News [youtube 0_0RKWfO37s] As reported here yesterday, George Will mocked Portland in a column this week for Newsweek as a place that "liberals hope is a harbinger of America's future. Portland's ambassador for all things sustainable, U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer, then responded via Twitter, as noted on Blue Oregon, to the affront by inviting Will to come to Portland for a throwdown debate. And now the ...   More

News Columnist George Will is outraged in his latest Newsweek column that federal Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, who was a Republican congressman from Peoria before taking a job in the Obama administration, has committed a serious apostasy. LaHood's sin? Will says the GOP stalwart now believes you can "change people's behavior," as in getting people out of their cars and biking to work. As ...   More

News U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer may not be attending town hall meetings on health care to defend his reasonable proposal on end-of-life discussions between docs and their patients. But the Oregon Democrat is plenty ticked off at former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for calling his proposal "inherently evil" and lying about what it would do as a means of scaring people. Maybe he should challenge her to a ...   More