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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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- WW: "The Odd Couple." "John McCain's "Straight Talk Express" campaign has supporter Gordon Smith tied to its tracks." [But Smith is looking out for Smith alone. He'll bail on McCain as surely as he's bailed on Bush the minute McCain looks too week.]
- WW: Merkley Establishing "Non-Portland" and Working Class Bona Fides. "...noting that he lived in Myrtle Creek and Roseburg before moving in grade school to Portland where his dad got a job as a heavy equipment mechanic." [Soooo, his many years in Portland don't matter? What ever happened to the campaign claim that you can't win a state race without Portland?]
- Steve Novick On Blue Oregon; Welcomes Merkley Competition.
- Steve Novick: Would Combine the "Wisdom Of Jimmy Carter and the Wisdom Of Star Trek" [Isn't that what we've already had from Gordon Smith?](WW)
- Portland Mercury On Smith vs Merkley. "Aside from Smith, the one thing they may both have to contend with, though, is the sense that neither of them were "first tier" choices for the race."
- SJ's Dick Hughes Commentary: MX Charities Are Solution To Immigration Debate.
- OR Rabbi Will "Sanctify" Ceremonies Of Same-Sex Couples. (WW)
- SCORE ONE FOR LARS LARSON. "Mayor's flack out 75 bucks." (WW)
- Wyden Angry Over Audit Showing Pentagon Sold Hundreds Of F-14 Parts. "...a plane fown only by Iran -- after announcing it had halted sales of such surplus..." (Air Force News)
- WHY AREN'T REPUBLICAN DONORS GIVING? "The problem in the Senate isn't a lack of candidates, it is that some of the candidates are not merely old and uninpsiring, some, like Orgeon's Gordon Smith, have gone over to the defeatist ranks. Others like Domenici of New Mexico and Warner of Virginia sit on the fence. There is simply no way that even the most committed Republican activists are going to give money to the National Republican Senatorial Committee and see it work for Smith's re-election, or the re-election of other Republicans not committed to victory in Iraq." [Dead RIGHT ON!] (Townhall)
- Gov. K. Signed Two Bills Wednesday: Overhaul Of Oregon's Ethics Laws & Freight-delivery System Improvements. (SJ)
- DeFazio Begins Term On Air Force Board. (Albany Dem-Herald)
- Merkley Begins Bid for U.S. Senate Seat. (SJ)
- Republican Wayne Scott Not Seeking Another Term. Will work to recruit next GOP candidates. (SJ)
- Oregonian On Wayne Scott Stepping Down.
- 4,500 Marijuana Plants Discovered In the Gorge. (KATU)
- There Was a Time When No Newspaper Would Have Printed Trash Like This. [Today's young will never know a more moral time. Newspapers needn't wonder why fewer and fewer newspapers are selling.] (Oregonian)
- Driver Who Killed Salem Pedestrian Had Never Had a License. (SJ)
- Marion County Sheriff Ramirez Will Retire Aug. 31. "Hiring more Spanish-speaking personnel also will be a priority, he said. Language barriers can hinder giving help during an emergency crisis or conducting an investigation, he said." (SJ)
- It's OK In Bend that Bush, Cheney Keep Jobs. (Oregonian)
- Military Families Get New Tax Breaks In Newly Signed Bill. (SJ)
- NW Stakeholders and BPA Show No Clear Path To Compromise. (Oregonian)
- Portland Opens City Hall Bathrooms To Late-Night Users. (Oregonian)
- Portland City Hall Re-Evaluates Lobbying Regulation's Teeth. (Oregonian)
- Lobbyist Disclosure Program Yields Little Dirt; Some Want Stricter System. Have the "rats" scurried now that Portland city gov't is trying to shine a light on itself? (Portland Tribune)
- Laboring for Answers At Day-Labor Site. (Portland Tribune)
- Judge Stops Weyerhaeuser Logging In Spotted Owl Habitat. (KPTV-Fox)
- WW: Winners & Losers: So, OR Timber Industry, About Those Owls...
- OR STATE Among Colleges Under Investigation for Kick-Back Schemes By NY Attn'y Gen'l. (Star-Telegram)
- Portland: Fire Officials Unhappy With News Helicopter Covering Recent Fire. (KPTV-Fox)
- Smith Joins Libs In Bipartisan Support Of "Community Broadband Act Of 2007. (Common Dreams)
- Wyden Against Anonymous Holds On Legislation. (Internat'l Herald Trib)
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Being "Frank" about CA Conservative Politics. |
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National/International News
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- OH, ABOUT THAT HATE CRIMES AMENDMENT THAT GORDON SMITH & KENNEDY INSIST RELIGOUS GROUPS SHOULDN'T BE WORRIED ABOUT... "Mr. Shmulevich should have submerged it [Muslim bible] in his own urine, applied for an NEA grant and offered it to the Whitney Biennial." But, to that Michele Malkin responded: "Actually, no. The NEA would have turned Schmulevich into the police, too. Now, if he had submerged a [Christian] Bible [Instead of a Muslim Bible] in urine or coated a Torah in cow dung and submitted it for a federal grant, he’d be sitting pretty-and facing race NY Times editorials instead of behind bars."
- Hundreds Of Officers Conduct Huge Sweep for Gang Members In S. CA. (Press Telegram)
- U.S. Treasury Sec'y Paulson Says Subprime Woes Contained. (AP)
- Attorney's Still Major Contributors To Edward's Campaign. (AP)
- GIULIANI: Consumer Oriented Health Care Program. (GOPUSA)
- Barack Hussein Obama Says Might Send Troops Into Pakistan... ...get bin Laden. (AP)
- RASMUSSEN POLL: Hillary the Default Candidate. (AP)
- Antitrust No Threat To Dow Jones/Murdoch Deal. (AP)
- Brownback Says Huckabee Should Apologize for Catholic Slur. (GOPUSA)
- Gov. Gibbons, Harry Reid, Say Fed Rules Make Wildfires Worse. This week, Republicans Otter, Craig and Crapo laid out a litany of complaints... (CNN)
- Latest Romney Ad Hones In On Immigration. (GOPUSA)
- Sirius Satellite Radio Still Losing In 2nd Quarter. Even with all those deals with automakers to put in their cars. But, not losing as much. (Business Week)
- Defeatism Oversold. (Thomas Sowell)
- NH: Fishers Killing House Cats In York. (Seacoast Online)
- EARMARKS AS USUAL (Despite Raid On Ted Stevens). [Maybe what they're REALLY angry with Stevens over is being pro-drilling in ANWR. Absurd earmarking marches on.](WSJ)
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Being "Frank" about CA Conservative Politics. |
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National/International News
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- Machine Would Replace Need for Illegal Migrants. (SJ)
- The New Holland Braud Grape Harester Can Do Work of 40 Handpickers... ...in a fraction of the time. (Oregonian)
- Atkinson Out Of Race for Sec'y Of State. Decision leaves open possible bid for Gov. in 2010. (SJ)
- Gov. K Might Veto Parts Of Bills. Wireless project, OMSI funding, committee at issue. (SJ)
- OMSI Bailout Veto Looks Likely. (Oregonian)
- DeFazio, Blumenauer Want A-G Gonzales Impeached. (KMTR)
- News with Spin: Ted Sickinger, Oregonian On PGE: "Tax Law Bashing?" "...now independent of Enron, maintains it is getting whipsawed by the law's unintended "double whammy," which forces it to refund tax money when it does poorly, like last year, or collect more from ratepayers when it does well, like right now."
- DeFazio, Wu Claim Not Enough Being Done To Protect Against Terrorism. [And real intent of this complaint is?] "Wu said tax cuts and the Iraq war have diverted billions of dollars that could have been used for more security." [Security isn't their real concern folks.] (Oregonian)
- Trust Grants for Arts Total $1.36-M. [Wouldn't THIS $$ be better used if to fight terrorism? Where's DeFazio & Wu?] (SJ)
- DeFazio Wants Access To Classified Files. (World Link)
- Douglas County: Town Readying for Another Recall. The group's chairman, Ron Jones, is the domestic partner of Jackie McCarty, a former councilor who lost to Staples in the 2006 mayoral election. The recall petitions list 11 charges, mostly related to the council's treatment of Police Chief Norm Counts. (Oregonian)
- FBI Investigates State Schools Accountant. (SJ)
- Man Pushes To Get "Legal Workers Only" Zone On Ballot. (KATU)
- State To Test Biodiesel Quality In Portland. (KATU)
- Laborer Arrested After Attacking Elderly Woman In Her Home. (KATU)
- Small OR Towns Ripe for Gov't Employee Fraud. Three recent cases of public employees embezzling taxpayer money show... (KATU)
- Clackamas: Two Arrested Over "Blatant" Prostitution Ads On Craigs List. (KATU)
- Arrest: Francisco Sao for Beating 3-Mo. Old Son To Death. (KATU)
- Roseburg: 19 Year-Old Soldier Killed In Iraq. (KATU)
- Censorship Of Minuteman Project Ending. (WND)
- ROMNEY Makes Free-Trade Appeal To Hispanics. Blaming Dems for passing free trade bills that sought free trade with Latin countries. "We'd like to see more agreements, not fewer, to improve the economic well-being of our neighborhood," he said..."Surely the next American president would want to reach out to our friends around the world, particular here in our own hemisphere," he said, specifically mentioning Colombia and Mexico. (AP)
- CLINTON: Create Public Service Academy. "I'm going to be asking a new generation to serve," she said. "I think just like our military academies, we need to give a totally all-paid education to young men and women who will serve their country in a public service position." [Heil Hillary! Oye!] An older woman carrying a sign that said "She doesn't care, all she wants is the power" yelled at Clinton...(AP)
- Alaska: Feds Search Republican Senator's Home. (CNN)
- Time Mag. Asks Is Fred Thompson the GOP's Savior.
- GIULIANI Takes Campaign Tour To Romney's NH Summer Place. (NY Sun)
- GIULIANI Wants Probe Of Gov. Spitzer. (NY Sun)
- [Dems] Ethics Commission May Spare Spitzer from Senate Inquiry. (NY Sun)
- Fred Thompson To Report $3-M for June. (AP)
- CA Plan Could Sway 2008 Race In Favor Of GOP? (AP)
- CA Soccer Team Banned from City Fields; Team Suing for Breach Of Contract. (Union Trib)
- Faith Hill Angry After Fan Crotch-Gropes Tim McGraw. Hill told woman she was disrespectful. [And if it was the other way around it is much more likely there would be an arrest?] (WSBTV)
- House Passes Massive Farm Bill. GOP didn't want, farmers didn't want. (WA Post)
- CA: TRANSPLANT SURGEON Accused Of Administering Drugs To Hasten Death for Organs. (Sun-Star)
- MX-American Columnist Says Lou Dobbs Being Racist. (Union Trib)
- Cleavage & the Clinton Campaign Chest. senior Clinton adviser Ann Lewis urged donors to "take a stand against this kind of coarseness and pettiness in American culture." (WA Post)
- GA -- Police: Boss Killed Employees After Asking for Raise. WSBtv)
- WA POST LIBERAL SPIN: "Latinos Unite To Turn Fear Into Activism." [No, the people who have turned fear into activism are the Americans who are fed up with nonsense such as MX school students refusing to say Pledge of Allegiance and holding the U.S. Flag upside down while pledging to the MX flag. It is Americans who have the common sense to see the dangers of a group of people who don't want to assimilate and who are claiming that U.S. territory is really part of MX.) "We want to turn that anger into civic engagement and into participation in the 2008 elections... Despite the renewed activism, Latino leaders said several factors could still prevent immigrants from taking part. Illegal immigrants might be reluctant to appear at public events or fill out documents. (Leaders at the Manassas rally said people could sign the protest petitions without revealing their addresses.) (WA Post)
- CA Man Charged With Exporting Restricted Technology To India. (New Kerala)
- Bill Would Allow States To Force Drug Discounts. (WA Post)
- OH: Neo-Nazis Threaten Legal Action to Visit N. Toledo. (WTOL-11)
- U. Of Michigan Will Provide Muslim Footbaths. NY Sun)
- One Cannabis Joint As Bad As Five Cigarettes: Study. (AP)
- BY: City Adoption Fraud Exposed after Arrest In FL. (NY Sun)
- NY City Council Bill Would Ban Two More Slur Words. (NY Sun)
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