Whoever thought the silliness would come to this? Yet it has. Strangely underreported in American media, the story appears under the headline: U.S. to Capture Cow Farts to Save the Planet
In the future, America will harness cow farts to curb pollution and power the grid. [...]
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...
[...] Lili Taylor has posted a poll on her blog: “Do you think the PPS administration has already decided which high schools to close?” So far, 100% of respondents have answered “Yes.”
[...]We all know what's happened to the health care reform bill in the Senate...so far. Think whale carcass, serendipitously beached in a village of starving Aleutians. If the word "near-total gutting" comes to mind, you win a prize.
What to do now? Progressive heroine Darcy Burner says Kill it, kill [...]
Press Release by Allen Alley for GovernorAs 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...
Hypothetical 2012 Matchups
According to pollster Adam Davis, Oregonians are increasingly negative, insular, ill-informed, skeptical of the media, anxious about the economy and worried about national and world events from disease to war. Speaking yesterday at the Portland City Club, Davis wielded a broad brush, claiming that Oregonians don't know basic things,' [...]
Several polls capture the widespread public dissatisfaction with the economy, consumer prices and Wall Street bankers and brokers.
- Wall Street Anger: 2/3rds of consumers say they have an unfavorable view of financial executives.
- Shopping Pull-Back: 95.1% of shoppers say that they are waiting as long [...]
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...
By Dave Anderson:
Carbon taxes and cap and trade are both attempts to create price incentives to reduce carbon emissions. The goal is to raise the dispersed and mostly externalized cost of pollution into a concentrated and internalized cost for the polluter. From here, most polluters will seek to reduce emissions [...]
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 -...
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...
[...] 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%...
By Ron Beasley
I'm with John Cole here:
I have nothing but bad feelings about the addition of 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. Watching Michael O’Hanlon on the evening news was like a punch to the gut- we’ve been down this road before.
At what point are O’Hanlon and Pollack every going to be discredited enough' [...]
Grether and Mathys demonstrate the inconvenient truth of global CO2 emissions: the rapid growth of middle income countries in Asia (particularly China) is very carbon-intensive.
Gallup poll on New York terror trial
C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll
Press Release
ANN ARBOR, Mich,—When your daughter goes online, how likely is it she’s being stalked by a stranger or bullied by a classmate? When your son surfs the Web, what are the chances he’s viewing pornography or gambling? [...]
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...
NBC-Wall Street Journal 
Well, this is it -- the day of the historic Civil War football game between the Oregon Ducks and the Oregon State Beavers. If you haven't weighed in on our 
