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Catholic Seattle University Hosts Pro-Abortion Sen. Murray Seattle, WA -- Seattle University, a Jesuit Catholic school in Washington state, is under fire again from a pro-life Catholic group that serves as a watchdog for Catholic colleges and universities. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/03/25/catholic-seattle-university-hosts-pro-abortion-sen-murray/

Catholic Seattle University Hosts Pro-Abortion Sen. Murray Seattle, WA -- Seattle University, a Jesuit Catholic school in Washington state, is under fire again from a pro-life Catholic group that serves as a watchdog for Catholic colleges and universities. http://www.lifenews.com/2011/03/25/catholic-seattle-university-hosts-pro-abortion-sen-murray/

"...more than four years into the war in Iraq, our troops are stretched thin, our equipment is deteriorating, and the patience of our nation is wearing thin. We have seen 3,600 service members die. Thousands upon thousands more have been injured. "

In the two weeks since Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., praised Osama bin Laden for what she said were his humanitarian works, the Bush White House has stepped up efforts to recruit popular GOP congresswoman Jennifer Dunn for a challenge to the terrorist-friendly Democrat in 2004. When questioned on Thursday about rumors Dunn was considering leaving Congress for a lucrative job in the private sector, her spokesman Doug Badger revealed that his boss had come under new pressure from the White House to challenge Murray. "She is seriously considering the options available to her," he told the Associated Press. "The pressure...

The mainstream media gave former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott's comments praising his Senate colleague Strom Thurmond nearly 20 times the coverage it devoted to Sen. Patty Murray's remarks praising Osama bin Laden during the same period of time. From Dec. 5, when Lott praised D-Day veteran Thurmond's 1948 presidential candidacy on a segregationist ticket at his 100th birthday celebration, through Dec. 12, more than a week before Lott resigned his leadership post, the Lott-Thurmond imbroglio was the subject of 641 print reports and news broadcasts, a Lexis-Nexis search reveals. Coverage was particularly heavy in prestige press outlets like the...

Bin Laden remarks give Murray griefLes Blumenthal; The News TribuneWASHINGTON - Sen. Patty Murray says she was just trying to prompt a thoughtful discussion when she told high school students the United States might learn something from Osama bin Laden's efforts to help the poor in the Arab world. Instead, the Washington state Democrat got her picture plastered prominently on the Web, became a hot topic of conversation on talk radio and had her patriotism questioned by the head of the state Republican Party. Even one of her possible Republican opponents when she faces re-election in 2004, U.S. Rep. George...

<p>I have lived and worked in more than 50 countries with various foreign affairs agencies over the course of my career. So I was especially appalled by the comments of Sen. Patty Murray, Washington Democrat, regarding Osama bin Laden ("Murray hit for bin Laden remark," Nation, Saturday). Her statements were a slap in the face to countless Peace Corps volunteers,U.S.embassy employees and specialists within the U.S. Agency for International Development who have dedicated their lives to a cause President Kennedycalled "the long twilight struggle for freedom."</p>