Almost unbelievably, Marine Cpl. Matt Garst stepped on an IED and got blown up - and out. Witnesses noted that he flew eight feet up, and some fifteen feet away from the site. He absorbed the blast, landed on his...

This comes as huge surprise: one in five Californians say they need mental health care. Results were probably skewed by San Francisco, where 99% need mental health care.

As the Washington Times reports, we have an international reputation now. We're clean, we're green, we're "sustainable" as all get out. Our politicians divert millions from basic services to bike paths and trails. We have light rail and streetcars, and...

Ray LaHood portrayed himself as a Republican for years, but there's a good reason why the Bama selected him as secretary of transportation: both want to get you out of your car, and by any means necessary. Evidently unfamiliar with...

In a break from his usual routine, Jon Stewart actually went after some Democrats. Usually, he reserves such treatment to Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, and Republicans in general. The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cCorruptdatewww.thedailyshow.com...

U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton didn't toss the fed's challenge to Arizona law; she allows the law to go into effect but with significant restrictions, and all sides agree that it's not over yet. On the positive side, illegals have...

Back in the day, scientists used to concern themselves with finding things out, and then disseminating their findings. Of course, there once was a time when journalists simply presented the facts of a story, and let the chips fall where...

They have a spiffy website dedicated to showing you how great it is now. Republicans today also released a .pdf chart showing the organizational structure of the beast, and it's truly scary. Download Obamacare Chart Bear in mind: they're just...

It has been reported on several Intertube sites that Los Zetas seized multiple ranches on U.S. soil near Laredo, Texas. In general it is best to look askance at such reports, but one of the breakers on this story is...

TriMet's planned $1.4 billion seven-mile light-rail line just got lightly smacked across the snout: the FTA is cutting their share of the pork by $200 million. So now it'll be a measly little $1.2 billion toy. As a result, the...

If you've ever stopped to question why it is that every time you turn around, one governmental entity or another is demanding more of your cash, consider tiny Multnomah County, Oregon. They have some 1103 people on staff being compensated...

As they so often do when bad news is involved, the White House issued a "dump and run" late Friday in order to minimize blow-back. Back in 1981-82, President Reagan was walking into a recession comparable in most respects to...

No, not Elvis.

You may have heard that Li'l Johnny bought himself a brand-new $7 million luxury yacht (he's such a Man of the People). You may have heard that he docked it in Rhode Island in order to avoid forking over another...

Chicago, as it happens, is one of the main centers in North America for the bush-meat trade, which conservationists such as Crawford Allan, who heads up the N.A. unit of the TRAFFIC group, claims exerts a major conservation impact on...

Blue Oregon's one of those places you need to visit every once in a while, just to keep tabs on the loons. It's sort of like visiting the zoo. But as the old saying goes, even a blind hog, in...

Out today from Rasmussen is a report indicating that 75% of American voters believe that more competition and less regulation is better for the economy than more regulation and less competition; in other words, free markets are widely preferred over...

The F-15 and its successor planes are among the most amazing machines ever built. So it was a stroke of luck to stumble across four high-speed photos of a Canadian F-18. As the pilot ejects, one can imagine that the...

Hot on the heels of news out of Bend that officials killed over 100 Canada geese and donated the meat to food pantries comes word from New York that two-thirds of the current population of Canada geese there are slated...

The nuts in Bend are at it again: their Community Center, which cooks up enough food to provide for several sub-centers, took their share of Canada goose meat derived from the recent park kill and cooked up a stew which...

U.S. Judge Susan Bolton, who's presiding over the Obama lawsuit against Arizona, has already displayed a surprising degree of skepticism in regard to BO's arguments. She's been asking some questions that are making fed lawyers mightily uncomfortable because they cut...

Making areas accessible to handicapped individuals makes perfect sense - they should be able to gain easy access to stores, libraries, transit, and other essentials - but in many cases, bureaucrats take it to extremes. The latest example of the...

The City of Portland is now erecting charging stations around town for all-electric vehicles, and they plan to convert much of the municipal fleet to all-electric. Electricity, you see, grows on trees, which makes it really, really green. So Portland...

According to the Zero, an OSP trooper bagged a hundred pounds of pot down around Medford, when he pulled a pickup truck over for speeding. Driver Juan Carlos Tinoco-Carranza, 25, of Tacoma and Eustaquio Garcia-Garcia, 23, of Brentwood, Calif., were...

The Penguin does like a good massage, it seems, as two more masseuses (masseusi?) have come forward in recent days with accusations of sexual assault. Things aren't looking good for the Prophet; he might have been able to blow off...

Most economic indicators in the University of Oregon Index that has been recently released show a trend toward a double-dip recession in the state. The economy looks set to drop off again in the latter half of this year. But...

This is unusual, to say the least. The top headline in this morning's Drudge Report reads, REVEALED: Secret Gold Coin Tax Slipped Into Health Care Law... We were talking about that three days ago. On the other hand, nobody here...

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Lynne Stewart, who has long characterized herself as a "radical human rights lawyer", was disbarred and subsequently convicted after she illegally smuggled messages from her incarcerated client, the Muslim terrorist sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, to his violent devotees in his...

Day after day, we're fed tales of the horrors of life in Gaza. The Jews are blockading them, people are dying of starvation. But it's an illusion. This photo shows a market in Gaza. Note the abundance of food, the...