On this day: July 30New Orleans's Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150 (1866) Ajoint resolution of the U.S. Congress...

Marion county circuit court Judge Joseph Guimond ruled in favor OHE "Oregonians for Honest Elections" (a Bill Sizemore Political Action Committee) opening the way for discovery and a $12 million...

We just did a post yesterday about how Oregonian political reporter Jeff Mapes has fallen prey to the liberal non-sensical line that the polling firm Rasmussen is somehow disreputable. Even though...

On this day: July 29King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by Italian-born anarchist Gaetano Bresci (1900) Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (1921) b:...

Full disclosure: I am not losing sleep over the Mannix redistricting ballot measure. I did not like the idea all that much personally. And I certainly did not like the "casino" measure. But really......

Wow if this does not sound like creepy (or creeping?) Fascism showing up on American Universities I don't know what does. Ward’s attorneys claim the university told her she would only be allowed to...

So the polling firm Rasmussen has another poll out that shows Chris Dudley with a 3 point advantage over Kitzhaber for Oregon Governor.  And what does Jeff Mapes have to add as editorial content...

On this day: July 28Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after Serbia rejects the conditions of an ultimatum sent by Austria on July 23 following the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand...

On this day: July 27 Maximilien Robespierre is arrested after encouraging the execution of more than 17,000 "enemies of the Revolution" (1794) Japanese troops occupy French Indo-China (1941) The...

The Oregonian newspaper is running a series of stories about Oregon's budget mess. The stories are told in such a way so as to make it sound like Oregon' mess merely snuck up on everyone, including...

On this day: July 26 The Labour Party wins the U.K. general election of July 5 by a landslide, removing Winston Churchill from power (1945) Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada...

On this day: July 25 The U.S. invasion of Puerto Rico begins with troops landing at harbor of Guánica (1898) The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt...

On this day: July 24 Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian airplanes bomb Hamburg by night, those of the Americans by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of...

First we have this post by one of BlueOregon's angry progressives. I mean virtually every post, over the years, you see from Carla has her angry at something and usually screaming about some great...

On this day: July 23 The Fascist government in Italy bans the use of foreign words (1929) The Treblinka extermination camp is opened (1942) The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) is...

Everyone called him on it in 2006. And don't forget how Lars shouted everyone down in the primary and "vouched" for Ron Saxton. Uh huh... yeah.

I used to be very very involved in initiative petitioning in Oregon. I have sat in on several county offices watching them thumb through petition sheets. All over the state. (The Jackson County Clerk...

Recently Chris Dudley took out an ad in Willamette Week highlighting Kitzhaber's poor performance as governor in the 1990's and early 2000's. The ad focused on Kitzhaber's inability to get Oregon's...

On this day: July 22 The U.S. Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the SCOTUS (1937) The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins...

On this day: July 21 In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100 (1925) Tony Blair is declared the winner of...