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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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- Drug Arrest Disappoints Gov. K, Who Granted Pardon. (RG)
- Former Governor's Spokeman Arraigned In Court.
- Portland, Far Left Blogger Radio Slams "Rural Oregonians." [He's wee bit ticked over the M-50 results.]
- Lars Larson: Baby Gabriel Isn't the Only One.
- Biological Mother Wants Baby Gabriel To Stay with OR Foster Parents. (KTVZ)
- Two Families, Two Worlds, One Little Boy. [Social engineering is the real goal of DHS.] (Oregonian on Baby Gabriel)
- OR ACLU Unavailable to Help Baby Gabriel. (Stop the ACLU) [Anti-family, anti-God ACLU will always be on the side of the family-busting DHS.]
- Jackson County Judge Says Medford Teacher Can't Bring Gun to School. (Oregonian)
- Gov K: Global Warming Dictates Massive Water Storage Areas for Farmers, Fish. (Oregonian)
- Jurors Find Swindler Pastor Guilty of 28 Felonies. (Oregonian)
- Crime Often Getting Free Ride. TriMet struggles to police its lines, especially the MAX, with a meager force compared with other cities. Rapes, robberies and dozens of assaults have been reported in recent years. On a spring day in 2006, a transient grabbed the 2-year-old daughter of a visiting couple riding a MAX train through downtown Portland, before being tackled by bystanders. (Joseph Rose, Brad Schmidt & Helen Jung, Oregonian)
- Jackson County Jury Indicts Parents of Medford Skateboarder. (Oregonian)
- Partisan Divide On Tax Vote. All of Oregon's Democratic House members voted Friday in favor of a sprawling tax bill [supposedly] designed to insulate the middle class from a new tax. The state's only Republican, Greg Walden, voted against it. [Score one for Walden's not voting for another "murder the czar" piece of legislation.]
- Mukasey Confirmation: Smith Votes Yes, Wyden Votes No. (Jeff Mapes, Oregonian)
- Schip Wreck. OR voters send a message on HillaryCare. (Socialized Medicine)
- Left-Wing Pastor Blasts Kulongoski, Smith, Wyden for Not Enough Federal Spending On Homeless.
- Former Kulongoski Aide Arraigned On Child Porn Charges. (Oregonian)
- Register Guard Claims Voters Knew What They Were Voting for On 49.
- Eugene: Police Say Arrests Show Drugs Touch "All Parts Of Society." A recent Springfield police drug bust resulted in the arrest of an odd cast of characters, including a Eugene firefighter, a Eugene public works employee, a woman who had been pardoned by Gov. Ted Kulongoski for a prior drug conviction and the mother of a convicted murderer. (RG)
- Political Lesson To Be Learned from Voters Rejecting SCHIP. (Wake Up Americans, blog)
- Hillarycare's SCHIP Sinks In OR. (Cheat-Seeking Missiles, blog)
- OR Universities Report Increased Enrollment. (Justin Much, SJ)
- Republican Legislative Leaders List Priorities for 2008 Sesson. Additional funding for troopers is one leading issue. (Peter Wong, SJ)
- DeFazio Seeks Support for Bill to Outlaw AL-Made Poison. The DeFazio legislation includes a government buyback of any domestic supplies of the poison, but Dodge said the Congressional Budget Office had yet to compute the potential cost. The bill also would ban sodium cyanide capsules used to kill predators in the West. (Jay Reeves, SJ)
- Walker's Sixth-Graders Have Twice as Much to Talk About. "... yo le dería donde ay comida y donde durmír," says Abby Bremiller, 11, never breaking into English. (Thelma Guerrero, SJ)
- Four Teens Arrested In Keizer Graffiti Incidents. (Ruth Liao, SJ)
- Court Upholds 1,000-foot Rule On Drug Sales Near Schools. (SJ)
- Multnomah County Halts $44-M Deal. (Sulzberger, Oregonian)
- Portland: City to Pay $500,000 In Police Killing. (Tom Hallman, Jr., Oregonian)
- M-50 Leaves Dems Trying to Think Of Another Way to Do What M-50 Would Have Done. "That's what's so frightening. This was an attempt to deal with the crisis for kids, and now that that's gone, we're all looking at each other," said Senate President Peter Courtney, D-Salem.
- "Measure 49 Will Keep Lawyers Employed for Decades Says David Hunnicutt... president of Oregonians In Action, the chief opponent of the measure overwhelmingly approved by Oregon voters on Tuesday. (Wm McCall, Albany Democrat)
- Ex-Jackson Elementary Teacher Convicted of Stealing Coat for Sale On eBay. (Oregonian)
- Developers Want Lincoln High's Location. (Oregonian)
- Gresham MAX: Police Make Visible Presence Following Assault. (Brad Schmidt, Oregonian)
- "Turnouts Tumble with Falling Morals." " Remember when vote-by-mail advocates promised that the mail ballot would guarantee higher turnout?" (Jayne Carroll, Hillsboro Argus) [Carroll is right.]
- Willamette Week Editorial: "Sam's Taxes Two-step." Commissioner Adams taketh and giveth away.
- Willamette Week Editorial: "A Tale Of Two Stories." Gov. Ted Kulongoski has a Goldschmidt problem. Powerful NW Natural exec Gregg Kantor doesn't. Why?
- Josephine County Seeks Delay In Rehiring Mental Health Workers. Last week the state Employment Relations Board found the county violated labor law by privatizing mental health services and laying off workers in apparent retribution for union members going on strike in January 2006. (Corvallis Gazette-Times) [None dare privatize if socialist AFSCME has their way. None dare move in the direction of economic liberty and its resulting good economies. Josephine Taxpayers should be showing support for their commissioners.]
- Poll: Smith Leads Merkley 48% to 39%. 26% have a favorable opinion of Smith, 30% unfavorable. (Pollster.com)
- Benton County: Voters Narrowly Approve County Levy. The five-year, $29 million property tax levy was pitched to voters as a way to offset shrinking federal timber subsidies and stop a corresponding slide in services. (Matt Nezanski, Corvallis Gazette-Times)
- Councilor Joins Beaverton Mayor's Race. (David Anderson, Oregonian)
- Politicians Calling for "State Task Force" to Review Land-Use Planning Following Passage of M-49. (SJ)
- Voters Keep Cigarette Tax As Is, Kill Property Rights In Oregon. (Oregonian)
- Four Teachers Disciplined for Actions. [But, do all these teachers deserve this? The OR Conservative believes more needs to be known about these incidents. To some extent it sounds as though the teachers aren't being good enough spies into students' home situations. Is showing signs of affection toward students evil? Should they report potential abuse even when their judgment sincerely dictates otherwise? What is the criteria for making these determinations?] (Tracy Loew, SJ)
- Salem-Keizer: PARENTS NOT BEING TOLD TAG Identity Of Their Kids. (TAG: Talents & Gifted.) [Parents have nothing to say? What is done to prove justification of how kids are tagged? (branded?)] (Tracy Loew, SJ)
- 3-2 Against Increasing Cigarette Tax Despite State's Costliest Race. (Janie Har, Oregonian)
- Portland Unveils Carbon Tax Plan. (Dylan Rivera, Oregonian) [Bribe & punishment will make builders do it or else. Another socialist excuse for more and more taxes; more and more red tape to depress additional construction.]
- NW Congressmen Voted to Override Bush Veto On Water Bill.
(HR 1495) "> Rep. Greg Walden: "Oregon and the Northwest depend greatly on the international trade that flows in and out of our ports, so overriding this veto ensures our river systems, navigational infrastructure, and ports can maintain the critical infrastructure that's vital to our economic well-being," Walden said. (Seattle PI) [Well, now. Doesn't that sound lofty and concerned. Bush doesn't care about such concerns as much as Walden? There is absolutely no way to cut back on the spending in this bill without "vital" needs being taken care of? The OR Conservative thinks Walden is caving to the environmental-whacko crowd as are ALL the legislators who voted for this bill. (Walden Needs to cease the photo-shoot mountain-climbing trips with Rep. Blumenauer).
This bill accepted some false premises regarding environmental concerns. But, it guaranteed each legislator the ability to claim, to liberal voters, that they'd supported environmental concerns in their own districts.
It is another bloated, over-spending piece of legislation. Walden, nor any of the other legislators who voted for this bill, is giving their true reasons for supporting the bill.
Bush was right to veto this bill for being way too spendy. He may also know it is critical, as well, to stop pandering to the far left environmental whackos who continue to make outrageous environmental claims, some of which are in this bill.
Environmental extremism has devastated Oregon's economy. Rather than go back and cut back on the spending, each legislator is determined to get their environmental-whacko kiss-up pork from this bill. Have the legislators read this huge bill in its entirety? It is huge. One can bet, however, that each legislator knows what is in the bill for their own district.]
- OR to Receive Fed Grant $$ to Create Database for Medicaid Patients. (Willamette Week) [This $5.5-M grant breaks down to $13,750 per Medicaid patient. -- (There is a good comment on this story that points out the downside of this grant at the bottom of the news story.} -- Presently it is against the federal law for a physician to pass on any patient records other than his own. He is barred from passing on medical info given to him by past physicians. Doctors have been sued for forwarding patient information from previous physicians. Even if a patient gives permission to do so they cannot do it. How, then can this data bank, open to all physicians, not be against the present law in protecting patient confidentially rights?]
- Street for Chavez Appears Likely. (James Mayer, Oregonian)
- BI Offers Reward for Fred Monem, Former Food Services Administrator for OR Dept. of Corrections. (Alan Gustafson, SJ)
- The Dalles: Police Lend Radar Guns to People Upset at Speeders. (Oregonian)
- D.C. Court of Appeals Ruling Against Portland Reservoirs May Cost Up to $281-M.
- Salem City Council Rejects M-37 Claim. (SJ)
- Giusto Lawyer Suspended from Teaching. (Oregonian)
- St. Paul Voters Turn Down Tax Levy for City Operations. Threat of cutting down office hours. (Ruth Liao, SJ)
- State Park Dept. Closes W. Salem's Holman Park. Move is permanent as only way to half lewd behavior. (Oregonian)
- Democratic Operative Arraigned on Child Porn Charges. (Nigel Jaquiss, Willamette Week)
- Oregonian's Dave Reinhard Tried to Warn Oregonians What They Will Really Get from M-49.
- AP Portland Writer, Julia Silverman, Directing Attention of UK Readers To Oregon's Health Care Votes Today. [Classic liberal spin by Julia: "Health-care advocates" want the vote to pass. People who are against the measure aren't "children's health-care advocates?" Anyone who has been interviewed by Julia knows that she THINKS she is an objective reporter. She may be sincerely unaware how she sounds. Does she ever hear from YOU about this kind of reporting?]
``It's the symbolism,'' said Democratic Gov. Ted Kulongoski, who vigorously campaigned in support of the measure, even donating $200,000 from his own political action committee. ``If you can defeat it here in Oregon, you send a chilling message to the rest of the country.'' -- [Yup, as Rush Limbaugh has always pointed out about liberals, they are for "symbolism over substance." and that's just what this bill is really about. NO SUBSTANCE.]
- Swing State Project, Democrats, Making Gordon Smith Look Like a Republican.
- Ashland OKs Property Tax Increase for School Levy. 65% of voters favor the measure, with the turnout reaching 59.7% The levy this time will tax all property owners in the school district, including those outside the city. Until now, only residents of the city paid — and out-of-towners had to pay fees for youth activities. Because of its wider taxing net, the levy will drop from $1.38 per thousand dollars of assessed property value to $1.29. (John Darling, Mail Tribune)
- Day 8: Blue OR FINALLY Says SOMEthing About Goldschmidt, Kulongoski, Giusto. (Victoria Taft)
- Charleston Fishermen Hope To Continue with Gov. K Over Wave Parks, Marine Reserves. (KCBY)
- Voters OK Monroe, Palestine RFPD Measures, Defeat Harrisburg District Bond. (Corvallis Gazette-Times)
- State Efforts To Strengthen Laws Against Sex Abuse By Teachers, Face Opposition from School Boards, Teachers Unions. In Congress, a measure that would train investigators and create a nat'l registry of offenders hasn't even gotten a hearing. (Robt. Tanner, AP-SJ)
- Giuliani Law Firm Representing Foreign Enterprise Tied to I-35 NAFTA Superhighway. (WND)
- Mike Reagan On Pat Robertson's Endorsement of Giuliani. Follow the $$.
- On Second Thought, Conservatives Give Huckabee an Amen. (LA Times)
- Robertson's Support of Giuliani Underscores Evangelical Divide. (Mary Jacoby, Susan Davis, Wall St. J.)
- Reagan21 to Focus On Spending, Ethics. (WA Times)
- Veto Override First for Bush In 7 Years. Bush (correctly) said that the $34-B water-resources bill was filled with unnecessary projects. (WA Times)
- FBI REPORTS AL QAIDA THREAT TO CHICAGO, LA SHOPPING MALLS. (WA Times) [Will Pat Robertson get to prove his prophecy that American will be attacked again before the end of 2007?]
- AP Poll Claims Giuliani Acceptable Alternative If Conservativs Don't Get First Choice. (WA Times)
- Democrats Hit Licenses for Illegals. (WA Times)
- Romney Wants Tax Help for Home Schooling. (Fox)
- Romney's Shift On Issues Sincere, Says Paul; Weyrich. (Boston Globe)
- U.S. Mayors Climate Conference: House Climate Change Committee Hearing. When committee Republicans James Sensenbrenner (Wisc.) and Greg Walden (Ore.) expressed the common conservative concern that addressing global warming would drive jobs to China and India -- and thus, implicitly, that the U.S. shouldn't do anything until they do -- Bloomberg kind of flipped. (Gristmill, liberal environmental blog) [OR Conservative can't vouch for how true reporting is on this site. You decide.]
- Bush Was Right to Veto SCHIP Expansion. (David Manuta, Chillicothe Gazette)
- The Robertson Effect? (Hugh Hewitt)
- Pat Robertson Endorses Pro-Gay-Rights Giuliani. Sounding pro-Israel and anti-terrorism is enough for Robertson. (Fox News)
- January 2007 News Report: Pat Robertson Predicts Major Terrorist Attack On U.S. By Late 2007. [54 days left for this prediction to come true.]
- Ron Paul Raises More than $3.5-M In One Day. (AP)
- Huckabee Not Asked a Question Until 17 Minutes Into Debate. It was even longer for Tancredo. (Campaigns & Elections)
- "A Folksy Guy, In Recovery, Is About To Land Millions. Glenn Beck is believed to be the closest to achieving Rush Limbaugh status. (Time Mag) [Keep in mind, however, that this is the same magazine that thinks Merle Haggard represents the typical white American male who reportedly wants Hillary Clinton.]
- Behind 'Carbon Trade' Hoax: George Shultz, Felix Rohatyn. (Executive Intelligence Review) [VERY interesting.]
- Anchorage Daily News Writer, Erika Bolstad, Claims Rush Limbaugh "Bashed" Liberal Female Sobber.
- Time Magazine's Joe Klein: Hoping Your Politically Haggard Enough To Vote for Hillary. Hey, you "typical white male voter"; did you know that you are represented by country-bumpkin Merle Haggard?
- Forest Thinning Helped Spare Some Homes. (LA Times)
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