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"A moderate by definition is one of three things; somebody who sits around and waits for a majority to form and then joins it, a conservative who is pro-choice, or a liberal."
-- Rush Limbaugh, June 5, 2001
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- Gordon Smith: "We're in the middle of a war, and playing political games." Oregon Sen. Gordon H. Smith, one of the few Republicans who has consistently backed Democratic withdrawal legislation. "It's all politics, all the time in this 110th Congress." Smith, like several senators, expressed disappointment with party leaders, blaming them for being unwilling to work out compromises on the war. (LA Times) ["Playing political games?" Look who is talking. It takes one to know one.]
- Court Keeps OR Wire-Tapping Lawsuit Alive. (Oregonian)
- School Suspends First Grader for Drawing. (SJ)
- Beth Casper, SJ, Reports Fewer Oregonians Recyling Is "Troubling." Pro-Receylers [[Well, let's see. Could it have anything to do with some pseudo-efficiency that isn't really efficient at all? Some people would like to get their can/bottle deposits back. But, how efficient is it to stand before a aluminum-can machine which takes only one, undented, can at one time when Oregonians could be taking an entire garbage bag of crushed cans all at one time to recylers? It is not time-efficient and discourages people from bothering to do it at all.]
- Gov. K. Issuing Exeutive Order Friday to "Dramatically Tighten" Driver's Licenses. To make more difficult for illegal immigrants to get. (Oregonian)
- Both Wyden, Smith Vote for Iraq Withdrawal Timeline. (Oregonian) [Aren't you glad we have two Democrats for our Senators? Will this kind of appeasement, by Smith, mean more chance of getting elected? Why not just elected someone who honestly calls himself a liberal Dem? Then perhaps in four years we can elect a real Republican?]
- Brownback, Smith Among Beneficiaries of Farm Subsidies. (CJ Online)
- Judge Orders OR Boy To Remain In Oregon. (Oregonian)
- Gordon Smith, Wyden Co-Sponsor Of Amtrak Revival Bill. Senate bill will fuel service study, but is it the best use of tax dollars? SB294. Greg Walden views on the bill not determined(Argus Observer)
- Baucus Panel Hears Suggestions On Revising Estate Tax. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., also said the estate tax forces small family companies to sell to big businesses. (Billings Gazette)
- $1-M of Fed $$ Coming to Upgrade Salem Airport. (SJ)
- Crapo, Lieberman Co-Sponsor Wyden Health Care Bill. (Oregonian)
- Wyden Compares Efforts To Stop Illegal Logging To Efforts To Stop Bring Illegal Drugs Into U.S. [And the point is...] (Stop the Drug War)
- Veterans Days(s). (Dave Reinhard, Oregonian)
- Hi. I'm Tom Tancredo and I Approve of this Message Because Some Has To Say It. (teamtancredo.org) [Go Tom!]
- Immigration-Reform Backers Aim for '08 Ballot. Access to driver's licenses by illegal residents are at issue. (SJ)
- OR State Bar Gives Kulongoski Until Nov. 30 To Respond to Lars Larson's Complaint Letter. (SJ)
- Gov. K. Weighs In On Controversial Foster Care Case. (Oregonian)
- Gov. K. Thinks Foster Boy Should Stay In OR? Non-committal interview. (KGW video interview)
- Nearly all House GOPers Back Pence’s Discharge Petition on Fairness Doctrine. In July, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin wrote a letter to Pence and Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) that said he saw “no compelling reason” to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine. (The Hill)
- Proposal Was Defeated Because It Was Unfair. (Letter to ed., SJ)
- Why Not Tax the Newspaper to Pay for Kids' Health Care? (SJ letter to ed.)
- Chemawa School Violence Drops Amid Police Presence. (SJ)
- Rep. "Wu Tries To Contain Damage to SCHIP." Normally a low-profile lawmaker, Wu lashed out on Tuesday at cigarette makers and Republican opponents of federal legislation to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), as he sought to reverse the spin on the failure of the Oregon SCHIP initiative. (The Hill)
- Polk County Deputy Crashes Patrol Car, Fells Power Lines. (SJ)
- Salem Airport Expansion Funds Sought. (SJ)
- New OR Rules Let Workers Take Unpaid Leave To Get Legal Help... (Oregonian)
- OR Legislators Name New Legislative Counsel; Dexter Johnson. (SJ)
- PETA Renewed Protest Tuesday Against OR Monkey Research. (Oregonian)
- Bush Cites OR Measure, Says Voters Are Sick Of Tax-and-Spend. (SJ)
- OR Jobless Rate Holds Steady. (Oregonian)
- S-K School District Faces Four Sex Lawsuits. (SJ)
- Deschutes County: Newly Switched to Republican, Les Stiles Won't Be Taking On County Commissioner Daly In '08 Afterall. Race was expected to be nasty. (KTVZ)
- OR Loses 200 Mill Jobs. (Houston Chron.)
- Seaside: Colored Waves On OR Beaches Cause Confusion. (Beach Connection)
- Coos Bay: Two Parallel Ideas Advanced for Reopening OR Train Line. (Oregonian)
- Former OR Neo-Nazi Gets a Second Change. (Oregonian)
- Years Of Experience Earn OR Couple Recognition. (Cattlework)
- Surveys Reveal Much about the State of Fishing & Hunting In OR, U.S. (RG)
- COCC Eying Voters for Program Expansion Funds. (KTVZ)
- Former Legislator, Chief Justice Lent Dies. (AJ)
- Olympia, WA: Dozens Arrested InProtests Against Iraq War Shipments. Tried to block shipments of military gear for an Army Stryker brigade that returned recently to nearby Fort Lewis from Iraq, police said. Also present were 30 to 40 counter-demonstrators who said that the protesters were a disgrace and that the returning troops who should be welcomed home without being denied their equipment. Demonstrators also poured cement over railroad tracks at the port but were unsuccessful in halting trains, but port personnel removed the cement and no arrests were made for that part of the protest, which was coordinated by Olympia Port Militarization Resistance, Costa said. [These nuts are so hateful that they don't care if anyone dies from stunts like this. It can't be that they don't know the potential results of such stunts. It borders on attempted manslaughter.]]
- GOP USA Commentator, Bobby Eberle, Says New Immigration Plan Makes Sense. Secure America with Verification and Enforcement (SAVE) Act. Basically the bill simply says, secure the borders AND ACTUALLY obey present laws (for a change). (Capwiz)
- Save Act Enforces Immigration Laws. (Human Events) [Is it not a bit ironic to have to pass legislation that basically says the laws already passed are to actually be obeyed? Will it make a difference?]
- BUT, WHO Really Authored the SAVE Act and Why Are There Conflicting Reports As to Who Sponsored the Bill? Does Tom Tancredo REALLY support this bill? (Tom DeWeese, Canada Free Press)
- Thomas.gov Lists Rep. Shuler As SAVE's Sponsor.
- HR 4088, Save Act Text.
- Tom Tancredo On List Of SAVE Bill Sponsors. OREGON'S Greg Walden not on list. (Thomas.gov)
- Democrats' Immigration Progress. "The latest episode in this trend happened late last week, when 36 brave Democrats crossed party lines to support an amendment approving legal protections for employers who designate English as their exclusive work-place language." (Editorial, WA Times)
- Lou Dobbs: Congressmen Argue Over Immigration. Should a military stint be ticket to citizenship? (Youtube)
- Youtube Video: Tunnel Allowed Illegals To Enter U.S. Unchecked.
- Jim Gilchrist, Jerome Corsi: "Minutemen" Authors Spot
Tunnel Right Smack Under Border Fence! (Youtube video)
- MX Military Incursion Into U.S. Bombshell report on Scarborough Country, Youtube.
- Arm MX Military Shooting At Americans. (Fox News Report, Youtube)
- GOP Finds Solid Ground On Iraq War. (Politico)
- Dissention Hits Romney Campaign. Disagreement over going negative against Giuliani. (Politico)
- Udalls Aplenty In '08 Races. "By now in its fourth generation, the Udall political family tree has a lot of branches." [Those branches include Oregon's Senator Smith.] "Those 'poor Mormon dirt farmers,' as Mark Udall refers to his forefathers, set the tone." (Rocky Mt News)
- CBS Says Money Woes Keep GOP Worried about 2008.
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- Fund Raiser Memorial for Iraq Vet. Family he left behind needs help. (KOIN)
- Steve Novick Tells Baker City Crowd, "It'll Take Someone "a little different" To Defeat Smith In 2008. "I'm little, and I'm different," he said with a smile. (Baker City Herald)
- Report: OR Scientific Team Develops Cloning Breakthrough. (Fox News)
- Foes Threaten Lawsuit On Interstate Name Change. (Oregonian)
- Corvallis: Officer Caught Arresting Sober Motorists for DUI. "I believe this is part of a larger problem with the Corvallis police," Dr Adam Schultz, a resident, wrote in a letter to the mayor. "Is it not true that the police officers attempt to maximize their performance-related pay reviews, and that the number of citations is a key metric? Isn't this the perfect condition for a conflict-of-interest, i.e. rather than measuring performance through improvement in road safety, instead doesn't this encourage spurious citations?" (The Newspaper)
- TriMet Chases Out Self-Professed Pedophile. (Oregonian)
- Oregon Wineries Partner With CA-Based Sales Group. (Business Wire)
- State OKs Settlements for OR Inmates With Hepatitis C. (Oregonian)
- Josephine County: Police Release Name of Man Shot, Killed In Standoff. (Mail Tribune)
- PETA Will Formalize Accusations Against Primate Center Today. For the second time in a decade, an animal-rights activist has slipped past employment screeners at the Oregon National Primate Research Center, taken a job as a monkey handler and accused the facility of routinely abusing animals. (Oregonian)
- State Sen. Alan Bates Takes Part In "Pollution In People" Study. Among 10 volunteers. Hackenmiller-Paradis stressed that the study did not include a large enough cross section of people to make generalizations about Oregonians, but it did show that everyone carries some pollutants. (Mail Tribune)
- U.S. Forest Service Looking to Charge Fees for Weekenders To Timberline Lodge. (Oregonian)
- MAX Safety "Too Late for Me." 71-year-old victim at a Gresham MAX platform called his attacker a coward and blamed TriMet for shoddy security on its light-rail system. (Oregonian)
- Jackson County: Fire Officials On Leave Pending Investigation. (Mail Tribune)
- Former Alaskan Legislator Set to Enter OR Federal Prison. (Anchorage Daily News)
- Portland's Green Leaders Get Rock Star Treatment at Chicago Conference. (Oregonian)
- OR Signs Historic Trade Agreement with China. (Western Farmer Stockman)
- OR Court Backs School "Drug Free Zone." (KOIN)
- Eye-Opener: Veteran's Day Lunch with Homeless Vets. (KOIN)
- The Race To Be the Un-Hillary. (Time Mag)
- Turning Up the Heat. Romney's own state polling now shows Huckabee within single digits of his lead in the state. "We're going to have to go on the offensive against him," says a Romney supporter in Iowa....Pat Robertson's endorsement of Rudy Giuliani is creating a host of problems for the man...It also has put Robertson's long time associate, Jay Sekulow, in an awkward position...(Sekulow has endorsed Romney)...Robertson isn't the only well-known evangelical doing work for Giuliani, according to campaign insiders. Longtime conservative activist and former head of the Christian Coalition Ralph Reed...working for Giuliani. (WA Prowler, American Spectator)
- Romney Ties Giuliani, Dems On Immigrants. In campaign appearances and advertisements in Iowa and elsewhere, Romney is increasingly using illegal immigration to differentiate himself from the rest of his rivals...Romney contended that Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, fought for tuition breaks for children of illegal immigrants in his state, while Giuliani, the former New York mayor, provided tuition breaks at the City University for illegal immigrants. He said that Clinton, too, backs such breaks. (AP) [Legitimate points.]
- Club For Growth (Steve Forbes) Going After Huckabee. [This Baltimore Sun blog calls the Club for Growth conservative. However, the org. is confined to economic concerns & not necessarily concerned about other conservative issues including social issues. Steve Forbes is not for immigration reform and has stated on Fox that illegal immigrants are needed to do job that others will not do. He sees no economic harm in the excessive numbers of illegals.] The Incriminating Youtube video.
- Huckabee's Taxing Video. It’s important to point out that while Huckabee did raise taxes as Governor of Arkansas, he also cut them quite a few times too. Clearly, Huckabee is taking hits on the tax issue. The real question is will the economic conservatives who don’t like him be able to take him down or will the social conservative grassroots types be able to lift him up? (The Brody File)
- Huckabee, Ron Paul Discount Front-Runners. (UPI)
- Fred Thompson to Push for Expanding Military. ...taking his call for expanding the military, spending more money on defense and taking better care of current and former service members before a receptive audience at a military college in a Southern state with an early presidential primary he is counting on to give his campaign a boost. (AP)
- Nevada: Dems Oppose Nuclear Waste Dump.
- 2008 Campaign: What Issue Matters Most To You? Answer poll on Jason Lewis' website. Lewis has his own conservative talk show in Minnesota and is a frequent substitute host for Rush Limbaugh.
- TANCREDO Unveils "Tough On Terror" TV Ad. (Fox News)
- TANCREDO AD Sets Off Bomb. Liberals are furious, slamming Tancredo for fear mongering. (LA Times)
- Washington Post Asks, "Is Tancredo Too "Tough On Terror"? Claim new ad is an attempt at the famous "Daisy" ad used against Barry Goldwater. [My, my, my. Another classic double-standard from the liberal media. Surprise, surprise.]
- Calexico, CA: Three Arrested In Clash Between Border Agents & Protesters. (KOIN)
- RNC Protest Plans Already Under Way. (AP)
- PC Becomes Religious Absurdity. (Newsbusters, youtube video)
- Weather Channel Founder: Global Warming "Greatest Scam In History." (Newsbusters)
- Lobbying Stalls Generic Drug Legislation. The Senate bill would ban most settlements known as "reverse payments," in which a brand-name company pays a generic manufacturer to delay the introduction of the generic drug. The Federal Trade Commission, which has called on Congress to take action, says such settlements could cost American consumers billions of dollars. (AP)
- U.S. Right to Bear Arms May Get It's Day In U.S. Supreme Court. The US capital of Washington, which is trying to stem a wave of violence in its seedier neighborhoods, has lodged a case with the nine Supreme Court judges seeking to maintain its three-decade ban on individuals carrying handguns. (AP)
- Clinton Appointed Judge Orders White House to Hold E-mails. (AP) This order gives the impression that the WH was not already keeping records which is false. Nothing indicates that there was any deliberate hiding of email files.
- Desegregation Rulings Cause Confusion. Officials in Shelby County, Tenn., complain they'll have to spend millions to satisfy a federal judge's "arbitrary" desegregation order. It'll mean busing minority students up to an hour away and replacing hundreds of white teachers with black ones, they say. (AP)
- Edwards: Introducing $400=M Plan to Help Vets with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. (AP) [If Mr. Edwards really wanted to help prevent PTSD, he'd begin with supporting the war effort to which the troops, and vets, are so committed to winning. End the talk of pulling out too soon and stop adding to the present battle-stress such talk causes our troops while they are still at war.]
- Biden Reaching Out to Vets Also; Calls for Changes In Vets Care. (AP)
- Armitage [coward] Says He Was Foolish In CIA Leak. (AP) [Is this supposed to make up for his letting people, like Scooter Libby, dangle in the wind for something he didn't do, while Armitage stayed silent?
- McCain Calls for End to Independent Ads, Even for Support of Him. (KEZI) Doesn't want people to think they are from his campaigns. [If the ads don't end with his saying "I approve of this ad" won't people know it wasn't from his campaign?] Republican rival Mitt Romney criticized McCain on Monday saying the foundation represented "an entire end-run on any effort to control campaign spending and offer transparency." (KEZI)
- Fox News Editor, Joe Battenfeld, Rips Anti-War Protester Sign. (Youtube)
- Republican for a Reason. (RNC, Can Reagan be lumped with Presidents Bush?)
- AFA Action Alert: Lowe's Refuses To Call Them "Christmas Trees," Chooses To Call Them "Family Trees." Ads Say "Holiday" Not Christmas.
- NM: Democrat (& Mormon) Tom Udall to Run for Senate Seat to Be Vacated By Long-time Republican Senator Pete Domenici. Rep. Heather Wilson and Rep. Steve Pearce have said they would vie to be the Republican Party candidate for Senate. Domenici plans to retire in January 2009 because of an incurable brain disease. (AP)
- Wyoming: Rep. Barbara Cubin Announces Won't Seek New Term. The Republican has missed almost half her votes in Congress this year, spending much of her time in Wyoming tending to her husband, who has been ill for years with an unspecified immune disorder. She also has missed votes this year following her brother's death and after she broke a foot. "In contemplating 2008, my overwhelming consideration has been the need of my family for me to come home..." (AP)
- Justice O'Connor: Look to Britain for How U.S. Lawyers Should Practice. where trial lawyers--known there as barristers--serve both as prosecutors and appointed criminal defense lawyers. Housed in one office, she said, they switch sides depending on the case and are paid on a similar scale, unlike many public defenders in the United States. This dual role, O'Connor said, generates "a level of courtesy in courts that you don't see here because they have been on both sides." (AP) [Maybe she'd like to simply re-write the Constitution. Why not. She has already stated that she had made court decisions based upon international law rather than the U.S. Constitution.]
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- Cash Cow Farm Bill Is a Full Plate In Congress. Can you say "pork, pork, pork." More than 1,000 people and entities with Portland addresses collected farm subsidies between 2003 and 2005, according to... (Charles Pope, Oregonian)
- Slaps On the Back with Taxpayers' $$. Thanks boss, I never expected this! Those words likely echoed around the offices of several state managers as Governor Kulongoski handed out raises as high as $30,000 a year to some of his top appointees. Oregon taxpayers were undoubtedly just as surprised by the generous increases. (Ted Ferriolo, SJ)
- Democrats Strive to Toughen Property Crime Penalties? [Or are they just trying to beat down a far better, tougher measure by GOP activist Kevin Mannix.] (KOIN)
- KEZI On Dems Trying to Trump Mannix.
- GOP Needs a Favor By OR Democrats. ...the GOP needs to change state law to ensure its candidate can meet the filing deadline, and Republicans can do that only by getting the support of Democrats who run the Oregon Legislature. (Jeff Mapes, Oregonian)
- Kulongoski-pardoned Woman Is Arrested Again. (SJ)
- Darlene Hooley's District Has More Republican Voters than Democrat. [Will she win again despite her turning more to the left?] (Jeff Kosseff, Oregonian)
- Co-Author of M-49 to Head State Agency. (KEZI)
- Aftermath of Measure 50 Rejection. Some say the tobacco giants' $12 million pounding of Measure 50, on top of victories in California and Missouri last year, should prompt Congress to rethink a pending federal plan to raise cigarette taxes for children's health care...It's "going to have problems now because it's exactly what we defeated in Oregon," said Russ Walker, the Keizer-based leader of FreedomWorks in Oregon, which opposes cigarette-tax increases. (Steve Law, SJ)
- WA County: Voters Nix Tax, Large Tracts; Accept City Charter. (Lisa Cromwell, Oregonian)
- Salem: S-K Board Hearing to Gather Input on Charter School. (Tracy Loew, SJ)
- Local Agencies Look for Manpower to Keep MAX Safe... Incidents at Quatama, Lloyd Center & Gresham highlight TriMet safety. (Nick Christensen, Oregonian)
- Ron Eachus Slams Tobacco Industry Win On M-50.
- Care "Needs?" of Prisoners Put OR In a Bind. A lawsuit by an OR inmate demanding a sex-change operation spotlights the increasing complexity & cost of providing health services to the state's 13,500 prisoners...Though transsexual inmates are rare, prison officials report a surging demand from inmates for a wide array of conditions, diseases and mental illnesses. (Ashebel Green, Oregonian)
- DHS Decision about Boy In Toledo Is Wrong. (Letter to Ed., SJ)
- Lake Oswego Schools Want You. Promises can teach as well as private schools. (Wendy Owen, Oregonian)
- SAIF Policyholders to Get Dividend Check. (SJ)
- Rep. DeFazio Pushes Ban of Alabama-Made Poison. (KOIN)
- Memory of Soldier Drives Homebuilding Fundraiser. (Brent Hunsberger, Oregonian)
- Southern OR: OR Developers of Nicklaus-Designed Course Get Final Permits. (KEZI)
- Final Timber Payment Made. (Worldlink)
- A Peek At Congressional Romances. (All Headlines)
- National Right to Live Endorses Fred Thompson. (The Atlantic)
- Thompson Social Security Plan Applauded As "Courageous," "Honest," and "Substantive." (Standard News Wire)
The Pseudo-liberal Baltimore Sun Disagrees: Claims Thompson's Plan Short On Details.
- Bill Lacy: Advising Fred Thompson. (Human Events)
- Florida Poll Not Looking Good for Thompson. (TMP Election Central)
- Thompson: Overturning Roe vs Wade Is the Goal. (Baltimore Sun)
- For the First Time; Romney Leads Thompson In Rasmussen Poll. (WA Times)
- Romney Bristles At Suggestion His Advisors Determine What Speeches He Gives. (AP)
- Romney Says Advisers Oppose Speech On Mormon Faith. (News 10)
- Romney Says Help Military Families More. (AP)
- Boston Police Make Arrests at Veterans Day Anti-War Protest. (News 10)
- New York Pastor Wants Other to Know United Way Chapters Giving to Planned Parenthood. (NY Daily Star)
- Romney Brushes Off Insult from McCain's Mother. (TPM Election Central)
- Guiliani Depending Upon Courting GOP Delegates, Not Early State Polls. Is it the convention which counts, not how voters feel in the early primaries? (AP) [Guiliani may be on to something. True Conservative Republicans had better get on the stick in getting designated as delegates to the next GOP Convention.]
- Romney Criticizes Giuliani, Clinton On Sanctuary Cities. (NH Pols)
- Dems Straddle Border; GOP Field Hawkish. (Houston Chronicle)
- More On Romney and Adam & Eve. (Jake Tanner, ABC News)
- Huckabee Aiming High In Iowa. (San Diego Tribune)
- Huckabee's Iowa Surge May Reshape Republican Presidential Race. (Bloomberg)
- NH Sec'y Of State Tells Clinton, Giuliani What They Must Do. (Bloomberg)
- Scrutiny Might Bring an End to Louisiana Corruption? Louisiana, and especially New Orleans, has somehow become the model for dishonesty in politics...More and more people are finding themselves accused of wrongdoing. The federal government's investigation into Congressman William Jefferson's time in office now includes State Senator Derrick Shepherd as a participant in Jefferson's alleged laundering schemes...These days, retired Congressman Billy Tauzin's comment after Katrina couldn't be truer: "Half of Louisiana is under water and the other half is under indictment." (Tulane Hullabaloo)
- Louisiana Legislator Says FBI Looking at New Orleans Mayor Nagin, U.S. Rep. Jefferson. October 25th, AZ Star)
- New Orleans, LA: Parish D.A. Eddie Jordan Resigns Amid Political Turmoil, Finger-Pointing.
- Orin Hatch Shares the Wealth With GOP. "His equation would be different than say Gordon Smith's right now," Jowers said. Smith is a Republican senator from Oregon who is up for re-election next year. He is also a Mormon. Hatch has spread his campaign wealth to Smith and every other incumbent Republican senator who will be on the ballot in 2008. (Salt Lake Tribune)
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