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Quickpoll: Do you care about Facebook’s IPO today? Founders quote: "If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a republic to be, or at least may bestow that name on, a g

Submitted by Jeff on Fri, 05/18/2012 - 6:06am

Quickpoll: Do you care about Facebook’s IPO today?

Founders quote: "If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a republic to be, or at least may bestow that name on, a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure for a limited period, or during good behavior." --James Madison, Federalist No. 39

Reynold’s teacher strike certain: Should tea party backstop school board to counter the union faux community support for strike? http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=133728191384402800

Thursdays Show Topics 5/17/2012

Submitted by Jeff on Thu, 05/17/2012 - 6:07am

Quickpoll: Should OR advance it’s primary date in order to boost turnout?

Founders quote: "[I]n this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." --Benjamin Franklin

OR primary election roundup: with historic low turnout, should OR consider moving it’s primary date up? http://www.oregonlive.com/mapes/index.ssf/2012/05/oregon_primary_turnout_hits_an.html

Wedsnday's Show Topics 5/16/2012

Submitted by Jeff on Wed, 05/16/2012 - 6:06am

Quickpoll: A big banks a danger to you?

Founders quote: "The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave." --Patrick Henry

Should taxpayers only back banks that loan money and not invest money? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304371504577406023330005352.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

Tuesdays Show Topics 5/15/2012

Submitted by Jeff on Tue, 05/15/2012 - 5:49am

Quickpoll: Did Obama lose the election by announcing gay marriage support?

Oregon Primary election day today: your predictions?

Monday's Show Topics 5/14/2012

Submitted by Jeff on Mon, 05/14/2012 - 5:42am

Quickpoll: Will Romney be competitive in Oregon?

Founders quote: "There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." --James Madison, speech to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788

Rep Greg Walden: “lets just get something done” as they cave to Dems on Ex/Im Bank: http://www.redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2012/05/13/gop-leaders-%E2%80%9Clet%E2%80%99s-just-get-something-done%E2%80%9D/

Freedom Friday 5/11/2012

Submitted by Jeff on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 6:06am

Quickpoll: Should Portland stop funding non basic service spending to continue paying for MC jail fingerprinting?

Founders quote: "A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species." --James Madison, Essay on Property, 1792

Sammy Boy tells MC Sheriff the city wont pay for jail fingerprinting so they can give money to teachers union, er schools: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2012/05/mayor_sam_adams_tells_multnoma.html

Thursdays Show Topics 5/10/2012

Submitted by Jeff on Thu, 05/10/2012 - 6:07am

Quickpoll: Should abortion be a state’s right’s issue as the Prez says gay marriage is?

Founders quote: "Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day." --Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography, 1771

Obama’s support for gay marriage will energize Oregon’s gay marriage drive? http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/05/obamas_support_may_energize_sa.html

Wedsnday's Show Topics 5/9/2012

Submitted by Jeff on Wed, 05/09/2012 - 6:20am

Quickpoll: Is conservatism gaining strength in the US?

Founders quote: "In a general sense, all contributions imposed by the government upon individuals for the service of the state, are called taxes, by whatever name they may be known, whether by the name of tribute, tythe, tallage, impost, duty, gabel, custom, subsidy, aid, supply, excise, or other name." --Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833

Portland poll finds residents want basics, not extravagant: Hope for liberals? http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/05/portland_should_fix_streets_go.html

Tuesdays Show Topics 5/8/2012

Submitted by Jeff on Tue, 05/08/2012 - 6:05am

Quickpoll: Will stopping coal exports from Oregon make any difference in world coal usage?

Founders quote: "Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants." --Alexander Hamilton

Global Warming madness update: Eco freaks rally in PDX against exporting coal/creating jobs to help OR’s economy to recover: http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2012/05/activists_rally_in_portland_ag.html

Monday's Show Topics 5/7/2012

Submitted by Jeff on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 6:20am

Quickpoll: Is common sense more important in candidates than their education?

Founders quote: "Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which has not this in view, as its principal object, is not a government of the legitimate kind." --James Wilson, Lectures on Law, 1791

Clackamas County conservative split: OR Transformation project is buying the election? http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-city/index.ssf/2012/05/oregon_transformation_project.html