(Something you will never see on any of the blue-Moonbat blogs)
On December 7th I published this opinion piece in which I said that I did not think that Sid Leiken was prepared to be a US...
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Oregon Editor
(Something you will never see on any of the blue-Moonbat blogs)
On December 7th I published this opinion piece in which I said that I did not think that Sid Leiken was prepared to be a US...
[...] Yesterday I published a press release from the fellow (Mike Mathisen) who is challenging Tax-bob Jenson in the Republican primary.
Then Jeff Mapes followed up on that press release by making his...
My phone and email lines have been working over-time the last 48 hours and a new name has surfaced as a possible candidate for Oregon State Governor. That is Mark Hemstreet.
Mark Hemstreet is the...
Stay tuned to NWR today as a new name is percolating in the Oregon Republican gubernatorial race.
Details and new poll within the hour.
UPDATE: The developing new about a potential bid by Mark...
[...] Recently a reader brought my attention to this report by "Common Cause" regarding Russ Walker.
There really is nothing in that report that is new or "news" but it is written in such a way as to make...
Looks like things happened while I was buried deep into the Reservation on business this week.
Bruce Hanna decided not to run for governor. Bad decision if you ask me. But alas aint going to...
As we get into the Holiday season and news tends to slow down and be a little lighter I thought it might be a good time to run a quick online poll on the Republican gubernatorial primary. So if you...
I'm thinking this is a pretty good ad. No one likes the idea of retroactive taxes.
' [...] I've known Mathew Wand for several years now. He is a fine upstanding young man. He is a Troutdale City Councilor and is running for the legislature.
He published this op-ed opposing the tax...
' [...] This story was posted on Wweek yesterday. I found this line particularly intriguing.
The connections to the RNC bear the stamp of Portland political strategist Dan Lavey of the Gallatin Group, who...
More and more people are waking up to the notion that this Afghanistan war policy is lunacy. Today Tony Blankley writes:
A sense of unreality overshadows our debate on Afghan war policy across the...
[...] It has always felt particularly odd for me to have personally liked Karen Minnis and yet have a deep disdain for her husband John Minnis. There was just always something cold and calculating about...
HT: WWeek for catching the video below "Change" that was posted 21 hours ago.
Now today, 45 minutes ago, Team Dudley has published a second video entitled "Jobs."
Thoughts?
UPDATE: Interesting...
[...] Obama's 47 Percent Approval Lowest of Any
President at This Point
Uh oh.
President Obama's job approval rating has fallen to 47 percent in the latest Gallup poll, the lowest ever recorded for any...
KABUL – Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday it will be at least 15 years before his government can bankroll a security force strong enough to protect the country from the threat of...
[...] Not sure how I missed this idiotic story by Steve Duin (probably because Steve Duin really has not been relevant for over a decade.), but I saw it this morning.
What a complete waste of a lot of...
There is a new Rassmussen poll out just this morning that shows Republican party candidates (on a generic ballot) losing to "Tea Party" candidates. In the 3-way generic ballot question:
Democrat -...
If I were a betting man I would bet that Rep. Bruce Hanna will indeed be running for Governor of the state of Oregon. I'd give a 90% chance at this point.
On Friday there were a couple of different...
' [...] The definitive piece on how the scientific community has behaved leading up to the CRUtape letters incident has been written by Steven Hayward.
As in the furor over Dan Rather's fabricated documents...
Some early polling on the tax increase measures in Oregon is in.
Measure 66: If the election were held today, would you vote yes or no on Measure 66: Raises tax on household income at and above...
[...] The cash is impressive, his brain team? Not so much.
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...
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)...
[...] 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...
While much has been made by the left regarding the relatively small amounts of money that some corporations have paid for scientific studies, they continually overlook the monumental amounts of cash...
Oh my gracious. I have come to the conclusion that this man (Obama) is not merely a bad president, a disingenuous president, but a president that is downright dangerous for this nation and the...
Great question from the NYPost "No data = no science."
Their story strains credulity: Who'd toss out data critical to the idea that the earth is rapidly warming as a result of human activity —...
Washington and Oregon are both Democrat leaning states, so these two polls should come as a bit of a surprise to many.
Do you approve of the job Barack Obama is doing as President?
Washington: 47%...
I could not have said this better. Now where are the Republican Congressional and Senatorial candidates of 2010 on this issue?
But the military is now able to meet its recruitment goals because the...
[...] The good ship known as the Democrat party continues to leak. In the last year the number of people identifying themselves as Democratics has dropped by 5%.
The number of Americans identifying...
Her private jet might cost the "Going Rogue" author her hockey mom image.
Sitting drinking my cup of coffee this morning I was amazed (why I don't know anymore) at this considerably long segment by...
On Sunday Paul Krugman made the idiotic statement that there was "tremendously more money" to be made by being a skeptic of Man-Made-Global-Warming than there is in the church of MMGW. A complete...
[...] Congressman Jason Chaffetz of Utah sent out a press release calling on President Obama to bring the troops home from Afghanistan.
2) Mr. President, it is time to bring our troops home. If our...
[...] This editorial from the Wall Street Journal notes something that I have been saying for quite some time regarding the church of Man-Made-Global-Warming. That is that the apostles of the MMGW church...
[...] And the house of cards known as the church of Man-Made-Global-Warming continues to fall.
SCIENTISTS at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data...
I have long had problems with Mike Huckabee. I did not like him as a nominee last time as he was squirlish, squishy and in general acted a lot like a snake oil salesman.
Well today 4 Washington...
And so it begins... A once growing religion falls almost over night.
Many of us on the right have been laughing, for a long time, at the obvious contortions that Global Warming alarmists (church of...
I'm just curious. I remember that for the last few years of the Bush presidency the progressive moonbats would dance a jig at every new poll that came out looking bad for Bush or...
Unbelievable
President Obama should immediately pardon these guys.
Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation...
[...] I had no doubt that the mainstream press would downplay or ignore for a while, the devastating emails regarding the church of Man-Made-Global-Warming. But for all of the major news outlets to...
[...] Strongly Approve - 27%..........Strongly Disapprove 42%
While Americans continue to die in the God forsaken hell hole that is Afghanistan, and Obama seems bound and determined to do what it takes to...
Well good golly suddenly a flood of Oregon gubernatorial candidate news. Many folks may know that I am a friend of Bill Sizemore, so in light of that I'll let his press release stand on it's...
[...] There have been a lot of rumblings amongst folks in conservative circles and now more and more in Oregon business circles, to get Bruce Hanna to run for Governor of Oregon.
This is a story I have...
[...] It looks like the church of Man-Made-Global-Warming is beginning to collapse from within. We at NWR have been calling the theory of MMGW a religion for some time. For many reasons. But the events...
4 US service members die in Afghan attacks
KABUL — Bomb attacks and a firefight killed four U.S. troops in 24 hours in Afghanistan, the military said Monday, adding to the growing toll as NATO and...
[...] Ok so others have been talking about this video (see below). I saw it yesterday and have since learned that my reaction to it was not outside the norm.
Norah O decides she is going to play "gotcha"...
Those are Fred Thompson's words and it comes as no surprise to readers of this blog that I agree with him. I even made the call to Republican Congressional Candidates to begin calling for the...
[...] We posted here yesterday the press release from Gregg Clapper announcing their award of almost $300,000 in their lawsuit against the Oregon State Patrol. Today we have the settlement letter from...
UPDATE: See copy of Atty. Gen. letter and check to Hemstreet/Clapper HERE.
Some folks might remember that back in 2005 Mark Hemstreet and Gregg Clapper were falsely accused and charged for hunting...
Ouch, this will leave a mark as Democrats try to explain how Oregon's budget has been exploding, while taxpayers are losing jobs and earning less.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ...
[...] Less than a year ago Barack Obama was soaring high. Newly inaugurated and the country was encouraged to have this new beautiful man sitting in the oval office who was going to change and fix...
[...] I watched the Palin interview on Oprah yesterday. There were some things that I liked about it (with regard to Palin) and some things that I did not. It was not a "policy" interview and I don't...
Of course he must be presumed innocent at this time. No? I mean if he is being given the benefit of a trial in the U.S. courts and all the rights due someone in that system, then he must be presumed...
[...] Ah... This might be an interesting race to watch with lots of intersecting possibilities.
Lane County is dominated by the uber-liberal Eugene yet has some very rural portions to the county. That is...
[...] Why? Well, because I said so.
At least that seems to be his reasoning in assessing others. I caught a portion of "This Week" on Sunday and when confronted with the buzz about Gov. Sarah Palin that...
[...] So the AP decided to assign eleven (that's 11) reporters to "fact check" Sarah Palin's new book. Thus far in the whole of the book they "found" six (that's 6) errors. Weak and thin as Power Line...
This video is now making the rounds. Then Sen. Barack Obama promising that KSM would get a "military trial." Of course that was before the new Obama administration found that they could put the...
Unfortunately I have not been able to watch any episodes of this year's "Mad Men" television show. However, I notice that Mike Potemra has and had this interesting observation.
My favorite TV show,...
[...] Small towns with high employment rates. This AOL story lists:
Benton City Washington (The area in Eastern Washington (pop 2,800) has some of the highest projected job growth in the country, and is...
[...] You know how the new crop of Republican Congressional candidates can get some attention and stir up debate in the campaigns? Start calling for the U.S. to get out of Afghanistan.
George Bush...
[...] I noticed this post by Kari Chisholm the other day in which he does his best to fan the flames of partisanship to the point of almost encouraging violence and mayhem. Chisholm seems to be hoping...
[...] For the last several years I have always taken Veteran's day off to go on a hunt with a high school buddy of mine. We both joined the Army on the buddy plan.
Sooo... Spent a gorgeous day in the...
[...] HT: Ridenbaugh Press
I have been a big supporter of Term Limits for a long time. Don't forget that Oregon Republicans started losing ground when they started attacking term limits.
Clint Didier is...
News is breaking today. Anita Dunn, the architect of the failed White House attacks on Fox News is stepping down.
[...] Reading this story about how the FBI is reassessing their past look at the debased Muslim extremist murderer Nidal Hasan, I find myself shaking my head. Shaking my head in that it just seems that...
[...] I found this post from NRO's "The Corner" quite revealing. Especially on the heals that Obama, mere hours after the Ft. Hood massacre, appeared in a jovial mood and spent the first couple of minutes...
[...] Ok so now we know that U.S. Intelligence services KNEW there were some deep problems with the Muslim radical Nidal Hasan. And like in the Clinton days "pre-9/11" it appears that one agency was not...
[...] Great catch by Max.
The court sided with Nicholson, effectively conferring upon the "Climate Change" philosophy the status of a religious belief.
[...] Wow now this is pretty amazing. In a document published by George Washington University entitled "Thinking Anew---Security Priorities For The Next Administration" the Ft. Hood Shooter's name "Nidal...
'" [...] Obama/Pelosi/Reid are asking Americans to explode our nation's deficits on a risky experiment while reducing coverage for elderly Americans and mandating coverage for other Americans.
Read this...
[...] Barack Obama is coming under fire for his "frightening insensitivity" to the Ft. Hood massacre yesterday. And I think rightfully so.
Obama was scheduled to make an appearance to a Native American...
UPDATE: From the AP -
Soldiers reported that the gunman shouted "Allahu Akbar!" — an Arabic phrase for "God is great!" — before opening fire, said Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, the base commander. He said...
Up until last week Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that Congress would not even hear a Republican plan for health care reform let alone vote on one.
However things have changed and the Republicans now get...
Some of the elites in the press and the Republican establishment have been missing what really happened in NY-23. Here is some commentary by a fellow who was on the ground there.
What happened in...
It was almost funny how George Stephanapoulous tried to spin NY-23 into some kind of wicked civil war within the Republican party and should give Republicans pause.
My reaction to his misguided...
Republicans did not just win the Governor's mansion in Virginia (first time in 12 years) but they won all three top spots in the state. Oh... and the Republicans are winning by HUGE margins.
In a...
[...] This story is a few days old but still interesting. Former NFL great and Portland State University Alum is considering a run for the U.S. Senate from the great state of Washington against Democrat...
Ouch!
Just a couple of weeks ago "Media Matters" got busted lying in their support of the Philadelphia ACORN crowd. I'm sure most of the pres missed it because MM does not highlight their mistakes...
Of course NWR readers saw this coming. The fact that thousands of great paying jobs could be leaving the state of Washington and it was because of the antics of the Democratics and the Union...
[...] Republican Cristie - 47
Democrat Corzine - 41
In New Jersey it looks like Corzine is slipping back again. NEW JERSEY! It should not even be close.
Obama is going to lose Virginia for sure and I...
OK the true title to the article is "Obama vs. The President he said he would be," but I did not want to use the authors own title in my headline. Great article.
First the promises by Obama:
During...
Nice editorial in the Democrat Herald yesterday.
They note that the Department of Human Services in Albany was closed last Friday and they hang a sign outside the door that said "Due to state budget...
I had a clue that there were some extenuating circumstances behind Sen. Atkinson's lack of campaign activity. However, I was hesitant to say anything or broach the subject due to the personal nature...
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