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Boyfriend attacks dentist because of girlfriend's treatment | OregonLive.com

According to reports, 39-year-old Jeffrey Dean Pettijohn was arrested after he physically atttacked a dentist he believed was being too rough with his pregnant girlfriend, who was having a tooth pulled.

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Why does it always seem the freaky stuff happens in Hillsboro?

Amusement 2010

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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More Great News!

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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