Defending Stanley Cup winning goalie refused to attend his team's visit to the White House to meet with President Obama and gives a pro-liberty message as his reason for not attending. Tim Thomas was the best player in the NHL last year and this story is getting news coverage all over the hockey world.

"Neocon Ron Paul-haters Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity have seen their audiences plummet by 33 percent and 28 percent respectively since October. Turns out that listeners are sick of their neocon lies and distortions." Lew Rockwell

Who do you think Newt will vote for? Does this make anyone else smile?

I may stop mocking her so harshly now... (I probably won't stop all together, but I'll tone it down a notch)

Ron Paul is hated by establishment Republicans. The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks down a politico article on the 2012 Republican Presidential candidate.

A District Court judge in Goffstown, New Hampshire has dismissed a criminal charge against a Weare man for recording his conversation with a police officer during a traffic stop. Judge Edward Tenney followed a recent First Circuit Court of Appeals decision in Boston in Glik v. Cunniffe in ruling that William Alleman was within his constitutional rights when making an audio recording of Weare Police Officer Brandon Montplaisir during the traffic stop on July 10, 2010.

From the FTL facebook page: "Word on the street: Ian Freeman has been released from the Cheshire County jail in Keene NH. Welcome back Ian!"

Texas congressman Ron Paul won the California Republican straw poll Saturday after making several speeches at the GOP state convention, officials announced.

Michael Martin is used to getting compliments on the botanical bonanza he has cultivated, mulched and pampered along his leafy, residential lot on the Near West Side.

But one anonymous complaint set Madison's inspection apparatus in motion and kept Martin in thrall for two weeks, an experience that mustered supportive neighbors.

"I know the city has to respond, and all this is complaint-driven, but they don't have to act on it," she said. "Too many people can use that as a way to get back at their neighbor. One anonymous complaint can be very manipulative."

The man who chased down a suspected child abductor and saved a 6-year-old girl from what could have been a horrible fate was honored as a hero Friday. But he is also gaining a new kind of celebrity: as a poster child of sorts for immigration rights in state and national immigration debates.