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Oregon News:

• Metro Panel Suggests Tax When Growth Ups Land Value.   Committee says landowners should pay "WINDFALL PROFITS TAX." [Same term being used against those evil oil companies. Did anyone think it would stop with oil? Here comes, not just socialism; this is flat out anti-property-owner communism.]
• Oregonian Version of GOP Governor's Debate Monday Night.
• Portland Tribune Says Dems Should Hold On to Kulongoski.
• Republicans TV Debate Reveals Few Contrasts.  KGW report. (Requires one time registration for user name and password).
• If You Missed the Governor's Debate... Go to the sixth video choice down on page to watch on KGW web site. (Need to do one-time registration)
• Guest Commentary In Daily Emerald n Response to Anti-Christian Cartoon...   Insurgent cartoons were a heartless 'slap in the face.'
• Keizer's Conservative Rep. Thatcher Targeted By Unions In Elections Complaint.
• Portland:   Rule-Obeying Candidates Complain About Campaign Yard Signs On Public Property.
• Rainy-Day Ballot Proposal Launches Battle of Words, Wills.
• Beaverton:   $$ for Schools Follows Growth.   Oregonian
• High Court Has 1 Vacancy, 3 Voids to Fill.
• PGE Customers Can Comment About Rate-Boost Plan Mary 17.
• OR Attn'y Says Gov't Secrecy Wrong In Terror Cases.
• Kulongoski Declares State Of Emergency Over Salmon
• Salem Birthing Center Peppered With Bullets.
• Kulongoski Signs Jessica's Law.
• Asia Representatives To the UN Tour OR.
• Governors' Chats Online Resume at Noon, Statesman Journal.
• OR Goes to Court for Full Tobacco Settlement.   State wants companies to pay about $14-M toward OR Health Plan.
• Eighth Grade Class Not So Keen On K-8 Program.
• Salem Democrats to Hear City Candidates.
• Salem:   Planning Board Now Has Two Open Seats.
• Illegal Immigrant Crackdown In OR Nets 21.
• Portland High School Student Arrested for Bringing Rifle, Ammo to School.
• Medford:   Tax Break In Exchange for Permanent Forestland.
• Tigard Plan Would Raise Water Rates.
• Letters to Oregonian:   One-Day Session Says a Lot.

National News:

• Bush to Suspend Oil Reserve Deposits.
• Bush Delivers His Insulting Immigration Speech In Jim Gilchrist's Home Territory.   Protesters say Bush not doing enough about illegals.
• Minutemen Protesters Greet Bush Immigration Speech.
• Pro-Life Group Mourns Victims of First Pro-Abortion Law.
• WA State Board of Pharmacists Can't Refuse On Basis of Conscience.
• Defining Moments In ACLU History.
• Human Events Presidential Poll -- GO VOTE!
• Foreign Adversaries Attempt to Illegally Acquire U.S. Technology.   (Reality Check)
• AZ:   Feds Charge 3 Men With Human Smuggling.   Believe were involved in a rollover accident this week in which 4 people died & 21 injured. (KVOA Tucson)
• ADL Attorneys Plan to Appeal "Extremely Poor" Ruling from 9th Circuit In Poway "T-Shirt" Case.
• MEXICAN FLAG BURNER Makes First Appearance In Court.   Charged with assault, criminal damage and reckless burning. (KVOA Tucson)
• FL:   Orlando, FL:   Woman Ambushed, Raped at Knifepoint.   Hispanic man sought, drawing posted.
• Parental Rights:   Let's Not Wait Until It's 20/20 Hindsight.
• FL:   80-Year-Old May Face Charges for Shooting at Bear.   Was in back yard approaching his chicken coop. Could get up to 5 years prison & $5000 fine.
• Turn Off TV Week Raises Questions.
• Pro-Family Groups Unveil Homosexuality School Risk Audit as Response to "Day of Silence."
• Lawsuit Against Clintons Include Streisand, Travolta, Pitt, Ali.
• Molester Busted after Oprah Show Gets 52 Years.
• Consumer Confidence Highest In Four Years.
• NJ GOP:   Kean's Path to Senate Nomination Disrupted By Conservative.
• MLB Announcer Hit for Saying Women Don't Belong In Dugout.
• Wisc.:   Former Lawmaker, Tommy Thompson, Against Mandatory Microchip Implants.

National/International News

MILITARY NEWS SITES

The President's Iraq National Strategy

• Internat'l Incident Could Overshadow Successes of Bush/Hu Jintao D.C. Visit.   Asian headlines last week over near-clash between Japanese & S. Korean vessels in Sea of Japan...symptomatic of loss of U.S. control over hostilities in region.
• President Shares Aspects of His Faith with China's Leader.
• Massive Arrest of Church Leaders Including Americans In Yunnan Provice.
• Torture of Christians Documented for Chinese President.
• UN Now Threatens More Than Strengthens Global Peace, Security & Freedom.   (Canada's Toronto Sun).
• "Tangible Proof" al-Qaida Deploying Nukes.

International News:

• Nepal:   King Gives In to Demands; Returns Gov't to Parliament He Dissolved Four Years Ago.
• Nepalis Celebrate Protest Victory Over King.   Maoist rebels (behind a 10-year insurgency), however, are rejecting King Gyanendra's deal with the opposition.
• Wombs for Rent In India.
• Beslan Hearings Put the Kremlin, Even Putin, On Trial.
• Beijing "Will Not Change Family Planning Policy."
• In Finland, EU Critic Gaining In Popularity.
• EGYPT:   Ten Arrested Following Mulitple Bombings.
• Sri Lanka:   Fake Pregnant Suicide Bomber Kills 8.
• Iran:   If U.S. Harsh, Will Simply Hide Nuclear Program.
• Britain:   Foreign Criminal Escape Removal.   Home Sec'y Clarke apologized for release of 1,023 alien prisoners who should have been deported. They include 3 murderers & 9 rapists.
• UK Gas Prices Skyrocket.
• LONDON, ENGLAND:   ORGANIZED IMMIGRATION CRIME, FAKE ID, OUT OF CONTROL.

Oregon News:

• Atkinson Mixes a New GOP Generation and Old-Time Ideals.
• Mannix Faces Challenge for Social Conservatives Vote.   "Saxton would argue that his support for abortion rights and his base in Multnomah County offered Republicans their best shot at breaking the Democrats' 20-year lock on the governorship."
• Monday, Tuesday of This Week THE LAST DAYS TO REGISTER TO VOTE for the Coming Election.
• Oregonian Slams Anti-Saxton Ads.
• Oh Surprise, Surprise, The Oregonian Endorses Ron Saxton to Republicans.  
• Oregonian Endorses Kulongoski for the Democrats.
• 15-Year-Old Mexican Student Says Migrants Aren't Stealing Anybody's Job.   White people don't want minimum wage jobs, etc....
• The OR Legislature.   Why OR lost out in the special session.
• Land Use Debate In Gov's Race to Heat Up After Primaries.
• Dan Meek Doesn't Like Corporate Campaign Donations.
• Salem:   City Progress Is Debated at Voter Forum.
• SAME-SEX MARRIAGE Hijacks Debate In Multnomah Race.   Oregonian's S. Renee Mitchell.
• Portland School District:   Digging for Details from Vicki Phillips.
• Portland:   Allegations Add Spice to a Usually Dull Metro Election.
• Multnomah:   Inmates Locked Up Longer, But...
• Oregonian's Harry Esteve:   Special Session Political Boost for Gov. K.
• AP Reporter Says Independents Could Influence Gov's Race If They Can Get On the Ballot.
• Gov. Candidates Vary On How To Deal With OR Health Plan.
• Corvallis:   City Council's Earth Charter, Hardly Earth Shattering.   Good editorial.
• Latest Kulongoski Effort To Prevent Logging Roads Out of Forests...   will petition U.S. Forest Service to protect nearly 2-M acres of...
• House Bill Votes In Special Session
• Senate Bill Votes In Special Session.
• UO Student Code Headed for a Vote.
• Lake Oswego Considers Oregon's First Phosphorus Ban.
• Ron Eachus Doesn't Like Law Treating Independents As a Party Because...   it reduces voters' options.

National News:

• Bush Puts New Effort Into (AMNESTY) Immigration Bill.
• SCHWARZENEGGER BLASTS IDEA OF BORDER WALL.
• Immigration Takes a Toll On Mexico Too.
• FL:   Like a Sci-Fi Horror Movie, Man & Son Swallowed Up...
• Media Plays McKinney Blunder Remarks Despite Her Insistence "Off the Record."
• AP Reporters Says Mayor Nagin May Need to Court Whites to Beat Lt. Gov. In May.
• NY:   Union Leader Heads to Jail Over Illegal NY Transit Strike.
• New Orleans Levees Still Not Ready for Next Hurricane.
• Democrats Say Lieberman Too Close to Bush.
• Ohio State Univ. Freshmen Required to Undergo Homosexual Indoctrination.
• CA:   Court Says TV Show's Off-Color Language Not Sexual Harassment.   Because "Friends" was an "adult-oriented comedy show featuring sexual themes..."
• Dems, RINOs Talking Taxing Oil Companies On Their "Extreme, Obscene Profits."   "Sen. Arlen Specter, appearing on the same program, said a windfall profits tax is "something worth considering," as well as legislation targeting consolidation of oil companies."   [Thou shalt not be allowed to make windfall profits in the USA. Naughty! (Unless you are a Hollywood actor).]
• CO:   Republicans Battle In Dem Stronghold.
• CO:   War Chests Top $1-M In Targeted Races.   Two "vulnerable" congressional incumbents, one Dem, one GOPer, targeted -- Salazar and conservative Marilyn Musgrave.
• CO:   "Pin the Wail On the Donkey"   Sole Republican candidate, Rick O'Donnell, has raised more $ than any of Dem contenders for competitive congressional district.
• CO:   Rep. Bob Beauprez Being Hit for Delay In Returning Campaign $ from DeLay.
• Colorado:   Gay Marriage Ban Petitions Cleared.
• RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT May Dodge Consequences for Hitting NYPD Officer.

National/International News

MILITARY NEWS SITES

The President's Iraq National Strategy

• Islamist Protest In NY 'Mushroom Cloud On Way.'   Rally at Israeli consulate features pictures of Muslim flags flying over WH.
• U.S. Raises Venezuela's Safety Ranking.
• U.S. Orders All Unnecessary Staff Withdrawn From Nepal.
• U.S. & Japan Make Troop Cost Deal.

International News:

• Hamas Officials Contradict Selves In Media.
• Bombs Kill 6 In Baghdad; 15 Die Elsewhere.
• China's Army Bans Snorers, Tattoo-Wearers.
• Vatican To Issue "Condom Rules" for AIDs Patients.
• Iran Will Allow Women to Attend Soccer Games.
• Australia:   States, Territories Challenge Definition of Marriage.
• New Microbicide Gel Breakthrough to Prevent HIV In Women?
• Wallaby Darned! Their Milk Is 100 Times More Effective Than Penicillin.
• THREE BOMBS ROCK EGYPTIAN CITY.   One blast at hotel kills 18.
• Australia:   Member of Parliament Arrested for Alleged Involvement With Riots.   Accusations arrest, immediately after swearing in, is political.
• Security High at Solomons Meeting.   Hundreds of police and soldiers surrounded the Solomon Islands parliament, for its first meeting since the outbreak of violence last week.
• Bin Laden Call Falls On Deaf Ears.
• Police Hunt Sierra Leone "Killer Chimps"
• UK:   Former Swimming Coach, 79, Given 12 Years In Jail for Child Sex Attacks Since WWII.   Only 12 years for over 60 years of abuse.
• British Home Sec'y, Clark, Attacks "Distorting" Media.