Quickpoll: Is the government’s “open source” intelligence gathering an invasion of your privacy?

Founders quote: "The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security." —James Madison, Federalist No. 45

Google/CIA invest in a new startup that forecasts future based on open source intelligence monitoring of the web: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/  

Quickpoll: Will “john” schools reduce prostitution if they are done right?

Founders quote: "[T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore ... never to see all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly be bought and sold at market." Thomas Jefferson, letter to Judge William Johnson, 1823

Governor says states must “reset” when we emerge from recession: Not any time soon for Oregon however; http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20100729/UPDATE/100728057

Quickpoll: Should we cut spending to grow Oregon’s economy?

Founders quote: "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite." —James Madison, Federalist No. 45

Wood Village Casino imitative doesn’t make the ballot: only 61% validity rate. http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/07/wood_village_casino_initiative.html

Quickpoll: Will gay marriage advocates be successful in changing Oregonian’s minds?

Founders quote: "Newspapers ... serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke." --Thomas Jefferson

Chris Dudley has raised three times more money than Kitzhaber: http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/07/dudley_widens_fundraising_lead.html

Is Liberalism dangerous? http://article.nationalreview.com/438657/why-liberalism-is-dangerous/william-voegeli

Quickpoll: Will Wal-Mart’s new clothing tracking system stop you from buying their goods?  

Founders quote: "Excessive taxation ... will carry reason and reflection to every man's door, and particularly in the hour of election." --Thomas Jefferson

PERS: See I told you this would happen: Shock. http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20100726/COLUMN0105/7260318/PERS-cost-rise-thickens-clouds-over-budgets

Quickpoll: Would you buy a hybrid vehicle if it is priced normally?

Quickpoll: Are you ok with G oogle spying on you?                                                         

Founders quote: "If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy." --Thomas Jefferson

Quickpoll: Has the Stimulus bill helped Oregon’s economy?

Founders quote: [N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt." --Samuel Adams

Will Chris Dudley’s no show at  the first debate hurt him? http://blog.oregonlive.com/mapesonpolitics/2010/07/chris_dudley_wasnt_just_on_vac.html Kitzhaber says unions will have to make concessions? http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/07/kitzhaber_says_oregon_unions_w.html

Quickpoll: Will reduced solar tax credits kill the industry in Oregon?

Founders quote: "The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3 pence on tea, the magnitude of the evil comprised in the precedent. Let them exert the same wisdom, in watching against every evil lurking under plausible disguises, and growing up from small beginnings." --James Madison

Should the new Oregon AG ruling preventing homebrew public competitions be challenged in court? http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/07/beer_and_wine_makers_must_keep.html

Quickpoll: Should you defend yourself is someone accuses you of lying and you’re innocent?

Founders quote: "[T]he importance of piety and religion; of industry and frugality; of prudence, economy, regularity and an even government; all ... are essential to the well-being of a family." Samuel Adams, letter to Thomas Wells, 1780

What’s wrong with the IPhone4? http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/14/apple-to-hold-press-conference-on-iphone-4-this-friday/

Quickpoll: Is the tea party racist?

Founders quote: "As long as Property exists, it will accumulate in Individuals and Families. As long as Marriage exists, Knowledge, Property and Influence will accumulate in Families." John Adams, letter to Thomas Jefferson, 1814

Is Chris Dudley ducking the traditional first debate in the Governor’s race or doing the right thing for his family? http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/07/dudley_kitzhaber_trade_charges.html

Quickpoll: Should Oregon’s Legislature ban plastic bags?

Founders quote: "It is the duty of parents to maintain their children decently, and according to their circumstances; to protect them according to the dictates of prudence; and to educate them according to the suggestions of a judicious and zealous regard for their usefulness, their respectability and happiness." —James Wilson, Lectures on Law, 1791

Quickpoll: Is DOMA unconstitutional because it violates state’s rights?                                                      

Founders Quote: "Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security." —Samuel Adams, letter to Thomas Wells, 1780

Quickpoll: Does throwing more money at schools get better results?  

Founders quote: "The foundation of national morality must be laid in private families. ... How is it possible that Children can have any just Sense of the sacred Obligations of Morality or Religion if, from their earliest Infancy, they learn their Mothers live in habitual Infidelity to their fathers, and their fathers in as constant Infidelity to their Mothers?" John Adams, Diary, 1778

Quickpoll: Is Shawn Lindsey’s chances of winning in HD 30 much better now that Rep Edwards has withdrawn?

Founders quote: "And as to the Cares, they are chiefly what attend the bringing up of Children; and I would ask any Man who has experienced it, if they are not the most delightful Cares in the World; and if from that Particular alone, he does not find the Bliss of a double State much greater, instead of being less than he expected." Benjamin Franklin, Reply to a Piece of Advice

State Rep David Edwards from Hillsboro drops out of his re election race: Does this change the electoral landscape in District 30? Did he do the right thing on behalf of his family? http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/07/rep_david_edwards_drops_out_of.html

Quickpoll: Should judges remove children from homes because of “risk”?

Founders quote: "[T]he hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and Soldiers, that you are Freemen, fighting for the blessings of Liberty -- that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men." George Washington, General Orders, 1776

Kyron Horman update: Mother says Stepmom should cooperate, meaning what? http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=127801810508928600

Quickpoll: Is the Fed “no fly” list Constitutional?

Founders quote: "Our unalterable resolution would be to be free. They have attempted to subdue us by force, but God be praised! in vain. Their arts may be more dangerous then their arms. Let us then renounce all treaty with them upon any score but that of total separation, and under God trust our cause to our swords." Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, 1776

Kyron Horman update: Stepmom hires prominent defense attorney: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/06/terri_moulton_horman_retains_p.html

Quickpoll: Should wild horses be spayed and neutered like dogs and cats at taxpayer expense?

Founders Quote: "Equal laws protecting equal rights; the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country." —James Madison, letter to Jacob de la Motta, 1820

Westside Wrap Up:

Tigard mayor Lou Ogden’s housemate is arrested on child porn charges: will this hurt the mayor’s chances of being re elected? http://www.oregonlive.com/tualatin/index.ssf/2010/06/tualatin_mayors_roommate_arrested_on_child_pornography_charges.html

Quickpoll: Will state and local governments create new obstacles to gun ownership after yesterday’s high court ruling?

Founders quote: "I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth; that freedom of enquiry will produce liberality of conduct; that mankind will reverse the absurd position that the many were, made for the few; and that they will not continue slaves in one part of the globe, when they can become freemen in another." George Washington, draft of First Inaugural Address, 1789

Kyron Horman update: Divorce/restraining order filed by father against stepmother. What is going on here? http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/06/kyron_hormans_stepmom_terri_mo.html

Quickpoll: Will the state public worker unions strike over the governor’s proposed budget reforms?

Founders quote: "The foundation on which all [constitutions] are built is the natural equality of man, the denial of every preeminence but that annexed to legal office, and particularly the denial of a preeminence by birth." Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Washington, 1784

Will new school teacher “sexual conduct” law protect children from sexual predators? http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/06/post_9.html

Quickpoll: Should tobacco companies be liable for deaths from selling low tar cigarettes?

Founders quote: "The dons, the bashaws, the grandees, the patricians, the sachems, the nabobs, call them by what names you please, sigh and groan and fret, and sometimes stamp and foam and curse, but all in vain. The decree is gone forth, and it cannot be recalled, that a more equal liberty than has prevailed in other parts of the earth must be established in America." John Adams, letter to Patrick Henry, 1776

Quickpoll: Should concealed carry permit holder’s information be publicly available?

Founders quote: "A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support." Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, part 2, 1792

Quickpoll: Is McChrystal’s indiscretion as bad as McArthur’s?       

Founders quote: "Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them." —Thomas Jefferson, letter to Edward Carrington, 1787

Quickpoll: Are you afraid to eat genetically altered food?

Founders quote: Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day."  Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dupont de Nemours, 1816

US Supreme Court lifts ban on genetically engineered alfalfa seeds: Oregon grows a  lot of alfalfa: http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2010/06/us_supreme_court_allows_planti.html

Quickpoll: Is Obama’s BP shakedown an impeachable offense?

Founders quote: "Promote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened." George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796

AT: was the Obama BP escrow fund an unconstitutional act? http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/is_obamas_bp_shakedown_an_impe.html

Special session mess from Bill Post: http://www.oregoncatalyst.com/index.php?url=archives/3336-Bill-Post-Special-Session-Mess.html&serendipity[csuccess]=true#feedback

Quickpoll: Is there a difference between medical marijuana or alcohol use when seeking a concealed carry permit?  

Founders quote: "A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine."  —Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1733

Westside Wrap up:

WA Co Sheriff Rob Gordon loses ruling regarding denial of concealed carry permits: http://www.oregonlive.com/washingtoncounty/index.ssf/2010/06/appeals_court_rules_oregons_me.html

uickpoll: Should government operate private businesses?

Founders quote: "Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge; I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers." —John Adams, Dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law, 1765

 Baker County officials consider taking over ski resort: http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/06/baker_county_looking_at_taking.html

Quickpoll: Is President Obama a Muslim or a Christian?                       

Founders quote: "Laws for the liberal education of the youth, especially of the lower class of the people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant." John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776

Quickpoll: Should the Federal Government bailout the states again with borrowed money?

Founders quote: "The Army (considering the irritable state it is in, its suffering and composition) is a dangerous instrument to play with." George Washington, letter to Alexander Hamilton, 1783

Governor asking our Congressional delegation to bail out his irresponsible spending: http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/06/oregon_and_other_states_ask_co.html

Kyron Horman search update: They quit: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/06/kyron_horman_search_wraps_up_a.html

Quickpoll: Should the Army honorably discharge the soldier who used medical marijuana?

Founders quote: "Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress, and Assemblies, Judges, and Governors, shall all become wolves." —Thomas Jefferson, letter to Edward Carrington, 1787

Metro’s new 25 year transportation plan has how many new roads? How can they accomplish without a huge regional tax increase? http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2010/06/metro_approves_20_billion_plan.html

Quickpoll: Are there alternative budget cuts other than the Governor’s list?

Founders quotes: "Newspapers ... serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke." --Thomas Jefferson

Tech screw up: IPad ATT users hacked, including military, WH. http://gawker.com/5559346/

OR Govt budget cut list comes out: Do we really need to close prisons? http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/06/prisons_elderly_top_list_of_pr.html

Quickpoll: Did the tea party make a difference in last night’s primaries?

Founders quote: "[W]e ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own." —George Washington, letter to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, 1795

Kyron Horman update: Police have no evidence that a crime was committed? Huh? http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/06/kyron_hormans_disappearance_be.html

Quickpoll: Do women prefer bravado or modesty in men?

Founders quote: "[T]o preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them." --Federal Farmer

OR legislative leaders say “no” to special session: too early to fix what they broke, until later when the pain will be so great that they will have no choice but to raise taxes on everybody. http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/06/oregon_democratic_legislative.html

UK study finds women prefer men who are cocky and not shy, modest: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1284519/Why-modest-men-brush-women.html?ITO=1490

Quickpoll: Has the Decongestant ban reduced meth use in Oregon?            

Founders quote: "No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffusd and Virtue is preservd. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauchd in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders." —Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, 1775

Gov takes on the unions again: Pragmatic Ted trying to do the right thing again. http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/06/kulongoski_labor_lock_horns_ov.html

Quickpoll: Should Baseball Commissioner Selig change the outcome of the almost perfect game?        

Founders quote: "I am not influenced by the expectation of promotion or pecuniary reward. I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary for the public good, become honorable by being necessary." --Nathan Hale

Insane liberalism gone wild: Portland Police officer asked to leave coffee shop after buying coffee and wont be served there again. Should people boycott this place? This is the face of liberal compassion and equality? http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/06/red_black_cafe_shows_portland.html

Quickpoll: Will the Independent Party make a difference in November’s elections?

Founders Quote: "A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." James Madison, letter to W.T. Barry, 1822

The Independent Party grows, yet has an identity crisis according to the O’s Mapes: http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/06/oregons_independent_party_on_c.html

Quickpoll: Should father have gotten longer prison sentence for prostituting daughter?

Founders quote: "The best service that can be rendered to a Country, next to that of giving it liberty, is in diffusing the mental improvement equally essential to the preservation, and the enjoyment of the blessing." —James Madison, letter to Littleton Dennis Teackle, 1826

Portland father gets 5 yrs for prostituting 14 yr old daughter: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/06/father_agrees_to_plea_deal_rig.html

Quickpoll: Was Israel justified in using deadly force against violent blockade running activists?

Founders quote: "It is an object of vast magnitude that systems of education should be adopted and pursued which may not only diffuse a knowledge of the sciences but may implant in the minds of the American youth the principles of virtue and of liberty and inspire them with just and liberal ideas of government and with an inviolable attachment to their own country." Noah Webster, On Education of Youth in America, 1790

OR budget wars: Governor proposes likely cuts in Health Care benefits for State employees: http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=20105310329

Quickpoll: Is the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” going to be the moral justification for a Gay Marriage law?

Founders quote: "It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives." John Adams, Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law, 1756

Westside Wrap Up: LNG protestors crash Northwest Natural annual meeting: http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2010/05/northwest_natural_faces_lng_pr.html

Quickpoll: Should the legislature meet in special session to balance the budget?

Founders quote: "Law and liberty cannot rationally become the objects of our love, unless they first become the objects of our knowledge." —James Wilson, Of the Study of the Law in the United States, 1790

Legislative Republicans call for special session to balance the budget: http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/05/oregon_republicans_call_for_sp.html

Quickpoll: How should the new Oregon budget shortfall be balanced?      

Founders quote: "Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness." —George Washington, First Annual Message, 1790

State budget is 563 million short in it’s last year: big spending coming home to roost? http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/05/oregon_faces_563_million_budge.html

Westside wrap up: Phil Knight gives 50k to boost redistricting constitutional amendment: http://blog.oregonlive.com/mapesonpolitics/2010/05/with_phil_knights_help_legisla.html

Westside success with education failure: 30% is Oregon’s drop out rate: Yet some schools doing well: should they be rewarded for success? http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2010/05/not_acceptable_nearly_one-thir.html

Quickpoll: How should the new Oregon budget shortfall be balanced?      

Founders quote: "Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness." —George Washington, First Annual Message, 1790

State budget is 563 million short in it’s last year: big spending coming home to roost? http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/05/oregon_faces_563_million_budge.html

Westside wrap up: Phil Knight gives 50k to boost redistricting constitutional amendment: http://blog.oregonlive.com/mapesonpolitics/2010/05/with_phil_knights_help_legisla.html

Quickpoll: Are minor political parties disadvantaged in elections by Oregon law?

Founders quote: "Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom." —John Adams, Defense of Constitutions, 1787

Indpendent Party told to stop mixing fundraising/nomination process: http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/05/oregon_secretary_of_state_orde.html

Oregon Department of Revenue head gets grilled, sort of on why they are missing tax cheats: Is this the effect of big government policies coming to roost? PERS effect? http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/05/oregon_revenue_director_to_cha.html Feeding frenzy: today new crystal ball estimate of a worsening Oregon economy is released:

Quickpoll: will the success of tea party candidates in the primaries leave Democrats in power?

Founders quote: "Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual -- or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country." --Samuel Adams

Westside Wrap Up: Tigard man found timed bomb in his  home? What is the story behind this? http://www.oregonlive.com/tigard/index.ssf/2010/05/bomb_squad_investigates_after_tigard_man_finds_mysterious_timed_device_in_his_home.html

Tigard woman’s ticket dispute with Horizon air: how can you prove it wasn’t you who boarded a flight?: http://blog.oregonlive.com/complaintdesk/2010/05/airline_takes_ticketholder_for.html

OLCC employee “mystery man” resigns: why wasn’t he fired? http://www.kboi2.com/news/94600184.html

Quickpoll: Is social media the new tool for eco terrorists?

Founders quote: "The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty." —Fisher Ames, speech in the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 1788

Quickpoll: Did the tea party play a significant role in Tuesday’s election results?

Founders Quote: "[D]emocracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths." —James Madison, Federalist No. 10, 1787

Is it hypocritical of Dems to diss Dudley for no experience having supported Obama? http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/05/final_governor_election_night.html

Quickpoll: Will you check to see if your vote was counted?

Founders quote: "Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." John Adams, letter to John Taylor, 1814

American Hero award: “Sons of the Fallen” national event tonight in Beaverton/Portland: http://www.ncm.com/FathomContent/PDF/EventTheatresReport_SOTF.pdf  promo page: http://www.fathomevents.com/originalprograms/event/sonsofthefallen.aspx

Quickpoll: Does today’s conservative message need to moderated?

Founders quote: "[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few." —John Adams, An Essay on Man's Lust for Power, 1763

Quickpoll: Should city dwellers be allowed to keep “urban livestock”?

Founders quote: "There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away. There is a time to fight, and that time has now come." Peter Muhlenberg, from a Lutheran sermon read at Woodstock, Virginia, 1776

WSJ OPED: incentives vs government waste: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703915204575104113794207730.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_opinion

Quickpoll: Do cops keep the peace or enforce laws?

Founders Quote: An honorable Peace is and always was my first wish! I can take no delight in the effusion of human Blood; but, if this War should continue, I wish to have the most active part in it." —John Paul Jones, letter to Gouverneur Morris, 1782

Sam Adams gets revenge: Fires Police Chief Sizer and takes control of bureau away from Saltzman: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/05/portland_mayor_sam_adams_names_1.html Protestors show up within hours of shooting of cop by idiot who is pulled over and starts shooting: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/05/protesters_surround_ne_portlan.html

Quickpoll: Are the Governor’s primary races over? http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=127364311823264900

Founders quote: "I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." Thomas Paine, The Crisis, No. 1, 1776

Why is Obama using a Connecticut Social Security #? http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=152773

Quickpoll: Is prison for rehabilitation, punishment or both? http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/05/portland_judge_trims_sentence.html

Founders quote: "I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way." —John Paul Jones, letter to M. Le Ray de Chaumont, 1778

Illegal alien watch: should Christians support amnesty? http://hotair.com/archives/2010/05/10/good-news-some-evangelical-leaders-putting together-pro-amnesty-platform/  AZ recall backers drop referendums: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9FKDD5G0&show_article=1

Quickpoll: Should a US Supreme Court Justice nominee have judicial experience? http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/65544

Founders quote: "We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die: Our won Country's Honor, all call upon us for vigorous and manly exertion, and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world. Let us therefore rely upon the goodness of the Cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands Victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble Actions." George Washington, General Orders, 1776

Quickpoll: Was the market plunge manipulated yesterday? http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/07/greek-debt-crisis-hammers-dow/  http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aXCY62tQ0Dxk

Founders quote: "The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave." —Patrick Henry, speech at the Virginia Convention, 1775

Beaverton teacher Jason Levin watch: “Crash the tea party moron still blaming tea party for Times Square bomb plot” http://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2010/05/06/jason-crash-the-tea-party-levin-blaming-tea-baggers-for-time-square-bomb/

Quickpoll: Will you vote for someone who wants to keep your kicker check? http://nwrepublican.blogspot.com/

Founders quote: "With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live as slaves." —John Dickinson and Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of the Cause and Necessity of Taking up Arms, 1775

David Wu: both partie’s candidates say he should be replaced: Ouch!! http://www.oregonlive.com/washingtoncounty/index.ssf/2010/05/candidates_from_both_parties_s.html

Quickpoll: Will more Times Square style attacks be committed by foreign or homegrown terrorists? http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/05/suspect_in_times_square_bombin.html

Founders quote: "I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution." James Madison, letter to Henry Lee, 1824

Beaverton Army Captain sentenced to prison for stealing 700k in Iraq war cash: http://www.oregonlive.com/washingtoncounty/index.ssf/2010/05/beaverton_army_captain_sentenc.html

Quickpoll: Will the illegal alien problem lead to national ID cards? http://democratherald.com/news/opinion/editorial/article_788a24fe-55ad-11df-a6ec-001cc4c002e0.html

Founders quote: "Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules. That these rules shall be as equal as prudential considerations will admit, will certainly be the aim of our legislatures, general and particular." --Thomas Jefferson

Portland illegal alien rally is a socialists dream: http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=127275424420661000

Quickpoll: Will Reps Smith and Jenson lose their House seats because of tax votes? http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/04/will_two_oregon_house_members.html

Founders quote: "The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered by me [as President] according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated by the plain understanding of the people of the United States at the time of its adoption — a meaning to be found in the explanations of those who advocated, not those who opposed it, and who opposed it merely lest the construction should be applied which they denounced as possible." Thomas Jefferson, letter to Mesrs. Eddy, Russel, Thurber, Wheaton and Smith, 1801

Quickpoll: Should Oregon voters tax Medical Marijuana and only issue through dispensaries? http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=127249263909689700

Founders quote: "Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure." —Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, 1823

Kitzhaber/Bradbury tangle in debate: So what? Is one really more extreme than the other overall? http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/04/john_kitzhaber_bill_bradbury_t.html

Quickpoll: Should we militarize the southern border? http://www.drudgereport.com/flashhs.htm

Founders quote: "The plain import of the clause is, that congress shall have all the incidental and instrumental powers, necessary and proper to carry into execution all the express powers. It neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to congress. But it is merely a declaration for the removal of all uncertainty, that the means of carrying into execution those, otherwise granted, are included in the grant." —Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833

Quickpoll: Will the illegal alien movement rival the tea party phenomenon? http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/26/pressure-mounting-to-legalize-immigrants/  

Founders quote: "On every question of construction carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed." Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, 1823

Quickpoll: Is the “birther’s” eligibility concerns an important issue? http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/04/arizona_house_votes_to_check_p.html

Founders Quote: "[T]he true key for the construction of everything doubtful in a law is the intention of the law-makers. This is most safely gathered from the words, but may be sought also in extraneous circumstances provided they do not contradict the express words of the law." Thomas Jefferson, letter to Albert Gallatin, 1808

Forest Grove welcomes home ORNG 41^st Brigade: http://www.oregonlive.com/forest-grove/index.ssf/2010/04/forest_grove_welcomes_home_oregon_troops_from_iraq.html

Quickpoll: Is the soon to be fired Melinda Grier the UO President’s scapegoat? http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/04/melinda_grier_attorney_at_cent.html

Founders Quote: "The construction applied ... to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power ... ought not to be construed as themselves to give unlimited powers, nor a part to be so taken as to destroy the whole residue of that instrument." Thomas Jefferson, Draft Kentucky Resolutions, 1798

Sen Metsger argues for strict limits on Treasury officials now, not later: http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2010/04/metsger_proposes_treasury_spen.html

KGW Republican Gov’s debate: O’s Mapes says independent research shows undecided voters broke heavily Alley’s way: http://blog.oregonlive.com/mapesonpolitics/2010/04/undecided_voters_allen_alley_w.html

Quickpoll: Is there a delayed Bush backlash emerging from tea parties? http://article.nationalreview.com/431990/a-delayed-bush-backlash/jonah-goldberg

Founders quote: "Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction." Thomas Jefferson, letter to Wilson Nicholas, 1803

Turn out the lights, the party’s over: Sam Adams recall fails again: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/04/recall_of_portland_mayor_sam_a.html

Quickpoll: Is bankruptcy an option for local governments that are broke? http://city-journal.org/2010/20_2_california-unions.html

Founders quote: "[T]he Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is an evident opposition, the laws ought to give place to the Constitution. But this doctrine is not deducible from any circumstance peculiar to the plan of convention, but from the general theory of a limited Constitution." —Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 81

Quickpoll: Will the Sam Adams recall campaign get enough signatures by Tuesday? http://www.portlandtribune.com/news/story.php?story_id=127161715755433600

Founders quote: "On every unauthoritative exercise of power by the legislature must the people rise in rebellion or their silence be construed into a surrender of that power to them? If so, how many rebellions should we have had already?" --Thomas Jefferson

Oregon Treasury Dept officials double dipping? Say it aint so! http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2010/04/oregon_treasury_officers_repai.html

Quickpoll: Is the national day of prayer unconstitutional? http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/64225   

Founders quote: "The first and governing maxim in the interpretation of a statute is to discover the meaning of those who made it." James Wilson, Of the Study of Law in the United States, 1790

"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation." --John Marshall

Quickpoll: Is the Boy Scout’s guilty verdict justice or an unfair attack? http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/04/portland_sex_abuse_verdict_lea.html

Founders quote: "Jealousy, and local policy mix too much in all our public councils for the good government of the Union. In a words, the confederation appears to me to be little more than a shadow without the substance...." —George Washington, letter to James Warren, 1785

PC madness: anti gay graffiti at Ashland’s SOU is being called a hate crime? Free speech? http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/04/ashland_police_call_anti-gay_g.html

Quickpoll: Will the LNG terminal in Astoria ever be built? http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2010/04/oregon_land_use_board_rejects.html

Founders quote: "Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace." --Thomas Jefferson

Kitzhaber endorses Allen Alley?: NW Republican: http://nwrepublican.blogspot.com/

German tablet PC challenges IPad: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/German-tablet-PC-sets-out-to-apf-890973130.html?x=0&.v=7

Quickpoll: Are California’s proposed anti discrimination rules for public schools Constitutional? http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=138681

Founders Quote: "No morn ever dawned more favorable than ours did; and no day was every more clouded than the present! Wisdom, and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm."  George Washington, letter to James Madison, 1786

Tea Parties on Tax Day are coming up: Register for one of 25 in Oregon online for a free “November is coming” bumper sticker: www.fightbackoregon.com  

Quickpoll: Will children be used by enviro extremists to force radical changes in our lives? New contractor regulations are inconsistent as they are not applied to DIYer’s, which are growing. http://www.oregonlive.com/business/index.ssf/2010/04/epa_to_emplement_new_lead_regu.html  Senate to vote on banning chemicals the FDA says is safe: http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/63967

Founders quote: "...with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor." --Declaration of Independence

Happy Tax Freedom Day!

Quickpoll: Is the new Tiger Woods Nike ad in poor taste? http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9EUID700&show_article=1

Founders quote: "The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a place, is without all partiality or prejudice, if not the greatest exertion of human understanding, the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen." —John Adams, quoted in a letter from Rufus King to Theophilus Parsons, 1788

Nike sues licensing agent to recover 150K. Is it justified? http://www.oregonlive.com/north-of-26/index.ssf/2010/04/nike_sues_vince_lombardis_kids_for_breach_of_contract.html

Quickpoll: Has Sam Adams seen the light?                                            

Founders Quote: "The example of changing a constitution by assembling the wise men of the state, instead of assembling armies, will be worth as much to the world as the former examples we had give them. The constitution, too, which was the result of our deliberation, is unquestionably the wisest ever yet presented to men." —Thomas Jefferson, letter to David Humphreys, 1789

Quickpoll: Is Obama making us less safe because he is limiting nuclear response even after we are attacked by bio weapons? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/world/06arms.html  HotAir: Nuanced and trying to satisfy everyone, but no one will be? http://hotair.com/archives/2010/04/05/new-obama-policy-no-nuke-retaliation-for-bio-or-chemical-attack-mr-obama%E2%80%99s-new-strategy-is-bound-to-be-controversial-both-among-conservatives-who-have-warned-against-diluting-america/

Quickpoll: Will the Sam Adams recall effort get enough signatures in time? http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/04/campaign_to_recall_portland_ma.html

Founders quote: "The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust." James Madison, Federalist No. 57

Quickpoll: Will the new Portland Police oversight powers compromise officer safety? http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/03/portland_police_oversight_hear.html

Founders quote: "Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies of ages, according to the natural and tried course of human affairs. Nothing, therefore, can be more fallacious than to infer the extent of any power, proper to be lodged in the national government, from an estimate of its immediate necessities." —Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 34

Quickpoll: Should stimulus dollars be used to purchase IPods for teachers? http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20100331/NEWS/3310443/iPods-touch-Salem-Keizer-schools  

Founders quote: "If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws -- the first growing out of the last. ... A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government." —Alexander Hamilton, Essay in the American Daily Advertiser, 1794

Quickpoll: Should teachers be allowed to sit on the Board of Education? Guv may veto: http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/03/kulongoski_threatens_to_veto_t.html

Founders quote: "In the formation of our constitution the wisdom of all ages is collected -- the legislators are antiquity are consulted, as well as the opinions and interests of the millions who are concerned. It short, it is an empire of reason." --Noah Webster,

Oregon is near the bottom in it’s application for “Race to the top” Fed funds: http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2010/03/oregon_near_bottom_in_race_to.html