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Feds indict former KOIN news director Jeff Alan on Social Security-related charges | OregonLive.com

Jeff Alan Read The Oregonian's earlier series on Jeff Alan: » Part 1: Former KOIN director’s life riddled with contradiction » Part 2: Jeff Alan has a knack for leaving lives behind » Part 3: Former KOIN director sues over losing job

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RealClearPolitics - Big Government and Its Discontents

Pfeiffer: We were sitting in the Oval Office, and we were sort of having a debate around health care at one point, and the president said, "It's about health care, but it's not really about health care. It's also about proving whether we can still solve big problems in this country." And this was going to be the test case for that.

But the test case did not meet the times. The recession carried on. A pyrrhic victory followed. And as for those big problems? Americans again consider government to be one.

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want-a-higher-gpa-go-to-a-private-college: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance

The study, by Stuart Rojstaczer and Christopher Healy, uses historical data from 80 four-year colleges and universities. It finds that G.P.A.'s have risen from a national average of 2.52 in the 1950s to about 3.11 by the middle of the last decade.

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All Business Hurt by 'Wall Street' Smear at SmartMoney.com

Nearly 45 years ago philosopher Ayn Rand identified businessmen, including those who work in finance, as the distinguished symbols of a free and prosperous society. “All the other social groups — workers, farmers, professional men, scientists, soldiers — exist under dictatorships, even though they exist in chains, in terror, in misery, and in progressive self-destruction. But there is no such group as businessmen under a dictatorship. Their place is taken by armed thugs: by bureaucrats and commissars.”

Makes one wonder why they’ve even bothered filing charges against Goldman Sachs. In today’s culture, the verdict’s already in.

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Pro-marijuana group takes root in Salem | statesmanjournal.com | Statesman Journal

Twice each month, more than a hundred people gather in a northeast Salem warehouse to talk about gardening and smoke pot.

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Duuuude! 100 impotent couch potatoes sittin' around, talking about what they ought to be doing.

Redistribution of Health: ObamaCare’s Tax Disguised as Morality : Smart Girl Nation

Blatantly ignoring the Constitution, the liberals on Capitol Hill passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, citing moral obligation and the right of all individuals to equal access of health care. President Obama’s visual aids at town hall meetings, rallies, and conferences included a few desperate individuals torn between paying their home mortgages or paying their health care bills. A closer examination of the bill that passed Congress, however, reveals a different picture. The moral obligation to provide individuals with affordable health care, or to help Americans afford or keep their current health care, evidently only applies to the select few the liberals in Congress want to help.

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Woodburn Tulip Festival 2010

 

Tax Day Tea Party 2010 Salem, Oregon

I failed to bring extra batteries for my camera, so I didn't get as many pics as I wanted, but there was much passion and determination among attendees--and I didn't see a single disruption by agitators. Good thing! We'd have squared 'em away ;)

What’s the Point of the Second Amendment if You Have to Buy Your Own Gun? | NewsReal Blog

What’s the Point of the Second Amendment if You Have to Buy Your Own Gun?

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“friends + abortion rights + rented shoes = the event of a lifetime!”

President Obama tax return reveals he made $5.5M in 2009, largely from book sales

President Obama tax return reveals he made $5.5M in 2009, largely from book salesBy Michael McauliffDAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU Originally Published:Thursday, April 15th 2010, 2:59 PM Updated: Thursday, April 15th 2010, 3:20 PM

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Will Barry Hussein be redistributing his wealth?

Death By Hijab. But What’s It Got To Do With Isadora Duncan? | NewsReal Blog

I have gone on record, many times, about how hazardous the Islamic Veil is to women’s health in both medical and psychiatric terms. There are other kinds of health risks involved in adopting Islamically “modest” dress. For example, in England, Muslim nurses are now refusing to leave their arms uncovered below the elbow which can potentially lead to spreading hospital superbugs and to the death of patients. The British National Health Service has given in to this demand—but has prohibited short-sleeved nurses from wearing crosses.

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Global warming a concern for regional leaders | OregonLive.com

Global warming can’t be stopped. Climate change can’t be reversed.

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So this is an admission that humans will have no impact on global warming and climate change, which indicates it is not caused by humans, but we'd better act now to make dire changes in our ways of life anyway? Umm...logic here?

Michelle Malkin » Crash course: Your illustrated guide to the Tea Party saboteurs

Over the last week, conservative activists online have thoroughly exposed the loser behind an Internet call to “Crash the Tea Party.” His name is Jason Levin. To follow his trail, check Free Republic here, Canada Free Press here, and Velvet Hammer here. After failing to cover his tracks, Levin is now basking in the glow of attention on his tpartycrasher Twitter page and on his personal Twitter page (where he brags that he has hit the big time and “gone viral:”)

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Masterpiece | The Diary of Anne Frank | PBS

For Jewish teenager Anne Frank (Ellie Kendrick), her diary is her one true friend and confidant. In it, she records the thoughts of a typical teen — only set against a backdrop of encroaching evil in Amsterdam during World War II. Stowed away behind a bookcase in a secret annex with her family and others to flee the Nazis, Anne experiences her time in hiding as an adventure. And, amidst closed quarters and random bomb blasts, Anne faces friction with family, a desire for independence and the first stirrings of young love. As Anne's identity solidifies, so does her resolve to be a writer — her diary a tangible and remarkable record of a young woman's first-hand observations of the Holocaust, and the innate goodness she still sees in people. Drawing on Anne Frank's own words in the most accurate-ever adaptation of the revered memoir, Masterpiece presents The Diary of Anne Frank on Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2010.

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Ariz. House approves concealed weapons bill - Yahoo! News

PHOENIX – The Arizona House voted Thursday to make the state the third in the nation to allow people to carry concealed weapons without a permit, sending the governor a bill that would allow Arizonans to forego background checks and classes that are now required.

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» Obama Orders Army NOT To Fly U.S. Flag in Haiti - Big Government

as of January 19, 2010 the U.S. had spent $130,864,571 on aid to the Haitian people to help them recover from the devastating earthquake. By Jan. 25 that number had already increased to $179,883,065. It is only going up from there.

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Why everything you've been told about evolution is wrong | Science | The Guardian

Why everything you've been told about evolution is wrongWhat if Darwin's theory of natural selection is inaccurate? What if the way you live now affects the life expectancy of your descendants? Evolutionary thinking is having a revolution . . .

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Iran will not beg to avoid sanctions: Ahmadinejad | Reuters

Iran will not beg to avoid sanctions: Ahmadinejad | Reuters.

"If America presents Iran with a serious threat and undertakes any measure against Iran, none of the American soldiers who are currently in the region would go back to America alive," Major General Hassan Firouzabadi, was quoted as saying by the semi-official Fars news agency..."If America wants to have the region's oil and its markets then the region's markets would be taken away from America and the Muslims' control over oil would increase," he said.

Michelle Malkin » The weatherization boondoggle, redux

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Helloooo! How many times have conservatives said this???? Wake up, y'all--same will occur with healthcare!!

"New abortion plan: Doctor stays away!" - Patriot Update

"New abortion plan: Doctor stays away!" - Patriot Update

Planned Parenthood of the Heartland offers medical abortions in 16 clinics around Iowa, "but only four of the clinics actually have doctors. At the other 12, smaller clinics, telemed abortions have become routine."

"After the brief teleconference, the dangerous abortion drug RU486, also known as Mifepristone, and its counterpart, Methotrexate, are prescribed. The drugs are then administered to the patient by a nurse or 'clinician' who may or may not be licensed. The patient presses a button an on computer screen that opens a box containing the abortion drugs. The patient is never physically examined by the medical doctor prescribing the drugs – or any other, for that matter – and never sees the abortionist again," the report said.

Michelle Malkin » Repeat question of the day: Does the GOP have enough balls?

Repeat question of the day: Does the GOP have enough balls?

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Michelle Malkin » My race is “American”

Fully one-quarter of the space on this year’s form is taken up with questions of race and ethnicity, which are clearly illegitimate and none of the government’s business (despite the New York Times’ assurances to the contrary on today’s editorial page). So until we succeed in building the needed wall of separation between race and state, I have a proposal. Question 9 on the census form asks “What is Person 1’s race?” (and so on, for other members of the household). My initial impulse was simply to misidentify my race so as to throw a monkey wrench into the statistics; I had fun doing this on the personal-information form my college required every semester, where I was a Puerto Rican Muslim one semester, and a Samoan Buddhist the next. But lying in this constitutionally mandated process is wrong. Really — don’t do it.

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Masterpiece | The Diary of Anne Frank | PBS

A Jewish teenager hiding from the Nazis pours out her heart to the only true friend she has left: her diary. Masterpiece classic presents the most accurate-ever adaptation of one of the world's most beloved and widely read memoirs, The Diary of Anne Frank, premiering on Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 11, 2010.

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Overtime pay piles up as Oregon state workers must take furlough days | Oregonlive.com

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Just shocking. Yawn.

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In an age of dumbed-down schools and victimhood indoctrination, the fierce, demanding, no-excuses doctrine of Jaime Escalante will be sorely missed and never forgotten. R.I.P.

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The citizenship question is out there, but not "the core group." And B.O. has very clearly stated that he, by definition, is a socialist.

The president said on NBC's "Today" show that the movement is built around a "core group" of people who question whether he is a U.S. citizen and believe he is a socialist

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LP: Global Warming Activist Freezes to Death

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LP: Marine's dad ordered to pay protesters' court fees

The father of a Marine killed in Iraq and whose funeral was picketed by anti-gay protesters from Kansas was ordered to pay the protesters' appeal costs, his lawyers said Monday.

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Michelle Malkin » How the Left fakes the hate: A primer

Michelle Malkin » How the Left fakes the hate: A primer.

Seven arrested in FBI raids linked to Christian militia group | detnews.com | The Detroit News

At least seven people, including some from Michigan, have been arrested in raids by a FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Force in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana as part of an investigation into an Adrian-based Christian militia group, a person familiar with the matter said.

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These are not biblical Christians!

Michelle Malkin » Who’s Perpetuating Lies, Stereotypes and Ignorance?

Rich is still insisting on joining the rest of the MSM in continuing to run with the accusations that the “n-word” was hurled at members of the Congressional Black Caucus at least 15 times at last weekend’s DC protests, in spite of zero actual evidence that it happened even once:

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Two female homicide bombers blew themselves up on Moscow’s subway system as it was jam-packed with rush-hour passengers Monday, killing at least 35 people and wounding more than 30, the city’s mayor and other officials said. Emergency Ministry spokeswoman Svetlana Chumikova said 23 people were killed at the Lubyanka station in central Moscow. The station is underneath the building that houses the main offices of the Federal Security Service, or FSB, the KGB’s main successor agency.

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Law will make doctor deficit more acute | statesmanjournal.com | Statesman Journal

Primary care physicians already are in short supply in parts of the country, and the landmark health overhaul that will bring them millions more newly insured patients in the next few years promises extra strain.

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But I thought the Stimulus and Healthcare/student loan bills would save us!

City and county governments in the Salem-Keizer area are bracing themselves for pension rate increases from the Oregon Public Employees Retirement System that could cause further belt-tightening for already lean budgets.

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Pension rate rise may hit schools harder than other agencies | statesmanjournal.com | Statesman Journal

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For those of you who believe Jesus is a socialist

Dr. Paul Kengor : Q&A: God, Socialism and the Free Market - Townhall.com.

How Hot is Your Girl Scout?

Planned Parenthood brochure handed out at 'no-adults-welcome' event

A new campaign by the Girl Scouts, with the help of Planned Parenthood, is offering girls ages 10 to 14 the inside details on how to be "hot."

[The week of March 15], the World Association of Girl Scouts and Girl Guides held a no-adults-welcome panel at the United Nations in which Planned Parenthood distributed a brochure entitled "Healthy, Happy and Hot."

The distribution happened at the annual United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, which featured events for the "Girl Scouts and Girl Guides." In the United States, the organization is called Girls Scouts of the USA and promotes the traditional promise of "On my honor, I will try to serve God and my country, to help people at all times, and to live by the Girl Scout Law."

The organization, however, effectively has eliminated "God" from the equation by providing that, "The word 'God' can be interpreted in a number of ways, depending on one's spiritual beliefs. When reciting the Girl Scout Promise, it is acceptable to replace the word 'God' with whatever word your spiritual beliefs dictate.

The brochure targets young people and contains graphic details on sex. It also encourages casual sex in many forms.

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It's not too late to save 'normal' - Los Angeles Times

As chairman of the task force that created the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), which came out in 1994, I learned from painful experience how small changes in the definition of mental disorders can create huge, unintended consequences.

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David Horowitz and Whittaker Chambers: Declarations of War Against a Marxist America | NewsReal Blog

In the next months, Cap and Trade will be passed, millions of illegal immigrants added to the Workers’ voting rosters, and our greatest ally in the Middle East will be betrayed to a second Holocaust at the hands of the radical Muslims who long to finish the work begun by their Nazi mentors. Which of these will be our national breaking point? What are we willing to stand by and permit?

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NJ Police Department Starts Senior Safety Program - wcbstv.com

Is this a little bit scary?

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Latest Farmers Branch Rental Ordinance Struck Down | NBC Dallas-Fort Worth

A common sense approach--someone has to do the job the feds are shirking. Too logical for the liberal judge.

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As long as we're going towards Socialism, let's go all the way!

Obama readies steps to fight foreclosures, particularly for unemployed - washingtonpost.com

Absolutely Incredible.

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Communist leader thinks U.S. is on the right track. Is there anyone out there who still does not see what this means??

Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro on Thursday declared passage of American health care reform "a miracle" and a major victory for Obama's presidency, but couldn't help chide the United States for taking so long to enact what communist Cuba achieved decades ago.

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"Oh, Canada!" Ann Coulter's brush with idiocy up north

Conservative News: Coulter - University of Ottawa, Parliament condemn speech as "hate speech" - HUMAN EVENTS

ObamaScare

Here we go, ladies--Tampon Tax. Still believe no one making less than 250k will be taxed?

Democrat Health Care Bill is Sexist and Anti-Mom | NewsReal Blog

"Speaker Pelosi herself informed us that they’d have to pass the bill, so that we can see what’s in the bill. Well, now we can see it and there’s a little something called sexism showing up. The Mommy taxes, including the tampon tax (that’s right. A Ko-tax) is back"

Ann Coulter in Canada: The Dumbening

Ann Coulter in Canada: The Dumbening.by Kathy Shaidle

"Fox News chose radical lesbian activist Susan G. Cole to represent Canada on one segment on the Coulter-In-Canada controversy. Here’s how Cole (who, as a playwright, has sucked on the taxpayer teat for most of her career) characterized my country:

We don’t have that same political culture here in (Canada). . . . We don’t have a 1st Amendment, we don’t have a religion of free speech. . . . Students sign off on all kinds of agreements as to how they’ll behave on campus, in order to respect diversity, equity, all of the values that Canadians really care about. Those are the things that drive our political culture. Not freedoms, not rugged individualism, not free speech.

It isn’t that Cole’s characterization is inaccurate. It really is word perfect, actually.

The problem is, that fact should shame and disgust Canadians. Alas, most of my fellow citizens are either in complete, smug agreement with Cole, or just indifferent."

Fahrenheit 9/11 Is Going to Be Dethroned and the Muslim World is Not Going to Be Happy | NewsReal Blog

Fahrenheit 9/11 Is Going to Be Dethroned and the Muslim World is Not Going to Be Happyby Ryan Mauro Move over Michael Moore, you’re about to be beat. The Exodus Conspiracy is a documentary that, in my opinion, will have greater affect on the world than possibly any other film. Check out the  website by clicking here. The movie’s argument is that a mountain of archaeological evidence confirms the historical accuracy of the Bible’s story about the Israelites, particularly about the Exodus story. This evidence is being covered up and even destroyed by Arab governments and rioters, who know full well what proving the historicity of the ...Read More

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