http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/mt-news/ en-us Fri, 4 Jul 2008 04:43:30 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040602/posts Barack Obama is leading John McCain by five percentage points in Montana. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state shows Obama attracting 48% of the vote while McCain earns 43%. Rasmussen Reports http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040602/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jul 2008 04:43:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040533/posts Barack Obama is leading John McCain by five percentage points in Montana. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state shows Obama attracting 48% of the vote while McCain earns 43%. In April, the numbers were reversed with McCain leading 48% to 43%. That was before Obama clinched the Democratic nomination and defeated Hillary Clinton by fifteen points in Montana. Fifty percent (50%) of Montana Democrats want Clinton named as Obama’s running mate. Just 29% of all Montana voters would like to see Clinton as the Vice Presidential nominee. Against McCain, Obama leads among voters under 50, including a... Rasmussen Reports http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040533/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jul 2008 01:05:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036182/posts Today is the anniversary of one of the more controversial battles in US history - one that has been debated over and over for years. On this day in 1876, Genl George A Custer and large share of the US 7th Cavalry were killed in a battle near the Little Bighorn River in Montana. Because many of us on Free Republic enjoy history as well as debating history, I wanted to post this to see what you all have to say about this battle? Who's fault was it? Did Custer have a bad battle plan? Or did Reno and Benteern... National Park Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036182/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:29:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034847/posts Haditha: A media-made ‘atrocity’? The New York Times referred to the deaths of as many as 24 Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha as the “defining atrocity” of the Iraq War.If so, then the Iraq War must be particularly unatrocious. After all, of the eight people charged in the Haditha case, seven have seen the charges dropped for insufficient evidence or actually been found innocent, and the one remaining case is no more likely to produce a conviction than the first seven.Yet there WAS a Haditha atrocity. And perhaps it even was defining of this war and its... Daily Inter Lake http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034847/posts#comment Sun, 22 Jun 2008 22:00:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033403/posts You must have seen or heard it. It's been repeated ad nauseum by Democrats on floors of both houses of Congress, before TV cameras and radio microphones and at recent campaign events. "We can't drill our way out of this." The donkey party's latest mantra has been hammered home by the usual suspects from Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to Barack Obama. Like most Democrat talking points, it's a falsehood. Yes we CAN drill our way out of this. Just the announcement of our intention to drill in any one of the Big Three Forbidden Zones (off the Continental Shelf,... RedState.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2033403/posts#comment Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:49:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027995/posts For the last 44 years, Kelleher has run for office 16 times and lost 15. His only taste of victory came in 1971, when he was elected a delegate to Montana’s Constitutional Convention. There, he helped replace the state’s century-old territorial constitution with one of the most progressive governing documents in the nation. Kelleher’s political passion then, as now, is unique - and largely unpopular: He wants to replace the U.S. Senate, House and presidency with a parliament. Under a parliamentary system, citizens vote for parties, not individual candidates. The party with the most votes selects a prime minister, who... The Missoulian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2027995/posts#comment Sun, 8 Jun 2008 19:55:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026578/posts Health department recommends residents take precautions Public-health officials are urging residents to take precautions to avoid hantavirus. Four cases of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome have already been reported in 2008, with one resulting in a fatality. The most recent cases were confirmed last week in Delta and Dolores counties. Two previous cases of hantavirus were reported in Kiowa County in February and Fremont County in early May. The patient in Kiowa County died. "This year's heavy snowpack has provided moisture for ample vegetation that provides food for rodents, and often results in a large jump in both mouse populations and infection... The Durango Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2026578/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 18:07:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025342/posts AND NOW . . . amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic first- and second-hand premium cigar smoke. . . it is time for . . . that harmless, lovable little fuzz ball, the highly-trained broadcast specialist, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, from behind the golden EIB microphone, firmly ensconced in the prestigious Attila-the-Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies, with talent on loan from G-d, at the cutting-edge of societal evolution, with half his brain tied behind his back — just to make it fair, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling,... The EIB Network http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025342/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 15:14:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025446/posts WASHINGTON (AP) - Barack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, based on an Associated Press tally of convention delegates, becoming the first black candidate ever to lead his party into a fall campaign for the White House. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025446/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 20:24:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025299/posts HELENA, Mont. - Here's some very good news about oil that the manipulators on Wall Street don't want you to know: there could be as much as 40 billion barrels of crude lying untouched in eastern Montana. That's billion with a "b" - as in a ball-breaking amount for those speculators who are purposely pushing oil higher for their own selfish reasons. NYPOST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025299/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 13:58:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025362/posts Barack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, based on an Associated Press tally of convention delegates, becoming the first black candidate ever to lead his party into a fall campaign for the White House. Campaigning on an insistent call for change, Obama outlasted former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton in a historic race that sparked record turnout in primary after primary, yet exposed deep racial divisions within the party. The AP tally was based on public commitments from delegates as well as more than a dozen private commitments. It also included a minimum number of delegates Obama was... Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025362/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 17:37:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024866/posts Bill Clinton told reporters in Montana today that this was his last political campaign, that he thought he was done with political campaigning until the Hildabeast decided to run. Perhaps this is yet another reason he has been so lukewarm/ineffectual as a Hillary!™ champion? Although I do find it a little hard to believe that he would turn down any future opportunity to hog a TV camera... Nothing on the FoxNews web site yet. Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024866/posts#comment Mon, 2 Jun 2008 17:22:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024627/posts KALISPELL (AP) — A man hunting black bear shot and killed a wolf near Olney, northwest of Whitefish. Zachary Harms of Kalispell was driving his truck up a forest road Tuesday when he saw movement. He walked along the road with his rifle, thinking he may have seen a black bear. Two wolves then ran out from the side of the road. One ran across the road and up the hillside. The other ran down the road towards Harms. The wolf closed to approximately 10 feet and Harms fired, hitting the female wolf in the front of the head. The... Helenair.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024627/posts#comment Mon, 2 Jun 2008 03:54:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024610/posts Updated: May 30, 2008 06:44 PM EDT Reporting from KTVQ in Billings Chelsea Clinton told supporters in Billings that the country needs to do more with gun control laws, during the final visit on her two day tour campaigning on her mother's behalf in the Magic City. During a question and answer session before seniors and other supporters at the Yellowstone County Council on Aging Office Friday morning, Chelsea said, "We also need to do more with gun control. And my mom supports- naturally what she supported in New York. Which is: we have different gun control laws in New... KTVQ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024610/posts#comment Mon, 2 Jun 2008 02:27:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024513/posts End of days Pittsburgh Tribune-Review By Salena Zito As Hillary Clinton sprints to the end of the primary finish line and Obama crawls in the dust behind her -- it will be her rival, Barack Obama, that will declare himself the winner by the end of the week. And there does not appear to be a superdelegate within sight that is willing to consider anything other than getting in line with all of the other cool kids. Pittsburgh Tribune Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024513/posts#comment Sun, 1 Jun 2008 21:03:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024496/posts The campaign of presidential hopeful Barack Obama has announced details of Michelle Obama's visit to Billings and the addition of a stop in Kalispell. She is scheduled to attend a "Get Out the Vote" event at Billings Hotel and Convention Center, starting at noon Monday. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024496/posts#comment Sun, 1 Jun 2008 20:18:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024330/posts In 1991, at a cost of $70 million, a group of miners and mining entities known collectively as Seven Up Pete Venture acquired mineral rights on land, near Lincoln, Montana, believed to contain over four million ounces of gold and ten million ounces of silver capable of being recovered by open-pit mining and cyanide heap leaching. During the mid-1990s, Seven Up Pete negotiated with Montana for permits to begin mining operations; however, in November 1998, Montana voters narrowly approved a ballot initiative banning recovery of gold and silver using cyanide heap leaching. Although miners and economic development advocates desired to... Townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024330/posts#comment Sun, 1 Jun 2008 11:57:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023997/posts Conservationists who oppose the removal of wolves from under federal protection - and who call the delisting unlawful - sought an emergency injunction Thursday to stop the animals' killing. Last month, a coalition of 11 environmental groups sued the U.S. Department of the Interior in an effort to keep gray wolves in the Northern Rockies region on the endangered species list. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service director H. Dale Hall announced the delisting decision in February, and it took effect March 28, divesting the gray wolf of its Endangered Species Act protections. Without those protections, environmentalists say, the gray wolf... the Missoulian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023997/posts#comment Sat, 31 May 2008 15:29:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023982/posts Registry not appropriate for all states. Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton told Montana reporters Friday that she no longer favors national handgun registration and licensing, even as she supports such measures in her adopted state of New York. "What I came out for was the New York law," the U.S. senator said in a noon conference call Friday. "I don't think there is any contradiction between defending Second Amendment rights and trying to keep guns out of the hands of" criminals and the mentally ill. In 2000, as she was beginning her campaign for senator from New York, Clinton... The Billings Gazette http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023982/posts#comment Sat, 31 May 2008 14:41:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022680/posts HELENA - Republican John McCain would defeat either Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton if the Montana election were held today, a Lee Newspapers poll shows. The poll showed McCain ahead of Obama by 47 percent to 39 percent, with 14 percent undecided. McCain would defeat Clinton by 51 percent to 40 percent, with 9 percent undecided, if the election were held today, the poll showed. The general election matchups have a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. The Lee poll, taken May 19 to 21, was done by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc.... The Missoulan http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2022680/posts#comment Wed, 28 May 2008 23:04:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019968/posts HELENA - The campaign of Hillary Clinton has announced the times and locations for former President Bill Clinton's speeches in Bozeman, Lewistown and Miles City on Saturday. The trip will be Clinton's fourth to the state this year. Bill Clinton is scheduled to deliver his "Solutions for America" speech at 1 p.m. at Shroyer Gym at Montana State University in Bozeman. He is scheduled to speak at the Fergus High School gym in Lewistown at 4 p.m. and at the Custer County High School gym in Miles City at 6:45 p.m. Presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are battling... Missoulian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2019968/posts#comment Fri, 23 May 2008 00:03:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018481/posts May 20, 2008 - 10:04AM Democrat Barack Obama has become an honorary member of an American Indian tribe and promised a proactive policy to help tribal people if he wins the White House in November. The Illinois senator who is leading rival Hillary Clinton in their race for the party's presidential nomination, joined the Crow Nation, a tribe of some 12,100 members in Montana, taking on a native name and honorary parents in a traditional ceremony. Senator Obama, who would be the first black US president, was "adopted" by Hartford and Mary Black Eagle and given a name which means... Source: ABC (Australia) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018481/posts#comment Tue, 20 May 2008 03:39:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018428/posts ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: Traveling though Montana on Monday, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., made his first stop as a presidential candidate to an Indian reservation - and got a little more than expected. Obama was adopted as an honorary member into the family within the Crow tribe that inhabited the reservation - who gave the presidential candidate a new name and new parents. "Awe Kooda bilaxpak Kuuxshish" was the honorary name given to Obama meaning, "one who helps people throughout the land." Obama was escorted out to the stage in Crow Agency, Montana arm-in-arm between his adopted parents: Sunny... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018428/posts#comment Tue, 20 May 2008 01:27:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018265/posts Today, as president of the American Hunters and Shooters Association (AHSA), I announced our endorsement of Senator Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States. Because the gun issue has recently become a factor in the Democratic primary in Pennsylvania, I want to share the remarks I made today: As a gun rights organization we have not come to this decision lightly. We were formed two years ago because our research shows that millions of gun owners wanted a change. They not only wanted an organization that would protect their gun rights but an organization that... "American Hunters and Shooters" http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018265/posts#comment Mon, 19 May 2008 20:31:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016998/posts Hey sweetie, are you bitter? Pittsburgh Tribune-Review By Salena Zito Perfect Sen. John McCain bumper sticker: Hey sweetie, are you bitter? Pittsburgh Tribune Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2016998/posts#comment Fri, 16 May 2008 19:08:02 GMT