Crooks and Liars, For John McCain, Hating On Trial Lawyers More Important Than Equality & Fairness (and he picks on 14-year-old girls). Daily Kos, If the price is right, you've got a friend in John McCain...
Matt Stoler argues that something really big happened in Congress today. Open Left:: House Republicans Collapse on Iraq: Today, about 100 House Republicans refused to vote for more war funding, voting 'present'. They are trying to hand off the war
I loved how Amanda immediately ran to Marc's side during Wili's return to the office. Things are finally back to normal, and I wish this episode had come sooner. Luckily, they had time to pull an innocent prank on Betty
ESPN has NBA Playoffs all night. At 8, ABC has a new Ugly Betty , then a new Grey's Anatomy and the season finale (part one) of Lost . NBC has the one hour season finale of My Name Is
Now that Portland has its own official Motorcycle and Scooter Citizen's Advisory Committee , it's time to discuss what matters most to us. Talk with both government officials and riders, from the state to the local level during a meeting
Stolen early morning, Friday May 18 From SE 36th & Division, Portland Honda Aero 50, dark gray with red wheel wells License plate MP15869 VIN 5J6YH28747L006086 Sightings? Call Liam Clavo at 503-841-4700 or the Portland Police (report on file). More
Link to news story: www.kgw.com/video/video-index.html?nvid=142446 From Julie Goodrich, committee member: The City of Portland, motorcyclists and scooters community members are partnering on an effort to communicate to the public the importance of recognizing motorcycles and scooters as a unique interest
Share the Road" -- Keep Motorcyclists [and Scooterists] Safe on our Roadways A message from NETS (Network of Employers for Traffic Safety): Help make this the first year in recent years when motorcycle fatalities do not increase. Motorcycle riders now
Republicans must regain the confidence of Americans and recast their message to voters to avoid a catastrophe in the fall congressional elections, top GOP officials said Wednesday after a special election loss in rural rock-ribbed Republican Mississippi. Rep. Tom Cole
DEARBORN, Mich. -- Jennifer Sharpe, 15, sold the most boxes in a season ever in the 91-year-history of Girl Scout cookies -- 17,328 boxes -- shattering the old record by around 3,000. "During cookie season we do nothing else," said
Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on Thursday he believes the Iraq war can be won within four years, leaving a functioning democracy there and allowing most U.S. troops to come home. "By January 2013, America has welcomed home most
Democratic presidential rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton can agree on one thing -- they want their party to have more money, no matter who is the nominee.
The California Supreme Court has overturned a ban on gay marriage, paving the way for California to become the second state where gay and lesbian residents can marry. The case involved a series of lawsuits seeking to overturn a voter-approved
Eleven months after a cable on the Superman Tower of Power ride at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville severed her feet, Kaitlyn Lasitter, 14, lobbied Congress to begin regulating rides at amusements parks such as Six Flags, Kings Island
Ten years ago, Michael Roach and Christie McNally, Buddhist teachers with a growing following in the United States and abroad, took vows never to separate, night or day. By "never part," they did not mean only their hearts or spirits.
Barack Obama collected the support of four of John Edwards' Democratic National Convention delegates on Thursday, then gained the backing of a West Coast congressman and a large labor union as he marched steadily toward the party's presidential nomination. Obama's
President Bush launched a sharp but veiled attack Thursday on Sen. Barack Obama and other Democrats, suggesting they favor "appeasement" of terrorists in the same way some Western leaders appeased Hitler in the run-up to World War II.
As more than 50,000 soldiers continue to work feverishly to rescue survivors from a fault line of cities and towns destroyed by this week's quake in China's Sichuan province, about 10,000 who survived huddled beneath tents and tarpaulins. "It just
A new US government report reveals that nearly 2,500 children, being held in military custody in Iraq and Afghanistan by the United States, are not uniformly protected as mandated by United Nations protocol. Neither, contends the American Civil Liberties Union,
Regarding the copyright discussion earlier this week, 14 blog entries on the Retort have been removed in response to Digital Millenium Copyright Act notices of copyright infringement filed Wednesday by a media organization. In all but one of the cases,
