Jeff Mapes has the story about Chris Dudley's haul of campaign cash. Wow, that's great.... Ok, now that we are done gawking at the campaign kettle (because seriously, haven't Oregon Republicans been...
edited by: Mike Landfair,
Oregon Editor
THE DEPROLIFERATOR -- A large part of the lore of crime is the history of those transporting precious goods and the highwaymen who prey on them. Valuables are most vulnerable when in transit. Removed from safe storage and the constancy of inanimate walls, they become susceptible to [...]
By John Ballard
Nouri Lumendifi prefers to be called Kal but I have a hard time making that adjustment because he first got my attention with a book report he posted at the age of seventeen that impressed me more than the book. That was only three and a half [...]
Candidate Race Update by Taxpayer Association of Oregon PAC
Tax Alert by the Taxpayer Association of Oregon,
We adults are awash in federal government debt. Our children will drown in it. The present health-care reform proposals in the U.S. Senate and House will create an even stronger undertow, dragging us all down deeper. The initial 10-year government-guesstimated trillion-dollar cost of said proposals [...] 
Black Friday & Cyber Monday: Some Quick Facts
• Black Friday spending rose 0.5%, ($54 million), to $10.7 billion, this year from last year.
• Online sales up 17% (Thurs. to Sun.) over the same period last year.
• Cyber Monday up 11%, more than they did a year [...]
Circus on the Streets is a new program by Portlander Sarah Stein set in the colorful Lower East Side of New York City in the 1920’s and 30’s. These are colorful and memorable stories which Sarah wrote about her family’s life during [...]
By Karla Kay Edwards
Cascade Policy Institute
Oregon is a leader in the “buy local food” movement, and buying fresh produce from local farmers’ markets and community supported agriculture (CSA) could become an even stronger trend in our state. People not only want to know [...]
Amazing to see the name of Mike Huckabee in Frank Schaeffer's piece in this context this week:
George Grant is one of the far right/theocratic mentors. He appeared with Rushdoony in the video, Gods Law and Society. Grant was the co-author for Huckabees 1998 book, Kids Who Kill: Confronting Our [...]
Life of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen to be celebrated 30 years later with memorial Mass
PEORIA, Ill., Emmy Award winning TV personality Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen will be remembered in a memorial Mass on the 30th anniversary of his death, December 9, 2009. Sheen is being called [...]
They issued a joint statement late on Thursday, including:
A change in direction is needed for the Columbia River Crossing Project to be successfully accomplished. The current proposal is mired in financial challenges, and the region risks missing critical federal deadlines unless we change course. The project refinement recommendation before [...]
"OSU will fight till the end but WE WILL WIN!"
Roses, baby! We're going to Pasadena! Well, at least my team is. Oregon beat Oregon State tonight, 37-33. With that win, we clinch the PAC-10 championship outright, and seal a trip to the Rose Bowl.
I'm actually glad [...]
Commentary By Ron Beasley
There is an upside to the Rethuglicans pandering to the teabaggers - they are forced to take on the oligarchs represented by The Federal Reserve. Of course it's mostly lip service but something might come of this:
Vitter wants vote on Fed audit before Bernanke voteOf [...]
For the second year in a row, Oregon beats the beavers and robs them of the Rose Bowl. My predictions for Beavers winning are as good as duck poop on the bottom of the lake.
The good news is that the Oregon State is going to the Rose Bowl. I’m [...]
The House voted today to extend the federal estate tax. But of course, Brian Baird, the supposedly Democratic congressman from the 'Couv, joined all 174 Republicans in voting against it. His good buddy Lars Larson will no doubt be proud.
No estate tax, no stock transactions tax, no health' [...] By Ron Beasley
Tonight the 113th civil war game between Oregon and Oregon State will be on national TV. The powerful PAC 10 has half of it's teams in the top 25 and is so deep it's virtually impossible to go undefeated. Tonight's game is different' [...]
Apparently you can embed this file. Oops.
[...]In 2007, a whole bunch of interested folks came together with the legislature to reconfigure the system for managing the Portland region’s urban and rural land use issues. The system in place wasn't protecting critical farmland or natural resources over the long term and was failing to consider how to' [...]
By BJ Bjornson
While the markets have apparently decided that all is well with Wall Street, more than a few of us are of the considered opinion that very little has changed and are waiting for the other shoe to drop on the vapourous wealth the investment banks have been continually [...]
By Steve Hynd
General Stan McChrystal is signalling to the Afghan leadership that Obama's 2011 "beginning of the end" is just a number they shouldn't take seriously.
The top US military commander in Afghanistan has met senior politicians there as part of a charm offensive to sell Barack Obama’s new strategy.' [...]
KVAL finally put up the video of my interview with Shelley Kurtz on the Internet.
I can’t embed it so I’ll just link to it:
[...]Blogger and Yamhill County resident Randy Stapilus says uber-conservative Mary Starrett is throwing her hat into the ring for Yamhill County Commissioner:
One of the more naturally skillful minor party candidates the Northwest has seen in the last few cycles is Mary Starrett, who ran for governor in 2006 as [...]Just what are our goals in Afghanistan? We as Americans are being asked to cough up billions more in dollars and who knows how many more lives, and yet Obama (and supportive Republicans on the Hill)...
[...] ...to give the O Administration some benefit of the doubt. I've tried to do that because 1) what O inherited on Jan 20 was a thankless task and a multi-dimensional mess that is FUBAR 2) any criticism that might indirectly bolster attacks from the Limbaugh-Beck-Kristol-Gingrich' [...]
By Steve Hynd
Let the incremetal escalation continue!
Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he asked the president for flexibility on the number in case military commanders in the field request additional medics or troops trained to detect improvised explosive devices.
Gates told a Senate committee Thursday that he got approval for the [...]
I'm alive this morning and healthy. But if I die at work from something completely unexpected, that could be bad.
The above might as well become the headline for tomorrow based on the headline and...
