Political Desk

I just spent a few minutes cruising a half dozen or so conservative Oregon blogs, and last week’s furor over Joel Haugen in the First Congressional District doesn’t seem to have caused much of a stir. Admittedly, what stir there might have been may have occurred back in April, when the Scappoose Republican let the [...]

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First things first: See today’s article on the skirmish developing in Congressional District 1. The Republican Party’s big tent apparently isn’t big enough for Joel Haugen, who won a commanding 70 percent of the vote in the May primary. He’s considering running on another ticket. May have more on this Saturday, we’ll see what develops [...]

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Here’s a sampling of what arrived over the weekend:
From Our Oregon, a liberal political action committee, the mantra for Election ‘08 will clearly be: “ Once a Racketeer, Still a Racketeer.” That’s a reference to Bill Sizemore, who got hammered last week by the Oregon Supreme Court.
A Multnomah County jury in 2002 found that that [...]

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Reading the “news” about the presidential race in The Oregonian this morning made me want to scream: Is Obama actually a “Manchurian candidate” for radical Muslims? Does being shot down and held prisoner in a bamboo cage qualify you to be President of the United States?
Expect these and other Profound Questions to dominate headlines all [...]

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