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Grapevine: Christmas tradition in CA park loses in court

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    Federal judge rules that city can bar nativity displays

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-- now some fresh pickings from the political grapevine there is no room at the end or rather the park for the baby Jesus this year in Santa Monica California.

A federal judge has ruled the city can bar unintended nativity and other seasonal displays in public places.

While related lawsuit goes forward the ruling likely -- a sixty year tradition for the Palisades Park nativity scene.

An attorney for area churches says the outcome Marx -- the erosion of First Amendment liberty for religious speech.

Atheist groups are praising the ruling as an example of the separation of church and state.

The freedom from religion foundation said quote religion is innately divisive and just doesn't belong in public parks and there are tax exempt churches on every other corner.

Why isn't that good enough.

Well two weeks after the election we are learning that MSNBC did not do a single negative story about President Obama.

Or single positive one about governor Romney in the final week of the presidential campaign.

That's according to new study by the pew research center's Project for Excellence in Journalism and finally.

A four year billion plus dollar transportation project opened with a bang not a good way.

Transportation secretary -- -- Clinton lauded brand new express lanes on the capital beltway in Northern Virginia as a quote model for American infrastructure.

Drivers have the option of paying -- hole or carpooling to ride in faster moving traffic -- fluctuate depending on how busy the road it's.

Over the weekend there were several reports of several crashes involving multiple vehicles which police say were all caused by driver swerving -- making lane changes to avoid that whole -- Monday in the first rush hour test police were investigating a -- car collision at the start of the morning can use.

Transportation authorities are now scrambling to make clearer and more extended markings -- -- to minimize unsafe lane changes.