edited by: Mike Landfair,
Oregon Editor
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...
From Gregg Clapper,By Gregg Carlstrom
Leah Farrell, the editor of the excellent All Things Counterterrorism blog, has an op-ed in The Australian looking at Al-Qaeda and the Obama administration's proposed Afghan strategy.
The whole thing is worth a read, but to summarize Farrell's point: Al-Qaeda wants the U.S. to increase its military [...]
The election of a new mayor in Vancouver, one who ran on the platform of a slimmed-down Columbia River Crossing that would not require tolls for funding, should be an opportunity to re-examine the fundamentals of the project.
The Oregonian editorial board is begging the presumed Mayor-elect to "shoulder the" [...]
By Gregg Carlstrom
John wrote last night about the courage of the pro-democracy protesters in Iran, who are gearing up for another day of demonstrations tomorrow.
Along those lines: Here's a slightly amazing story forwarded to me over the weekend by a contact on Twitter.
The young man' [...]
By John Ballard
Gregg Carlstrom's inaugural post at Newshoggers points our attention to Iran.
Mousavi and Karroubi plan to hold a rally on Wednesday, Nov. 4 -- the 13th of Aban in the Iranian calendar. Wednesday marks the 30th anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. embassy in Tehran.The embassy takeover is' [...]
By Gregg Carlstrom
First of all, I'm new around here, so a quick introduction: I'm a journalist, based in DC at the moment, and I blog over at The Majlis, which focuses on the Middle East and Central Asia.
Steve was kind enough to ask me to do some posting here, [...]
After a hidden-camera video targeted a LeSueur egg-laying' [...]
When I see those in government, both locally and in Washington, spend and tax and come up each day with new ways to spend and tax—health care, cap and trade, etc.—I think: Why aren't they worried about the impact of what they're doing? Why do they think [...]
By Steve Hynd
According to The Guardian (h/t Gregg Carlstrom)
Iraq has started lobbying for approval to again become a nuclear player, almost 19 years after British and American war planes destroyed Saddam Hussein's last two reactors, the Guardian has learned.
The Iraqi government has approached the French nuclear industry about [...]
Republican "bipartisanship" is like a rare subatomic particle: It's never found under ordinary circumstances, it's extremely difficult and expensive to produce artificially, and it has a half-life that can be measured with an egg timer.By Steve Hynd
Will Iran accept the IAEA's draft deal to send the bulk of its uranium stocks abroad to be further enriched? At the moment, there's cause for a little optimism. Gregg Carlstrom notes that Iran's deputy parliament speaker has said that Iran "doesn't accept" the deal, but he' [...]
