All the good stuff gets dumped on a Friday, in the hope that nobody'll notice, and yesterday was no exception here in the City That Works (you over)™: ethically-challenged mayoral candidate Jeffer-some Smith is down in Salem, doing his "Representative"...

Petluv (Photo credit: offmessage) Things are heating up in Germany, these days. Forget about the Euro, the economy, or whatever - the hot topic appears to involve whether or not bestiality brothels should be outlawed. You read that right; sex...

Your passport costs have just jumped up: the application fee for a passport is jumping by 27 percent, from $55 to $70 with a 100 percent increase, from $20 to $40, in the passport security surcharge. There's also a $25...

Infrastructure's crumbling all across the country, but nowhere is it more evident than Portland, where politicians at all levels cozy up to developers while chasing the "green dream". In Portland, it's all about bio-swales, traffic congestion, and of course, a...

Over there in the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Fearless DeFazio's been busy. He succeeded in shutting down Washington's Rep. Herrera Beutler's efforts to require a public vote before proceeding with the loot-rail-laden, $4 billion Columbia River bridge fiasco,...

After the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry abruptly cancelled permission for the Oregon Chapter of the American Meteorological Society to hold its meeting at OMSI facilities, the Society scrambled to find an alternative location, and shortly landed at the...

We need this guy to run for office.

I always like to garden at 3:30 a.m. Apparently, that line didn't go over for a local firefighter, who was found "soaking wet and covered in mud" when Portland police caught up to him at his home. At about 2:30...

The nannies are out in force once again, and there are a couple of things that desperately need to be controlled. Writing in the journal Nature, some distinguished US scientists from UC-San Francisco raise the alarm about a deadly toxin...

There's actually talk in the legislature of eliminating around 300 middle-management and P.R. flack jobs from the state employment rolls. On the other hand, they also want to close a minimum-security prison at the cost of another 100 or so...

Tax (Photo credit: 401K) Well, the IRS may, anyway - Some American Airlines frequent-fliers got a jolt this week after Citibank sent tax forms that listed miles as taxable miscellaneous income. The Associated Press reports the 1099 tax forms "were...

Pornland is back in the news: At least they modified the canard about Pornland strip joints to note that the city has more per capita than Las Vegas - usually they claim that Pornland has more than anyplace in the...

As Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) correctly noted during testimony, Obama's establishment of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as part the federal reserve, together with his so-called "recess appointment" of Richard Courdray to head the entity are fundamentally unconstitutional and, in...

Evidently not content with simply alienating Jews, the Obama administration has moved against Catholics as well, stating flatly that there are no “constitutional rights issues” associated with their requirement that all health-care plans in the United States to cover sterilizations...

Alaskans have had just about enough of the East Coast environmeddlists. Accordingly, their legislators have introduced a bill that would declare New York City's Central Park "to be a wilderness area and to prohibit any further improvement or development of...

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson is pushing hard in defense of their $10 billion-a-year (to as much as $100 billion, by real-world estimates) plan to kill coal-fired plants and cause your energy bill to skyrocket sound and necessary regulation to protect...

His talent knows no bounds.

Image via Wikipedia Were it not for the fact that he's an incompetent racist, the kind of guy who impelled the development of contraceptives, you might feel somewhat sorry for Eric. Because, make no mistake - he's going to be...

The Senate on Monday voted 93-2 to move forward with the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act, legislation that would prevent members of Congress from making investments and trades based on non-public information. Is there something in a congressman's...

Eric Florip, writing at The Columbian, demonstrates the complete lack of comprehension that has characterized the 'zine when it comes to transit - he gets it wrong in the very first sentence: In the still-evolving debate over how to pay...

Cover via Amazon Soros-funded Leftist organizations such as "thinkprogress" and the various offshoots have taken the Religion of "Man-Made Global Warming" to its logical end: they're going after Deniers. They've noticed that most meteorolgists don't buy into their religion and...

You probably thought, "Oh, it's a Portland blog. This is gonna be about the latest trend in Saving The Planet™ by bicycle." Wrong. It's actually about the latest trend in Anthropogenic Global Warming - which, oddly, doesn't seem to be...

I swear this is a guy. Okay, maybe a trannie. But I'm not buying that Sustainable Suzy from Portland City Hall is a woman. On the other hand, I also don't buy "her" lies: Just like when Portlanders first started...

Of the many government officials involved in the "Operation Fast and Furious" gun- running scheme, only one has lost his job. On July 10, 2009, President Obama named Dennis Burke as his nominee for U.S. attorney for Arizona. He was...

Rick Santorum has cancelled events for the time being, as his three year-old daughter, who was born with Trisomy 18, was admitted to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia yesterday. Reportedly, he's staying with her at the hospital. Physical and mental problems...

Image via Wikipedia Some 5,000 anti-abortion protesters rallied in the streets yesterday; 300 arests were made, and officers earlier fired tear gas to disperse people throwing rocks and tearing down fencing at a convention center. Of course, the arrests and...

Interestingly, that whole "Birther" issue may not have been as "out there" as it's been portrayed. Copies of President Obama's college transcripts from Occidental College indicate that Obama, under the name Barry Soetoro, received financial aid as a foreign student...

Image via Wikipedia Urban Greenspaces Institute, Willamette Riverkeeper, Audubon Society of Portland and the Coalition for a Livable Future are all against it. In virtually every case, when these turkeys oppose something, it's a good idea. Last May, the Portland...

Image via Wikipedia Hey, they can go home and pick their noses. This whole "they're only here to do the jobs Americans won't do" thing just doesn't fly. Dubya was wrong, and that philosophy still is about as attractive as...

Image by Getty Images via @daylife You'd think they'd have learned, over there in the government, that the Friday Night Document Dump (FNDD) doesn't work any more. Maybe they have learned, which would explain why they keep pushing for an...