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Romney Wins Maine

MURPHY — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:52:13 -0500

Mitt Romney won narrowly in the Maine caucuses over Ron Paul Saturday, receiving 2,190 votes to Paul's 1,996. Rick Santorum received 989 votes and Newt Gingrich 349, but neither candidate campaigned in the state. Romney won at least 8 delegates and Paul took 7, with six more to be allocated. Romney leads the delegates race with 120, followed by Santorum at 72, Gingrich 32 and Paul 16.

Obama's Assault On Religious Freedom & Faith

MURPHY — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:28:51 -0500

We hear every year about the assault on Christmas. No more school Christmas plays, no more Christmas songs, no more ‘Merry Christmas'. We are not allowed to mention God in public -- at high school football games, graduations, or before taking that Algebra test. No God on the Air Force patch, attacks on the Boy Scouts, and remove crosses from everywhere.

Tribe Sues Brewers for Selling It Beer

MURPHY — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:33:56 -0500

An American Indian tribe sued several large beer makers Thursday, claiming they knowingly contributed to alcohol-related problems on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The Oglala Sioux Tribe demands $500 million in damages for the cost of health care, social services and child rehabilitation caused by chronic alcoholism on the reservation. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court of Nebraska also targets four beer stores in Whiteclay, Nebr.,ska town of a dozen residents that sold nearly 5 million cans of beer in 2010.

Library Patron Watches Porn Around Kids

MURPHY — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:55:18 -0500

A Seattle librarian refused to force a man watching hardcore porn on one of its computer to move to a more discreet location, even after a woman with two children complained, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The Lake City librarian said the library "doesn't censor content" and could not "be in the business of monitoring what their patrons are doing at any given computer."

Napolitano: Obamacare's Unconstitutional Coercion

MURPHY — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:56:29 -0500

When we were colonists and fought a war against the king and Parliament so that we could secede from the British Empire and be independent of it, we also fought for the value of personal freedom. That is the idea that in matters of personal choice, the government should play no role. The king only cared about the colonists' personal choices if he could control or tax them.

One of the taxes he imposed was to support the Church of England. The Church of England that the colonists' tax dollars supported was, of course, in England; it was not here. So, among the hateful taxes that impelled the colonists to revolt was this tax to support the king's church.

Josh Powell Explodes House After Hatchet His 2 Sons-Evil

MURPHY — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:39:08 -0500

Authorities released 911 calls that revealed a social worker's frantic attempts to alert authorities that Josh Powell had locked himself in his home with his two young sons, moments before he set off a huge fire that killed all inside. Before the fire erupted, the woman, who was supposed to monitor a supervised visit between Powell and his children, said he grabbed them and wouldn't let her in the door. Newly-released 911 calls reveal how social worker Elizabeth Griffin-Hall told authorities that the man refused to allow her into the home and that she was "afraid for their lives."

Santorum Wins 3 States

MURPHY — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:51:15 -0500

Rick Santorum won the caucuses in Minnesota and Colorado and a non-binding primary in Missouri Tuesday night, breaking Mitt Romney's streak of victories in nominating contests with a surprising three-state sweep. Colorado was the most competitive state of the day, with Santorum winning 40 percent of the vote to 35 percent for Romney, 13 percent for Newt Gingrich and 12 percent for Ron Paul.

Romney Wins Nevada

MURPHY — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:14:49 -0500

With the closing of the final votes in the Nevada caucuses at 7 p.m. Pacific, NBC News has called Mitt Romney the winner by a significant margin. Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul are battling for second place and Rick Santorum is bringing up the rear. TalkingPointsMemo has the current results.

Pelosi: Girl Scouts And Planned Parenthood ‘Very Valuable'

MURPHY — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:55:38 -0500

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Planned Parenthood's relationship with the Girl Scouts of America is "very valuable," Wednesday, at a congressional reception to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the organization for young girls.

Sources: Trump To Endorse Newt

MURPHY — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:20:58 -0500

Word started leaking out in Las Vegas earlier that Donald Trump's "major announcement" is to back Newt Gingrich, and sources are confirming it to POLITICO.

The announcement is expected to come at an 11:30 a.m. press conference tomorrow that The Donald is holding.

The move is a bit unexpected, since Trump had talked even within the last few days about how he may be compelled to run a third-party campaign of his own if he didn't see a Republican candidate who he thought could beat President Obama.

Gingrich is the longer-shot choice in a field in which Mitt Romney has re-established himself as the frontrunner after a commanding win in Florida.

NLRB May Force Companies To Breach More PrivacyTo Unions?

MURPHY — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:31:52 -0500

Union-backed NLRB Chairman: "We keep our eye on the prize." Undaunted by the constitutionally-questionable appointment of three members to Barack Obama's National Labor Relations Board, union attorney and current NLRB chairman Mark Pearce declared in an Associated Press interview that he and his union comrades are continuing their assault on the 93% of private-sector employees who are union-free.

In fact, if Obama's union appointees have their way, all employees who are targeted for unionization will have their employers forced to turn over their home telephone number and e-mail addresses to unions.

Elliott Abrams Caught Misleading On Newt

MURPHY — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:08:33 -0500

As Ronald Reagan used to say: Well...

Yesterday we took note of former Reagan State Department official Elliott Abrams' piece over at NRO that went after Newt Gingrich on his relationship with Reagan. While voting regularly with Reagan as a young congressman from Georgia, Gingrich, claimed Abrams, "often spewed insulting rhetoric at Reagan, his top aides and his policies to defeat Communism." Abrams then goes on to cite " a famous floor statement Gingrich made on March 21, 1986."

Reagan's Young Lieutenant--Gingrich

MURPHY — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:10:55 -0500

Mitt Romney has raised the issue of Newt Gingrich's "work product." Wow.

Intended to prod the former Speaker on the issue of his work for Freddie Mac (Gingrich last night released his contract with Freddie), the question, as seems to be a Romney characteristic, has clumsily backfired. It raises an all-too obvious question that is becoming increasingly revealing. What is Mitt Romney's "work product" for the conservative cause?

The closest Mitt Romney ever got to the Reagan Revolution is apparently because he reads about it 30 years later. And he isn't even reading everything he should. This is the man, remember, who proudly professed when running against Ted Kennedy in 1994:

"I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush"

Gingrich Reveals Freddie Mac Contract

MURPHY — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:33:58 -0500

Newt Gingrich released the contract Monday in which the housing government-sponsored enterprise Freddie Mac paid his consulting firm a $25,000 monthly retainer fee in 2006 ($300,000 a year). The "consulting and related services" agreement makes no mention of lobbying. Though Gingrich once said he was paid by the enterprise to be a historian, Mitt Romney criticized that description during Tuesday's GOP debate in Tampa. "This contract proves you were not a historian. You were a consultant," Romney said. "And you were hired by the chief lobbyist of Freddie Mac."

Ex-Wife: Newt Wanted Open Marriage

MURPHY — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:55:27 -0500

Newt Gingrich lacks the moral character to serve as president, his second ex-wife Marianne Gingrich told ABC News in an interview that will air Thursday night on Nightline. In her first TV interview since the couple's 1999 divorce, Marianne Gingrich said that when Newt admitted he was having a six-year affair with his Congressional aide (and current wife) Callista, he asked if he could continue the arrangement. "He wanted an open marriage and I refused," she said. "I just stared at him and he said, 'Callista doesn't care what I do.'"