edited by: Mike Landfair,
Oregon Editor
Breitbart's Big Government site strikes gold again. Of course, everywhere they pan in the ACORN area yields nuggets, and they haven't likely hit the mother lode yet.
On October 1st, 2009 California Attorney General Jerry Brown announced that an investigation had been opened into ACORN’s activities in California, resulting from' [...]
38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. Nearly 20% more than that oppose it, and BO's numbers are keeping up with the free-fall. That whole Hope'n'Change thing sure had a short shelf-life.
Things are dire when even left-oriented folks like those [...]
A former soldier who handed a discarded shotgun in to police faces at least five years imprisonment for "doing his duty".
Paul Clarke, 27, was found guilty of possessing a firearm at Guildford Crown Court on Tuesday – after finding the gun and handing it personally to police officers on March [...]
According to the U.N., climate change causes women to become hookers. The effects of climate change have driven women in communities in coastal areas in poor countries like the Philippines into dangerous work, and sometimes even the flesh trade. Suneeta Mukherjee, country representative of the United Nations Food Population [...]
Walpin was cleared of any wrongdoing by the Integrity Committee of the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency. The Obama administration' [...]
Strangely, this story doesn't seem to be getting much play in the American media, but U.K. media manages to report it. MoTown once was famous for music and muscle cars, but now represents something entirely different.
The abandoned corpses, in white body bags with number tags tied to each toe,' [...]
The High Priest hath annointed his Disciple, yea and verily, and hath found him wanting not. AlGore has endorsed Billy Bradbury for the Oregon governorship. Having built so much, and having worked so hard to stoke hysteria among governments and inDUHviduals alike, the annointment by the High Priest [...]
The average Joe seems to know what completely escapes BO: The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 62% believe tax cuts are a better way to create jobs and fight unemployment. BO, on the other hand, continues to mull the idea of yet another Porkulus plan.
And while [...]
Some years ago, Newsweek held an aura of respectability. As local blogger Rob Kremer recently pointed out: Newsweek used to be a very good rag. Decent columnists, good business coverage, intelligent writing. Now it is just another failing liberal media outlet.
The only problem with Kremer's observation is that he [...]
How desperate is the Religion becoming? When they resort to stuff like this, it's obvious that they're desperate indeed:
The high-pitched whine of a low-flying jet engine fills the air as the camera tracks across images of shimmering glass buildings, the Towers of Mammon in an unidentified urban' [...]
We need to have cfc bulbs to "Save The Planet". The EU is already into a mandatory switch, so the USA won't be far behind - incandescent bulbs will soon be a thing of the past. We'll all save energy with our (mercury laden) compact fluorescent replacements. Incandescent bulbs lose [...]
At its November 12 meeting, Metro’s Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation (JPACT) adopted “performance targets” calling for a tripling of walking, biking, and transit use by 2035. This came despite the release of the Annual Portland Resident Survey conducted by the City Auditor, showing that levels of solo driving [...]
AlGore's in town to stump for his acolyte, Billy Bradbury (and of course, to push his latest vision of the impending Apocalypse). In the other corner, Greenies have apparently vandalized the venue (Keller Auditorium); spray-painting slogans all around. This being Portland, you have to wonder where the Greenies got [...]
CNSNews.com asked Merkley: “Specifically where in the Constitution does Congress get its authority to mandate that individuals purchase health care?”
Merkley said: “The very first enumerated power gives the power to provide for the common defense and the general welfare. So it’s right on, right on the front end.”
Obviously, Merkley isn't' [...]
Colorado just got the first conviction in the USA based on this technique. A punk did smash-and-grabs on a bunch of cars in an apartment complex. Unfortunately for him, he cut his widdle self during one of them, leaving a bloodstain on a seat. As one wag put it, [...]
He's not throwing folks under the bus any longer. There's some good news!
But wait! There's more! The Obama administration's $787-billion economic stimulus has, for example, thankfully created 30 new jobs in a little-known rural corner of Arizona at a cost to American taxpayers of only $761,420.
So the [...]
At present this appears to be only a threat, as apparently no action has occurred thus far. However, a number of sources are reporting that visitors to Atlas Shrugs and to Politico have had a http://www.whitehouse.gov cookie inserted onto their computer hard drive.
First, BO wanted you to send an email to [...]
Apparently, they've been getting a lot more realistic.
Stephen Scott, director of research at the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners, has said his research shows children from lesbian couples do [...]
Leftists are out there claiming that the guy who emptied magazines into his fellow servicemen and women while hollering "Allahu Akbar" is really no different from the nut who killed an abortionist.
Let's not excuse the nut who shot the good doctor, but at the same time, let's note that an [...]
The boffins have found water on the moon. This discovery has profound implications.
We can surmise that the water is a byproduct of alien landings and takeoffs, or perhaps cometary residue. In any case, the water can be catalyzed into hydrogen fuel and atmospheric oxygen - good news for colonists. Do [...]Another officer, Senior Sgt. Mark Todd, 42, said in an interview Thursday that he fired the shots that brought down the gunman after Sergeant Munley was seriously wounded. A witness confirmed Sergeant Todd’s account.
Although it is undisputed that Sgt. Kimberly Munley ran into fire and shot the guy, the question [...]
Conservatives in America clearly have their work cut out for them, as the long-term plans of Liberals and Marxists are bearing their wormy fruit. Our public schools are places of indoctrination, rather than actual learning. And they've churned out a generation of illiterates with high self-esteem - who are now' [...]
Rarely does The Oregonian newspaper actually report news, but this story hit the front page, above the fold. There's a bit of difference between the print edition account and the web version, as the print edition notes that animals were not afforded sufficient time to acclimate to the new [...]
Thanks to $25 million in recovery money, America's poorest city now has hippos.
Camden's residents were told the recovery would help to lift them out of poverty. The state's "strategic revitalization plan," the recovery's guide, even listed jobs as the No. 1 goal.
The law followed an old strategy of aiding [...]
Oregon was the worst or close to the worst of the 50 states on two key indicators in the Pew report. They were a drop in tax collections from first quarter 2008 [...]
Barack Obama said his administration would be open, honest, and transparent if he became president. How's he been doing on all that? The latest move seems transparent enough; although there seems considerable hubris associated with the term, "civil servant", the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) intends to purge the federal government [...]
Coyote, over at NW Republican, came up with a great find this morning: local liberal mudslinger Kari Chisholm, who runs the Blue Oregon site, insinuated that a recent fire in the offices of SEIU local 49 was politically-motivated arson.
According to Chisholm:
I checked in today with a spokesman for [...]
Forget about any so-called recession, or that Oregon's jobless rate continues to climb (in the private sector only). Folks, we have a real problem, here: people seem to be abandoning land-line telephones. This is a huge problem for cash-strapped communities like Keizer and Portland, and quite obviously, something needs to [...]
There's a new Jihad code that marginalizes bin Laden's group.
"Jihad has ethics and morals because it is for God. That means it is forbidden to kill women, children, elderly people, priests, messengers, traders and the like. Betrayal is prohibited and it is vital to keep promises and treat prisoners" [...]
Well, okay, he's always acting. But this time, he's speechifying in an effort to head off any potential anti-Muslim sentiment. You know the drill: it's all about Diversity.
President Barack Obama yesterday sought to head off a potential anti-Muslim backlash from the Fort Hood shootings by praising the ethnic and [...]
Clean, Green, Sustainable Portland is ranked in the number 10 slot on Forbes' list of the most toxic cities in America. Go by streetcar!
' [...]A University of Illinois perfesser has received a $3.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation in order to pursue a cure for cancer means of altering the sexes of papaya plants. No, this isn't a put-on; your money is really going to fund this critically important endeavor. Apparently,' [...]
In the aftermath of Major Nidal Malik Hasanallegedly shooting fellow soldiers at Fort Hood Army Baseon Nov. 5, officials said they are redoubling efforts to study the [...]
"Climate Change" (code for Man-Made Global Warming) has been recognized for what we've known all along: a religious belief. The landmark ruling comes from the U.K., but has global implications.
His employers contended that climate change was a scientific, not a religious or philosophical belief, and thus not legally protected.' [...]
What could possibly have motivated an army shrink to go on a rampage like that? Post-traumatic stress, perhaps? Nope - the 39-year-old Doctor has never served in a war zone; his job consisted of "counselling" soldiers who (unlike him) actually had served in war, and who returned with stress-related disorders. [...]
Is there any point to conducting a census of U.S. citizens if citizenship is assumed, rather than affirmed, for all respondents? Democratics believe so, and to that end have blocked an attempt by Republican Senators to ascertain citizenship status of respondents. Among its many purposes, census population totals are [...]
With thousands of folks shouting "Kill The Bill" (and no, they weren't talking about former President Clinton) - the area must have been pretty loud. Of course, this isn't about BO: he can't propose legislation; he can only sign it. And sign he will, if the' [...]
Certainly not government. When the "planners" decided that a commuter rail line between Beaverton and Wilsonville was worth the diversion investment of transport dollars to "improve" the existing Portland & Western Railroad tracks and associated "upgrades", it never occurred to them that the rules for heavy rail differ greatly [...]
My bad. I should never have tried to represent myself at trial. So please hold off on that whole execution thing. That whole gig I had going, where I drove around and shot folks while they were putting groceries into their car or filling up their gas tank? I mean, [...]
It's been amusing to watch as Leftists spin the result of the New York 23rd Congressional District election. Everybody from Nanny Pelosi to anonymous blog-stalkers have hailed the election of Owens to the seat, employing the same meme:
Since the Civil War a Republican has always had the seat.
The fact is, [...]
Conservatives generally believe in the value of work. You profit, or you fail, by dint of your work ethic and the value of your ideas. While conservatives are among the most generous of people, we believe that welfare is a safety net, not a hammock. Leftists don't share this perspective,' [...]
Oregon Department of "Transportation" (ODOT) has come up with a great idea to alleviate congestion on the 217 freeway around southwest Portland: close on-ramps. We don't need to add traffic lanes, when that sort of money could be spent on fixed rail. If they just close some of the' [...]
YOU can search for a house in Argleton, find out what the local weather is like, and even plan your route to it on the internet.
Amusingly, what you can't do is actually visit the place, because it doesn't exist. Go figure.
[...]A while back, Oregon tried to prevent people from publishing state laws, claiming that the state held copyright to the material. This claim was bogus from the start, as any laws enacted by any public agency clearly fall into public domain. After a brief battle, the state gave it up [...]
Don't you just hate when it happens? You try to do a big "green" power project to Save The Planet and all, and then a tribe of indians gets in the way. Don't they understand the importance of Going Green, of Saving The Planet, of Walking As One With [...]
That's how The Wall Street Journal describes the 1,990-page "health bill" that Nanny Pelosi unveiled last week. If anything, WSJ sugar-coated it. Among the many "features" of the bill are some which are likely unconstitutional, such as the requirement that individuals purchase health insurance or face heavy penalties.
Republican' [...]
While The Oregonian has a long and storied history of presenting opinion under the guise of journalism, and an equally long history of being scooped on every bit of investigative journalism, it appears as though they have finally come up with something interesting.
State officials deliberately underestimated the cost of [...]
Apparently having solved all of their other problems, their City Attorney, one Dennis Herrera, has fired off a letter to Kellogg's (yes, the cereal company) demanding evidence that Cocoa Krispies really "helps support your child's immunity" as it purports to do on the front of the box.
Herrera claims that [...]
Sinking in the polls, the liberal Democrat who was nominated by local Republican leaders in an effort to hold the NY-23 seat for Republicans suspended her campaign and has now endorsed her Democrat former "opponent". Dede Scuzzofava was running third after an upstart conservative entered the race and quickly [...]
It's what Portland and Metro are all about. The "planners" doubtless had good intentions, but as we all know, the road to Hell is paved with those. And judging by the results, Hell is exactly what the "planners" have produced.
The idea was to curb urban [...]
Okay, that's a Thanksgiving Day line. In a way, however, the day has arrived early, as Scozzafava has suspended her campaign in New York. While she hasn't gone so far as to endorse the conservative candidate in the race, she apparently realized that her goose is thoroughly cooked. Perhaps' [...]
Isn't it a curious thing? This administration seems to require an unending parade of domestic enemies. Fox News is an enemy. So are tax protestors. So are ObamaCare protestors. As Valerie said, “I think that what the administration has said very clearly is that we’re going to speak truth' [...]
If baseball can't move to Beaverton, then Portland may not get "major league soccer". This is seen by some as a terrible situation, although as Mike Ditka once noted, "if God had meant for people to play soccer, he wouldn't have given them arms".
If Paulson wants a stadium built for [...]
The clowns at City Hall have decided to "Save The Planet" by unanimously adopting a "plan" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050. Mayor Sham Adams, speaking for the clowns in general, noted:
Mayor Sam Adams promised the plan will help the economy by [...]
San Francisco, along with a handful of other cities, take great pride in declaring themselves to be "sanctuary cities", despite the fact that nearly 70% of Americans oppose their refusal to assist feds in identifying and deporting illegal aliens.
Let San Francisco and the others feed themselves on their great [...]
BO's Homeland InSecurity chief, Janet Napolitano, has issued some new rules for law enforcement: Under "revised" 287(g) agreements between the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement division and state and local law enforcement agencies, any information about local police efforts to enforce federal immigration law must be cleared through [...]
A whole bunch of Obamanation has filtered out in the past couple of days, and none is especially encouraging. Remember, this was to be the most ethical and transparent administration in the history of the country. Some folks will say anything to get elected, it seems. That whole politicization of [...]
Pew Political IQ Poll: Republicans Consistently More Knowledgeable
When it comes to current political understanding, Pew Research has shown that Republicans consistently outperform Dimocrats, and often by double-digit margins.
A September 2007 quizshowed more Republicans than Democrats could identify even the Democratic Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi.
An [...]
This came into the mailbox (produced and mailed by your tax dollars, of course).
Making Oregon a model for the nation?
"Congressman David Wu: Making Oregon a National Model for Green Homes, Offices, and Jobs"
Has this guy noticed the unemployment rate in the state? Oregon is currently number [...]
Oregon governor Ted Kulongoski shared his sense of spirituality with a reporterette from NPR during the course of a fly-fishing trip. The article's just a brief puff-piece; the real meat comes in the third comment, posted by Fred Leonhardt.
And according to the kids over at Willamette Week, the [...]
New York Republicans decided to run Scozzafava against Democrat Owens, but unexpectedly, a conservative jumped in. Daily Kos endorsed Dede, as did other far-leftists. What was a battle between two leftists is now a battle between one leftist and one conservative - Scozzafava's essentially out of the running, according to [...]
The Fall Of The Republic is a spooky piece that goes far toward explaining why conservatives are looking at shaking things up. It's why Hoffman is receiving support in the New York election campaign today, while "Republican" Scozzafava is dying fast. There is increasing recognition among conservatives that the Republican [...]
Oregon's Public Employee Retirement System (PERS) is once again being given a bit of scrutiny in the Big Zero. As always, the Zero's way late to the party; most folks who've been paying any attention have seen the issue looming for half a dozen years. Vallejo, CA has been' [...]
The museum’s Prove It! website, which is designed to influence politicians at the Copenhagen climate summit in December, allows members of the public to pledge their support, or lack of it, to the environmentalist cause.
But so far those backing the campaign are out-numbered nearly six-to-one by opponents.
At the [...]
The upstate New York race has taken a defensive turn. So-called Republican Dede Scozzafava, who counts among her supporters none other than Markos Moulitsas of Leftist "Daily Kos" fame is being outrun by an actual Conservative. She's really angry. This is an affront to her, as a conservative Republican.
Wait. She's' [...]
Wonder how you manage to make ends meet
Who find the money when you pay the rent
Did you think that money was heaven sent
The Pew Research Center found, by a wide margin, Fox had the most objective coverage of the last presidential campaign. Second, [...]
Police in Dallas, TX issued some 38 citations to drivers because they did not speak English - among other infractions. As it happens, they erred in so doing, as the law they acted upon is a federal statute that applies only to commercial drivers. The question, here, is simple: [...]
Just not by us.
Islamic extremists are well down the road to losing it all by themselves. In point of fact, most of the people that they mutilate and kill are not the "infidels" that they continually rail against; their victims are largely Muslim. And much like those who lived [...]
If you held shares in the now-bankrupt entity known as Smurfit-Stone Container Corporation, you could have seen this coming a couple of years ago. The cardboard production industry has gone down the tubes, and it started even before the recession/depression got underway. It's surprising that IP managed to hold [...]
Although the hype continues to be disproven, fearmongers simply respond by coming up with new twists. One of the latest involves your dog.
Your dog, it is now argued, eats up more resources in a year than driving your car. Presumably, what this means is that if you eat a dog, [...]
“It’s a mistake,” said Rep. Jason Altmire, a [...]
In today's news, one woman is "horrified" to find that chickens have heads, while in New Zealand, animal "rights" groups equate rabbits to your grandma.
The "horrified" U.K. shopper was given around $180 and a brand new vacuum cleaner to help her get over the ordeal. Click that link; [...]
A British nuclear energy expert involved in negotiations with Iran over its nuclear programme died on the spot yesterday after a fall from the 17th floor at Vienna International Centre (VIC), one of the United Nations’ (UN) main headquarters along with New York, Nairobi and Geneva.
A "fall" from the [...]
Some call him the Gangster of Love. Some people call him Commissioner. Some call him none of the above.
Portland City "Council" member Randy "the Fireman" is going nuts again. Now he wants armed guards "protecting" the water reservoirs, but he doesn't want the Portland cops to do it. So' [...]
NEW YORK — MSNBC's Contessa Brewer has apologized for mixing up civil rights activists Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. She made the slip-up Wednesday while introducing Jackson during a segment on homelessness. After the introduction, Jackson stared at the camera from a studio in Burbank, Calif., and said, "I'm Rev.'" [...]
Conservatives, of course, were slave-owners and liberals were not. Conservatives in the 19th century believed in the tyranny of state government and liberals did not. Everyone with a shred of understanding about American history knows that. We had [...]
The days when free or at least cheap parking in the suburbs was a right are waning fast. In an era of carbon footprints, greenhouse gases and crippling congestion, the goal of today's planners and politicians is maximum inconvenience for drivers. The District is pulling up parking lots and putting [...]
By dumping on FOX News, BO figured to make hay. He could get rid of a critical organization by marginalizing them, because his adoring media elsewhere would go along. This is why you should never elect a Chicago politician - especially one with no track record - to positions of [...]
Demonstrating how completely out-of-touch Metro (the only regional government in the USA, with good reason) is, COO Michael Jordan floated the idea of a new regional tax, which is needed - according to the twisted "logic" that pervades the organization - to facilitate targeted investments.
Every time some governmental agency [...]
