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CERN Discovers Janus Boson

CERN

 By Larry Leonard

May 14, 2012 — It is a circle, a great metal tube in Europe. It sends charged particles whirling in opposite directions at speeds that approach the velocity of light, then in a big “X” intersection cross them into each other’s path, and …. bang !!!!

When they

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Pigskin Pete: Ducks Remain Favorites To Earn Another Title

football

By Fred Delkin

Spring drills are over for Pac12 football title aspirants and we’ve seen or read nothing to dim the Oregon Ducks hopes for a fourth straight championship. Both talent and schedule are Webfoot assets. Yes, 2011 QB star Darron Thomas left early for a shot in the NFL and many

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The Bloodsucker Economy

$1549000 Bethesda house sustainable

 By Art Hyland

Pictured nearby is a single family house for sale. Although squeezed into a narrow, level lot, nevertheless, its “sustainable design and construction will save thousands in utility costs every year.” It better, because the going market price of this beauty–while it lasts–is over $1,500,000. And it’s only ten short miles

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Taste of Hawaii Opens In Downtown Portland: Island Mana Wines

Guava Hou wine

By Fred Delkin

An imaginative wine entrepreneur has established a taste of Hawaii just a block from Portland’s Pioneer Square. Mark Proden served in our Air Force as pilot and engineer for 11 years before launching a new career based upon the fermented grape. While studying at Salem’s Northwest Viticulture Center, Proden apprenticed at several

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Northwest Looms Large In Coast Guard Annals

CG Cutter in Astoria

By Fred Delkin

Semper Paratus, or Always Ready is Our motto    (Our Fame and Glory too…)

The opening lines of the U.S. Coast Guard anthem describe an attitude particularly applicable to the maritime history of the Pacific Northwest.  USCG shore and air bases in Oregon, Washington and Alaska constantly launch search and rescue missions into some of the most turbulent stretches of

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Havana, Oregon

American Flag

By Art Hyland

Step into a local city hall meeting in what looks like an ordinary Oregon city, and you might witness anti-America on parade.

Our own Bruce Harmon who works behind the scenes for this magazine, lives in one of the many  Oregon cities prefaced by “The People’s

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2012: The Progressive Elite vs. the American Hard Hat       

gas pump

By Larry Leonard

April 21, 2012 — You have been fed a load of crap.  It comes to you in two types.  The first is in the form of a lie.  Something is this, and the liars tell you that it is that.  The second type of lie is more subtle,

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Polar Bears Have No Worries: A Genius Discusses Global Warming

SpaceShipOne

by Art Hyland

Burt Rutan, born in 1943 in Portland, Oregon, is an aeronautical engineer, but a supreme general engineer first of all. Which means he thinks about everything that comes his way by analyzing its function, design, flaws and value, free of any predetermined conclusion. His fact-based effort to investigate

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Market Prices: Obama to the Rescue

Obama sad

By Art Hyland

“…it will be interesting to see if actions taken by this administration against those speculators lowering natural gas prices will be as effective as those against speculators raising oil and gasoline prices.”

April 17.   Our young fairness-oriented president is coming to the rescue

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Mixing politics with a vacuum, NASA: A Global Warning

Lenin

By Larry Leonard

 “So, Joe McCarthy was right, after all. Starting in Hollywood and sliming in a northerly direction, the Left Coast is rotting with the leprosy of the Left. Lenin has replaced Newton in these parts. Science has been subsumed by Collectivism.”  (LL)

Friday the Thirteenth, 2012 — The thing

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In Oregon, Marxism is Apple Pie

Red Chinese crown

By Art Hyland

Oregon has been growing Green/Red education for some time now.  Eugene, where the University of Oregon calls home, is noted for its liberal curriculum, liberal students and faculty.  But Portland State University is truly in a sprint for the liberal lead.  This was the headline in The Blaze

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Rat Rods, Hot Rods & Customs: We Didn’t Need No Stinkin’ iPads

“While we had America, though, we turned a blues riff in “B” to rock and roll, developed fashion to its pinnacle of blue jeans, a white t-shirt, a leather jacket and James Dean.”

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Justice Served to Obama

Eric Folder

Eric Holder’s DOJ Pays $120,000 for Frivolous (Intimidating) Lawsuit

By J. Matt Barber

Eric Holder is a busy man. When President Obama’s chief law enforcement officer isn’t tied up selling guns to Mexican drug cartels, refusing to prosecute self-serving cases of voter intimidation or ignoring “wanted dead or alive” bounties placed

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Semi-President Algore, Sophomoric Sadie O. Winfrey and the high speed, low drag 21st Century Eskimos just must move to Tin Creek

map of Alaska

By Larry Leonard

“Yes, the last Ice Age.  Enter the first Native Americans, probably.  Maybe even these ones, who some say came east across the Bridge to Somewhere before it melted.”

April 03, 2012 –  The Inuit people in the villages north of Nome want $50 million

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The Week Obama Jumped the Shark

By Peter Wehner, Commentary Magazine

“What the president said, then, was so ill-informed, so ignorant, that people assumed he must know better. There’s no way we can know. But whatever the case, this has been quite a bad stretch for the president. His comments about the Supreme Court, when combined with his astonishingly dishonest attack

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