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• Rep. Dennis Richardson: Using Public Records to Become Oregon's Newest Spam King:
  Actually, Justin, Democrats don't use "public records laws" to gather private phone numbers. We use public phone numbers, and landlines only because we don't want to charge people minutes. Second, and more importantly, research has shown that by and large, most people *like* being contacted via phone by ...
• Requiem for a War: Portland's peace community responds with silence and contempt to US troop pullout from Iraq.:
  Marvin, let me try to explain this in very simple terms: 1] People who burn the American flag are extremely unpopular with Americans. 2] Peace activists who do this are therefore counterproductive to the peace movement. 3] Bill stated this obvious fact in a post. 4] You responded by asking ...
• OR-1: First debate for Bonamici & Cornilles:
  It's not me, Sal. Whenever I meet someone, while tabling or canvassing, who tells me they are an independent, I carefully ask if they are a non-affiliated voter or a member of the "Independent Party". Invariably at this question, real independents roll their eyes and make derisive comments about ...
• OR-1: First debate for Bonamici & Cornilles:
  Sal, the word "oxymoron", simply means a figure of speech that contains opposite terms. It comes from the from Greek ὀξύμωρον, meaning "sharp dull". (Moron in Greek means dull.) In this case "independent" is generally thought of by the public as "independent of all political parties", not just the "major ...
• An Otherwise Good to See News Story in The Oregonian:
  I have noticed an ever increasing amount of right wing lies published as news in the Oregonian. In August, for example, they ran this headline: "Standard and Poor's makes the historic downgrade, citing insufficient budget cuts". Except that - if you read the actual text - Standard and Poor's did ...

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