National News:

"Would you like to hear what the Clintons invested in, ladies and gentlemen? Pfizer, Wyeth, ExxonMobil... The only industry they have not invested in -- and that's because they own it -- is Big Hypocrite." -- Rush Limbaugh, Friday, June 15, 2007

• RINO Bloomberg Makes It Offical -- Won't Be Registered Republican Anymore.   (MSNBC) [Now if Sen. Gordon Smith would do the same thing OR Republicans could seek a REAL Republican candidate.]
• Hickory, NC:   Markings Of Well-Known Hispanic Gang Show Up In Hickory.   News video. (WSOC-TV)
• Homeland Security Acknowledges On Computer Break-Ins.   (MSNBC)
• Portland, Maine Judge:  Brain Harvesting Lawsuit Can Go To Jury.   (Sea Coast Online)
• Giuliani's S.C. Chairman Faces Cocaine Charge.   (MSNBC)
• PA:   MORE GODLESS COINS -- Famous Phrase Goes Missing Again.   New coins featuring John Adams are missing edge inscriptions with "In God We Trust." (WPVI-TV)
• GERONIMO'S Family Call On Bush To Help Return His Skeleton.  The story that members of Yale University's secret Skull & Bones society took the remains - including a skull & femur - from the burial site in Fort Sil, OK, has long been part of the university's lore. ...a letter from 1918...appears to support the story... (The Independent)
• San Diego, CA:   Arrest Made In Connection With Gas Station Murder.   Kevin Marquez identified as man who gunned down 20-year-old Gregory Smith at filling station. Marquez allegedly made a gang reference and challenged the victim when he saw him and several of his companions -- one of whom he had previously confronted... (10 News, San Diego)
• PA Crossing Guard Faces 1,000 Sex Charges Against Children.   (WPVI-TV)
• Lesbian Activist Thinks Firing Of Isaiah Washington, for "Anti-Gay" Slur, Was Racist.   Washington is an actor on "Grey's Anatomy" show. (10 News, San Diego)
• Survey Indicates Many Parents Would Back Federal Limits On TV Violence.   (MSNBC)
• Supreme Court Ruling Favors Wall St.   (WSJ)
• Should New York Apologize for Slavery?   (WSTM)

National/International News

MILITARY NEWS SITES

International News:

• Abbas Rules Out Dialogue With Hamas "Killers."   (Reuters)
• Senegal, Bissau Seize Illegal Migrants As Departrues Surge.   Illegals were trying to leave by boat for Spains Canary Islands. Many illegals head for Europe when trade winds ease & sea conditions become calmer. Canaries seen as gateway to Europe. More than 30,000 African migrants came ashore on the Spanish islands last year. (Reuters)
• Gunmen Kidnap 8 Christian Students In Iraq.   Militants often target Iraq's tiny Christian community. (Reuters)
• Egypt:   Court Rules Universities Can't Bar Islamic Face-Coverings.   But, that's unlikely to stop the headdress (niqab) attracting unwelcome attention...(MSNBC)
• Britain Defends Salman Rushdie Knighthood.   Muslims are furious. (Scotsman)
• Wyoming GOP Picks Senate Seat Finalists.   The field was whittled down from 28 to 10, then five and finally three over the course of the day. The appointee will replace the late Sen. Craig Thomas (R), who lost a seven-month battle with leukemia earlier this month. (The Hill)
• Homeland Security's Chertoff Not Sorry for Calling Kennedy Awesome...   ...during a press conference last month announcing a bipartisan immigration deal. [WHAT'S AWESOME is the degree of treason within our own Republican Party -- and within a dept. called "Homeland Security" no less. Who dares call it the treason it is?](The Hill)
• Source Of E. Coli Possibly Linked To Slaughtered Goat In China Grove Restaurant.   (WSOC-TV))

Oregon News:

• FUGITIVE ALERT:   Ramon Trevino-Hernandez, 46 -- Accused of Raping Child Relative -- Has the kind of job that helps him stay under the radar.   [Oh guess what kind of employer helps him do that.] (KATU-TV)
• George Will Goes Anecdotal On Sen. Smith's Word...   ...whose going on fourth hand word on a report from a soldier. (James Lewis, American Thinker)
• When It Comes To Beer, OR Knows No Party Lines.   The five OR members of the U.S. House of Reps dominate the newly formed 34-member House Small Brewer Caucus, co-chaired By Dem Peter DeFazio & GOPer Greg Walden. (KMTR-TV)
• Living In the Woods To Get More Expensive.   The government's excuse? Private landowners have to do more to fight forest fires with a 25% increase in property fees. Will be added to property tax bills. Timber companies will pay by the board feet. [More rampant socialism bullying people into being confined to cities.]
• Some Doubt Legislative Session Will End By June 29 Target.   Immigration/Real ID: Republicans keep pressing the issue, but Democrats aren't going there, yet. "I don't think we're going to end up doing anything on immigration," Courtney said. But Brown said Democrats are keenly aware that Republicans will try to use that inaction against them on the 2008 campaign trail. As a result, she expects some action when lawmakers meet in a brief special session next February, before the primary races. [The same way she used a special session to cover her political derriere over deliberately not passing Jessica's Law in a timely manner.] (SJ)
• SJ Editorialized Headline:   GOP Wages Endless Campaign Against Democrats.   But House Democrats said there's a chance that their colleagues' efforts may have backfired. [Shameless spin. Never doubt where Julia is coming from.](By Julia Silverman, AP)
• Made In Oregon...with Plenty of Help from MX.   "At a Hillsboro strip mall Friday morning, Antonio, a 36-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico, took a break from shopping with his wife and young daughter to reflect on last week's big Portland immigration bust." -- Nationally, illegal workers have moved far beyond the farm fields and now make up more than 20 percent of the roofers, painters, butchers, groundskeepers and cooks. They have rooted themselves in the economic fabric as securely as consumers are hooked on the inexpensive goods and services their labor makes possible. -- "You cannot assimilate that many people in the manner we're used to," said Jim Ludwick of Oregonians for Immigration Reform, which applauded last week's raid and supports stricter immigration enforcement. (Oregonian)
• Prison Release Loophole May Stay.   (SJ)
• Linn County Foresees End To Fed Payments.   An early Senate draft of the Iraq bill had a multi-year reauthorization in it, but the Senate and House together only approved one year. U.S. Rep. Peter DeFazio and Sen. Ron Wyden have both said they want the funding continued, but they think any further re-authorization would likely be phased out over five years. (Democrat-Herald)
• Jefferson County:   Proposed Resorts Criticized for Eco Impact.   A bill to prohibit development within 3 miles of the basin already has passed in the Senate on a straight party line vote but could face stiff opposition in the House. Shading the largely partisan debate is the involvement of one of the measure's most vocal supporters, state Sen. Betsy Johnson, whose family maintains a 160-acre retreat in the area. The Scappoose Democrat says there is no self-interest at play -- her primary concern is to preserve a delicate ecosystem. (SJ)
• Coalition Of Farmers, Lumbermen Fight Abandoning Bailey Branch Line.  Various plans have been put forward to salvage the Bailey Branch, most recently a request by Congressman Peter DeFazio to the Union Pacific Railroad...(Democrat-Herald)
• Lawmakers Have Conflicts With OR Laws.   (Oregonian)
• Scientist Tycoon:   Spread Too Thin Between Private & Gov't Responsibilities?   At a House subcommittee hearing, Rep. Ron Wyden of Oregon (now a senator) questioned a $60,000-a-year consulting agreement between Lerner and drugmaker Johnson & Johnson. Lax government oversight had led to "an atmosphere of troubling entrepreneurship among insiders" at nonprofit labs like Scripps, the lawmaker said. -- Wyden later went quiet on that issue - he would not take questions for this story -- and Lerner says the relationships that once were criticized are now common practice. [Are they just out to get Lerner or do they have a justifiable concern?](St. Petersburg Times)
• Record School Spending Package OK'd By Senate.   (Oregonian)
• OR State Graduates Its Largest Class Yet.   (Corvallis Gazette-Times)

National News:

• Widow Of Killed Marine Plans To Enlist.   Husband was killed after only 28 days in Iraq. She has enlisted in the Army to become a medic. Her mom is not thrilled. (KATU-TV video)
• Dallas, TX:   Businessman, Tom Leppert, Beats Openly Homosexual City Councilman, Ed Oakley, By 58%.   The runoff ends the most expensive political race in Dallas history.Leppert, the former chief executive of construction giant Turner Corp., had never run for elected office and never voted in a Dallas mayoral election until this year. He acknowledges that he had scant name recognition when he decided last year to enter the race...(Star-Telegram)
• WA Post Report On Dallas, TX Mayor's Race.   "His candidacy in the runoff election helped dispel the image of Dallas as an archconservative oil city in the heart of the U.S. Bible belt. The ninth-most populous U.S. city has about 1.2 million residents. "That image of Dallas is pretty dated. I would call it a moderate city now, certainly not liberal, but it is not the conservative icon of 30 years ago," said Cal Jillson, a political scientist at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He noted the city's more cosmopolitan character, citing a growing Hispanic population and migration from other parts of the United States."
• Lou Dobbs Reporting On the North American Union.   Integration of three nationas to be done by 2010. Harry Reid encourages more MX protests. (Jan. 24, 2007)
• FORUM:   Vietnam and Communism's Victims.   Last Tues., June 12, Pres. Bush spoke at the dedication of the Victims of Communism Memorial that honors the memories of those killed in communist regimes. He said their deaths should remind the American public "evil is real and must be confronted." Ironically, this Friday, June 22, Pres. Bush will honor the pres. of a tyrannical communist regime that murdered over a million Vietnamese & ethnic minorities with a White House visit during which he has the opportunity to confront that evil. (WA Times) [If past Bush policy towards this country means anything he will NOT confront this evil. He only wants to LOOK like Reagan, not be like Reagan.]
• Tancredo "Sanctuary City" Amendment Passes After 8th Attempt.   Part of Homeland Security Bill, now headed for Senate. (WND)
• Hillary's Portfolio.   Clintons disclosed last week that they have sold all of their stock holdings -- worth tens of mllions -- & put that money in the bank. The Stated goal is to avoid the "appearance of a conflict of interest"...(WSJ)
• "Hillary Clinton is Hugo Chavez in a pantsuit. The Clintons don't just disagree with their enemies -- they try to destroy them." --  (Rush Limbaugh, Friday, June 15)
• Fred Thompson Record On Abortion Scrutinized.   (News Max)
• Mary Matalin To Advise Fred Thompson.   [That doesn't look good for Thompson. Thompson should shed ANY liberal, pro-homosexual-rights, Republican advisors from the Bush campaigns.] (News Max)
• The Left-wing Helen Thomas After Reading The Reagan Diaries :   As a reporter having covered him for eight years in the White House, I am sure the press could have done a better job if we had known the real Ronald Reagan.  
• Crystal Meth Use Amony Young Americans Is Twice As High As Previously Reported.   And who are the most likely users? (NY Post)
• Silent Amnesty.   AS you follow the debate over the Bush-Kennedy immigration bill, keep this cardinal rule in mind: 99.99 percent of the lawmakers who promise you that they'll ensure the deportation of anyone who doesn't follow their new "guest-worker" regulations are either A) lying or B) completely clueless. -- Rule No. 2: Anyone who plays the Enforcement equals Kicking-Down-Doors-And-Depriving-Babies-of-Mother's-Milk card (yes, that's you, Geraldo Rivera) is either A) lying or B) completely clueless. (Michele Malkin)

National/International News

MILITARY NEWS SITES

International News:

• Netanyahu Warns Of "Iranian Base" In Hamas Territory.   (Israel Nat'l News)
• Israel's New [Liberal opponent to Netanyahu] Defense Minister Must Make Pivotal Decisions.   Foreign newspapers are reporting conflicting versions of what Ehud Barak plans to do in his first week in office, which will apparently begin on Monday. The London-based Sunday Times says that Barak is planning a major offensive in order to destroy the Hamas regime, while an Arab newspaper says Israel is willing to promise quiet and even humanitarian help in exchange for the captive soldier Gilad Shalit. (Israel Nat'l News)
• Sunday Night In Israel:   Giant Anti-Gay Pride Protest In Jerusalem.   (Israel Nat'l News)
• Lebanon Minister Sues TV Anchor Over On-Air Gaffe.   Fatfat angered by NBN's Darweesh for saying he could be next politician to be killed on air. (Middle East Online)