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U.S. Bows to Political Pressure: Award-winning Palestinian Journalist Will Visit

"Reflections on Life and War in Gaza" features Mohammed Omer: Speaking Tour on Conditions in Palestine to Take Place as Debate Between U.S. and Israel over expanded settlements continues.

(CHICAGO) - Back from the brink of cancellation, a presentation on conditions in Palestine will take place April 5th with award-winning journalist and photographer Mohammed Omer.

Subjected to an extended, and unexplained, hold on his visa, Omer and supporters launched a public pressure campaign, winning his entry from the U.S. consulate today.

Marine Veteran Remembers `The Mouseketeers`

In November 1964, a Marine veteran remembers boarding ship in San Diego harbor for the Far East and “The Mickey Mouse Theme Song.”

(SOMERDALE, N.J.) - In our starched utilities and whitewall haircuts, we all looked alike. A long green line of young men waiting to board ship.

Water Quality: An Exploration of the Myths, Lies and Misperceptions

“Don’t Test, Don’t Tell” PART II

(LAGUNA BEACH) - In this second and final installment, our caravan will be moving on to problems here in my home state of California.

Accidental Death Investigation - Silver Falls State Park

The victim is a recent graduate from the campus and his parents live in Israel.

(SILVERTON, Ore.) - Officials are continuing the investigation into an apparent accidental death of a 22-year old man from Vancouver, Washington who fell Saturday afternoon from an edge overlooking the Drake Falls area at Silver Falls State Park.

Israel`s Reaction to the Notion of Peace on Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday Peace March traces steps of Jesus; attacked by Israeli military.

(BETHLEHEM) - Wow, what a day: over 100 native Palestinian Christians and Muslims and internationals including Israelis, breached the tight security separating the Palestinian cities of Bethlehem from the occupied city of Jerusalem.

Donkeys and people arrested!

Sandbox Property Rights

Reexamining the famed Tonka Wars that affected so many American youth.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - Spring is here. The rain is less omnipresent. The sun has regained a bit of its brilliance, and the temperature occasionally flirts with something that could be called reasonably warm. Our story begins, on one of these glorious-by-contrast spring days, at the local playground.

Amongst the dozen odd young children swinging on swings, sliding on slides, and participating gleefully in other very literally named activities, Johnny and Timmy sat in a sandbox playing with a large yellow Tonka dump truck and crane.

Dangerous Drugs for Combat Soldiers
Zombies on the Attack

Anti-depressant drugs are doubly dangerous. Most of them cause a severe drug hangover which is far worse than alcohol. Their adverse side effects are possibly/probably causing or worsening PTSD.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - I could NOT believe what I was seeing on ABC TV News March 24, 2010; that the Army Shrinkologists (Psychiatrists) were prescribing zombifying drugs to frontline combat troops.

I was a Combat Infantryman, Battalion Scout, Pointman and Forward Observer in WWII. I am not only lucky but astonished that I lived through it.

Fatal Crash Takes One Student`s Life and Injures Three

The crash happened on Highway 7 about two miles north of Phillips Reservoir near Sumpter.

(BAKER CITY, Ore.) - Four Baker City High School students returning from an overnight spring break camping trip were involved in a single vehicle traffic crash Friday afternoon resulting in the death of one person and serious injuries to three others.

Heavy Casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq

Unusual in this report, are the names of two female soldiers who died in Iraq. One, a NW soldier, died when her base was attacked by rocket fire. The second female soldier died from injuries suffered during a vehicle crash.

(SALEM, Ore.) - The fighting in both Afghanistan and Iraq continues to claim many American lives. This report includes the names of seventeen members of the U.S. military who paid the ultimate price. Their deaths occurred between 5 March and 24 March 2010.

Of the seventeen, 11 were U.S. Army soldiers, 5 were U.S. Marines, and one Navy SEAL was also lost.

Portland Police Detectives Charge Four With Murder

Four men have now been charged in the death of one of the occupants, 55-year-old Jesus Rodriguez Garcia, who died as a result of the injuries he sustained during the robbery.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Portland Police Detectives charged four subjects Thursday in the murder of a man during a home invasion robbery that occurred on March 12, 2010.

Portland Police Bureau Detective Mary Wheat, says Portland Police Officers responded at approximately 4:10 a.m. to a call of a home invasion robbery that had just occurred in the 5700 Block of SE 72nd Avenue.