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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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National/International News
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- DMV Censors OR Family's Name From Car License Plates. (KATU)
- Sen. Smith Proposes Legislation Increasing the Number Of Visas Given to Iraqis Seeking Asylum In the U.S. (Assyrian Internat'l News Agency)
- Assyria Times Newspaper Unhappy With Spector, Smith's Acceptance Of Testimony from Esteemed Witness On Iraqi Refugees. Headline: "Panelist Insults Assyrian Christians Of Iraq!" [Exclamation mark, theirs.] "The irony of the program which hardly mentioned the Assyrian Christians who by all measure form the majority of the refugee population was that no particular support was expressed for them by panelists or commission members, some who left even before questioning began."
- Senator Biden Press Release Lists Senator Smith As Supporter Of His Amendment On Iraq. Senate vote coming up this week.
- Anti-Military Recruiting Message Blasted To Oregon's High School Campuses. Alert, alert. Rebel against military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy by refusing to be contacted by military recruiters. (Willamette Week)
- Officers Remove Bear from Oregon Yard. (Oregonian)
- Randy Leonard Files Re-Election Papers Monday. (WW)
- Test Scores: Middle Schools Improving; High Schools Stagnant. (Oregonian)
- LOOK Which Lawyers Have Made the Biggest Bank On Measure 37. (Willamette Week)
- Blumenauer's Townhall Meeting Turns Combative. Far left doesn't find Blumenauer radical enough. Says coward for not calling for Bush's impeachment. (Oregonian)
- Knifewielding Robber Went Too Far Making Those Racist Remarks. (KATU)
- Bradbury, Two Others Inducted Into Wild Salmon Hall of Fame. [Hall of Fame? How many people ever heard of the Wild Salmon Hall of Fame? How do salmon say thank you?]
- Bradbury, Two Others Inducted Into Wild Salmon Hall of Fame. [Hall of Fame? How many people ever heard of the Wild Salmon Hall of Fame?] “In 1995, Bill became Executive Director of For the Sake of the Salmon..." [How do salmon say thank you?]
- Clackamas: Cracks In Immigrant Reporting Are Sealed. A teenage girl's death leads authorities to report more foreign born DUI suspects. (Oregonian) KATU Report On County's Change Of Illegal Immigrant Policy. County has reported more foreign-born drunken drivers to immigration authorities in the past month than in the previous 18 months combined. (KATU)
- Sen. Smith Proposes Legislation Increasing the Number Of Visas Given to Iraqis Seeking Asylum In the U.S. (Assyrian Internat'l News Agency)
- Assyria Times Newspaper Unhappy With Spector, Smith's Acceptance Of Testimony from Esteemed Witness On Iraqi Refugees. Headline: "Panelist Insults Assyrian Christians Of Iraq!" [Exclamation mark, theirs.] "The irony of the program which hardly mentioned the Assyrian Christians who by all measure form the majority of the refugee population was that no particular support was expressed for them by panelists or commission members, some who left even before questioning began."
- OU Classes Begin, So Do Student Citations for Excessive Partying. 42 alcohol-related citations in one night. (Oregonian)
- Fewer Oregonians Marrying. (Julie Sullivan, Betsy Hammond, Oregonian)
- Medford [Liberal] Editor Struggles Over Naming of Teacher Who Wants to Tote Gun. (Oregonian)
- Bob Hunter's Editorial On Being Conflicted Over Naming Teacher. (Mail Tribune) [He leaves out his own bias against gun rights & how that might affect his opinion.] Readers can leave comments. [So far, it looks as though The OR Conservative isn't the only one suspecting Mr. Hunter's motives.]
- The Measure 50. "First they came for the smokers... (Dave Reinhard, Oregonian)
- Sen. Gordon Smith's Company Fined $3,000 for Wastewater Discharge. Dems try to make hay of it. (Oregonian)
- Liberal Version Of an Objective Question: "Land Use: Did Voters Overdo It Or Get It Right?" Eric Mortenson, Oregonian) [The voters got it right! No on M-49.]
- Klamath Falls: OR Tribe Receives First Per Capita Payments Since 1954. (Mail Tribune)
- Beaverton Councilor Will Run for Mayor. (Oregonian)
- Weyerhaeuser Buying Oklahoma Sawmill. (Portland Business Journal)
- Widow Ends Deportation Fight...Well, Sort Of. Her attn'y has filed a class action lawsuit seeking to end what he calls the "widow penalty." (Oregonian)
- Mexican Curriculum, In OR Schools, Stirs Debate. Give your opinion on KGO's poll question.
- Big Look Shut Down. "Democrats want to kill any change in land-use planning, and they've proved it by de-funding the Big Look Task Force," said Rep. Bill Garrard, R-Klamath Falls, former chairman of the House Land Use Committee. (Capital Press)
- OR Congressman Wu Favors Patent Bill; Wants to Add Amendment to Senate Bill. (SJ) See following articles for history of the already passed House version of the patent bill. Inventors Testify Before U.S. Senate Against Patent Bill. The legislation seeks to limit the damages for patent infringement, and allow patents to be challenged more easily after they have been issued. The bill is being supported by Microsoft and Cisco, which claim that they are at the mercy of companies that own a patent on small portions of much larger applications and use this to reap substantial pay outs. (VNU Net) Segway Inventor Raps Patent Reform Bill. (Business Week) Lobbying Against Patent Bill Underway. (Circuits Assembly) House Passed Patent Bill Allows Easier Piracy Abroad. (Reuters) Patent Reform Foes Say Bill Would Stifle Innovation. Does away with basic protections. (IT Business Edge) White House Opposes Portion of Patent Bill. (ABC)
- Portland Tribune Reports Bob Ball Himself the Subject Of Underage Rumor, Investigation.
- Willamette Week Follow-up On Sam Adams vs. Bob Ball Story. Is Bob Ball politically finished for telling on Sam Adams? Did Sam Adams use bad judgment with intern?
- Gravy Train: Earl Blumenauer & the "Transportation Mafia." (Willamette Week)
- Group Pickets Planned Parenthood Site. (News Register)
- Ahmadinejad Parrots Democrats. (Rush Limbaugh)
- SURVEILLANCE SHOWDOWN. (David B. Rivkin Jr., and Lee A. Casey, WSJ) Would any sane country purposefully limit its ability to spy on enemy communications in time of war?
- Gregoire Threatens Lawsuit Over Kids' Health. [Don't ever accuse Gregoire of an incapacity to be pseudomelodramatic.](Oregonian)
- Associated Press Headline: "Tough U.S. Welcome for Iran's Ahmadinejad." Ahmadinejad now denies he questioned the existence of the Holocaust. Claims he was defending small group of European scholars who have been prosecuted under national laws for denying or minimizing the Holocaust. "There's nothing known as absolute."
- UAW Launches Nat'l Strike Against GM. Follows 3 weeks of talks. (10 News)
- Washington: 120+ People Arrested, 11.4M Doses Seized In Steroid Probe. (10 News)
- Yahoo Web Voters Choose Obama Over Clinton.
- Senator Biden Press Release Lists Senator Smith As Supporter Of His Amendment On Iraq. Senate vote coming up this week.
- Bush Urging Social Security Fix Again. (AP)
- Moses Lake, WA: U.S. Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Base, with Underground Network of Tunnels, for Sale. (Breitbart)
- SENATE TO VOTE ONN IRAQ DIVISION (By ethics group) PLAN BY TUESDAY. Biden amendment support by Gordon Smith. (Breitbart)
- SHOCK VIDEO, from You Tube, Shows "Racially Motivated" Beating Of White Teen. Breitbart TV shows video.
- NY: Gov. Spitzer Announces Illegal Immigrants Get Driver's Licenses. (NY News) [Is it any wonder that it is NY that has twice been attacked by terrorists? What city mayor, in the entire United States, deserved more to be going around NYC with a handkerchief over his face than Rudy Giuliani who went to court against the U.S. Gov't to prevent NYC cops from having to ask for proof of citizenship? What Gov. will be more deserving if it happens a third time than Gov. Spitzer? Why should terrorists bother with any other city but NYC? The next time will make the last two times look like nothing. Three strikes and you're out.]
- NY ACLU Praises Gov. Spitzer's Giving Licenses to Illegals. (ACLU)
- NY Gov. Taking License With Alien-Driver ID. (NY Post,Kenneth Lovett, editorial)
- NY DMV "Does Not Believe It's In the Business of Checking a Person's Legal Status." (WND)
- A License to Dodge Hiring Law. State doesn't check if business-permit holders are legal residents. (AZ Republic)
- My E-mail to Sen. Dick Durbin Regarding the "Dream Act." (Red State)
- Arkansas: Policy Positions & Getting Republicans Elected. Huckabee's weakness on taxes while governor has been well documented recently by the national media, but it was his hostility to those in his own party who took a more strident position on illegal immigration that angered many...Enter Karen Ray the state Republican Party's new (pro-illegal-immigration) 20-something executive director...[In the name of the primary goal being to get Republicans elected, M's Ray will give victory to Arkansas Democrats. Other state GOPs are making exactly the same mistakes. That is why the Democrats have so much hope for the 2008 elections. The GOP will GIVE them the victories.] (Arkansas News)
- Crowd Cheers As Tancredo Blasts Illegal -- and Legal -- Immigration In U.S. (St. Louis Today)
- Tancredo's Immigration Overhaul Not a Bill Yet. A plan he trumpeted hasn't become a bill, but his focus on the topic hasn't wavered either. (Denver Post)
- Bad Idea for Immigration. The DREAM Act is anything but "a small act of immigration reform." (LA Times)
- Democrat Sponsor Tries to Sweeten Bill On Illegal immigrant Children. (Houston Chronicle)
- Bill Offers U.S. Citizenship for Military Service. "The military has seemed receptive, but some Hispanic groups have expressed concern that the bill is a ploy to pull young Latin Americans into combat situations for which they wouldn't otherwise have volunteered." (WSJ) [How about their willingness to show that they want to be true American citizens like other men in this country? Let everyone else sacrifice or die for their "American Dream" except them?]
- Sen. John Cornyn: Not the Time for Student Immigration Bill. (Statesman)
- Frederick, MD: Rising Immigration Debate -- Frederick Co. Official Proposes Denial of Services. The turning point for newly elected Frederick County Commissioner Charles Jenkins came at a meeting where many county offices requested increased funding for interpreters, particularly Spanish-speakers. Jenkins asked if those receiving services were legal residents and was told that, for the most part, no one knew. (Balto. Sun)
- Dairy Farmer Lobbies Congress for Farm Bill. Key issues included potential immigration legislation on the AgJOBS bill...a pitch against a proposal to classify animal manure as a hazardous substance covered by the Super Fund law...[and] a revision proposed to the Clean Water Act. It would remove the word “navigable” from “navigable waters,” thus making all waters, even on land-locked farms, subject to the restrictions required by the act. (Valdosta Daily Times)
- The Ag JOBS Act: Immigration Amnesty Revived. (Heritage Foundation)
- 2002 Romney Flier Promotes "Gay" Rights. Leaflet reportedly handed out at Boston "Pride" parade. Copy of flier provided by Democrats.(WND)
- Thompson Makes First Campaign Stop In Michigan. (Detroit News)
- New Jersey: Public Gets Its Chance to Critique Civil Unions. Gov. Jon Corzine sees gay marriage coming to New Jersey -- but not next year, when, he says, it could be exploited to provoke a backlash affecting the presidential race. (The Star Ledger)
- Schwarzenegger Sides With Hillary Clinton On Mandatory Health Care. (Asso. Co.)
- Wolf Populations Continue to Increase. (SJ)
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National/International News
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- More Than 100,000 Protest Against Myanmar Junta. (Bush going to order sanctions against. See above headline under "national/international news.) (Breitbart)
- Israel: OLMERT AGREED TO MAKE JERUSALEM AN ARAB CAPTIAL? The chairman of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), met with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice last week - and told her that Prime Minister Olmert agrees, finally, to turn eastern Jerusalem into the capital of a future state of Palestine. So reports the PA newspaper Al Hayat Al Jadeeda, quoting an unnamed "senior Palestinian source." (Israel Nat'l News)
- Israel Nat'l Post Editorial Calls Olmert "Puppet Leader." "...his meetings with Ehud Olmert are gradually turning into a disgrace and have become a humiliation for his people. Nothing good will come of them. It has become impossible to bear the spectacle of the Palestinian leader's jolly visits in Jerusalem, bussing the cheek of the wife of the very prime minister who is meanwhile threatening to blockade a million and a half of his people, condemning them to darkness and hunger."
- Likud MK Limore Livnat Has Asked Prime Minister Olmert To Say Publicly He Will Not Divide Jerusalem and... give up the Temple Mount. Livnat said that if Olmert did not make such a statement, it would be a sign that Vice Premier Haim Ramon's statements about dividing Jerusalem were authorized by the prime minister. (Jerusalem Post)
- Rabbis Told Jews to Shun Evangelicals' Tourism Event... baffling and upsetting evangelical groups that traditionally have been big supporters of the Jewish state. The Israeli government has forged close ties with conservative American Christians in recent years, and evangelical groups have contributed millions of dollars to Israel. These Christian groups also oppose territorial concessions to the Palestinians who want to establish a state in areas Israel captured in the 1967 Six Day War. (Jerusalem Post)
- Israel: Draft Dodging On the Increase. Liberal influence and..."Others say they do not trust Ehud Olmert's government with their lives after a report said the prime minister acted impulsively in going to war against Lebanon last year." (AP)
- France Seeks to Enforce Deportation Quotas for Illegal Aliens. Prominent French scientists say DNA testing to determine whether foreigners applying for visas are actually related to family members they seek to join in France is unethical and illegal. Immigration activists such as Mouloud Aounit suggest the legislation reflects a "xenophobic" government. (SF Chron.)
- Israeli Cabinet Approves Release of 90 Palestinian Prisoners. (China View)
- Musharraf's Two-Front War. Osama bin Laden may not have the religious authority to issue a fatwa, but for some in Pakistan, his declaration of war against President Pervez Musharraf carries the same weight as a papal excommunication. (Time Mag)
- Iraq Unlikely to Expel Blackwater for Fear of "Security Vacuum." (IHT)
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