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President Says Restoring Fairness to Tax Code Means Tax Relief to Working Americans

700 million dollars back in the pockets of Oregon working families as a result of Making Work Pay tax credit.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Today, on Tax Day, President Obama will meet with several working families, just like the ones all across America, who are facing tough choices during this economic crisis.

President Obama underscored his commitment to a simpler tax code that rewards work and the pursuit of the American dream and supports a future of sustained economic growth that creates good jobs and rising incomes for all Americans

One of History`s Toughest Marines, Smedley Butler, was Anti-War (VIDEO)

"War is a Racket" by Smedley Butler, the two-time Medal of Honor winner denounced the military industrial complex.

(SALEM, Ore.) - When you are a Marine, you learn about specific individuals who shaped the Corps and formed the basis for what it is today. Names like "Red Mike" Edson, "Chesty" Puller and Major General Smedley Butler, who was awarded the Medals of Honor twice, stand out in the Corp's history.

Major General Butler was a Marine's Marine, in the sense that he cared about the right things. His perspective was shaped by an adherence to honesty that few know or live by, and at the time of his death, no Marine had been decorated more in U.S. history.

Two Teens Die in Woodland Train-Pedestrian Accident (UPDATE)

It is speculated that the two teens were unable to hear the approaching Amtrak because of the sound of a freight train.

(WOODLAND, Wash.) - Cowlitz County Sheriff's deputies are investigating the deaths of two teenagers who were struck by an Amtrak train in the south part of Woodland.

Amtrak officials reported that a northbound passenger train had struck two individuals who were standing on the tracks, about a 1/2 mile south of the Davidson Street crossing, at approximately 7:10 p.m.

Reverend Benny & Mister Sid`s At Your Service #40

We've all got that deer-in-the-headlights, future shock gaze in our eyes and that 21st century slackness of the jaw which conveys the message: Hey, could we just slow down for a nano-second?

(Salem) - As the Great Sage and Perfect Master of the Universe Daffy Duck once said, "You never know where you're going till you get there."

That's certainly been my personal mantra for the last twenty years. Heck, when I went to my 5-year high school class reunion many of my classmates were talking about how they were going to retire by the age 40.

Court Overrules Oregon County’s Anti-Immigrant Law

St. Helens is featured in this week's issue of Time magazine. It says in 2008, state legislatures passed more than 200 immigration-related laws, mostly to prompt undocumented workers to give up and move back to their home countries.

(ST. HELENS, Ore.) - A controversial ballot measure that passed in Columbia County last fall won't become law after all.

This week, Circuit Court Judge Ted Grove ruled the plan to slap employers with mandatory $10,000 fines for hiring undocumented workers oversteps the county's authority because immigration enforcement is a federal issue.

2009 Minidoka Pilgrimage Honors Japanese-American Internee`s

The 2009 event will take place at the College of Southern Idaho.

(SEATTLE) - Sixty-seven years ago, during World War II, almost thirteen thousand people of Japanese ancestry, many of whom were American citizens, were forcibly removed from their homes in Washington, Oregon and Alaska, and sent to a desolate “internment camp” near Twin Falls, Idaho.

To commemorate this event, former internees, their families, friends, and those interested in this historic event will make a pilgrimage from Seattle and Portland to the former Minidoka Internment Camp from June 26-28, 2009.

The Conservative Dilemma 3

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(CALGARY, Alberta) - For those conservatives who still maintain that Adam Smith supports their ideology, here is an extended “interview” gleaned from Smith’s most famous work The Wealth of Nations.

Johnson: Capitalism is very competitive. Is there no room for cooperation?

Smith: Without the assistance and cooperation of many thousands, the very meanest person in a civilized country could not be provided, even according to what we very falsely imagine, the easy and simple manner in which he is commonly accommodated.

Chop Shop Economics and Stealth Zionism

President Obama, whose economic background is all Chicago School, brought the Friedmanites including National Economic Council Director Larry Summers back into government.

(BOSTON, Mass.) - Causing $64 trillion of liquidity to vanish from the world financial system and then manipulating the US government to reward the perpetrators with bailout money requires the presence of the “right people” in government, academia, and finance industries.

In The Shock Doctrine Naomi Klein argues that Milton Friedman or Chicago School influenced policy makers routinely used catastrophes to facilitate rewriting of national economic rules to benefit a select subset of the world’s hyperwealthy.

Paving The Way

What values are we teaching kids or do we teach them at all?

(AGOURA, Calif.) - Where do our kids get their values? Are you comfortable with the values they learn in public school?

How about on MTV, cable or other television? Are reality shows actually reality? Do you think modern music teaches them about love and romance? Maybe going to the movies is better and seeing Academy Award winning movies like “Slumdog Millionaire,” or “Departed” will teach them right from wrong?

Somali Bandits: Robin Hoods With an AK-47 and an Itchy Finger

Among his other accomplishments in life as a WWII Combat Vet, Physician and Forensic Toxicologist, Dr. Leveque is a Professor of Pharmacology who trained the first doctors in Tanzania, Africa.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Jamac Habeb, a 30 year-old self-proclaimed pirate, told the Associated Press “From now on, if we capture foreign ships and their respective countries try to attack us, we will kill them”. Now what was the next question?

Another comment was “Somali pirates until today were proud to have a humanitarian code of conduct”. I guess this is like stealing someone’s last food supply just because the bandit has an AK47!