comment Mon, 9 Feb 2009 02:05:33 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2180172/posts My latest quote. This quote made me realize why one cannot reason with a liberal - To them all the failures of socialism are irrelevant because some unstoppable mystic evolutionary force is forcing all of humanity there. We free thinking capitalists, or libertarians, or republicans are just slowing the way to utopia. All Italics mine. The revolt against reason, the characteristic mental attitude of our age, was not caused by a lack of modesty, caution, and self-examination on the part of the philosophers. The great upheaval was born out of the historical situation existing in the middle of the nineteenth... self https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2180172/posts#comment Sat, 7 Feb 2009 02:32:27 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2178544/posts This is my latest conservative quote. It is a bit longer than I like, but they were wordy back then. General Walker had a illustrious career that ended as president of MIT. He wrote these words less than 20 years after the Civil War and 25 years before the Bolshevik Revolution. "Three words have, of recent years, become very familiar, and yet not of less and less, but of more and more, formidable sound to the good and quiet citizens of American and of Western Europe. These words are: Nihilism, Communism, Socialism. ... Confining ourselves, then to the contemplation of... Self https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2178544/posts#comment Thu, 5 Feb 2009 00:36:23 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2177062/posts I have decided to continue my Quote of the day series. I will start a ping list, so if you want on, mail me. This is the fifth quote and was given to me by my wife, I think to induce me to continue: …I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom. And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts, as... Self https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2177062/posts#comment Tue, 3 Feb 2009 01:18:14 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2175302/posts This is my fourth and last quote. The response at FR is too low for the amount of effort I expend generating them. The test of fascism is not one’s rage against the Italian and German war lords. The test is—how many of the essential principles of fascism do you accept. . . . When you can put your finger on the men or the groups that urge for America the debt-supported state, the autarchial corporative state, the state bent on the socialization of investment and the bureaucratic government of industry and society, and the establishment as closely as possible... Self https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2175302/posts#comment Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:20:53 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2174527/posts Here is number 3: All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him. If it be aristocratic in organization, then it seeks to protect the man who is superior only in law against the man who is superior in fact; if it be democratic, then it seeks to protect the man who is inferior in every way against both. One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible . . . to search out and combat... Self https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2174527/posts#comment Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:47:58 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173846/posts My second conservative quote: I think it's time now for dreamers--practical dreamers--willing to re-implement the original dream which became this nation--that idea that has never fully been tried before in the world--that you and I have the capacity for self-government--the dignity and the ability and the God-given freedom to make our own decisions, to plan our own lives and to control our own destiny. Now it has been said that nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come. This took place some 200 years ago in this country. But there is another such idea abroad in the... Reagan Foundation https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173846/posts#comment Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:30:44 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173132/posts I am considering this project, to present a conservative quote of the day. This will be my first. Depending on the responses, You will determine how long. Here goes: "If the primary objective of the philanthropist, his justification for living, is to help others, his ultimate good requires that others shall be in want. His happiness is the obverse of their misery. If he wishes to help “Humanity,” the whole of humanity must be in need. The humanitarian wishes to be a prime mover in the lives of others. He cannot admit either the divine or the natural order, by... Self https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2173132/posts#comment Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:04:11 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971200/posts It is normal for our sun to have quiet periods between solar cycles, but we’ve seen months and months of next to nothing, and the start of Solar cycle 24 seems to have materialized (as first reported here) then abruptly disappeared.Given the current quietness of the sun and it’s magnetic field, combined with the late start to cycle 24 with even possibly a false start, it appears that the sun has slowed it’s internal dynamo to a similar level such as was seen during the Dalton Minimum. One of the things about the Dalton Minimum was that it started with... Watts Up With That? https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971200/posts#comment Sat, 16 Feb 2008 00:54:28 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1787647/posts I have been using "Google" for a very long time. In the beginning, I would sometimes get purturbed at the number of academic sources I would have to go through, to find infomation. Now, (well first there are all the paid for links - which I can tolerate - everybody needs to make a buck) it seems to me that the searches have, slowly over time, been more selective, with the majority of the first, second and even third and fourth page listings (for any search that might have any political or social ramifications) to be highly slanted to the... https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1787647/posts#comment Tue, 20 Feb 2007 02:11:40 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1735299/posts We had it Coming!It was apparent that this was coming for some time. I saw it and told people so. It all started at the top. Believe it or not, the fortunes of the Congress (the House) are tied to the President's actions as well as the actions of Congress itself. In 1980 Regan was elected, because the people were just sick of Carter. The voters also increased the number of Republicans in the House by around 35. The Republicans took this as a mandate and proceeded to aggressively push every conservative idea there was. They were confrontational and determined.... The Hound https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1735299/posts#comment Thu, 9 Nov 2006 03:56:50 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1522787/posts WASHINGTON -- Two weeks after a White House aide's indictment in the CIA-leak case, political adviser Karl Rove and possibly other Bush administration officials remain at risk of being charged in the investigation. But some lawyers believe that with each passing day, the odds of further indictments are diminishing. Unless the indicted aide, I. Lewis Libby, implicates others, or special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald gains some other new evidence, the investigation could end with no one else being charged, they say. "The longer this goes without any other action by the special prosecutor, the higher the likelihood" that no additional charges... WSJ https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1522787/posts#comment Wed, 16 Nov 2005 01:09:43 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1522782/posts Down on the Lower East Side, Stephanie Dolgoff likes to dress her twin 2-year-old daughters in T-shirts bearing flippant slogans like "President Poopyhead" and "Bush Is a Tush." During the family's regular perambulations around their neighborhood, the incongruous sight of the tots in their special shirts often inspires hearty guffaws or approving nods from the few remaining political radicals that live there. WSJ https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1522782/posts#comment Wed, 16 Nov 2005 01:01:48 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1478081/posts George W. Bush announces John G. Roberts as his nominee for Chief Justice©AFP - Andrew Councill WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush nominated conservative Judge John Roberts, already his choice for a seat on the US Supreme Court, to replace the late chief justice William Rehnquist."I'm confident that the Senate can complete hearings and confirm him as chief justice within a month," Bush said in a hastily called public appearance in the White House Oval Office. The court resumes work October 3.The president, who had picked Roberts in July to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor after she announced... AFP https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1478081/posts#comment Mon, 5 Sep 2005 23:54:57 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1476669/posts I looking for a good RSS XML reader. I've downloaded a couple of freebee's but they weren't much good. What is the Freeper consensus, like there that sort of thing here. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1476669/posts#comment Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:57:27 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1466248/posts Big game 'could roam US plains' The animals would fill a void in the ecosystem If a group of US researchers have their way, lions, cheetahs, elephants and camels could soon roam parts of North America, Nature magazine reports.The plan, which is called Pleistocene re-wilding, is intended to be a proactive approach to conservation. The initiative would help endangered African animals while creating jobs, the Cornell University scientists say. Evidence also suggests, they claim, that "megafauna" can help maintain ecosystems and boost biodiversity. "If we only have 10 minutes to present this idea, people think we're nuts," said Harry... BBC News World Edition https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1466248/posts#comment Thu, 18 Aug 2005 23:31:14 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1462401/posts Soldiers need helmet liners at $99 apiece? Radio https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1462401/posts#comment Sat, 13 Aug 2005 00:55:24 GMT https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1406674/posts Anthony Duignan-CabreraManaging EditorSPACE.com 1 hour, 6 minutes ago WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Maverick aerospace designer Burt Rutan kicked off the 24th International Space Development Conference here today with an exuberant, yet pointed presentation chiding NASA and the nation's aerospace industry for not working hard enough to excite the next generation of space explorers and resting on the laurels of past successes and ideas. At the conference, put on by the National Space Society (NSS), Rutan was awarded for his work and the success in 2004 of his SpaceShipOne project. Last June, Rutan and his company, Scaled Composites, successfully launched the first... SPACE.com https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1406674/posts#comment Thu, 19 May 2005 22:35:23 GMT