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Police Locate Tacoma-area Kidnap Suspect and Victim in Salem

After a few tense hours, a female believed to be kidnapped out of Washington, was located safely.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Oregon State Police SWAT team members working with OSP troopers, Pierce County Sheriff's Office, and Salem Police Department, arrested a 17-year old Salem male Wednesday afternoon related to a reported kidnapping of the suspect's 18-year old estranged girlfriend from the Tacoma area.

The victim was found missing from her grandmother's home on 78th Street Cr. E. in Tacoma at 7:15 a.m. this morning.

Op Ed: Salami-Slicing
Our Stimulus Plan
Is GOP Back-Stab

Neocon continuance threatens decades of Depression.

(EUGENE, Ore.) - Never in all of our American history has there been a clearer --but assuredly NOT “clean”!-- example of political subterfuge to promote return-to-power than the GOP salami-slice stuff perpetrated in paralyzed D.C. this past week.

Their destructive self-serving political-survival effort NOW --to force failure on our new President-- truly may well force only decades of Depression deeper than ever experienced globally at any previous time.

Anaka & Burr Call for Prompt Top Level DOD/VA Meeting on Military Suicides

If the suspected incidents are confirmed, the number of suicides last month would surpass the number of troops killed in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Today U.S. Senator Daniel K. Akaka (D-HI), Chairman of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee and a senior member of the Armed Services Committee, and Senator Richard M. Burr (R-NC), Ranking Member of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee, called on the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs, the current acting Co-Chairmen of the DoD/VA Senior Oversight Committee (SOC), to convene a meeting to address the alarming rise in solider suicides.

The Army reported seven confirmed and 17 suspected suicides in January.

Reverend Benny & Mister Sid`s At Your Service #31

(Salem) - In accordance with his campaign promise, Barack Obama's first action as president was to put aside the politics of division and reach out across the aisle to those of the loyal opposition. Unfortunately his opponents made no such promise and wasted no time in dragging Obama down regardless of the results to the state of the nation. So much for a team of rivals.

But Barack is a Chicago boy, and as such must have some sense of what politics means and what to do with members under your care who don't know how to play well with others.

Laika`s `Coraline` Better Than Expected

There were many parts in the movie that I considered more deep and serious than anything I've seen an an animated picture of this genre, which kept my attention.

(SALEM, Ore.) - I visited the Laika animation studio in Portland in 2008. At the time the only thing I knew was that they created stop-motion and CG (Computer Graphics) commercials for various products.

While I was there the staff showed us around several sets that are for different commercials. However there was one that we couldn't be shown. It was the set for their first full-length picture, a film adaptation of the horror novella "Coraline".

Leadership Forecasting

We have come through tough economic times before, and I am optimistic that we will come through this one.

(CHARLESTON, S.C.) - I don’t have to tell you about the toll the recession is having on people around the country. Companies are closing, layoffs abound, and politicians in Washington continue to work on viable solutions. Times are tough.

History Repeated in Africa? Aid in One Hand, Bible in the Other

US aid group, seen as cover to promote Christian missionary work, expelled from Darfur.

(KHARTOUM, Darfur) - A US aid group has been expelled from Sudan's war-hit region of Darfur for having a large stock of Arabic-language bibles, the official SUNA news agency reported on Saturday.

The Texas-based "Thirst No More" humanitarian group's Internet website says its work in Darfur focuses on "bringing clean, safe, and sustainable drinking water," with no reference to Christian missionary work or distribution of bibles in Muslim Darfur.

Bonanza (AUDIO)

Connecting childhood memories of horsey rides with a classic western theme.

(AUGOURA, Calif.) - Not so long ago, I had one of those great deja-vous moments with my boys.

First, some set-up; I had made a couple of CDs for a men’s weekend I'd be attending. The idea was to put together a group of songs that would celebrate being men, the completion of an intense weekend of "work", and be the kind of music that would encourage "letting go" in the form of dancing, singing, acting out, etc.

Oregon Man`s Letter to Sen. Leahy Details Charges Against Charles Schwab

Read Wayne Pierce's recent letter to Senator Patrick Leahy, the Chairman of the US Senate Judiciary Committee

(EUGENE, Ore.) - An Oregon man who became involved with a woman that had previously dated the billionaire stock investor Charles Schwab of San Francisco, California, says he is the victim of several crimes that were covered up or overlooked by the FBI and the Justice Department.

Kyrgyzstan`s Revenge

Why the Kyrgyz are kicking us out of their country

(SAN FRANCISCO) - Remember Kyrgyzstan? Extensive coverage of that country's "Tulip Revolution," also dubbed the "Pink Revolution," took place back in those heady days when George W. Bush's "global democratic revolution" was said to be the wave of the future.

The so-called color revolutions in Georgia, Ukraine, and the landlocked and desperately poor Central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan were supposedly sparked by Bush's "fire in the mind" – a phrase lifted out of Dostoyevsky's The Possessed and used in one of the former president's more unhinged perorations.