According to the NYT and no mention of CLIMATEGATE in the article “Mr. Obama will tell the delegates to the climate conference that the United States intends to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions “in the range of 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020,” according to a White [...]
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By Derrick Crowe
If Matthew Hoh could tell you one thing to help you understand the U.S.'s predicament in Afghanistan, he'd tell you:
The presence of our ground combat troops is not doing anything to defeat al-Qaida.Think about that for a moment. We are paying roughly $1 million per troop, per' [...]
Steve Duin outlines the litany of recent complaints about the Portland Police Bureau in an article for The Oregonian:
In the brutal chain of personalities and events that have licensed Portland police to turn a beanbag shotgun on a 12-year-old girl, the aloof commissioner, absentee mayor and anything-goes police chief aren't' [...]
Here’s what we’ve found as we’ve traveled the local PDX web (complete with our comments) for November 19th:
Why We Care About 30HourDay, And Why You Need To | The Iterasi BlogSerial technology entrepreneur (and Iterasi CEO) Pete Grillo is anything but a Grinch this holiday [...]
Commentary By Ron Beasley
It has become obvious that the Republicans will attack and try to obstruct anything - anything the Democrats and the Obama administration try to do even if it was something they might have agreed with a few days before, In yesterday's New York Times Oregon's Representative Earl [...]
We can all blame Oregon Representative Earl Blumenauer for giving Betsy McCaughey, Sarah Palin and the rest of the lunatic wing of the Republican Party their fodder for the biggest and most absurd summer episode surrounding health care reform: "death panels." Were it not for his totally wrong-headed and foolhardy [...]
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“More than anything, people just want to feel like they’re respected… If people felt more respected, they might have more sympathy for the district’s ongoing financial difficulties.” –Cheyne Cumming, teacher and PAT organizer
Approximately 1,500 teachers and their supporters took [...]
Commentary By Ron Beasley
A few days ago I wrote A Bad Bill Is Worse Than No Bill At All.
I remain convinced that there was never any possibility of a health care reform bill that actually reformed anything. Obama just wants a bill - he really doesn't care what's in it. This [...]
By Dave Anderson:
Liberals and Democrats have argued that the two governors' races that the Democrats lost this week turned on a combination of local issues and weak Democratic candidates who would not do anything to excite the Democratic base.
Conservatives and Republicans have argued that these two races are' [...]
Anyone who tries to paint Tuesday’s election results as anything other than a crushing defeat for the Democrat Party and Obama is either deluded or lying; and yes, I’m including New York in that analysis.Commentary By Ron Beasley
So, the Republicans have a health care reform plan - sorta. Like the Democratic plans it really doesn't reform anything but it does allow the insurance companies to act even more outrageously. Ezra Klein explains:
"A House Republican health-care bill wouldn't seek to prevent health-insurance companies from denying" [...]
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' [...]
Commentary By Ron Beasley
I remain convinced that there was never any possibility of a health care reform bill that actually reformed anything. Obama just wants a bill - he really doesn't care what's in it. This is not only wrong but politically stupid, more about that later. As lawmakers do' [...]
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 [...]
