http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/ma-news/ en-us Mon, 4 Jan 2010 03:39:21 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420357/posts Last month, I noted how Massachusetts Senate GOP candidate Scott Brown called out rival Democrat candidate Martha Coakley’s SEIU thug pals.The Purple Shirts continue to “pull out all the stops” to install Coakley in Teddy Kennedy’s seat. The special election will be held January 19.SEIU endorsed her in October, poured $214,000 into a radio ad buy for her in December, and are pouring all available “resources and clout” into her bid. As she prattles on about “economic justice,” Coakley now boasts a total campaign treasury of more than $5 million: Attorney General Martha Coakley raised more than $1 million over... Michelle Malkin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420357/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jan 2010 03:39:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420202/posts A few days ago Sissy Willis asked a very interesting question: Will Sarah Palin endorse Scott Brown? I’ve been thinking about it a bit; and while I can see the arguments both pro and con, I think that it’s time that Sarah Palin did. You have to speculate to accumulate, after all. So let’s light this candle. Moe Lane PS: Scott Brown for US Senate. RedState.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420202/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 21:49:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420065/posts BOSTON (AP) — Sen. John McCain has endorsed Massachusetts Senate candidate Scott Brown, saying the Republican offers the best solutions to overcome the recession and face down threats to national security. The 2008 Republican nominee for president said Sunday that Brown has worked to cut spending and keep taxes low. Arizona’s senior senator says Brown’s experience as an officer in the Army National Guard also helps him understand the need for a strong military and protecting U.S. interests around the world. AP via Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420065/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 18:00:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420039/posts BOSTON — Sen. John McCain has endorsed Massachusetts Senate candidate Scott Brown, saying the Republican offers the best solutions to overcome the recession and face down threats to national security. The 2008 Republican nominee for president said Sunday that Brown has worked to cut spending and keep taxes low. Arizona’s senior senator says Brown’s experience as an officer in the Army National Guard also helps him understand the need for a strong military and protecting U.S. interests around the world. Brown, Democrat Martha Coakley and Libertarian Joseph L. Kennedy face off on Election Day Jan. 19 for the seat held... http://news.bostonherald.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2420039/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 17:15:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419899/posts I remain wary about the chances of Republican Scott Brown in the special Senate election in Massachusetts, but a person working with Brown's campaign passes along this bit: "First, thank-you for covering this race as the lack of national attention on this race at this time in the Senate is genuinely vexing to many of Brown's supporters. Secondly, at the ground level we have seen an incredibly unique phenomenon occurring here. Without the benefit of polls, I would say Brown is causing quite a groundswell of support from Republicans, unenrolleds and even Democrats. Now when registered Democrats are expressing an... NRO http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419899/posts#comment Sun, 3 Jan 2010 11:51:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419717/posts Attorney General Martha Coakley, the state’s top lawyer, acknowledged yesterday that she improperly filled out a federal financial disclosure she submitted to the US Senate as part of her candidacy in the special election. The Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419717/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 23:25:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419671/posts Scott Brown met with the Harpoon Brewery in Boston to discuss economic policies and pending legislation such as Cap & Trade that could deliver a devastating blow to our economy. You can support Scott Brown by visiting www.BrownForUSSenate.com for more information YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419671/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 21:00:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419573/posts There’s an election coming up in Massachusetts to replace Senator Ted Kennedy. Properly waged by the Republican, Scott Brown, it could become a perfect storm of the health care debate. Sissy Willis proposes that it be made a referendum on the potential national catastrophe being masticated by Congress, with the latest milestone the corrupt passage of the Senate version as early coal in the nation’s stocking on Christmas Eve. It has the potential to be a brilliant political move. Consider: Ted Kennedy was the leading proponent of nationalizing health care for decades. When he died last year of brain cancer,... Pajamas MEdia http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419573/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 17:46:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419559/posts Cambridge funny man and Hollywood star Lenny Clarke has endorsed Scott Brown. Watch the video. Red Mass Group http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419559/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 17:17:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419530/posts In the special election for US Senate, the Kennedy shadow is so long that it extends all the way into the Republican Party. Or so it would seem from the first television ad of the race, in which Scott Brown, the GOP candidate, employs an unlikely visage to make his case to voters: President John F. Kennedy,... [text excerpted] The new 30-second spot begins with grainy footage of Kennedy delivering a 1962 speech on using tax breaks to spur the economy. Halfway through, the image morphs into Brown, a state senator from Wrentham, finishing Kennedy’s sentence. “President Kennedy actually was... The Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419530/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 16:30:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419564/posts Mitt Romney - that rare political breed, a Republican elected statewide in Massachusetts - told supporters yesterday that if Scott Brown can pull off a similar feat next month in the US Senate special election, it “would shock the country and send a strong message that business as usual in Washington is coming to an end.’’ “He would bring badly-needed fiscal restraint to an out-of-control budget process that is adding trillions of dollars to our national debt,’’ said Romney, the former Bay State governor who gives every indication he’s preparing a second presidential bid in 2012. The Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419564/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 17:25:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419329/posts You can play a joke on Washington by sendings.... YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419329/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 03:59:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419319/posts Democrat Martha Coakley may be the front-runner in the campaign to fill the late Edward Kennedy’s U.S. Senate seat, but Republican Scott Brown says he is making a bigger splash online. Brown has 2,454 Twitter followers compared with 1,917 for Coakley. He also outpaces Coakley on Facebook with 8,988 supporters compared with Coakley’s 6,270. But where the Republican state senator really shows his Internet muscle is on YouTube, where he has had 44,973 total views of his videos compared with just 16,273 for the Democratic attorney general. Brown pointed the numbers during a conference call with reporters on Thursday, saying... bostonherald.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419319/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 03:24:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419284/posts There's been a fair amount of excitement in the rightosphere regarding the January 19, 2010 special election to fill the seat of Senator Ted Kennedy. The race pits Massachusetts AG Martha Coakley against Republican state Senator Scott Brown. The cases for GOP optimism are pretty well spelled out in Jim Geraghty's piece at National Review. Real Clear Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419284/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 01:55:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419276/posts Mayor Thomas M. Menino said yesterday he will ask Boston’s lawyers to see whether the city can block Yemeni tankers from delivering liquefied natural gas into Boston Harbor, calling such deliveries “wrong.’’ “We’re in extraordinary times that call for extraordinary measures to ensure the safety of our city,’’ the mayor said in an interview. “They cannot be coming into a harbor like Boston, where there is less than 50 feet between the tankers and residential areas.’ -snip- The Globe reported yesterday that shipments of liquefied natural gas from Yemen are scheduled to arrive for the first time in Boston as... The Boston Glob http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419276/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 01:34:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419257/posts Scott Brown’s campaign is picking up steam in the race for US Senate. Online donors helped the charismatic Republican raise $700,000 in the past 6 weeks. And, his creative advertising on fiscal responsibility is helping to lift his campaign. In this ad Scott Brown and John F. Kennedy take turns reading from the same 1962 Kennedy speech calling for tax cuts. Republican U.S. Senate candidate Scott Brown and President Kennedy are two different people, from different parties and different eras, but they agree that broad-based tax cuts will create jobs and stimulate the economy. Gateway Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419257/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 00:53:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419259/posts While Democrat Martha Coakley has raked in more than five times GOP rival Scott Brown’s donations, the underdog state senator’s fund raising is picking up steam in the final weeks of the race for U.S. Senate. Coakley, the state’s attorney general, yesterday announced she’d raised $1 million in the last six weeks for a total of $5.2 million since her campaign began. Brown’s campaign has received $700,000 in the past six weeks - considerably higher than previous totals - putting his war chest just over the $1 million mark. “There has been an explosion of interest in Scott Brown’s campaign... Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419259/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 00:56:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418996/posts She called in sick. Then, police say, she robbed a bank. El Globo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418996/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 16:41:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418977/posts While Democrat Martha Coakley has raked in more than five times GOP rival Scott Brown’s donations, the underdog state senator’s fund raising is picking up steam in the final weeks of the race for U.S. Senate. Coakley, the state’s attorney general, yesterday announced she’d raised $1 million in the last six weeks for a total of $5.2 million since her campaign began. Brown’s campaign has received $700,000 in the past six weeks - considerably higher than previous totals - putting his war chest just over the $1 million mark. “There has been an explosion of interest in Scott Brown’s campaign... The Boston Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418977/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 16:12:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418681/posts Massachusetts, the first state to legalize gay marriage, yesterday became the first to challenge the constitutionality of a federal law that defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman, contending that Congress intruded into a matter that should be left to states. The suit filed by state Attorney General Martha Coakley says the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 violates the US Constitution by interfering with the state’s right to define the marital status of residents. The suit also says the law forces the state to discriminate against same-sex married couples - on certain health benefits and... Boston.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418681/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:54:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418659/posts Scott Brown is running for the United States Senate in Massachusetts in the Special Election on January 19. Scott Brown is having a nationwide moneybomb on January 11 www.RedInvadesBlue.com YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418659/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:18:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418468/posts It's open season on gun carriers. A case out of the First Circuit has some painful lessons for gun carriers in Georgia. A United States Circuit Court of Appeals last week upheld the constitutionality of pointing a gun at any citizen daring to carry, lawfully, a concealed weapon in public. The First Circuit Court of Appeals is the Court just below the United States Supreme Court in the New England states. The case stems from a lawyer who sued a police officer after he was detained for lawfully carrying a concealed weapon while in possession of a license to carry... Atlanta Gun Rights Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418468/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:46:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418479/posts The Democrats’ biggest accomplishment of this decade was getting a package through both houses of Congress mandating that every American have health insurance. Their biggest accomplishment of the next decade will be watching it fail. Then they can get what they really want, a government takeover of health care. That’s my prediction. It’s based on what I call the Frito-Lay theory of health reform: Mandates are like potato chips; you can’t have just one. Just for fun, I ran that theory by someone who has been watching the health care debate up close, Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute, a... The Star-Ledger, Newark, NJ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418479/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:58:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417817/posts BOSTON — A New Hampshire woman who is critically ill with gastrointestinal anthrax most likely swallowed spores while participating in a community drumming circle, state health officials said Tuesday...The woman was among some 60 people who attended the drumming session on Dec. 4 at the United Campus Ministry near the University of New Hampshire in Durham...Investigators found traces of anthrax on two African drums and an electrical outlet in the room where the event took place, Dr. Talbot said, and are theorizing that the woman swallowed spores that were aerosolized by the drumming. The state has not identified the woman... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417817/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:13:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418025/posts (snip) Hoping to pull in some more cash for the final stretch of the general election, the Brown campaign also circulated a fundraising letter penned by former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R). Romney touts Brown's credentials as a fiscal conservative while also noting, in bold, that he would become the critical 41st Republican vote against the health care bill when it comes back to the Senate for final passage. Democrats passed the bill on Christmas Eve with 60 votes, just enough to overcome the prospect of a GOP filibuster. (snip) CQ Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418025/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 00:35:03 GMT