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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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- NY Times Does Belated Hit Piece On McCain. Originally slated for publication in Dec., the NY Times now publishes sexual allegations against McCain when it really counts politically.
- McCain Team Says Lobbyist Claim Is "Smear Campaign." McCain is having an immediate and early morning press conference to address the accusations on Ohio TV.
- McCain News Conference: Calls Times Scandal Story On Lobbyist "Untrue." (Reuters) [Liberal Fox News reporter, Chris Wallace, call evidence "thin" against McCain.]
- Reuters Political News Page Covers McCain Alleged Scandal, But Says Nothing About Accusations Against Obama.
- Yahoo, Associated Press Political Page Features McCain Scandal Headlines, But Says Nothing about Obama Accusations.
- Sleazy Claims Made About Barak Obama. Minnesota man takes his case to court, YouTube, $100,000 polygraph challenge... (World Net Daily)
- Google Elections News Page Features McCain Stories, Ignores Accusations Against Obama.
- McCain Aides Attack Inappropriate Relationship Rumors. (ABC News)
- Wag the Blog: Impact Of the McCain Story? (Chris Cillizza, WA Post)
- McCain Tangles with Obama Over Campaign $$. (Reuters)
- Teamsters Back Obama As Clinton Donors Rally. (WTOL-TV)
- Willey Warns Dems as Clinton Sharpens Attacks On Obama. (Fox News)
- AP Writers: "Obama Learned Politics Helping the Poor. [Awwwwww.]
- Obama Wins Global Primary. Out of the country Democrats for Obama. (AP)
- Ex-NH Congressional Candidate Maintains Innocence. Was convicted of faking his disappearance after a car crash. (AP)
- U. Of CO Nominee for President Under Attack for Past Republican Activism. (AP)
- Ex-Inmate Organizes Campaign Against Bush Judicial Nomination. (AP)
- Ohio Bar Owners Defy Smoking Ban. (WTOL-TV)
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National/International News
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- New Rasmussen Poll Puts Smith at 48%... ...no matter which Democrat is running. (Oregonian)
- Sen. Smith Visits Hagg Lake On Water Tour. Met with WA County officials Tues. to look at dam project. (News Times)
- UO Arena Project Could Be Approved By Saturday. (Oregonian)
- OR GOP In Debt, Under IRS Lien After Not Paying Payroll Taxes. (Oregonian)
- WA, OR Set Spring Chinook Seasons. (SJ)
- Willamette Week Targets Senator Smith Over Conservative Crumbs Thrown to Gun Owners. ...movement is again afoot to repeal a ban on firearms on all lands belonging to the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. " In liberal Portland and the Willamette Valley, Smith’s endorsement of the ban’s repeal is making him an easy target for most of his wanna-be challengers in the 2008 election, including Independent John Frohnmayer and two Democrats running in the May primary: activist Steve Novick and Eugene real-estate broker Candy Neville. “This isn’t the Wild West, this is the 21st century,” Neville says. “We need responsible gun control.” -- A third Democratic candidate, House Speaker Jeff Merkley, isn’t so ready to take aim at the letter. [Smith operatives know exactly what they are doing and they know this is a winner to be re-elected or else they wouldn't be doing it. Smith & Co., long ago, decided what crumbs to throw to each side in order to be re-elected. The formula is already written & remarks (in this article) insinuating Smith could lose any votes are little more than a nice try.]
- Tri-Met Cameras Capture Care In MAX Tunnel. (Oregonian)
- Lawmakers Talk Minimum Prison Time. (SJ)[It's a deliberate attempt to halt a better law being supported by a ballot initiative written by Kevin Mannix. Dems claim theirs is a cheaper alternative. Can you imagine the Dems REALLY wanting to do ANYTHING that costs taxpayers less $$. Don't believe it.]
- Mother Earth Wants Oregonians to Know... You can save big bucks doing the environmental-whacko thing.
- Legislature Poised for Coming Deadline. (SJ)
- PTA Members Fault Portland Public Schools On K-8 Conversion. (Oregonian)
- House Bill Gives Break On Estate Taxes. Questions raised about rules put in place last year. (SJ)
- House Republicans Call for a Crackdown On Abusive Teachers. (Oregonian)
- Democrat Herald Editor: Tighter Drivers' License Crackdown Simply "More Red Tape." [Bloggers respond to editorial: While the DMV clerk was telling me my mortgage paperwork wouldn't fly, an illegal was getting his license with a consular card. How do I know they were here illegally? Because if they weren't, they wouldn't need the cracker jack consular card as ID. "]
- Molalla: Sportsmanship Contract Doesn't Prevent Postgame Skirmish. Coach Jeffery Larsen ends up arrested with indefinite suspension from coaching. (Oregonian)
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- Editorial, The Daily Astorian: LNG Siting Process Isn't Market-Driven; It's About Rewarding Regulatory Lawyers. (Sides with Gov. K.)
- Environmentalists Praise Gov. K's Turn-a-round On LNG/Pipeline. (News Register)
- Citizen Panel Asks Portland Police Bureau to Review Use-of-force Complaint. (Oregonian)
- Clark County Voters Split On Four Money Measures. (Oregonian)
- After "F" Grade, OR Teacher Training Moves Up the Agenda. (Oregonian)
- Lane County: Dist. Attn'y Makes a Decision On Case of Alleged Misconduct. (KVAL)
- Marion County: White Workers Win Discrimination Lawsuit. (KVAL)
- OR Inmate Loses Same-Sex Lawsuit. Wanted sex-change operation and removal to a women's prison. (KVAL)
- Tax Break Expansion Called Win-win Gamble. (Oregonian)
- McMinnville: City Councilor, Rick Olson, Formally Announces Intent to Run for Mayor In Nov. (News Register)
- McMinnville: Former Police Chief, McFarlin Loses Lawsuit Against City, Mayor Ed Gormley. Alleged he was illegally tricked into resigning. (News Register)
- Lumber Mill Inaugurates Alternative Energy Plant. (Mail Tribune)
- Gov. K. Writes Federal Regulators Over Liquefied Natural Gas Terminals. Asks that they halt review of all such projects until they do a big-picture analysis of whether the region actually needs more natural gas... (Oregonian) [Despite all the excuses the Oregonian offers for Gov. K's doing this, the reason is really the same old thing; appeasing the socialist environmental-whacko agenda.]
- Schools Cut Secret Deals with Abusive Teachers. (Oregonian)
- Gov. K. Signs Law for Tougher Drivers' Licenses Law. (SJ)
- Land-use Claims Take the Fast Lane. (M-49 - So far, nearly all owners ask to build one to three homes under "express" rules. (Oregonian)
- Marion County: Jury Awards Former OR Corrections Workers $1-M. Alleged racial discrimination & retribution for whistleblowing. (Oregonian)
- Court Says 4019K) Participants Can Sue. (AP)
- McCain Hauls In Nearly $12-M In January. (AP)
- McCain Nets Comfortable Win In Wisconsin; Knocks Obama Under Presumption Obama To Be His Dem Opponent. (AP)
- McCain Pressuring Bush To Veto "Torture Bill." (AP) [Can't wait until he gets in office so that HE can take the blame when the horrible results of doing so would occur?]
- WA State: Repeat Primaries Still Result In Obama/McCain Win. (Seattle PI)
- 10 Days Later, WA Votes Again. (Oregonian)
- The Prius Has Nothing On This '59 Opel that Got 376 Miles to the Gallon. (Oregonian)
- Obama Scores 10th Straight Victory. (AP)
- Strategists Set Up Pro-Clinton Group. (AP)
- ASPEN TIMES: "ANGRY WHITE MAN" BRINGS READERS JOY. A Rush Limbaugh-read editorial stirs up nationwide conflict over original article "The Redneck Tree-hugger."
- Virginia: Editorial: Need Labor and Trade Reform. Immigration reform cannot be separated from labor and trade reform. (Daily News Record)
- LDS Members Weigh In On Romney. His Mormonism didn't necessarily guarantee votes from members of the same faith. (Tahlequah Daily Press)
- U Of C Study Claims Asian-Americans Emerge As Swing Voters In WH Race. (AP)
- McCain Presses Obama On Public Financing. (AP)
- U.S. Senators Say Pakistan Polls Credible. Among the observers; John Kerry. (AP) [Feel secure about his opinion?
- Townhall.com Writer Tells 5 Ways McCain Can Beat Obama. [EVERYBODY is assuming Obama will be the primary winner?
- Romney Explains It Away. [Advice] came by way of Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah, whom Romney befriended while running the 2002 Winter Olympics. "Never explain...When you explain, you're losing." (Cape Cod Today)
- Dropout Giuliani Still On Ballot -- But Spelled Wrong. (Columbus Dispatch)
- Push to Recruit McCain/Rice "Dream Team" Not Over. (The Star) [This is only one of a number of calls over this morning's Internet for a McCain/Rice ticket.]
- Midlife Suicide Rises, Puzzling Researchers. Experts say that the poignancy of a young death and higher suicide rates among the very old in the past have drawn the vast majority of news attention and prevention resources. For example, $82 million was devoted to youth suicide prevention programs in 2004, after the 21-year-old son of Senator Gordon H. Smith, Republican of Oregon, killed himself. Suicide in middle age, by comparison, is often seen as... (NY Times)
- Obama, McCain Roll to Wins In Wisconsin. (WA Post)
- Sen. Bayh Angry Over General's Comment Defending Drug-Addicted Troops. Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., told reporters during a conference call Friday that likening Ledger's death to the deaths by overdose of wounded soldiers was not appropriate because Ledger was not injured in combat.
- Supreme Court Will Hear Labor Union Fee Dispute. The nonmembers are required to pay a service fee for the union's collective bargaining efforts and contract administration. The Service Employees International Union relies on portions of the fees to subsidize lawsuits concerning SEIU units other than Local 1989 to which the 20 current and former state employees belong.
At issue is whether a state can condition public employment on the paying of fees for such purposes. (AP)
- NJ Gov. Corzine Concerned Civil Unions Don't Bring Equal Rights. (WNBC)
- New Jersey's Civil Unions Not Enough for Same-Sex Marriage Wannabees. MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. — A commission established to study same-sex civil unions in New Jersey has found in its first report that civil unions create a "second-class status" for gay couples, rather than giving them equality. The report stops short of recommending that the state allow gay marriage. But it does find that gay couples in Massachusetts, the only state that now allows same-sex marriage, do not experience some of the legal complications that those in New Jersey do. (Fox News) [Of course, mere civil unions will not be enough. It never was intended to be so. Thus when you hear your politicians claim that they are not for same-sex marriage, but are for civil unions, you know that they are in favor of same-sex marriage. They are lying if they claim otherwise. A la McCain, Gordon Smith, etc.]
- Federal Law Keeping NJ from Fulfilling Same-Sex Equal Rights? (The Jurist)
- McCain Good News to Log Cabin Republicans. [Gay & lesbian Republicans) (Daily Orange)
- Liberal Jersey Blogs Chime in Against "Second-Class Marriages" for Same-Sexers. (Jersey Blogs)
- A Shot Of Energy for a Cold War Relic. Christmas Valley area may get a solar & geothermal hub... Lake County commissioners, with support from U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Hood River, have envisioned converting the site ever since the Air Force announced in 2005 that it would dismantle the radar array. What makes the site a natural for energy development is the massive transmission lines already in place, with the capacity to transmit up to 200 megawatts of energy at a time, said Tom Rasmussen, field manager for the Bureau of Land Management Lakeview area. (Bend Bulletin)
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