We’ve been here before, and we’ll be here again, and again, and again. Look into your vaccine exemption rights in your state. We fought to keep your rights to choose. You might want to understand. It seems every few years when the peak of the normal cycling of measles cases comes in, those who profit […]
If it passes, pro-family citizens objecting to the LGBTQ agenda will be criminalized. NOTE: An earlier version of this article appeared in American Thinker. The LGBT movement – backed by Corporate America – is out to criminalize all dissent from its noxious radical agenda. Are conservatives prepared for that fight? [Photo: RunWithPride] It’s back! The […]
In June, the elected Auditor for Metro published a report showing that the agency misled voters when it promised that funds raised from the $475 million bond measure approved in 2019 would be used to make Metro’s nature parks more accessible to the public. It’s nice to see this concern validated by the Auditor, but […]
It’s been another eye-opening, shocking week in Oregon. From a 48-hour, record-setting drag queen marathon, to Governor Kotek’s signing one of the most controversial bills ever into law. Oregon is another example of government gone wild. Give ‘em an inch and they think they are rulers! It’s gotta STOP! The American culture is under attack. […]
Two weeks ago, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler announced plans to give a 2.6% tax break to businesses threatening to leave Portland. This is a win for businesses and could encourage some to stay. But it may be too little, too late. Even after the worst of the pandemic, hundreds of businesses moved their headquarters out […]
Just four days before legislative adjournment, House Bill 3409 passed the Oregon House and has moved to the Senate in a race to the finish by June 25. HB 3409 establishes a state goal of installing 500,000 electric heat pumps in Oregon homes or commercial buildings by 2030. The bill was never heard in a […]
“3000 SE Powell Boulevard” is the name of Home Forward’s 6-year-old low-income housing development with a massive expenditure: $87 million, $75 million of which came from government tax credits and bond monies. Burdened by building height and design constraints, soil contamination worries, and delayed materials delivery, the expected opening date has been pushed back to […]
Western Culture has a long history of a genuine appreciation for the value of open, rational discourse. True leaders value dissent among their ranks as a source of invaluable insight of many flavors. “There are times in the experience of almost every community, when even the humblest member thereof may properly presume to teach — […]
Essential to Totalitarian take-over and rule, the manipulation of the minds of millions is necessary, but is never sufficient. People always eventually see through the lies. Or do they? This is the fourth in a series of five Popular Rationalism Articles in the Open Society Series. The next article will be “The Wisdom of the […]
Just like an Authoritarian scientific dictator who held power in the United States, the mob mentality can hold new hypotheses at bay – sometimes critical hypotheses that can harm hundreds of millions. During COVID-19, the public had the chance to see authoritarian Faucian Science displayed in full view. Numerous times when being questioned by Senator […]