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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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- Sierra Club Endorses Merkley for U.S. Senate. (Oregonian) [Gee. Doesn't the Sierra Club appreciate the anti-ANWR votes, and other environmental kissups, from Gordon Smith?]
- Newcomer Newcomer Will Run Against Conservative Republican Esquivel. Far-lefty Prep. Peter Buckley coaxed 63 year-year-old Lynn Howe to run. Buckley said he was unsuccessful finding challengers to Rep. Dennis Richardson of Central Point and Rep. George Gilman of Medford, who are both in strong Republican districts. Richardson has one Republican challenger in the primary, Robert Schutz of Grants Pass... (Mail Tribune)
- Sources: NOAA to Approve "Lethal Means" to Remove Some Sea Lions. (KATU) [It's about time. Something needed to be done years ago.]
- New Tent City: Portland's Day Labor Site On MLK Blvd. Defers Hirers of illegals to New Site. (Willamette Week)
- Portland Names New Fire Chief. (Oregonian)
- Unlikely Allies Look to Restore Riverfront Land [With Taxpayer funds]. "Creative plan to buy acreage for habitat wins nods from port, industry and activists, but needs city cash...Portland taxpayers also may benefit. If the program succeeds, the city soon will begin purchasing land that, if restored, could yield significant financial returns – in that taxpayers would have less future liability for pollution." (Portland Tribune) [What is "creative" here is the spin on how to, once again, get taxpayers to pay for another environmental-whacko scheme that (once again) give government an excuse to buy up private land. But, history shows that private land ownership results in better care of the environment.]
- Jeff Mapes -- Oregonian: Suzanne Bonamici Seeks Move Into Avakians' Senate Seat. ...now that Sen. Brad Avakian, D-Beaverton, is in line to become the next labor commissioner.
- Multnomah County: Jail Deaths Raise Care Worries. (Oregonian)
- Court Rules Against Drug Testing Woodburn Library Employee. The 9th Circuit's ruling only applied to Lanier. It left open the possibility that the city could require pre-employment drug testing for jobs with serious safety issues. (Oregonian)
- Endless Winter? Snow Alerts Throughout OR [Despite global warming]. (KATU)
- DHS Investigating Girl's Death. (Oregonian)
- Congressman DeFazio Happy No Opponents. Lane GOP Chairman disagrees with DeFazio Over Why No GOP Candidates. (RG)
- State Puts Web-Only Schools On Short Leash. Edu. board restricts size of charters; must get districts' permission. (Oregonian)
- Boquist Running for Senator George's Seat. (SJ)
- Setbacks Keep Portland Classic In State of Ruin. Lack of parking & Neighborhood involvement holding back planned development. (Oregonian)
- Despite Its Power, Metro Has Only Two Long-Shot Candidates Challenging Current Councilors. (Oregonian)
- Labor Commissioner Gardner Resigns Post for D.C. Union Job. (SJ)
- SJ -- Dick Hughes: How He Chooses Who to Endorse.
- Jackson County Commissioners Unanimously Adopted M-37 Emergency Ordinance Before Tight State Deadline. When Measure 49 became law in December, the rights of those who'd received Measure 37 waivers were sharply limited. (Ashland Tidings)
- TriMet Westside Officers Begin New Rail Beat.
- Casino Controversy Fills Portland Meeting Room. (KATU)
- Don't Mess with Damascus. A special election, Tuesday, left residents with extraordinary power over local taxes and property laws and has city officials feeling a bit smacked. (Oregonian)
- Coburg: RV Maker Country Coach Lays Off Workers. (KATU)
- "Big Look" at OR Land Use Resumes. Task force, idle & out of $$ for eight months will...(Oregonian)
- Era Of Public-Funded Elections May Be Short. Unintended [but predictable] hang-ups leave Portland leaders questioning the fate of the campaign system. (Oregonian)
- Sutherlin: RAT-INFESTED Home Declared Nuisance. (News Review)
- OR Environmental Regulators Chime In On New National Smog Standards. (Oregonian) [Of course we don't measure up. But, liberal OR regulators don't think even the national standards are tough enough.]
- Sutherlin: Petition Circulators Aim to Fight City Water Rate Increase. (News Review)
- Educators Emphasize Increased Number of Autistic Students. (Oregonian) [Prepare for bigger push for more tax $$.]
- Two Democrats File to Oppose House Republican Leader Bruce Hanna. (News Review)
- Fort Lewis Soldier Among the Latest Killed By Roadside Bomb In Iraq. (Oregonian)
- Weyerhaeuser Closing Hawaii Plant. (Portland Business Journal)
- Sutherlin: Police Officer Ruled Not Guilty In Harassment Case. (News Review)
- Congressman DeFazio Not Happy with Purchase to Bail Michael Jackson from Neverland Auction Block. Douglas Timber Operators not happy either. (News Review)
- Douglas County: Candidates for Local, State Office Brace for Primaries. (News Review)
- Roseburg: Attorney Tells City Council No Conflict Of Interest Regarding Airport Issues. Announcement followed some testy council meetings on the subject. (News Review)
- Roseburg HADCO Board Members Withhold Giving Reason Behind Expected Resignation. Carmany, formerly known as Tonji Elye, has been on administrative leave since Dec. 12. She has been executive director of the housing authority for about four years and an employee for about 10... (News Review)
- Douglas County Libraries May Do Away with Overdue Fines. (News Review)
- Recall of School Board Fails In Camas Valley. Voter turnout was 63%. (News Review)
- Roseburg Superintendent Candidates Answer Questions Online. There are three finalists for the position. (News Review)
- Douglas County Commissioners Facing Budgets Cuts In Light Expected Lack of Federal Timber Funds. (News Review)
- Sutherlin: Measure 11 Guidelines Result In Teen Sex Abuse Suspect Being Prosecuted As Adult. (News Review)
- Come April 25: Men In High Heels Will Parade Against Battering Women. (News Review) [More symbolism over substance.]
- Mukilteo, WA: Investigations Into Internet Porn, Hidden Camera On WA Ferries. ...surveillance camera was found hidden in an employee-only restroom on the ferry Cathlamet. (Oregonian)
- White House Played Role In Smog Rule. (AP)
- U.S. House Challenges Bush On Surveillance. (CNN)
- Hillary/Obama Agree to Disagree With Trash-Talking Supporters. (AP)
- McCain Just Another Amtrak Traveler? (AP) [If he really was just like any other Amtrak customer he'd suffer the late arrivals, middle of the night schedule and much of the other poor service others have had to accept between California and OR.]
- Pennsylvania: Clinton 51%, Obama 38%. (AP)
- NewsMax Campaign Poll On Obama vs. Clinton.
- McCain About to Make 7th Visit to Iraq. (AP)
- June 3 Is Target for Michigan Do-Over. (AP)
- Glenn Beck: Too Bad, Michigan, Florida. Florida and Michigan leaders have only themselves to blame if their delegates aren't seated. (CNN)
- Gingrich: "Ferraro's Remark Silly, Childish -- AND TRUE." (AJC)
- Newsweek: Why McCain Might Win.
- Obama Gets Backing Before Louisiana Convention. (AP)
- Prostitute In Spitzer Scandal Scores Million $$ Offer to Bare All. (Access Hollywood)
- TX Homeowner Shoots Man In Yard. (My Fox)
- Mississippi Becomes 20th State Showing Pro-Life Republican Majority On Abortion. (Life News)
- John Ashcroft At Congressional Hearing: "There is not a conflict, there is not an APPEARANCE of a conflict." (NY Times) [Never-ending witch-hunts in Congress.]
- Spitzer Replacement Strongly Supports Abortion, Embryonic Stem Cell Research. (Life News)
- AR: Diocese Of Little Rock Backtracks from Warning about Komen Foundation. Pro-life group takes issue with apology. (Catholic News Agency)
- U.S. Attn'y Gen'l Mukasey Plans Rare Appearance Before U.S. Supreme Court. Arguing terrorism case. (CNN)
- Homeschoolers Doing Just Fine. Redding, CA mother responds to latest court decision against homeschool family. (Redding Searchlight)
- Conjecture: Huckabee the New Face of the Religious Right. Is Huckabee the replacement for the dying-off old religious leaders? (Salt Lake City Tribune) [Heaven forbid.]
- Why Would Liberal Media Want Huckabee to Be New Face Of Religious Right? (Statesman)
- [So-called] Experts Say Air Too Dirty to Breathe. Electric utilities, oil companies and other businesses had lobbied hard for leaving the smog rule alone, saying the high cost of lower limits could hurt the economy. (Record Searchlight) [The anti-capitalist agenda of the environmental whackos IS to ruin the economy.]
- Utah Supreme Court Halts Forced Meds for Psychotic Prison Inmate. (Salt Lake Tribune)
- Wisconsin Liberals Hope Huckabee Exit Kills Off Religious Influence In Politics. (Daily Cardinal, Univ. of Wisc.)
- Thomas Sowell: Forget Prisons; What's the Cost of Crime?
- Michigan: Parts Of Aborted Fetuses Found In Trash. Official at woman's clinic blames it on an employee error, but critics say it has happened at other facilities. (Detroit News)
- CA Among the Highest Foreclosure Rates Nationwide. (Record Searchlight)
- Redding, CA: "Flirtatious" Messages Lead to Charges for Aide. (Record Searchlight)
- DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS Passes Plan to End Bush Tax Cuts. John McCain, the GOP nominee-to-be, couldn't attract even a majority of Senate Republicans to vote with him Thursday night behind the earmark moratorium touted by party conservatives as a way to restore the GOP's credibility with voters. (Fox)
- CA: Field & Stream Puts Redding Among Nation's Top 20 Spots. (Record Searchlight)
- Canada: Suppression Of Pro-Lifers' Free Speech In Canadian College Campuses. (Nat'l Post)
- Canada: Anti-Abortion Billboard Angers Pro-Abortion Advocates. Increased rancor triggered by proposed legislation, introduced by Conservative MP Ken Epp of Edmonton, would allow separate homicide charges to be laid in the death of a fetus when a pregnant woman is attacked. (London Free Press)
- Economic Darwinism Working Against Small Retail Stores. (Record Searchlight)
- Redding, CA: 27th Sick & Drooling Skunk Found In Past Month. (Record Searchlight)
- MinuteMan Group Endorses Son Of Duncan Hunter for Congress. (Conservative Voice)
- Santa Rosa School Teacher Makes Deal With DA Over Child Porn Charges. (Record Searchlight)
- MA College Students Thoroughly Indoctrinated Into One-World Blob Mentality. This group of students decided to bring it closer to home as they presented the current immigration issues between the U.S and Mexico. The presenters said that after 9/11, Mexicans became more dangerous than Canadians, due to the rise in "The Minutemen," an extreme activist group that positioned itself along the border and tried to secure the border from Mexican immigrants. (The Daily Collegian)
- Exit Polls Show TX & OH Republicans Strongly Pro-Life On Abortion. (Life News)
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National/International News
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- Police Find No Suspected Shooter of Airport Security Guard. Search of Terminal 4 ended. (Oregonian -- 9 a.m.)
- FBI Arrests PORTLAND DOC. On Overseas Manslaughter Charges. Patel, 57, was born in India but is a U.S. citizen who had worked for years in Oregon before losing his license after a series of botched surgeries. -- The Australian government has been seeking his extradition to stand trial for the deaths of the three patients at Bundaberg Base Hospital in the Australian state of Queensland. (Oregonian)
- Filing Deadline Looms Today for Candidates. (Oregonian)
- Salem: Graffiti Incidents Soar. (SJ)
- Inmates Reduce Cost of Graffiti Cleanup. (SJ)
- Tension Between Cyclists & Motorists On the Rise In Central OR. (Oregonian) [That's what happens when the law says bikes are the same as motor vehicles. It's also what happens when the law insists that instead of bikes facing the traffic, where everyone can see each other, that bike-riders drive in the same direction as traffic. We've created a very bad visibility problem.]
- Stayton Councilor Frank Seeks Democratic Nomination. One of two Dem candidates for Dist. 9. (SJ)
- Prostitution Charges Dropped for Former OR State Linebacker. Intends to get back into football. (Oregonian)
- Fill-In Legislator Seeks To Keep State House Seat. (SJ)
- Immigrants Find Ways to Detour License Law. Some relocate to WA or rely on public transit. (SJ)
- Salem Council Road-Tests Road Bond Proposal. (SJ)
- Abstract Genitalia Get Room of Their Own. Ashland High Sch. student artist says taboo subjects can be presented in beautiful ways. (Mail Tribune)
- Woman Who Strangled Hit Man Awarded $1-M. (KATU)
- Marbled Murrelet Wins Out Over Logging Again. (Oregonian)
- DeFazio, OR Dems Continue Campaign Against Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal. (Oregonian) [More pseudo-environmental bunk.]
- Controversial Play [Supposedly] about Bullying Brings Out Indoctrinated Parents & Students vs. School Administrators. (Oregonian)
- Wyden's/Smith's Mt. Hood Program Runs Into Conservative Congressman Tom Coburn. held hundreds of meetings with competing voices, including mountain bikers, watershed councils and property owners. They massaged concerns, altered boundaries and split differences into small, acceptable slices. (Oregonian) [In other words, they were CAMPAIGNING & kissing up to the environmental whackos for future votes. -- Go Coburn!]
- SOME DETOUR AROUND LICENSE LAW. People here illegally see WA as one way to avoid Oregon's new proof-of-residency rules. (Oregonian)
- Union: Historic Or Just Unwanted? Town Debates Building's Fate. (Oregonian)
- Australian Scientist Says Portland Must Move Toward Better Green Resilience. Use alternative transportation, not cars. (Oregonian)
- McCain Lashes Democrats for Slamming NAFTA. (AP-Google) [Well, that's just fine. So we have another middle digit extended to conservatives who have been against NAFTA/GATT from the very beginning. The influence of McCain's attitude on them? They will either not participate in the presidential elections or they will flat out vote for the Democrat. Oregon's Peter DeFazio has been getting conservative votes for years because of his opposition to NAFTA. McCain is handing votes to the Democrats.]
- One In Four Teen Girls Has Sexual Disease. (AP)
- Official: Cash Triggered Spitzer Probe. (Breitbart)
- At the Mayflower, Client 9's Sinking Ship. (WA Post)
- Obama, Clinton Join McCain Against Congressional Pet Project List. (Fox News)
- Mormon Missionaries Under Fire for Mocking Colorado Catholic Shrine. (Breitbart -- video)
- Sen. Dorgan Battles MX Truck Program. (SJ)
- Loud-mouth Jim Cramer Rocked By Allegations Against Spitzer. (Brietbart -- video)
- Impeachment Proceeding? Republicans set deadline for Gov's Resignation. {But, it is the Dems who have control of any potential deadline and the OR Conservative is betting they won't kick him out and that he won't resign. His press conference was arrogant. It amounted to telling everyone that if they dared make anything other than something personal and private out of the incident that they could drop dead.
Far-left power wonks like Carville and Alan Derkowitz are decrying the fact that it even matters to some people what immoral behavior an elected official engages in. It will be the Clinton routine all over again. Derkowitz called public reaction "political hatred" on CNN.]
- Mrs. McGreevey Calls for Spitzer to Resign. (WCBS TV)
- Video: Hillary Responds to Spitzer News. Spitzer was one of her special delegates. (WCBS TV)
- More Openly Homosexual Celebrities. (WCBS TV)
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- Obama: With All Due Respect... (Politico) [Uh, oh. We all know what THAT segway always leads to. This time it was a big (& arrogant) insult zinged at Hillary.]
- Billings, MT: Biologist Withdraws Claim of Rabbit's Disappearance. (Oregonian)
- Philadelphia Mayor Sticks with Clinton. (Fox News)
- Fort Worth, TX: Judge Backs Town's Animal Sacrifice Ban. Jose Merced sued the city of Euless in late 2006 after city officials denied his request to sacrifice a goat as part of a religious ceremony. (Oregonian)
- Preaching Now "Disorderly Conduct?" (WND)
- Rep. King Stands By Prediction that Obama Presidency Would Be Welcomed By Terrorists. (Fox News)
- CA Lawmaker: Reject Homeschooling Opinion. Proposes legislative resolution recommending decision be overturned. (WND)
- Pat Buchanan: To Die for NAFTA. (Human Events)
- Ford Finally Yields, Homosexual Boycott Over. Activists say carmaker meets conditions as sales plunged 8% per month since '05. (WND)
- Transportation Dept. to WND: No Admittance. Reporter denied permission to hear defense of MX truck program. (WND)
- Microsoft's Upcoming News Site Will Rate Media Bias. (Newsbusters)
- CNN's Miles O'Brien Cherrypicks Global Warming Polls; Smears Conservative Group. (Newsbusters)
- Hillary: I've Felt "Presence" of Holy Spirit. Senator believes in resurrection, not sure Jesus only way. (WND)
- McCainocrats Prevail In Switch-Voter War. McCainocrats vs. Obamacans? (WA Times)
- The Terror Nobody Knows: Thwarted Attacks On the U.S. (Joseph Abrams, Fox News)
- Alaska Gov. Expecting Fifth Child In May. (Seattle PI)
- ID: Gov. Otter Withdraws Roads Bills, Chastises Legislators. (Idaho Statesman)
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