You may recall that a couple of years ago, armed agents from Barky's DOJ and DI agencies raided Gibson Guitar facilities in Memphis and Nashville. Now we know why: Last week, Investor’s Business Daily published an editorial suggesting that Juszkiewicz’s...

“True high-speed rail” Their so-called "bullet train" has always been a half-baked (if that) concept, but they're virtually guaranteeing failure by following the Porkland Streetcar model: "let's hire a company that's never had anything to do with the issues at...

Livin' ain't easy.

The interior of a Portland Streetcar. Tricky Rick Gustafson, honcho at Porkland Streetcar, Inc., has decided not to issue any more dates specifying when the fabled streetcars from Oregon Iron Works' United Streetcar will actually be delivered or placed into...

Amusingly, a news team in Maine was doing live coverage about an older gent who'd gone missing the previous day. The reporter and camera guy were standing in front of the old guy's house when who should happen by but...

A Chorus of Disapproval That's what a recently exposed directive from DOJ to staff says, and disapproval, you know, is Bad. It might hurt somebody's feelings. Among the directives in the brochure is an order for workers to vocally affirm...

Alexander Michael Herrera boarded an Alaska Airlines plane in Anchorage. When he realized that the plane was actually going to land in Portland, Oregon, he made a desperate attempt to escape, trying to open an emergency exit in flight before...

Columbia River Crossing concept drawing of "deck truss" bridge 25 February 2011 The transit agency in Clark County, Washington (C-Tran) was supposed to come out with a decision regarding a light rail "extension" into downtown Vancouver via the long-planned, low-clearance...

Graphic illustrating the percentages of public opinions on the likelihood of some scientists falsifying global warming research. Based on Rasmussen polling of 1,000 American adults conducted July 29-30, 2011. Bet those numbers are even higher today.... Much to the horror...

The Class of 2013 will owe an average of $35,200 in student loans upon graduation, making them second only to mortgages as the largest debt for most Americans. And that Bachelor's degree in Art History is about to get even...

A doctor in South Portland, Maine, has implemented real health care reform by declining to accept any sort of insurance, cutting his prices in half, and taking payment at the end of a visit. He even posts his prices online....

Bike Share at the University of California Irvine Under the stalwart guidance of former Porkland mayor Sammy Adams, plans for implementing a "bike share" program have been chugging along. New York City's already got one; its Grand Opening is today....

Immigrant rights march for amnesty in downtown Los Angeles, California on May Day, 2006. There hasn't been a lot of reporting on the subject in what passes for American news these days, but all week long there've been troubled utes...

The Pacific Northwest Trail Visitors attending Memorial Day services around the Pacific Northwest got, as is so often the case here, a memorable soaking to go along with it all. Those who opted instead to go camping likely spent much...

Here on the cutting edge of technological evolution we find the next great thing for curbing those pesky greenhouse gases that are going to destroy the planet and kill us all. It's cow food. Cows emit a lot of methane,...

Friday morning, he was in Nyssa, where he got an earful about the Ten Thousand Commandments issued by federal agencies and the needless burdens they impose upon regular folks who're just trying to make a living. Nyssa City Councilman Ross...

Wood Hall and Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, USA Two cases, which were consolidated for consideration by the US Supreme Court were brought by the Portland-based Northwest Environmental Defense Center (run out of Lewis & Clark Law...

Plums that have been genetically engineered to be resistant to the plum pox virus 6000 Portland nuts reportedly took part in a "protest march" against Monsanto over their dangerous genetically-modified seeds. Never mind that virtually every food item on the...

Teach your kids to shoot. They're too fat to run. Department of Health and Human Services eliminates rape by reclassifying assaiants as :undocumented sex partners". Michelle Obama praises weekend rampage by Chicago teens as good way to burn calories and...

A Bakersfield beat-down by half a dozen cops was captured on two cell phones; following the death of their victim, police tracked down the cell phone owners and confiscated their phones, and the more incriminating footage was apparently somehow deleted....

Ethanol fuel plant in West Burlington, Iowa. The price of gas always goes up around the Memorial Day weekend, but this year, so's the price of grilling. Now, your basic spuds remain a good value for the money; packed with...

Over at The Zero, Richard Read claims that the collapse of the Skagit River bridge may provide impetus to seal the deal on the light rail expansion project amusingly referred to as the "Columbia River Crossing" between Porkland and Vancouver...

The so-called "animal rights" group's suing to uncover the names, addresses, and other information related to three anonymous bloggers who purportedly defamed them by telling the truth in comments responding to an article in HuffPo regarding the organization's general slaughter...

Citizens in Vacouver USA have filed a lawsuit against the city over voting rights: A group of residents who sponsored an anti-light rail initiative filed a lawsuit against the city of Vancouver Thursday in Clark County Superior Court, arguing the...

He's outraged by the media phone records/computer tapping issue, and so he's directed his BFF, Eric Holder, to investigate...himself. Eric's to report back by July 12, at which time it will be made clear that everything's hunky-dory. So there.

With the collapse of the I-5 span across the Skagit River in Washington last night came the usual blast of incredibly perceptive reporting: traffic is backed up in both directions. Expect long delays for quite some time. People apparently get...

Both the north- and southbound lanes of the I-5 bridge over the Skagit River in Northwestern Washington have collapsed; multiple cars in water, extent of injuries unknown. Private boats are assisting EMS in recoveries. Live stream arriving; bridge appears to...

At about 7:15 p.m. tonight, the bridge over the Skagit River collapsed; at least two cars with people in the water.

Now with a new and improved deadline, the unconstitutional Portland head "arts" tax, which was due by April 15 May 15, is now due on June 10. Unless something else goes wrong. This is the second time the deadline has...

Opponents of efforts to fluoridate the Portland water supply won handily in Tuesday's election, but they're not stopping; they've had just about enough of the underhanded, big money, back-door schemes that have been employed by fluoride backers to get the...