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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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- Please Respond to This Oregonian Blog and Defend the Viewpoints of Marylin Shannon Same-sex Marriage.
- Marylin Shannon: [Same-sex] Laws Flout the Will Of the Voters Of OR. (Oregonian)
- Lawmakers Push Forest Biomass. Reps Peter DeFazio & Greg Walden have signed on to legislation meant to promote development & use of biofuel derived from federal forests. (News Review)
- McCain, Smith Part Ways Again; This Time On Torture. (Oregonian)
- Vancouver Rep. Baird Endorses Obama. (Oregonian)
- Jeff Mapes, Oregonian: McCain, Smith Part Ways Again: This Time On Torture.
- Student Detained After "Killing Spree" Postings. Deputies bring in a 23-year-old after Clackamas Community College officials report MySpace comments. (Oregonian)
- Washington Tax Revenue Expected to Slump. Sen. Joe Zarelli, R-Ridgefield, and the Republican leader on the Ways and Means Committee, said Democrats could have avoided this predicament with better planning and no spending increase in last year's budget.
Zarelli has criticized Democrats' increase in education spending, saying it has not produced the benefits the public expects with such investments. "It's a base-budget issue on the spending side," Zarelli said. "Maybe the idea of a $400-million, all-day kindergarten program isn't a priority right now." Democrats defended their budgets, saying the recession is expected to be a short one and that the state economy's current sag could quickly turn around. "We'll need to be more responsible," Pridemore said. "But we're still up in terms of projections for the biennium, so it's not a time to make major course corrections." (Oregonian) [Unnecessarily Grim news changes to not-so-bad news when the cause is pinpointed to be the Democrats so then it becomes OK to continue the same bad economic policies.]
- Oregon's Share Of Rebates: $1.4-B. (Oregonian)
- House Approved Bill Targets "Predatory Lenders." (SJ)
- Portland Home Values Up, But Sellers Feeling Down. The inventory of unsold homes -- a key measure of whether a market has too much supply -- rocketed to nearly 13 months' worth of sales in January. That's up 50 percent... (Oregonian)
- Court Reverses Fine Against SAIF. (SJ)
- Public Hearings Next Step for Casino. (Oregonian)
- State Appeals Court Judge Censured for DUI. Judge Robt. Wollheim had taken pain-killers; charge later dismissed. (SJ)
- Leading OR Attorney Says Death Penalty for Six Terrorists Wrong. (Oregonian)
- Norovirus Outbreak At OR State Hospital Affects 70> (SJ)
- Oregon Pulls Liquor Licenses In Portland, Brooks. (Oregonian)
- Pedophile Gets 50 Years for Raping Child. (SJ)
- Homicide Investigators Probe Murder at OR State Penitentiary. An autopsy by the state medical examiner determined Friday that Antonio Barrantes-Vasquez, 36, died of...(Oregonian)
- Lawyer May Go to Prison After Plea In Drug Case. (SJ)
- Sen. Smith -- U.S. Senate Special Committee On Aging, New Report: Number of Senior Citizens In Workforce Rapidly Climbing. (Senior Journal)
- Lawmakers Push Forest Biomass. Reps. Peter DeFazio & Greg Walden have signed legislation meant to...(News Review)
- RG: Taking License with Reality.
- U.S. House Contempt Resolution Divides OR Delegation. Reps. David Wu, Earl Blumenauer, Peter DeFazio and Darlene Hooley supported the resolution even though it was largely symbolic and bitterly partisan. It passed 223-32. Oregon Republican Greg Walden did not vote, choosing to join 162 of his colleagues who boycotted the vote in protest. (Oregonian)
- UO Senate Endorses Arena Proposal to Legislature. (Daily Emerald)
- Picketer Angry with Internat'l Trade Deals. Protestors say their main goal is to urge Senator Gordon Smith to sign onto Senate Bill 20-81. Ronald Rodgers with United Steelworkers says, "It's called the 'Food and Product Responsibility Act.' What it would do is require importers and manufacturers to buy insurance in case there was a recall of products. (KVAL)
- Video Leads to Fight Suspects at OR Prep Basketball Game. (Oregonian)
- Eugene Police Auditor Accused Of Criminal Misconduct. (KVAL)
- Mental Exam Planned for OR Student Who Wrote Of Killing. (Oregonian)
- Lane County: Head Start to Expand In Bethel School Dist.
- OR Senate Approves Dogfighting Crime Bill. (Oregonian)
- Kulongoski Aide Considers Race...and He's an R. Eying Hooley's congressional seat. (Oregonian)
- Lars Larson Producer Sues KXL Over Firing. Sues for $1.75-M. (Oregonian)
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- GEORGE SOROS FUNDING BOTH McCAIN & DEMS SINCE 2001. McCain's Reform Institute also accepted funds from Teresa Kerry. (WND)
- Obama's Internat'l Socialist Connections. (Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy In Media)
- Obama's Rambo Foreign Policy. So you think Obama will end having our troops abroad, do you. Think again. (AIM) [Remember (if you are old enough) how LBJ won his election by accusing Goldwater of wanting to begin a war? Remember who only weeks into his presidency sent thousands of our soldiers to Vietnam? It won't be any different with Obama or Hillary. With Obama our soldiers will be part of the UN force. Hillary will have her own international spots for troops just as she and Bill did in Croatia and Bosnia.]
- TX Ban On Sex Toy Sales Overturned. (CBS)
- Some Conservatives Considering Constitution Party Candidates Instead Of McCain. The Constitution Party, which calls itself "completely pro-life, pro-gun, pro-American sovereignty and independence," has secured spots on about 16 state ballots and hopes to exceed 40, national field director Gary Odom said. The party has nominated founder Howard Phillips as its presidential candidate in the past and will select its candidate in April. (CBS)
- They Had a Pow-Wow -- Romney Giving Delegates to McCain. Puts the kill on Huckabee. (AP)
- Massachusetts Voters Favor Clinton, Romney. (Boston Globe)
- Mexican Pres. Calderon Pushes Immigrant Rights On Visit to CA Legislature. (Mercury News)
- CQ Politics' Fundraising Top 10s: Best-Funded Challengers to Opposite-Party Incumbents.
- McCain Campaign, CA GOP Meet In Midst Of Party Strife. (San Luis Obispo.com)
- Justice Dept.: Waterboarding Not Legal. (AP)
- Trade Deficit Eased In 2007. Despite a soaring foreign oil bill and another record deficit with China, the overall U.S. trade deficit declined after setting records for five consecutive years. (AP)
- Clinton's Edge Slips with Whites, Women. (AP)
- Clinton Optimistic About March 4 Tests. "I am in the solutions business," she told more than 4,000 supporters in a packed fairgrounds here. "My opponent is in the promises business." (AP)
- Clinton Knocks On TX Doors. (AP)
- Clinton Led In Candidates' Use Of "Earmarks" [pork]. ...among the top 10 Senate recipients. (USA Today)
- Democrats Fear Superdelegates Could Overrule Voters. (CNN)
- Republicans Focus On McCain Atop Ticket. In John McCain, congressional Republicans are grappling with the notion of a presidential nominee most didn't expect or want. (AP)
- Obama Proposes $210-B for New Jobs. (AP)
- What to Look for When Your Candidates Go Green. From a liberal professor. (AP)
- Raising $$ Higher Priority for McCain than Picking Running Mate. (AP)
- Tancredo Tells Colorado College Republicans Illegal Immigration Must Be Addressed. (GW Hatchet, student newspaper)
- February 21: Another Spanish-Language Presidential Debate. ...at the LBJ Auditorium at the University of Texas. It will first air live in English on CNN and CNN International, and three hours later, will be broadcast in Spanish on Univision. (Borderline)
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- Committee Approves Health Care Expansion Bills. Puts on the Nov. ballot for Oregonians to vote on whether they want to declare health care a "fundamental right." But the committee divided along partisan lines in a 5-4 vote on House Joint Resolution 100, which would refer to voters a proposed amendment to the Oregon Constitution to declare health care "a fundamental right." The measure, now headed for a vote on the House floor, would order the Legislature to create a plan for providing health care to every legal resident of Oregon. (Oregonian)
- Shaken TriMet Bus Driver On Leave After Student Cyclist Killed. (Oregonian) [How many cyclists will be killed before the experts realize that they present traffic design for bikes is not working? It is physically impossible to always see bicyclists. Putting their lanes in the thick of traffic and treating them like cars, at intersections, is guaranteed deaths.]
- House Unanimously Passes Roadside Memorial Bill. "I call this Eric's Law," Krummel said in presenting the bill on the floor. Kautzky was a passionate bicyclist... (Oregonian)
- MURDER WITH DIGNITY? Darker Picture of Husband Emerges. Prosecutors say a man who shot his wife to end her misery wasn't so loving and she wasn't ill. (Oregonian) [How likely is it that this is the first instance where this has happened?]
- McCain Still Called Winner In Updated WA GOP Caucus Results. Texas Rep. Ron Paul won 21 percent of Washington's precinct delegates, and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who dropped out of the race this past week, got 15 percent, according to the latest numbers from the GOP. (Oregonian)
- $1.6-M of Your Taxes Are Going to Bail Out a Museum In the Red. (Portland Tribune)
- Stricter Rules On IDs for Licenses Advance. (Oregonian)
- Legislature Proposes Restriction Upon Insurance Companies. They would not be allowed to cancel policies of people who have not paid premiums because their lives have been disrupted by a disaster...(World Link)
- Giusto's Fitness Decision Due Today. Fellow officers will decide (Tuesday) if Sheriff should wear a badge. (Oregonian)
- Legislator Promises He'll Try Again on Silver Falls Proposal. (SJ)
- Portland: Lawyers Block Records Naming Accused Priests. (Oregonian)
- Rep. Peter DeFazio Attempting to Resurrect Federal Dollars Program to Rural Communities. (Oregonian) [If Mr. DeFazio REALLY wanted to help those people whose jobs have disappeared due to killing the timber industry, he would cease supporting the environmental whacko claims which have destroyed the logging industry. Socialists like Mr. DeFazio don't really want citizens to be independent financially. This is, what has become, a routine process of killing capitalist centered businesses and replacing them with socialist, gov't dependent citizenry. THAT is the real goal behind the killing of the timber industry. Kill business and then brag about bringing home the pork to those he helped become unemployed.]
- VIDEO: Outrageous Strip Search Following Call for Police Help. (WKYC TV)
- Blogs Repond to Che Guevera Flag In TX Obama Campaign Office. (Outside the Beltway)
- Team Obama: Che Flag Is Inappropriate, Not Ours Anyway. "Paid" staffers are expected to man the offices. Will they take down the Che flag? (Nat'l Review blog)
- TX Fox News Reports on Obama's Office With Che Flag. (Newsbusters)
- The Fox News Report that Began the Obama/CheGuevera Outrage. Decide for yourself. (My Fox, TX)
- Obama's Global Tax Proposal Up for Senate Vote. A nice-sounding bill called the "Global Poverty Act"...The bill, which has the support of many liberal religious groups, makes levels of U.S. foreign aid spending subservient to the dictates of the United Nations. (Accuracy In Media)
- Obama Looks for Momentum In VA, MD, D.C.
- Clinton, Obama Already Targeting March 4. (AP)
- Senate Approves Surveillance Bill, Preserves Telecom Immunity. (WA Post)
- Huckabee Brushes Off Calls to Bow Out. (AP)
- Showdown Looms In "Treasonous" Berkeley. (CNN)
- Clinton Not Ready to Release Tax Returns. (AP)
- Presidential Candidates Take On TX. (KXAN)
- Senate OKs Immunity for Telecoms. (AP)
- Clinton Supporters Are Out In Force As Obama Appears about To Win MD. (Guardian.co.uk)
- CQ Politics' Fundraising Top 10s: Best-Funded House Incumbents. (AP, CQ Politics)
- Romney Still Conservatives' Favorite. (Crosswalk)
- AZ 8-Term Congressman Not Seeking Re-election. Becoming 29th House Republican in the past 13 months to either leave office or decline to seek re-election. (AP)
- Utah Newspaper Says "Hang-Ups" Over Mormonism Proved Romney's Undoing. (Salt Lake Tribune) [This type of talk is not helpful to Romney. Whining on his behalf can only hurt him.]
- Older Population to More than Double. (AP)
- Ron Paul Scales Back "Hopeless" Effort, Refuses to Back McCain. (LA Times) [Slam, slam]
- Huckabee a Creationist Thorn In McCain's Side. (The Independent)
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- Paul Weyrich Endorses Huckabee. Was for Romney. (CBS) From January: Weyrich to Bolt GOP If McCain Is Nominated. (Renew America)
- Reed, Sekulow In On Romney-as-face-of-Conservatism Meeting. (AJC)
- Clinton: Staff Change Not Significant. (AP)
- McCain VS Obama: I'm Greener Than You. (WSJ blog)
- Obama or Clinton? Grammys Go for Obama. (Reuters)
- Obama Narrowly Leads McCain In AP Poll. 48-42% (AP)
- Slideshow of Old Political Cartoons By Clifford K. Berryman.
- Super Delegates and Their Constituents. (Reuters)
- Gary Bauer Endorses McCain. "...has dedicated his life to defending human rights around the world, including the rights of the unborn." [THAT is a lie.]
- Sharp-Tongued Liberal Democrat, Tom Lantos, Dies At 80. Lantos, born in Budapest to Hungarian Jews, served 14 terms in the House of Representatives. He is the only Holocaust survivor elected to Congress. (WA Post)
- Record Cold for Northern MN: 40 Below. [Naw. Can't be. The earth is getting hotter, right?]
- Intersex Fish Researchers: Dense Human Population Bad for Fish. (AP)
- VA Is Next Key Battleground for Dems. (CBS)
- Yahoo Used Ground Zero Photos to Score Points on Waterboarding, Economy, Giuliani. (Newsbusters)
- RINO, Anti-Reaganitis, Republican Finally Open In GOP Hostility to Reagan. At what point did the quintessential qualification for being a Republican become being a genuine conservative? And, what does the word mean? (AJC) [First they tried to redefine who Reagan was, then they tried to pretend the Reagan Era is over. Now more and more RINOs will dare to speak against Reaganism.]
- John McCain: Sheriff McMaverick? Conservatives are on the eternal search for a new Ronald Reagan. They refuse to accept the fact that a movement leader who is also a gifted politician is a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon. But there's an even more profound reason why no Reagan showed up this election cycle and why the apostate sheriff is going to win the nomination. The reason is George W. Bush. He redefined conservatism with a "compassionate" variant that is a distinct departure from classic Reaganism. (Indy Star)
- Scientists Say Can Now Identify Specific Receptor for AIDS. (UPI)
- Luck for Us, the Republicans Saw Through Rudy Giuliani. Rudy truly believed that New Yorkers loved him. (Sun Sentinel)
- Lima, Ohio: Jesse Jackson Getting Involved Over SWAT Team Shooting Which Left 26-year old Mother Dead. (WTOL-TV)
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