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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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Lincoln County Grants Six More Measure 37 Waivers.
- Petition Bid to Kill Campaign Financing Finds Pulse.
- Cut Costs with PERS Fixes, Charter School. (Portland Tribune)
- Field of Schemes. "On the subject of handing over public money to the world's 7th richest man so he can make more profits, Gov. Ted Kulongoski's chief of staff Pat Egan replied: "I don't know what would leave [Allen with] the impression there is an opportunity for broad-scale public financing." Let's see, could it be ... the fact that he just got $300 million worth of it from the state next door?"
- Three Democrats Compete to Face Walden.
- Study Says Many Perceive Profiling as Occurring.
- Beaverton: 7 Candidates Vie for Council Seat.
- NW Leads In Energy Savings.
- Hillsboro Looking at Parolee Housing.
- No GOP Leadership On Migrant Policy. Guest writer, NW Meridian. "...it’s very clear that there is an ugly undercurrent of racism involved. Derogatory references to immigrants and their original countries are common, as are other expressions of xenophobia unworthy of this nation’s proud history of immigration.
- Pro-Global Warming Group Lobbies DEQ for Tougher Vehicle Standards.
- Medford: Faithful Find More Places to Worship. Large churches pop up in Medford & Grants Pass.
- Salmon Season On the Brink of Lockout.
- Editorial: Send Guzek Case Back to Trial Court, and Promptly.
- Portland: Commissioner Saltzman Want to Rename Portland Blvd to "Rosa Parks."
- Medford: Congressional Hearing, Today, To Review Forest Research.
- Rep. Peter DeFazio to Deliver Spring Commencement Speech.
- OR Soldiers May Return Sunday.
- Oregonian Editor Slams Wiretapping.
- Salem Keizer School Panel Want to Remove Soda, Candy from Schools.
- Pacific Power Seeks Rate Boost of 13.2%.
- Ode to Khrushchev compliments of the Statesman J.
- Statesman J. Guest Columnist Is Granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev. Communist granddaughter teaches on U.S. University. Admires grandfather, excuses his evils.
- Police Raid Uncovers Guns, 139 Pot Plants.
- U of O Commentary Insists Pres. Wrong to Think War Will Ever Defeat Terrorism.
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U.S. CANCELS ABSTINENCE PROGRAM, TOO CLOSE TO 'CHRISTIAN PROSELYTIZING.'
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Indiana: Rep. Sodrel Introduces Legislation Allowing Reference to Jesus or Christianity In State House Prayers. To counteract a recent federal court ruling that prohibited individual legsiators and religious ministers invited to lead prayer in the Indiana House of Representatives from making any reference to Jesus or Christianity. The decision in Hinrichs v. Bosma, said Sodrel "imperils the foundation principles of our representative republic.”
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VOTE: Do You Support Bush On UAE Port Deal?
- Judge Ends BlackBerry Hearing; No Decision.
- Radical Environmental Activist Indicted for Showing How to Make Firebomb.
- Poll Indicates Americans, for the First Time, Looks More to Dems for Nat'l Security.
- Right-Win Radio Split On Control of Ports.
- Rallies Planned to Protest Ports Deal.
- Chertoff Also Unaware of Port Deal Until After OK.
- Treasury Dept.: Snow Had No Role Or Conflict In Ports Review.
- UAE GAVE $100-M FOR KATRINA RELIEF.
- CNN Legal Analyst: Pro-Life Forces "Chip Away" at "That Medical Procedure."
- Justice Scalia Delivers Keynote Speech, "Outsourcing American Law. Video can be watched on C-Span web site.
- Chicago, IL: Openly Homosexual Priest Could Be California Bishop.
- IL Gov. Confused By 'Daily Show' Comedy Bit.
- 'Chappaquiddick Kid' Off Hook with College. Officials won't discipline self-described liberal who heckled Kennedy at beginning of speech.
- Current TV Facing Two Lawsuits Over Name.
- SF, CA: NRA Fights Prop H Gun Ban Before Judge. 58% of voters in city backed prohibition.
- RBC Chief Hails Progress In 'Luring' Blacks. [Not OR Conservative's choice of words. The WA Times couldn't have said 'attracting?']
- Rob Reiner Denies Misuse of Taxpayer Funds for June Ballot Initiative.
- PEW SURVEY: Republicans Are Happier.
- Olympia, WA: Two Eco-Terrorists Arrested. Tied to ring of arsons. To their landlord, Nathan Block and Joyanna Zacher appeared to be the typical twenty-something couple.
- Seattle Activists Being Watched. The information comes from recently disclosed FBI files, which revealed that local activists were suspected of plans to disrupt Navy ships during Seafair, by chaining themselves to the ships .
- CA: Rep. Doolittle Announces Re-Election Bid. Conservative Republican, under attack for being close to lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
- Richmond, VA: Doctors Can Routinely Ask Patients If they Own Guns. Senate Education and Health committee, known for defeating controversial bills, voted down legislation that would have made it unlawful to routinely ask patients about firearms.
- OK: Bill Advances Allowed Judges to Carry Weapons.
- Schwarzenegger's New Lesbian Chief of Staff Draws Ire from Both Right & Left. By any name, Susan Kennedy, assailed as a traitor by some Democrats and savaged by Republican conservatives as a liberal intruder _ or worse, an enemy spy _ is the talk of the Capitol.
- OK Citizens React to Defeat of Cody's Law. 4-year-old Cody was killed by a pit bull.
- Kentucky: Guns Laws Under Review. Considering a change in 'duty to retreat first' requirement.
- IL: Lawmakers Send Message to State Police Over Renewing Firearm Owner ID Cards. Rep. Bradley said his bill not only creates an incentive for the Illinois State Police to improve its review process, but it also offers a remedy for mistreated gun owners.
- 'Stand Your Ground' Gun Laws Being Considered In 21 States.
- Pentecostal Drive for Same-Sex Marriage. Joseph Tolton looks to engage African-Americans on "last struggle." Was speaker at Coretta Scott King's funeral saying so. (This is a homosexual website reporting).
- Schwarzenegger Keeps Observers Guessing. Who is he really?
- FL: Have a Gun Room at Work? Backers of a controversial bill to let employees bring guns to the job site postponed a vote as opposition grew in the GOP-controlled FL House.
- NJ: Same-Sex Advocates Pin Hopes for Marriage Rights on NJ Court. New Jersey may become the second U.S. state to allow gay marriage, and the first to allow homosexuals living outside the state to wed, because of a case heard this month by the state's highest court.
- Detroit: 'Deadly Force' Legislation Under Heavy Fire from Gun Control Groups.
- TN: Judge OKs Vote On Same-Sex-Marriage Ban. ACLU to appeal.
- Targeting Biased Doctors: Giving Better Care to One Race Over Another? Former-Senator Tom Daschle cited the need to correct doctors’ “bias,” “stereotyping,” and “discrimination.” Last year the American Public Health Association issued a call for “Research and Intervention on Racism as a Fundamental Cause of Ethnic Disparities in Health.” (Nat'l Review)
- Kansas Lawmaker Admits to Having an Abortion. Known for being against abortion, but supports bill that treats abortion as legal. The bill would create special regulations for clinics where abortions are performed. The House rewrote it to include clinics of all kinds that do surgery requiring sedation. The clinic bill passed the House by one vote. It will now go to the Senate.
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Jason Williams: "Be careful when politicians have summits," | 'Reasonable Taxes' Group's Rallying Cry.
"The 36-year-old director of the Taxpayers Association of Oregon, started his with the Pledge of Allegiance. Then he waved a copy of a freshly minted bumper sticker: "I'd Rather Hunt with Dick Cheney than Ride with Ted Kennedy." |
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POLL on Cell Phone Tax.
- OR Supreme Court Upholds Measure 37.
- Mixed Opinions Greet Court's Land Use Ruling.
- Measure 37 Legal Interpretations Still an Issue in Lower Courts.
- Taypayer Bill of Rights Petition Signatures Validated.
- Friday in Medford: Congressional Hearings Into OSU Forest Report. Report attempts to refute Bush claims on forest cutting.
- Cell-phone Tax Gaining In Hunt for School Cash.
- CQ Predicts Westland Could Upset Gov's Race.
- Call for Oregon (so-called) 'Moderates' to Speak Up. [Christianity out, passion to save salmon in.]
- Gov' Race: Challengers Fault Kulongoski, on Measure 37. But he defends his role.
- It's Settled: Measure 37 Lives.
- Queen Noor to Speak at PSU's Simon Benson Awards Dinner, March 1.
- Salmon-Case Judge Doesn't Dine On the Fish. Jeff Barnard, ESPN.
- Corvallis City Council Resolution: Bring the troops home from Iraq.
- Some Farmers See Eased Restrictions As Way to Sell a Few Acres, Stay In Business.
- Rep. Ginny Burdick Will Repay Campaign Billings. She simply misinterpreted advice on auto-related costs.
- Murder Suspects' Death 'Suspicious.'
- Double-Dippers & Dangerous Kissers. Willamette Week editorial.
- Ben Westland Is Only a Moderate? So says this Portland Mercury reporter.
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Elections Move Beyond 2-Party System. Oregonian praises Ben Westland. "Hats off to Sen. Ben Westlund of Bend for his brave stand against our two-party system..."
- The True Legacy of Lincoln Is Our Tradition As a Nation of Faith. By Lane County's own Norm Fox. (Springfield News)
- Sen. Gordon Smith's Remarks, On Senate Floor, Regarding Hate Crimes Legislation Within the Local Law Enforcement Enhancement Act of 2005.
- List of 2005/2006 Senate Floor Remarks Made By Senator Smith.
- List of 2005/2006 Senate Floor Remarks Made by Senator Wyden.
- Rep. DeFazio's House Floor Speech Against Building Walls on U.S. Borders. ...it will make someone rich like Bechtel or Halliburton or whoever is going to build the fence, they will get a pile of money out of it...
- Are Christians Getting Unfair Preference in the Springfield News? This self-described infidel says it is. How awful that they should choose to print our own Norm Fox's column instead. Tsk tsk. (Scroll down to "Why Play Along).
- 18 Candidates File for Five Spots at WESD.
- Daniel Webster Would Be Proud of Scalia. Oregon's Faith & Freedom Network.
- U.S. Supreme Court Says Oregon's Top Court Erred In Guzek Case. The unanimous ruling sends the case back to the Oregon Supreme Court, which two years ago overturned Guzek's death sentence for the third time.
- Multnomah: Anti-Homosexual Rhetoric Spray Painted On Homosexuals' Home.
- Assisted Suicide. By Oregonian columnist David Reinhard.
- Voters Stand to Lose Voice On Annexations.
- WA County: Corrections Workers Warn Of Strike.
- WA County, Cornelius: Wal-Mart Wins City's Approval to Rezone Acreage.
- PacifiCorps Sale Worries Some Retirees. New company will take over pensions.
- 'Progressive' Insists No Oregonians Supporting State Initiatives. Says all outside interests funding.
- RUSH LIMBAUGH: Port Story Swerves, Turns Into Tsunami.
- Bill O'Reilly Comments on Arab/U.S. Ports.
- McCain Supports Arab Emirates In U.S. Ports.
- PA: Santorum Swings Against Bush On Ports.
- Lawmakers Claim Numbers to Override Bush Veto on Port Deal.
- Hispanics Rush In to Rebuild New Orleans. He said people such as nursing home residents and poorer voters might not be able to meet the ID requirements.
- Tancredo: Churches Out of Step On Immigration.
- CO: GOP Gets New Life In Redistricting Suit. U.S. Supreme Court overrules decision to dismiss challenge.
- Scotter Libby: What You Aren't Hearing.
- PA Gov, Rendell, to Veto Voter ID Bill.
- Hollywood Celebrities Pitch In to Defeat Rep. DeLay.
- Moms' Genetics Might Help Produce Homosexual Sons?
- Calculating Poverty In U.S. Fuels Debate.
- AZ Candidate Lambasted for Son's Arrest. Arizona senators exchanged harsh words during a floor session Monday as Republican Sen. Jack Harper criticized the arrest of a Democratic candidate's son and was in return denounced by another GOP lawmaker. Harper began his initial remarks by saying the state's largest newspaper, The Arizona Republic, had demonstrated bias by publishing only a short story on Pederson son's arrest but had given prominent coverage to incidents involving Republicans. Christina Leonard, Republic night city editor, said the newspaper had no comment.
- Maine Senator, Snowe, Holds Up Katrina Bill in Bid for Home Heating Aid. A spokesman for Snowe said the senator is seeking to add another $1 billion to the energy program this year by taking it out of next year's budget.
- Liberal Environmental Group Issues Environmental Scorecard for Lawmakers. Gave all Republicans a zero.
- Dems Claim Momentum In Close Senate Races. Say Santorum, of PA, will lose.
- Judge Rules Google Infringes On 'Adult' Company with Image Search.
- Seems Insane, Yes?
- Doctors Pull Out of CA Execution. Execution postponed indefinitely.
- Sen. Feinstein Proposing Bill Making Tunneling Under the U.S. Border a Federal Crime.
- Hecklers Disrupt Scalia at D.C. Appearance.
- Court Allows Church's Hallucinogenic Tea.
- Carter Support Bush On Arab Seaport-Operations Deal.
- Drives to Ban Same-Sex Adoption Heat Up In 16 States. Patrick Guerriero of Log Cabin Republicans, a gay political group opposed to marriage and adoption limits, calls the strategy the next step by conservatives. Republican pollster Whit Ayres is skeptical. Adoption, he says, "doesn't have the emotional power of the gay marriage issue because there is no such thing as the phrase 'the sanctity of adoption.'"
- Harvard Pres. to Step Down. Remarks that there are innate differences between men and women resulted in no-confidence vote from Harvard's Faculty of Arts & Sciences in March 2005.
- Congressman Smith Applauds Supreme Court Decision to Hear Partial-Birth-Abortion Ban Case.
- Louisiana Gov. Unveils Reconstruction Plan.
- McCain Launching National Campaign to Push Immigration Reform Bill.
- Taxpayers Will Pay for Obesity Surgery.
- ACLU Wants Bush Impeached Over NSA Spying.
- Liberals Demand Congressional Probe of NSA Wiretap. "We believe that public pressure will force Congress to take this seriously," MoveOn.org said in an email message to supporters.
- Latest U.S. House Roll Call Votes.
- Latest U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes.
- 'Hate crime' Victims: Young, Poor, White 210,000 targeted annually
due to bias, statistics show
- FL Poll: Pres. Bush No Reagan. Brother/Gov Jeb gets higher ratings.
- Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Anti-Smoking Ads.
- Patriotic Bikers Battle Anti-Gay Protesters.
- By 2015, 1 of Every $5 Will Go To Health Care.
- IL: Pseudo-Liberal Freshman Obama Rakes It In for Colleagues.
- OHIO: Democrats Shying Away from Running Against GOP Incumbent. Ney considered a primary target in ousting Republicans.
- LA: Lt. Gov Wants to Be New Orleans Mayor.
- Kid Rock Sues to Stop Sale of Sex Video.
- Language Lunacies ~ Gov't 'Aids & Abets' Illegal Aliens (part 3).
- CO: Teacher, Who Showed Faust Video, Awaits Fate. Superintendent said Waggoner's leave had "nothing to do with parents' complaints" but declined to elaborate.
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Oregonian Campaigning for Legislature to Vote In Same-Sex Rights In Next Session. [Feel guilty, feel very very guilty if you aren't in favor of these special rights.]
- DMV Forgery Acquittals Follow String of Guilty Pleas.
- Sen. Smith To Present County with Grant to Fight Meth.
- Independents Demand to Be Heard at Polls. Oregonian's reporter, Esteve, claims 'independent' clout is why Westland running as an independent.
- Attn'y Tell Castillo To Refrain from Reading Parents' Letter of Protests Parents say "Our children will not get on the bus." The Letter.
- Statesman J.: Majority of Online Readers Agree with OSAA Protesters.
- Parents Keep Fighting Prep Reclassification.
- OR Grads Struggle In College.
- [Useless, Politically Correct] Committee Examines Awareness, Training to Help State's Police Avoid Racial Profiling. Among the Gov's appointed committee members: DAVE FIDANQUE, Eugene, executive director, American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon (ACLU). [Oh, joy]
- Multnomah: Democratic Group Won't Back Kulongoski.
- Supreme Court Expected To Rule Tuesday On Measure 37.
- 2 Ship-Breaking Companies Test Waters In Coos Bay. [Despite Kulongoski's blah blah against them a few days ago. (See news archives)]
- Portland: OR Suing B&P Campaign Mgt. Claim failed to pay wages to 3 petitioners. Business owner says won't need lawyer to defend himself.
- Dept. of Forestry Encouraging Forestland Owners to Apply for Financial Assistance. Dead line for suckling the gov't pig: March 20.
- Talk Will Focus On Sustainable Building. Kitzhaber a board member.
- Cats Could Have Solved Farmers' Rodent Problem. Letter to editor: Statesman J.
- Thousands of Acres for Sale. $$ will go to 38 counties.
- Hey! You Selfish People Who Don't Want to Support Salem Transit.
- TriMet Complaints Are Plentiful...39,160 Complaints in last 5 years.
- What Happens When You File a Complaint Against TriMet? Promises, promises.
- Bush Needs to Decide; Either Yield to Foreign Oil Addiction or Yield to Immigration Reform. Guest commentary, Statesman J.
- Boom In Bend Leads State Growth.
- Changes for OR Taxpayers...
- Salem: About 75 Syringes Found In 6-Block Area.
- Public Is Invited to Africa Day.
- A Cousin's Military Death, a Cousin Not Making Sense of It. [He doesn't address why other grieving families have responded differently.]
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