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Santorum fights back in Iowa

3/10/2010 9:01 AM

Rick Santorum defended his record as a pro-life politician Tuesday night. (CNN) - Rick Santorum is fighting back against charges that he's a "pro-life fraud." The former senator from Pennsylvania, and possible 2012 Republican presidential candidate, appeared before an influential Christian group in Iowa on Tuesday night and spent much of his speech defending his record of [...]

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Former RI Speaker Murphy lands House Finance seat

3/9/2010 4:51 PM

By KATHERINE GREGG Journal State House Bureau PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Former House Speaker William J. Murphy has a new legislative role. Murphy, D-West Warwick, was one of four new appointees to the House Finance Comittee, announced on the House floor on Tuesday. New House Speaker Gordon D. Fox also appointed Representatives Douglas Gablinske, D-Bristol, Chris Fierro, D-Woonsocket, and Mary Ann Shallcross Smith, D-Lincoln, to openings on the House budget-writing committee.

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Johnny Get Your Gun

12/1/2009 11:27 AM

Well this is interesting: Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- “I just wrote my first reference for a gun permit,” said a friend, who told me of swearing to the good character of a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker who applied to the local police for a permit to buy a pistol. The banker had told this friend of mine that senior Goldman people have loaded up on firearms and are now equipped to defend themselves if there is a populist uprising against the bank. I called Goldman Sachs spokesman Lucas van Praag to ask whether it’s true that...