Friday, July 13, 2007  (No news posted)
Thursday, July 12, 2007    (No news posted)
Wednesday, July 11, 2007    (No news posted)
Tuesday, July 10, 2007  
Monday, July 9, 2007  

Oregon News:

• SEN. GORDON SMITH ABOUT TO RE-INTRODUCE SAME-SEX TAX RELIEF BILL AGAIN.   Co-sponsored by Chuck Shumer. House version by Washington's Jim McDermott. (Village Voice)
• Smith Backs Iraq Withdrawal By Spring.   (Oregonian)
• Liberal Mort Kondracke Considers Smith Member of Cowardice Caucas On Immigration Vote.   (Leader Call)
• Jeff Golden, Radio Talk Show Host, Might Challenge Gordon Smith.   (Mail Tribune)
• Senate Colleagues Prepare for Bi-Sexual (but married ot a man) Kate Brown To Step Down As Dem Caucas Leader.   Conjecture about her running for Sec'y of State or against Sen. Gordon Smith. (Colin Fogarty -- OPB)
• OR Legislators Push To Reverse George Washington On Indian Laws & Buying, Renting Property.     DeFazio said he hopes the bill can be packaged with others to allow it to move forward quickly. He said he had been contacted by tribal and community members for help and already was aware of similar legislation in the U.S. Senate, Senate Bill 1286, when he introduced the second bill to aid CEDCO, the business arm of the Coquille Indian Tribe. Gordon Smith has a bill in the Senate. (The World Link)
• OR Woman Dies In Baghdad On Guard Duty.   (Oregonian)
• Two Soldiers With OR Ties Die In Iraq.   (Oregonian)
• Weyerhaeuser Sells OR Plywood Mill.   (Reuters)
• Merkley:   I'll Make Up My Mind By End Of July.   Considering run against Gordon Smith for U.S. Senate. (Oregonian)
• Barney Speight Lured Back To OR By Kulongoski To Be Head Of Newly Created OR Health Trust Board.  (SJ)
• Blogger Blumenauer Deep Into the Web Conversation.   (Oregonian)
• Former Bilingual Education Director Returns To Post.   (SJ)
• Bi-sexual Senator Kate Brown Annouces Run for Sec'y Of State.   Says keep goal is to improve the audits division. (Oregonian)
• Salem:   Editorial Prompts Delay On Development Decision.   (SJ)
• State Pays Activists to End Civil Rights Suit.   (Oregonian)
• RG Editorial Says Official Color Of OR Should Be Green.   Because of environmental bills passed this year.

National News:

• Republican Louisiana Senator Issues Apology for "a Very Serious Sin In My Past" After Revelation Name On Washington D.C. Madaam's List.   [Look for Republicans to be hit hardest on this because they are supposed to be the more moral party & thus will be accused more of being hypocrites.] Vitter was accused by a member of the Louisiana Republican State Central Committee of carrying on a lengthy affair with a prostitute in New Orleans's French Quarter. He is a Giuliani supporter who insists he is committed to "advancing 'mainstream conservative' principles" and notes that he has his wife are lectors at their hometown church. [Uh huh.] (WA Post)
• VISTA, CA:   Judge Bars Release Of Identities Of Day Labor Employers.   Includes video. (10 News)
• Liberals Try To Get a Mouthhold On Rush.   (Oregonian)
• Dems Call for Combat To End By 2008.   (AP)
• Two Top Aides To McCain Quit.   (AP)
• AP Writer On Nixon & Fred Thompson During Watergate.

National/International News

MILITARY NEWS SITES

• U.S. Sports Agent Gets Prison for Smuggling Cubans for Baseball.   (Caribbean Net News)
• China's Trade SurplusSoars 85.5% To Record In June.   (Brietbart)
• Euro Hits New Hight Against U.S. Dollar.   (AP)

International News:

• CHINA Executes Former Food & Drug Chief.   (WA Post)
• Despite Global Warming Buenos Aires Sees Rare Snowfall.   First time in 89 years, as a cold snap continues to grip several S. American nations. (BBC)
• Pakistan:   Rebel Cleric Among the Killed In Raid On Mosque Housing Militants.   (AP)
• CAYMAN ISLANDS Government To Enforce "Straight" Marriage.   (Caribbean Net News)

Oregon News:

• Court Of Appeals Says Union Contract Negotiations Were Reasonable, Deal Was Fair.   (SJ)
• RG Editorial:   Annual Session Overdue.   Looking forward to next legislature beginning in Feb. '08.
• OR Legislators Push To Reverse George Washington On Indian Laws & Buying, Renting Property.     DeFazio said he hopes the bill can be packaged with others to allow it to move forward quickly. He said he had been contacted by tribal and community members for help and already was aware of similar legislation in the U.S. Senate, Senate Bill 1286, when he introduced the second bill to aid CEDCO, the business arm of the Coquille Indian Tribe. Gordon Smith has a bill in the Senate. (The World Link)
• New Limitations On Payday Lenders Results In Closures
• Liberal Mort Kondracke Considers Smith Member of Cowardice Caucas On Immigration Vote.   (Leader Call)
• If Senator Smith Has His Way On Cigarette Tax Proposal...   (Tax Foundation -- Figures)

National News:

• Republican Louisiana Senator Issues Apology for "a Very Serious Sin In My Past" After Revelation Name On Washington D.C. Madaam's List.   [Look for Republicans to be hit hardest on this because they are supposed to be the more moral party & thus will be accused more of being hypocrites.] Vitter was accused by a member of the Louisiana Republican State Central Committee of carrying on a lengthy affair with a prostitute in New Orleans's French Quarter. He is a Giuliani supporter who insists he is committed to "advancing 'mainstream conservative' principles" and notes that he has his wife are lectors at their hometown church. [Uh huh.] (WA Post)
• Angus-Reid Poll Suggests CA Likes Giuliani & H. Clinton.
• Pennsylvania In Partial Shutdown Amid Budget Impasse Crisis.   (Reuters)
• Genetic Gene for Bowell Cancer Identified According To Australian Scientists.   (ABC)
• UPS Finds Holes In Civil Unions Law, Won't Give Benefits to Same-Sex Couples Unless Married.   (Newsday)
• Male (To Male) Sexual Harrassment Is Not a Joke.   (MSNBC)
• Tony Garza, Ambassador To MX -- Future Gov. Of TX?   Has been Texas Secretary of State and a member of the Texas Railroad Commission, Garza has lived in the shadows of Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. First, Garza is a die-hard Bushie, and the president's support of an immigration overhaul that caused a revolt in the Republican ranks would have spattered on the ambassador. -- Second, Garza's marriage to María Asunción Aramburuzabala, a super-wealthy Mexican beer heiress, would have come into play — perhaps not openly and certainly not fairly, but nothing in politics is fair. (Statesman)
• Washinton's Jim McDermott Seeks Supreme Court Ruling On Illegally Recorded Tapes Of Gingrich, Others, 10 Years Ago.   (Jurist)
• METAIRIE, LA:   In Louisiana Paris, a Law Targets Mexican Lunch Trucks.   (Houston Chronicle)
• Dems Make Concession To Revive 9/11 Bill.   Drop demand for union bargaining rights for airport screeners. (My Way)
• New Park To Stretch from GA To KY.   First linear state park in TN. [The devil in in the details. How much imminent domain is being used? What fees will be charged to simply pass through when going across country? One can't simply go around very easily when it goes across several states.] (My Way)
• Immigration:   From a Wall St. Journal Perspective.   For most conservatives & Republicans, The Wall St. J. long has been a trusted source of political & economic enlightenment. When it comes to immigration policy, however, many conservatives disagree fiercely... (Bill Steigerwald, Townhall)
• Who REALLY Won the YR Straw Poll? Romney or Thompson.   (American Spectator)
• Declaration Of Independence (From Liberals).   We hold these truths -- about liberals -- to be self-evident. (Lisa Fabrizio -- American Spectator)
• PA:   Web Sleuth Testified In Terror Trial In Scranton.   A Montana woman related how she ensnared a PA man accused of plotting to blow up the trans-Alaska pipeline. (Philly.com)
• A Different Republican Party According To Pollster.   Now more pro-same-sex rights. Nothing reported as to exact questions asked. (The Hill)

National/International News

MILITARY NEWS SITES

• MX:   MX Police Say 289 Illegal Migrants Packed Into Lorry.   Migrants from Latin America. 226 found inside a single lorry. ["Lorry" -- a term usually used by British for a very large truck without sides used for large hauls. At one time were mostly on the railroad.] "Every space on every wagon in front and behind was taken up with illegal migrants holding onto roofs." (BBC)
• Private Contractors Could Add to Border Patrol Ranks.   (VA Morning Star)
• Cross-Border Trucking Initiative Raises Concerns.   [MX truck drivers feel safe coming into the U.S. while U.S. drivers know they are in danger once in MX. This NAFTA/GATT agreement, which is about to come into fruition, is bad news for U.S. truckers.](VA Morning Star)
• Iraqi Leaders Warn Against Quick Pullout By U.S. Troops.   (My Way)

International News:

• ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN:   Pakistan Troops Storm Mosque Compound.   Militants holding about 150 hostages. Some 20 children who rushed toward the advancing troops were brought to safety. (CBS-4 Denver)
• Turkey Amassing 140,000 Troops On Iraq Border.   (AP)
• NACO, MEXICO:   Mexican Cartels Outgun Towns.   Ill-prepared & often corrupt, rural and border city police & officials are the weakest link in the war on drugs. (LA Times)
• Syria Calls On Citizens To Evacuate Lebanon.   Expected "eruption" in that country reports Arab, Iranian press. (YNet)
• New Zealand Legislator Refuses to Apologize to "Racist" Australian PM Howard.   (Monsters & Critics)
• Indonesia Files Civil Lawsuit Against Suharto for Misuse Of Charitable Funds.   Suharto was former pres. of Indonesia for 32 years.. Alleged that Suharto embezzled $440-M.(Jurist)