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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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- Statesman Journal Leads With Deceitful Headline On Immigration. Article goes back and forth between "Mexican illegals" and "immigrants" as though they are the same subject and that general statistics apply to both. This is a completely misleading article. Very sloppy reporting by Thelma Guerrero. The editor never should have let this pass.
- Universal Health Care Builds Steam At Capitol. (Oregonian)
- Counties' Prospects Assessed In Study. (SJ)
- Radical Left College Group Is Back. Communist-based SDS founded by Jane Fonda's former husband Tom Hayden.
- Environmentalists Plan Lawsuit About Fish. (SJ)
- Eugene: Memo Alleges Racism At State Basketball Tournament. (Oregonian)
- Salem: School Leader Unveils Some Budget Plans Early. (SJ)
- Romney Campaign Picks Saxton, Mannix, Among Others. (Oregonian)
- OR Soldier Killed In Iraq: Even As a Child Love Of Country Showed Through. "He was patriotic, even as a little kid," said his father, Robert Windsor of Gladstone. "As we have looked back through his photographs and some of his early drawings, it was amazing to see that he put an American flag in his pictures. (Oregonian)
- OR Bill Would Give Pigs More Stall Room. (Oregonian)
- Bill Would Allow Users To Be Fired. ACLU, arch liberal legislators freaked. (SJ)
- Liberals Honor Liberals for Advancing Liberalism, or... as the SJ puts it, Senate president, principals honored. Courtney awarded for efforts to pass health legislation.
- [Liberal] Sen. Vicki Berger (R) Sets Town Hall Meeting. The meeting is from 7 to 8 p.m. next Tuesday in the media center at West Salem High School, 2650 Orchard Heights Road NW. Only Republican to vote against a "Ronald Reagan Day" in Oregon.] (SJ)
- Riley Research Poll: Oregonians Like Cigarette Tax Hike & Sen. Smith. (Oregonian)
- House Democrats Move On Illegal Immigration. (Oregonian)
- Hooley Will Not Run for Senate. (Oregonian)
- School Administrators May Loose "Golden Parachutes." (Oregonian)
- Oregon Economics: The more fish we eat, the more it might cost to manufacture paper; the higher your sewer bill might be. Georgia-Pacific, which operates three paper mills in Oregon, is watching the proceedings with interest. Carol A. Whitaker, a G-P senior environmental compliance manager, said her company competes globally and is particularly concerned that higher figures for fish consumption might translate into tightened regulations that could mean a competitive disadvantage with China, where environmental standards are lax. [Lax? Or just not as used to intentionally kill capitalism?] (Oregonian)
- Medical Groups Reiterate Support For Field Burning Ban. (KATU-TV)
- Governments Rarely Keep Sunshine or Brown Laws. Info open to the public remains private without punishment. (SJ)
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National/International News
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- Bill to State Gov't: Can You Write That Again? IN ENGLISH THIS TIME? (Oregonian)
- Kitzhaber Testifies To Overhaul Health-Care System to Universal Health Care. (SJ)
- Some Evangelicals Against War As Well As Abortion. Suzanne Brownlow shivers on the Interstate 205 overpass as a cutting wind whips her sign: "Honk to End the War." Her weekly demonstration is the latest turn in a fractious journey that has taken the evangelical Christian mother from protesting abortion clinics to protesting the war in Iraq..."This war has challenged their confidence in the party," says Tony Campolo, an evangelical Baptist minister who lectures across the country on social issues... [Tony Campolo: that's Pres. Bill Clinton's confident and liberal (anything goes) WH pastor. Not exactly the usual "evangelical" type of pastor one thinks of when such terminology has historically been used.] (Oregonian)
- Pro-Homosexual, Transgender Bill Moves To Full Senate. (SJ)
- Animal Liberation Front Escalates Threats To Brokerage's Executives. claims it vandalized a Portland Wachovia adviser's home.
- For OR Students, No More Computers for Tests, Back to Pencils. (Oregonian)
- Michael Smith, Of Corvallis, Running for U.S. President. Why the heck not. Has been quietly campaigning for a year. Appeared at the Dorchester Conference. (SJ)
- Senate Pres. Courtney Apologizes for Sending Troopers After Lawmakers. Sen. Peter Courtney exercised rarely used rule to fetch two Republicans from a baseball game. Although Beyer and Morse were contacted by the state police at the game, neither was required to leave because, at the last minute, Senate Minority Leader Ted Ferrioli, R-John Day, agreed to attend the floor session and provide the one Republican needed for a quorum.
- UO President, Frohnmayer, Say $$ To Schools More Important Than To Jails/Public Safety. [He's a liberal. He's mentally ill.]
- Tribes' Sacred Land Could Be New Park. (Oregonian)
- Two OR Democrats Aim To Stop Recorded Political Phone Calls. (Oregonian)
- Sides Argue Merits of Cigarette Tax. (SJ)
- Senate Politics Mix Police, Baseball, Hot Dogs. (Oregonian)
- Lawmakers Say Aim Of Senate Bills Is To Boost Public Disclosure. (SJ)
- Sizemore Speaks Against Tax Proposals. (Daily Emerald)
- OR Compiles Election Spending Online. (SJ)
- UO: Each "Unit" Of Univ. Must Submit Design for Increasing Diversity Awareness. (Daily Emerald)
- Lawyer Confidentiality Extends Its Boundaries? (SJ)
- UO: If You Don't Like It, You're Homophobic. [Thou shalt not be repulsed by evil. It isn't cool. Got that?] (Daily Emerald)
- Criminally Insane Patients Could Spill To Junction City Hospital. (Oregonian)
- Wyden, John Edwards, Aligned With Hospital Coalition To Push for Universal Insurance Coverage. (Orlando Sentinel)
- Today's Daniel's Blogspot.
- Notebook Upriver Salmon Tangle Hopes for Gill-Netters. Used nearly half of their allowed impacts on upriver spring chinook salmon in one 12-hour netting period last week. (Oregonian)
- Democrats About to Raise Limit On Nat'l Debt. [After all the yackity yack about how terrible the Republicans are for not lowering the nat'l debt?] (The Hill)
- MA: Congressman Meehan Resigning To Become Chancellor At University Of MA. Special election to be called. (The Hill)
- Congressional Hispanic Caucus In Dispute. Loretta Sanchez still huffy or being called a whore. [And aw gee, can't we all be socialists? Apparently not enough to suit the Sanchez sisters.](CBS)
- Idaho: Bill Denies Aid To Illegal Immigrants. (Oregonian)
- Bill Frist Backs Fred Thompson for Pres. (News Max)
- Pennsylvania: Anti-Illegal Immigrant Rules Go to Court. Courtesy the ACLU. (ABC news)
- WH Considered Firing All 93 Federal Prosecutors at Start of '02 Term. [Too bad he didn't do it.](Fox)
- CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF CALLS HOMOSEXUALITY "IMMORAL" Says the military should not condone it by allowing gay personnel to serve openly. [It's about time SOMEONE was brave enough to say it. Now for the persecution that is surely to being on this man.] (Fox)
- Same-Sex Advocates Demand Apology from Gen'l Pace for Opinions On Homosexuality In the Military. (AP)
- Mitch McConnell: GOP May Regain Senate Majority. (News Max)
- House Republicans Don't Want Muslim Group Using Capitol Conference Room. The House Republican Conference referred to the Council on American-Islamic Relations as "terrorist apologists" and called on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to cancel the forum scheduled for Tuesday. (Fox)
- CAIR [Terrorist linked] OK'd To Meet In Capitol. (Washington Times)
- DEMOCRATS STRIPPING MILITARY SPENDING BILL OF WAR AUTHORITY PROVISION. (AP)
- New MX Prepares To Pass Compulsory HPV Vaccine for Girls. Gov. Richardson says he will sign bill. Becomes law 90 days after. (Medical News Today)
- Austin, TX: 300 New Cases Of Alleged Abuse Investigate At Juvenile Prisons. 70 cases involving some sort of sexual abuse. (Click 2, Houston)
- Falwell Praises Gingrich Affair Admission. (News Max)
- Libby Is Not Protecting Cheney. (David Limbaugh)
- Dems Cancel Fox News Debate. (News Max)
- NY Town Defies U.S. On Hispanic Voting Rights. The U.S. Justice Department told the village of Port Chester to rewrite its election laws because they have denied Hispanics a seat in the local government, and the all-white board is fighting back. (News Max)
- New MA Gov. Reels After Blunders. Deval Patrick rode a populist wave to become Massachusetts' first Democratic governor in 16 years and the second African American elected governor in U.S. history. -- But nine weeks into the job, he faces a possible ethics investigation after missteps that threaten his reforms and have added a whiff of scandal to his brief tenure.(News Max)
- Gen'l Tommy Franks Squarely Behind Iraq Troop Surge. Exclusive News Max Interview.
- Election Monitors for Colorado Counties. (AP)
- Angus-Reig Poll Shows Brownback Behind Both H. Clinton & Obama.
- Two Dozen Arrested Protesting Iraq War Shipments In Tacoma. (Oregonian)
- PA: P'burg Mayor Changes Mind On Same-Sex Weddings. Will no longer perform civil union ceremonies. based on ''personal reasons,'' but he didn't elaborate. The mayor performed his first and only civil ceremony Feb. 23. ''I got through it,'' he said. (Morning Call)
- Angus Reid Poll Indicates 55% Would Keep Abortion Legal If Guidelines Adhered To.
- Iowa: Smoking Bills May Be Focus of House, Senate. (KETV-7)
- Hawaii Environmentalists Want To Head Off Opening Of SuperFerry. (Biz Journals)
- Illegal Aliens More Likely To Commit Crimes, Group Claims. (CNSNews)
- Activists See Momentum Building for Immigration Reform. (CNSNews)
- Suicides Being Used As Excuse To Fight Gun Sales. Giragosian, owner of the only firearms shop in Arlington, says he is being made a scapegoat for the deaths. (Boston Globe)
- TX: Environmentalists Want "Sustainable" Snake Hunt. (AP)
- Lawmakers Consider Lessening Crack Penalties. Federal guidelines require heavier sentences than for powder cocaine. (USA Today)
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