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  • Reaping The Catholic LGBT Whirlwind

    One of the manifold reasons I'm disaffected with the Mother Church (my term for the Catholic Church) is that it has not only treated my human brothers and sisters who are LGBT so very unforgivably...

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    Posted: November 22, 2009, 7:06pm EST

  • OrGov: Sheilds, Walden Prefer Not To

    Two names opted out of the upcoming Goobernatorial contest very recently: Steve Sheilds on the Democratic side, and Rep. Greg Walden on the Republican. According to The Oregonian's Mike Russell,...

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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 6:15pm EST

  • Merkley Gets The Golden Gavel

    Clearing out my back-log, I see, back on the 18th, The Oregonian's Charles Pope reported that our freshman Junior Senator, Jeff Merkley, was awarded the Golden Gavel. This is an award that any...

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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 6:02pm EST

  • The Palienation Of The Teabag Right Wing

    Your Neologism of the day: pa•li•en•a•tion: (noun) The word that describes that betrayed feeling you get after waiting multiple hours in the rain and cold with two copies of a ghostwritten book by an...

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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 9:11am EST

  • Please Don't Make This Embarrassing Mistake When Critiquing Sarah Palin's Book

    Her biography is called Going Rogue. The parody comic book is called Going Rouge. Easy mistake to make, actually. If Cory Doctorow isn't safe, then none of us are. So, hey, be careful out there....

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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:18am EST

  • Damn Good Question Coming From A Minister

    The Rev. Chuck Currie: Someone needs to explain why CafePress.com allows death threats against the president of the United States to be sold on their website. Or why in the world this website - run...

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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:31am EST

  • We're Not Getting Bigger As Fast, And That Worries Some People

    … some people who want to make money off of more people coming here, by the looks of things. The Oregonian reports that Oregon's population increased by a mere 0.9% percent last year: The slumping...

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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:11am EST

  • Your Health Insurance Dollar Goes Somewhere In Oregon

    Rick Attig, The Oregonian: It's hard to know what to make of the report in Wednesday's Oregonian that regulators have signed off on every rate increase by Oregon's largest health insurance companies...

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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:13am EST

  • Tea-Bagger morons get PUNKED!!

    (ht: Think Progress via spyder)...

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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:23pm EST

  • States should get out of the marriage business

    An excellent guest column in the Oregonian by David Sumner arguing that States should get out of the marriage business. I couldn't agree more and have been saying so for a while now. Here, here and...

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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 5:15pm EST

  • Money: the root of all (political) evil

    Wow! What a stark example of the power of special interest money on our democracy. McClatchy - Kentucky rep's votes on Cuba show the power of money: Supporters of the U.S. embargo against Cuba have...

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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 4:59pm EST

  • "Birther" attorney digging herself deeper

    Ledger-Enquirer: U.S. District Court Judge Clay Land directed the U.S. attorney to collect $20,000 in sanctions from “birther” attorney Orly Taitz the day after her deadline passed to pay the money....

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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 4:43pm EST

  • Send Stupak amendment voters a coat-hanger

    Jim Dean of Democracy for America frames the issue: 20 of the 64 Democrats who joined with Republicans to pass this amendment were previously pro-choice. All 20 are men who ran on and have a record...

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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 4:32pm EST

  • Holding them all accountable

    Ex-Congressman William Jefferson, D-Louisiana, sentenced to 13 years U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III said public corruption was "a cancer on the body politic." "There must be some sort of greed...

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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 9:00am EST

  • The Morality of Health Care Reform

    Before today I'd never heard of Booman Tribune. But that changed when I followed a hit on our site meter back to a great post by Terrance called The Morality of Health Care Reform, Pt. 6. As the...

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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 12:23pm EST

  • ADL to GOP: WTF?

    WASHINGTON (JTA) - The Anti-Defamation League is urging Republican congressional leaders to "condemn forcefully the invocation of Holocaust imagery" at last week's rally against health care reform....

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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 12:06pm EST

  • Take Sen. Durbin's "Public Option" Poll

    Right here....

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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 12:00pm EST

  • Veterans Day

    In the few hours left of Veterans Day I point your attention to Paul Evans - an Air Force veteran of Afghanistan and former Mayor of Monmouth, Oregon. On Veterans Day, remember that someone,...

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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 9:03pm EST

  • Greek priest beater update

    After initially telling police that he was the victim of an attempted robbery, and that he was the victim of a Muslim terrorist, and that he was the victim of an attempted robbery... Lance Corporal...

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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 9:34pm EST

  • Praise God and pass the tire iron!

    A lost foreign man in Tampa, Florida stopped and asked Marine Reservist Jasen Bruce for directions using very limited English. Assuming the man to be an Arab (dark skin, dark eyes, lots of facial...

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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 7:30pm EST

  • "intellectually honest discussion of Islamic ideology"

    Reading an AP piece on Yahoo about alleged Ft. Hood gunman may have 9/11 mosque link I was struck by the following, Another classmate said he complained (about Mr. Hasan) to five officers and two...

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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 9:34pm EST

  • Cruising in the time machine

    Two compelling articles here. Ironically, both are from New York papers. Both are also first-hand observer accounts written by foreigners (to the sites of the respective events). And both extensively...

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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 12:07pm EST

  • Halloween, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Style

    The White House, being what it is, is not the kind of place I expect trick-or-treaters to just swan up to the front porch and yell "trick-or-treat" … but that's just the way the First Family rocked...

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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 9:19pm EDT

  • Freedomworks' Little Frankenstein Lab: Oregon

    The "initiative" process, pioneered by Oregon in 1904, as a means of stopping corrupt and bribed legislators stalling needed reforms has been co-opted by the corrupters and bribers to STOP the Oregon...

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    Posted: October 31, 2009, 1:02am EDT

  • So Maybe DeFazio's Not Liked By Everyone In The 4th

    Creepy news out of Eugene today, via the mainstream news as well as BlueO report that, sometime during last evening apparently, bullets struck the office window at Rep DeFazio's office at the Eugene...

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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 10:49am EDT

  • They Just Won't Let Wild Bill Be, Them Unions

    The problem with doing the Lord's work is, it's never done. The OEA and the AFT-Oregon are going in after Wild Bill Sizemore again, for the same reasons as in 2004, but updated for a 2008 context –...

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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 10:11am EDT

  • In Clatsop County, Two Or Three Or Four Votes Either Way …

    In Dried Salmon County the issue of LNG is as explosive politically as the fuel itself is, it would seem; the issue of Bradwood Landing triggered two recalls, one for County Commissioner Jeff Hazen,...

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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 7:46pm EDT

  • Finland tops in 2009 Legatum Prosperity Index, U.S. is ninth

    SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) – For those who value their freedom of expression as much as health, wealth, and prosperity, then Finland is the place to be, with an index ranking the Nordic nation the...

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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 8:24am EDT

  • Advice and consent

    Republican Representative Ginny Brown-Waite (R-FL 5th District) wants President Obama to seek the consent of Congress before formally accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. She bases her argument on the...

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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 5:06pm EDT

  • The Cost Of Being A Blue Cross Democrat

    Your fundraising takes a hit because of them ungrateful peoples who don't understand that you're doing them a favor by preserving health insurers' untrammeled access to their wallets.: After raising...

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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 3:51pm EDT

  • Public Option: Merkley Was Key

    HuffPo, via BlueO: Much of the attention was spent on the party's conservatives. But there was also a recognition that if they went too far, progressives would be offended. Sen. Jeff Merkley, a...

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    Posted: October 27, 2009, 8:39am EDT

  • Oh, For The Love of Cars: Ron Tonkin for PDX Mayor?

    The O's Jeff Mapes today helps the Mayor of 122nd Avenue float a trial balloon about becoming the Mayor of the rest of Portland, if the Sam Adams Recall II succeeds (stop laughing): In a way,...

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    Posted: October 26, 2009, 12:15pm EDT

  • The Oregonian's Circulation Off 12 Per Cent

    Today in The Death of Print Media: According To Oregon Media Central, The Oregonian's circulation has taken a bit of a hit: The numbers may result not only from reduced interest in print editions,...

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    Posted: October 26, 2009, 12:10pm EDT

  • What Jesus Doesn't Save, The FDIC Bails Out

    (Important note: Riverview Community Bank of Otsego, MN, is in no way, shape, or form affiliated or connected with Riverview Bancorp of Vancouver, WA. They just happen to have a similar name) Caught...

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    Posted: October 25, 2009, 10:27am EDT

  • As of Oct 30th, You Might Call It The Salish Sea, Offically

    But the parts will still be called Strait of Georgia, Strait of Juan de Fuca, Pungeant Puget Sound, &c, &c. Crosscut.com writes: One major difference between this proposal and some previous is that...

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    Posted: October 23, 2009, 6:53pm EDT

  • The Most Canceled Man In Portland Radio, Canceled Again

    News has reached the humming teletypes at the PK Newsroom's media desk that at least three more unemployed people in the Portland area, as perennially-cancelled radio rock-jock Rick Emerson has once...

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    Posted: October 23, 2009, 6:33pm EDT

  • Nobody Likes Them, Everybody Hates Them …

    Only 34 percent of the peoples polled by CNN/Opinion Research have anything nice to say about the GOPpers: "The Republican party may still be battling the legacy left to them by George W. Bush," says...

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    Posted: October 23, 2009, 10:56am EDT

  • Eastside Streetcar Loop with Extra Added Manufacturing Jobs

    The announcement of the funds for the eastside extension of the Portland Streetcar have a lot of good news with it. Local transit wonks are no doubt ecstatic about the advancing of a plan that will...

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    Posted: October 23, 2009, 10:27am EDT

  • Dobbs vs Stossel: Pot, Kettle … Kettle, Pot

    Can there be anything more pointless than Lou Dobbs ringing up John Stossel for ripping him? I can't think of it. Short form: Teh Stossel: Teh Dobbs is teh suxor! Teh Dobbs: Your mom is the suxor!...

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    Posted: October 23, 2009, 10:23am EDT

  • On the creation of whiteness and white privilege

    So I'm checking out the hit counter here to see how many visits we've had today and where they came from. And I noticed a series of visits all coming from one place. Something called Unknown News,...

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    Posted: October 23, 2009, 9:28pm EDT

  • "What do you think I was fighting for?"

    The woman at my polling place asked me do I believe in equality for gay and lesbian people. I was pretty surprised to be asked a question like that. It made no sense to me. Finally I asked her: what...

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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 5:25pm EDT

  • Roundup: Lew Frederick Appointed to Oregon House District 43

    In a 3-2 vote on the Multnomah County Commission. Wheeler, McKeel, and Shiprack for former broadcast journo Frederick; Kafoury and Cogen for Cogen aide Karol Collymore. Nobody plumped for PCC...

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    Posted: October 22, 2009, 3:28pm EDT

  • The Latest Victim of Rescission: The Health Insurance Industry

    You know that thing they called rescission, where insurance companies tell people they have to die from cancer because they used, like, zit cream when they were a kid and forgot to tell the insurance...

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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 5:26pm EDT

  • PMerc Endorses Lew Frederick For OR House 22nd

    Matt Davis/Sarah Mirk: We're going for Frederick. Being a former reporter (KGW-TV), Lew does keep the broadcaster-as-public-servant thread going. The Mercury found both candidates nifty, but what...

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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 4:32pm EDT

  • Great Moments In Journamalism: We Are All J-School Grads Now

    Today in This Is Particularly Galling: The Politico's Andy Barr redefines "phoning it in" for the 21st Century: This Politico headline tells you pretty much everything you need to know about the...

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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 2:37pm EDT

  • The Incredible Shrinking OR-Gubernatorial Candidate (UPDATED)

    The incipient campaign of quondam-and-future Gubernatorial Oregon Republican, Jason Atkinson, isn't just on life-support, it's in stasis. Mapes: Rumors are swirling through the Oregon political world...

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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 12:36pm EDT

  • CBO: Dem bill with public option reduces deficit

    WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A preliminary estimate from the Congressional Budget Office projects that the House Democrats' health care plan that includes a public option would cost $871 billion over 10...

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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 5:24am EDT

  • Simple Answer To A Simple Question:

    John Aravosis at AMERICAblog: … But this joker talks about shooting congressional Democrats, and it's funny. FOX News' Glenn Beck talks about poisoning House Speaker Pelosi and it's funny. The GOP is...

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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 4:02pm EDT

  • Joining The Army At 39 So Your Wife Doesn't Die From Cancer

    Only in America, mah peoples: Wisconsin father Bill Caudle was laid off from his job at a plastics company in March 2009, which resulted in his family losing their employer-subsidized health care...

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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 2:56pm EDT

  • The Way Teabaggers Roll

    Credit Matt Davis for this bit of Orange Pekoe irony: Sure I'll attend the rally – but don't publish that picture you took of the protest with me in it, K THX BAI. Every teabagger should make...

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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 2:42pm EDT

  • One Medford's Worth Of Unemployed People in Portland …

    … that's how many more, approximately, are recorded as unemployed in the greater PDX area, according to KGW. 11.7 per cent (up a full half-of-one per cent since just August) means about 60,600 people...

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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 1:20pm EDT

  • Washington's Sizemore

    Despatches from the tax war just north of here: Tim "I-man" Eyman sure acts a whole lot like our own Wild Bill Sizemore, except that where Billy has hit his peak and hasn't been much heard of in a...

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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 9:30pm EDT

  • You Do What You Can Do

    T.A. Barnhart, provided for the general weal: So you at your desk, or behind the counter, or at home — wherever you are — can move the progressive movement forward tomorrow in some small way. It will...

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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 9:26pm EDT

  • You Mean DeFazio Had An Opponent?

    You might be excused for not being aware that some feckless Republican decided so sacrifice himself to Peter DeFazio in the 4th District this cycle, but if you did, you missed the darkly hilarious...

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    Posted: October 18, 2009, 8:54pm EDT

  • Another Foot-High Snowfall For Oregon This Winter?

    Odds are against it. Blame ElNino, or, if you're conservative, gay marriage (which, presumably, "God" is getting us for) and support for single-payer healthcare....

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    Posted: October 17, 2009, 9:15pm EDT

  • Life In A Post Balloon Boy World

    Stolen from here: How many people died of preventable diseases today just because they were poor? How many jobs were lost because of Republican mismanagement of the economy during the Bush years? How...

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    Posted: October 16, 2009, 8:43pm EDT

  • Dawn v. Big Insurance

    Four years ago, Dawn was diagnosed with a rare, but treatable brain tumor. CIGNA denied her treatment for more than two years, but now that the spotlight's on them, they're changing their tune....

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    Posted: October 16, 2009, 1:54pm EDT

  • It's Never Been Square, and It's Not Really All That Fareless Anymore …

    Today in the TriMet edition of No Matter How Cynical I Get I Just Can't Keep Up, now that TriMet's Fareless Square is going to be less fareless than it ever was square … … wait for it … TriMet is...

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    Posted: October 16, 2009, 10:23am EDT

  • The Logo FOX News Needs To Use

    Cartoonist John Sherffius of the Boulder, CO Daily Camera (some towns' newspapers have the coolest names) dials FOX News's number and nails it flat. We report, you decide. Fair and balanced is the...

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    Posted: October 16, 2009, 10:12am EDT

  • Oregon's New Orleans

    What other town in Oregon has been washed away not once, but twice in the last few years and come back fighting and refusing not to be a community anymore? First came the 500-year flood of February...

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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 6:54pm EDT

  • PolitiFact: Glenn Beck's healthcare claim = False

    PolitiFact debunked Glenn Beck's claim that 45 percent of physicians would quit if health reform passes. We found several problems with the poll and the way Beck described its results: -- Beck...

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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 6:36pm EDT

  • C-Tran Cuts: You Read About Them Here First

    I congratulate OregonLive and Jack Bodganski for passing on the word that C-Tran service is going to get another deep hack in January. I just wanted to point out that we had that one … way back on...

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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 5:15pm EDT

  • "I Have Piles Of Black Friends"

    Today In My Head Asplode: You've heard it by now – a judge in Tangipahoa Parish (that's county for those of you who don't live in Loozianah) has refused to marry a couple because one is white and one...

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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 4:56pm EDT

  • The Bush/Cheney Legacy: Iraq

    A new report by the Iraqi government is giving hard numbers on how many Iraqis were killed/wounded in 2004-2008: Killed: 85,694 Wounded: 147,195 And here are some highly relevant quotes by members of...

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    Posted: October 14, 2009, 9:17am EDT

  • Merkley And Dodd Advocating For Consumers

    That Jeff Merkley just gets better and better. I keep steeling myself for the day that the culture of compromise wears him down, but the way he keeps going on doing the right thing keeps my faith in...

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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 2:45pm EDT

  • When They Do It, It's A Virtue; When We Do It, It's A Sin

    Today in It's Easier To Ask Forgiveness Than Permission: The Republican Party, protestations to the contrary, is the inventor of the double-standard in American politics, and they use it with the...

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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 2:11pm EDT

  • Snowe Votes Heathcare Overhaul Out Of Senate Finance; May Well Be Kenyan

    In news breaking today, the Senate healthcare overhaul is said to be getting The Most Important Senator In The Whole World™'s support, meaning that the bill will most likely go out of committee and...

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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 1:52pm EDT

  • Oregon Unemployment Down .5 Per Cent - Good News. Unless It Isn't

    OPB News: Oregon’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped half a percentage point in September: to 11.5 percent. Yay! Or, maybe, not: Art Ayre: “The reasons for this larger than normal drop...

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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 1:07pm EDT

  • The Nobel Peace Prize: Why He Was Awarded It

    The awarding of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama is quite a cause for pride for every American, regardless of Morning Schmuck and FOX News (remember, it's one vowel movement away...

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    Posted: October 09, 2009, 9:41am EDT

  • Health Care Myth Busting

    The myths: 1. Canada’s health care system is “socialized medicine.” 2. Doctors are hurt financially by single-payer health care. 3. Wait times in Canada are horrendous. 4. You have to wait forever to...

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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 6:33pm EDT

  • Bob Stacy To Battle Rex Burkholder Over Metro Chair

    The Bragdon era is coming to an end over at Metro (the Zoo, solid waste, and regional planning), which means that we're going to have a battle for Metro Chair. So far, Rex Burkholder has plumped for...

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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 5:03pm EDT

  • Sen. Merkley uses Rubik's Cube to illustrate HealthCare puzzle



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    Posted: October 07, 2009, 1:56pm EDT

  • Friendly reminder: GOP on healthcare reform

    The Problem: The Republican Solution: Sen. Merkley calls them out:...

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    Posted: October 07, 2009, 9:55am EDT

  • Now that was compelling reading!

    The truth is often stranger than fiction, as the old saying goes. Be that as it may, the truth is also frequently more compelling than fiction. Such is the case with a post I just read on Sean Cruz's...

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    Posted: October 07, 2009, 9:28pm EDT

  • Three Americans Win The Nobel Prize For Medicine …

    … and two of them were women. You see, we told you women were smart. First time two women ever shared the prize....

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    Posted: October 06, 2009, 3:38pm EDT

  • David Letterman Deep Thought

    I haven't thought much about what The Letter Hound did, mostly because I haven't watched his show in, what, over a decade? My wife never did like him much. But then, she's always been a better judge...

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    Posted: October 06, 2009, 3:33pm EDT

  • Jasun Wurster: Sam Adams Recall 2 And The Chamber Of Secrets

    The first Sam Adams recall died of, pretty much everybody knows by now, a case of rather severe anaemia. Jasun's promised he'd be back, though, but just won't tell us very much about it. Before the...

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    Posted: October 06, 2009, 2:55pm EDT

  • Tuesday entertainment

    Two items here, very loosely under the heading of "science." First is a (typically) brilliant post by Ed Brayton on scienceblogs.com: Glenn Beck tries to kill parody website. (h/t Spyder) Second is...

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  • Sam Adams Dodges The Bullet

    …an extremely large, slow-moving, easy-to-avoid, kinda-big-yellow-foam-rubber bullet: Today is the deadline for the Wurster-led recall effort to turn in the signatures it’s gathered if it hoped to...

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    Posted: October 05, 2009, 2:44pm EDT

  • Ash Grove Cement's Durkee Plant To Close – But Not Because Of The Mercury

    One of the more controversial sources of employment in Oregon is alone Interstate 84, deep in eastern Oregon, along a lonely stretch of rural freeway in a gulch. In a place called Durkee, between...

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  • The Republican healthcare plan:



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  • … Or, For A Few Bucks More, You Could Buy An Actual Homeless Child

    … but, for only $95, you can give Mattel's American Girl "Gwen Thompson" doll a home. If you really want to mourn the death of American culture, you can read this New York Post article on it. If you...

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  • The Empty Quarter Gets Emptier

    An article in this last Sunday Oregonian provides food for thought. Anyone who's familiar with Oregon geography knows that most Oregonians live along the margins. Maybe 2/3rds (or more) of all...

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  • Carla Loves Oregon: We Applaud Her Taste

    I've never made much of a secret of my admiration for Carla "The Unimpeachable" Axtman over at BlueO. Instead of her usual sharp reportage, though, she admitted her love affair with this most...

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  • One Of The Mad As Hell Doctors Got In To See The Prez …

    Sorry about this, I have nothing to link to because I was hearing it on the radio thingy, but on KPOJ this morning Carl Wolfson was chatting with one of the Mad As Hell Doctors who, word had it,...

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    Posted: October 05, 2009, 10:09am EDT
    by The Chinuk

  • Clark County Getting Less Transit, Starting In January

    Earlier this year, in response to greatly-reduced funding, C-Tran – the public transit system serving Clark County, meaning greater Vancouver WA, adjusted service downward quite a bit. Now, I know...

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    Posted: October 05, 2009, 10:02am EDT
    by The Chinuk

  • Us, A Patriot

    Today in "If You Have Nothing To Hide, You Have Nothing To Worry About", we find that Sen Russ Feingold (D-WI) has gotten tough and sneaky: U.S. Senator Russ Feingold successfully added an amendment...

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    Posted: October 02, 2009, 10:45am EDT

  • What It Takes To Go Rogue To The Willy Week

    Deciding you're not ready to take on Kitz and Brad to be Goobernor. I wish she'd of run, too, and I don't know what word I'd use for it, but "rogue" seems to be a bit wide of the mark here. But, hey,...

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    Posted: October 02, 2009, 10:27am EDT

  • This Is What Democratic Backbone Looks Like: Grayson, Merkley

    A couple of posts ago, Kevin put in this blog's two cents about the amazing Rep Alan Grayson, Democrat of Florida's Eighth, and his epochal telling-it-like-it-is about the Republican health plan for...

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  • The 2016 Chicago Nolympics

    Despite an appeal from President Obama, Chicago's out – in the very first round, a surprise since a read of the conventional wisdom had it that Chi-town would have made it to the final balloting....

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  • Racists = "birthers" = racists

    The lunatic fringe (aka: "birthers") have a new infomercial out trying to further hype their lunacy. A Christian website called LivePrayer.com produced an infomercial that the United States Justice...

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    Posted: October 01, 2009, 10:15am EDT

  • The GOP healthcare reform plan in 3 simple steps

    Needless to say, Congressional Republicans were not amused. I'd be among the first to freely concede that Rep. Grayson's tactic here was not constructive. But at the same time, I see zero evidence...

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  • Losing Saturn

    While we here in Portland are celebrating the retaining of jobs at the Portland Frieghtliner plant, things aren't so happing in Spring Hill, Tennessee: after a deal to sell it fell through, GM's...

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  • Wealthy Corporate Americans Against Food Taxes

    Over on PMerc's Blogtown, The Stranger's columnist Dan Savage opines about a recently run ad from a group that's opposed to the idea of a tax on things like soda: A one-cent-per-ounce tax on soda...

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    Posted: September 30, 2009, 3:15pm EDT

  • WWJD on healthcare?

    This lovely poster comes via Negative Neil and you can read here the background about his trip to DC to document the frothing wingnut's "9/12" anti-healthcare rally from whence this poster comes. I...

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  • Oregon: Fine For Business, Great For Poverty, Too.

    To everyone who whines about Oregon's 'job-killing' taxes, and all the tools who file ballot initiatives on behalf of SerfdomWorks, you are now officially requiered to STFU.

    Why?

    Because, according to Forbes Magazine (motto: The Capitalist Tool) Oregon is – out of the fifty great United States of America – the tenth' [...]

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    Posted: September 30, 2009, 5:42am EDT

  • "Red State" Republican prefers commie guns

    From AOL's Weird News files:
    SC Candidate Raffles Off AK-47 at Rally

    A candidate to be South Carolina's next National Guard leader skipped the fiery speeches for firepower, launching his campaign with what he called a "machine-gun social."
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    Posted: September 29, 2009, 2:45am EDT

  • Stray Thought Of The Day

    The Voting Rights Act was renewed in 2006.

    In this country, we actually have to renew such a thing?

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  • Why They Hate ACORN

    Of course, I'm just echoing the obvious here. I hope. The major reason ACORN has been a target of the Republican Party’s political operatives because it disrupts the strategy put in place by Karl...

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    Posted: September 29, 2009, 10:12pm EDT

  • Jeff Merkley, For Civil Rights

    Our junior Senator continues to do the right thing, which is something of an anomaly these days. First thing to note is that he signed on as an original sponsor of the JUSTICE Act, S. 1686 (one of...

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    Posted: September 29, 2009, 9:23pm EDT
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