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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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- Suspects Reported to Immigration Officials By Counties. (SJ)
- Gordon Smith Voted for Abortion Funding Again. (RNC Life)
- New Mannix Measure Would Set Mandatory Sentences for Certain Crimes. Mannix says state officials are exaggerating the impact, but he adds that prison officials can reduce costs by building less-expensive work camps for low-risk offenders, and thinking of other creative ways to incarcerate. (Oregonian)
- OR Senate Adopts Procedure for Introducing Bills for February 2008 Supplemental Session. (Legislative PR)
- Gov. K. Orders State Regulators To Prepare New Subprime Regulations. Wants legislation, in 2008, bailing out those who might lose subprime homes. (SJ) [Oregon is going to find out FAST how awful annual sessions are. The socialist snowball is REALLY going to roll down the mountain now.]
- SEIU Pres. Faces Recall Effort. (SJ)
- Deckert Resigns from Senate to Lead State Business Group. (SJ)
- New Policies Do Away With Lingering Smoking By Hospitals. (Oregonian)
- OR POW-MIA Recognition Day to Be Proclaimed Sept. 21st. (Salem-News)
- Register Guard Editorial: Fix Cross-Border Program: Congress Should Address Concerns, LET TRUCKS ROLL. [Liberals are in a bind. How to be both for and against Mexican trucks rolling. DeFazio was one of the few Democrats who voted against NAFTA/GATT which stole some Republican votes. Socialist DeFazio has never been at a loss when it comes to how to use the "emotional drama" card. Liberals, who know DeFazio is their best hope on other issues, have to find a way to express support for what he is doing regarding immigration. Conservatives who know how liberal/socialist he votes on other issues are forced to give him credit for what he is doing on the immigration issue. No Republican candidate has yet to know how to handle such finesse by DeFazio and when the OR Conservative has tried to tell them they have not listened. Thus, it will be a long time before DeFazio is beaten.] Last week, DeFazio held a news conference in Washington, D.C., with a woman who lost three relatives in a California crash with a Mexican truck driver...
- OR Death Records Die With You If No One Claims Body. Info kept secret. [Isn't the Attn'y Gen'l taking on the Supreme Court role of interpreting law here? Didn't the U.S. Supreme Court rule that "the dead have no rights" when family sued to keep family secrets of the famous from being published? Why would accepting state funds for funeral expenses alter that Supreme Court ruling? The dead have no right to any info about them being kept secret.](Oregonian)
- Portland: Native American School Opens. (Oregonian)
- Regarding O&C Counties & the BLM: Alternative 2 Provides the Best Mix Of Land Allocations... ...which meet the specific mandates of the O&C Act, Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act & the Federal Land & Policy Mgt. Act. (Letter to Ed.: Giennie Assink, Springfield, OR -- SJ)
- Police Dig Up 1,000 Marijuana Plants Near Scotts Mills. (Oregonian)
- Senators Gordon Smith, Robt. Menendez Lead Group Of 44 Senators Sending Letter to Pres. Bush Urging Withdrawal of Restrictions in SCHIP. (cq.com)
- Gordon Smith Joins Democrat Sponsoring Legislation To Block New SCHIP Limits; S2049. (cq.com)
- Sixth OR Leadership Summit Set for December. To be hosted by Senators Gordon Smith, Ron Wyden. (Portland Business Journal)
- 13 Incumbents File for State Office. (SJ)
- Fallout Persists From Nightclub Sting. (Oregonian)
- Roseburg Hosp. to Close Mental Health Unit. After losing millions in mental health treatment costs. (Oregonian)
- M-37 Payment of $180,000 First In State. (SJ)
- Proposed Sale of Meteorite Chunk Angers Tribe. It's a sacred icon, they say. (Oregonian)
- Hillsboro: Lattice Semiconductor Corp. Stock Drops After Report Co. Won't Meet 3rd Quarter Sales Forecast. (Oregonian)
- Willamette Valley Vineyards May Face Federal Sanctions After Tax Audit. (SJ)
- State Say Won't Euthanize Snowball & Bucky. (Oregonian)
- Multnomah County: Commissioners & City Mayors Agreeing to Keep Business Tax. (Gresham Outlook)
- Rogue River Fish Haven Might Be Closed to Traffic In Favor Of Bicycles Only. (Oregonian)
- A Nervous Young News Reporter Reports On Ron Paul Meetup Group In Medford, OR. (You Tube video)
- Borking Ted Olson. [Isn't it a shame Olson's late wife Barbara (murdered on 9/11 on hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 in PA) can't be here to provide her usual conservative comments as they attack her husband.] (WSJ) [Barbara Olson's book on Hillary, "Hell To Pay" is still speaking from the grave & the idea that her husband could ever end up being U.S. Attorney General must bite. Bush is reportedly choosing retired judge Michael B. Mukasey anyway while Olsen is enduring these pre-emptive attacks.]
- Bush Settles On Mukasey to Replace Gonzales. [Now what kind of vicious attack can the Dems dream up about him?] (WA Post)
- The Background of Judge Mukasey Appears to Be Impeccable. Has superb background in terrorism cases. (Andrew McCarthy, NRO)
- WA Post Reporter Thinks Harry Reid & Co. Sunk Ted Olson Nomination for Attn'y Gen'l.
- Irvine, AC: About-Face On Choice for Law-School Dean Stirs Outcry: CA University Withdraws Offer to Liberal Duke Scholar. A conservative Los Angeles County politician asked about 24 people in an e-mail last month how to prevent the University of California at Irvine from hiring renowned liberal scholar Erwin Chemerinsky as its founding law- school dean, a spokesman for the politician said Friday. Making Chemerinsky the head of the law school “would be like appointing al-Qaida in charge of homeland security,” Michael Antonovich, a longtime Republican member of the county board of supervisors... (Journal Now) Law School's About-Face On New Dean Draws Anger. Chemerinsky has represented outed CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson & a detainee at Guantanamo Bay...The same day he got the job offer, the Los Angeles Times ran an op-ed by Chemerinsky urging California to reject a plan by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales that would, he argued, make it harder for those on death row to have their cases reviewed in federal court. According to Chemerinsky, the UC-Irvine chancellor told him on Tuesday that he "knew I was liberal but didn't know how controversial I would be." (WA Post)
- Christian & Conservative Californians Need to Tell Gov. Please Veto Five Bad Bills. One bad one has already been signed allowing males infected with HIV to donate sperm for research & in vetro fertilization. Conservative leaders say a sperm washing process is not 100% effective and poses a threat to newborn babies. (Citizenlink)
- Humane Society Pressures Schwarzenegger Over Kangaroo Bill. SB 880 would allow kangaroo hides to be sold in CA if the animals were legally harvested in Australia. (News 10))
- Schwarzenegger Firing Of State Fish & Game Commissioner Begins Condor Dispute. Environmentalists charge not banning lead bullets by hunters jeopardizes Gov's image as an environmental leader. (Mercury News)
- Ronald Reagan On Hillary/Universal Health Care. (You Tube video)
- The Real TONY SNOW Is Back?: Let's CNN Journalist Have It. Journalists' credibility ratings lower than Bush's. (mrc.org)
- Sen. Dems Look for GOP Backing of Pullout Plans. [Well, now. Who could they possibly be thinking of?] But one source admitted, with the exceptions of Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Nebraska, and Smith, "We still don't have any Republicans making a clean break with the president yet." (CNN)
- Hillary Clinton: Won't Ask, but Wants Here $850,000 Back. Hint, hint. (Baltimore Sun)
- NY Times Feels Backlash Over MoveOn.org Ad Discount. (Rush Limbaugh)
- Hillary Clinton's Brother Settles Debt Lawsuit. Tony Rodham was accused of failing to repay $107,000 plus interest to the bankrupt estate of Edgar Allen Gregory Jr. and his wife, Vonna Jo, both of whom received a presidential pardon in 2000. (AP)
- Thompson Pushes Conservative Values In FL Tour. (Palm Beach Post)
- Giuliani: Clinton Smeared Gen. Petraeus. (AP)
- Nominate Olson - Then Stand Up and Fight. (Marc Sheppard, The Thinker)
- Fox News Poll: Rudy Giuliani Preferred President Over Hillary Clinton If Terrorists Attack America.
- 8-year-old Son of Illegal Immigrant Used to Lobby Congress. Wants his deported mother [instead of being here.] "Saul Arellano led about 150 pro-immigration activists and children through the halls of Congress..." [No. A bunch of adults ushered him through the hall of Congress. This is Fox News reporting?] (FOX News' Jeff Goldblatt contributed to this [editorial] report.)
- George Will Says Fred Thompson Is the "New Coke." He won't sell. [Mr. Will also is kissy-kiss with Republicans like Gordon Smith and applauds Smith's anti-war stance as courageous. So much for Mr. Will's opinion.] (NY Post)
- Cops Kill Gunman Suspects of Shooting 4 FL Police Officers, Killing One. It was clear he wanted to be "killed-by-cop." (Fox)
- RINOs Schwarzenegger, Gov. Perry Weigh In On Future Of GOP. "Schwarzenegger's blunt warning left some of the party faithful asking if he is a Republican at all..." "Some Republicans consider the party's setbacks short-term. Texas Governor Rick Perry says the reason the party lost control of Congress isn't because its ideas lost their luster, but its leaders "lost their way." [Well, hey. Look who is talking; the very guy who vetoed his own legislator's who had voted against the TX corridor (being built to be the gateway to opening the North American Union highway to Canada (not a myth)) and selling our American sovereignty. His veto gives American land to European ownership/management that will literally place a line of division between East and West all the way from Mexico to Canada. Americans will have to pay tolls and fees to pass. The newly approved Supreme Court ruling is to be used to confiscate millions of acres to make way for this humongous highway. Mexican drivers will (& already do) have advantages that American truck drivers will not have. Perry is the same gov. who mandated, on false executive authority, a decree that ALL TX little girls were to be inoculated with a brand new vaccine that MIGHT prevent human papillomavirus (HPV) (primarily a venereal disease). Parents were to have no say in the experimental use of their little girls. PERRY is the kind of Republicans the party needs to guard against. Republicans who take any advice from either one of these RINOs are fools.] (KTRE)
- Giuliani Has Conservative Ally In Olson. (Guardian Unlimited) [If he is an ally of Olson's then his conservative credentials are open to question. Conservative is as conservative does.]
- NJ Supreme Court to Decide If Town Can Display Super-Sized Inflatable Rat. (Fox)
- Ed Koch: Democrats Should Condemn Moveon. (NY Post)
- Author Says He Was Told O.J. Simpson Book Was Confession. (Fox)
- Matching Funds Keep Tancredo's Quest Alive. (Denver Post)
- Teacher Accused Of Having Sex with Students Disappears. (Palm Beach Post)
- Laura Ingraham's Book Sales Skyrocket After Mention On Rush Limbaugh. (Radio Equalizer)
- Thompson: Clinton Made Issue Of Cuban Immigration Remark. (Fox)
- Thompson Gives No Opinion on Schiavo. (Fox)
- Analysis: Spotlight Harsh On Thompson? (Guardian Unlimited)
- Virginia: Coalition Formed to Address Illegals. (WA Times)
- TX: New Evidence (or ignored old evidence) Halts Execution. (WA Times)
- Greenspan Says He Missed Subprime Dangers. (WA Times)
- Giuliani Failed, My Nephew Died. This man shut out of 9/11 ceremonies. (AP - photo)
- "An Older Wiser Ex-Gay Movement." (Christianity Today)
- Cleveland OH Mayor Calls for Gun Ban for Anyone 21 & Under. Current law already bans anyone under 21 from obtaining a concealed weapons permit. (My Way)
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National/International News
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- Gordon Smith & Hagle Included In Talks With Democrats About War Legislation. "Hagel was cagey about his intentions in a brief interview Tuesday. "Well, we'll have to see where the leadership wants to go with different proposals," he said. "I want to see what the options are. I've been very clear that we need a change of direction." (Boston Globe)
- Gordon Smith, Kennedy, Rockefeller, Snowe: Whoever Is Against SCHIP Is Against Children. Smith: “This is a disappointing attempt by the Administration that would inhibit states’ ability to cover more uninsured kids,” said Senator Smith. “SCHIP is a valuable and life-saving program that gives America’s children a chance at a healthy future. We will do all we can to try to block this policy and deliver a sensible SCHIP package to states.” -- "The President needs to know that we will not stand by and let his Administration pull the rug out from children and their families,” Senator Rockefeller said. "
- MEDFORD: TIMBER PLAN OPEN HOUSE THIS AFTERNOON. Will go over proposed revisions to its plans for timber-cutting in western OR. [Liberals and environmental-whacko have made a point of attending these meetings. Sensible points of view are needed at these meetings.] (Mail Tribune) Lane County Republicans Unanimously Endorse the Alternative 2 Option of the BLM Proposals. Read why.
- Beaverton: Pornography Business Near Jesuit Upsets Neighbors. (Oregonian)
- Former House Speaker Karen Minnis Won't Run Again. (Oregonian)
- OR Educators Claim More Kids Attending School Are Without a Home. Despite a rebounding economy they say. (Oregonian)
- Education Experts: Homeless Students Rises By 18%. Dona Bolt, the state's homeless education specialist, said there are a number of reasons for that, including that teachers, principals and guidance counselors have been trained to listen well and know to record students who offhandedly mention that they are sleeping on a relative's couch for the time being, or staying in a motel room with their families. (Oregonian)
- State Ethics Commission To Vote Friday To Decide If Legislators to Be Fined for Failing To Report Lobbyist-Paid Trips. [This process has been dragged out for many months. Is it really necessary for it to take this long to decide about these legislators who allegedly committed these offenses years back, or is the real intent to handle it in increments so that there are 'forever headlines' on the issue to keep the offenses in the daily headlines for political purposes?](Oregonian)
- Makah Indians Meet With Senators, Federal Officials To Apologize for Whale Shooting. (Oregonian)
- Lane County OK's Tax Break for GloryBee Foods. Tied to expansion plans. (RG)
- Men Allege Abuse at Multnomah County Jail Downtown. Civil rights attorneys involved in case. (Oregonian)
- Ashland Library Votes Coming In Slowly. (Mail Tribune)
- Pelosi Talked Up Portland, Slammed Bush Policy. Was in Portland for global warming forum hosted by Reps. Hooley & Blumenauer. (Oregonian)
- ACLU Claims Ashland Police "Misused" Taser Guns. [Isn't it nice to know that organized atheists are looking out for us?] Accusation comes just days before Ashland Police Chief Holdernes is to appear before the City Council to present a consultant's recommendations for more stun guns. (Mail Tribune)
- State Officials Confiscate Molalla Family's Pet Deer. For more than eight hours today, a Molalla family pleaded with police and wildlife officers to take away their trailer and dart gun and let them keep two deer they'd raised as pets. (Oregonian)
- Ashland Cattle Ranch Faces Failure If Grazing Is Curtailed. But, environmental-whackos with political powers say grazing cows are ruining the environment in the Cascade-Siskiyous. (Mail Tribune)
- Man Jailed After Wandering Naked, Prompting Aloha School Lockdown. (Oregonian)
- Jewish Groups Join Circumcision Fight. OR mother against Jewish father. (Oregonian)
- New Zealand Company Moving Offices to Portland. (Oregonian)
- Developer of Beaverton's Round Settles Foreclosure Suit. (Oregonian)
- Hood River: Economical Homebuilders Hit Stalemate With City Over Development. (Hood River News)
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