HERE’S THE LETTER: http://kpam.com/citizen.pdf

Member Name
DC Phone
DC FAX
Email
Senator Ron Wyden (D- OR)
202-224-5244
202-228-2717
http://wyden.senate.gov/contact/
Senator Gordon Smith (R- OR)
202-224-3753
202-228-3997
http://gsmith.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Home
Representative David Wu (D – 01)
202-225-0855
202-225-9497
http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Representative Greg Walden (R – 02)
202-225-6730
202-225-5774
http://walden.house.gov/contactgreg/
Representative Earl Blumenauer (D – 03)
202-225-4811
202-225-8941
http://blumenauer.house.gov/about/Contact.shtml
Representative Peter A. DeFazio (D – 04)
202-225-6416
202-225-0032
http://defazio.house.gov/emailme.shtml
Representative Darlene Hooley (D – 05)
202-225-5711
202-225-5699
http://hooley.house.gov/index.asp?Type=DYNAFORM&SEC={9BDA1E4D-2430-4E7D-B7AB-236B60C42F5A}

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In a most bizarre arms race with Harvard, Yale has now secured a rock star student. This student, however, is a member–indeed is the spokesman–for the Taliban!!!!! The story was in the New York Times Magazine over the weekend, but John Fund of the Wall Street Journal’s OpinionJournal.com has his own take on this extraordinary news. John Fund will be on the Victoria Taft Show tonight 7:35pm AM 860 KPAM. Stream at kpam.com.

Something is very wrong at our elite universities. Last week Larry Summers resigned as president of Harvard when it became clear he would lose a no-confidence vote held by politically correct faculty members furious at his efforts to allow ROTC on campus, his opposition to a drive to have Harvard divest itself of corporate investments in Israel, and his efforts to make professors work harder. Now Yale is giving a first-class education to an erstwhile high official in one of the most evil regimes of the latter half of the 20th century–the government that harbored the terrorists who attacked America on Sept. 11, 2001.
“In some ways,” Mr. Rahmatullah told the New York Times. “I’m the luckiest person in the world. I could have ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Instead I ended up at Yale.” One of the courses he has taken is called Terrorism-Past, Present and Future.

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HERE’S THE LETTER: http://kpam.com/citizen.pdf

Member Name
DC Phone
DC FAX
Email
Senator Ron Wyden (D- OR)
202-224-5244
202-228-2717
http://wyden.senate.gov/contact/
Senator Gordon Smith (R- OR)
202-224-3753
202-228-3997
http://gsmith.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Contact.Home
Representative David Wu (D – 01)
202-225-0855
202-225-9497
http://www.house.gov/writerep/
Representative Greg Walden (R – 02)
202-225-6730
202-225-5774
http://walden.house.gov/contactgreg/
Representative Earl Blumenauer (D – 03)
202-225-4811
202-225-8941
http://blumenauer.house.gov/about/Contact.shtml
Representative Peter A. DeFazio (D – 04)
202-225-6416
202-225-0032
http://defazio.house.gov/emailme.shtml
Representative Darlene Hooley (D – 05)
202-225-5711
202-225-5699
http://hooley.house.gov/index.asp?Type=DYNAFORM&SEC={9BDA1E4D-2430-4E7D-B7AB-236B60C42F5A}

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In a most bizarre arms race with Harvard, Yale has now secured a rock star student. This student, however, is a member–indeed is the spokesman–for the Taliban!!!!! The story was in the New York Times Magazine over the weekend, but John Fund of the Wall Street Journal’s OpinionJournal.com has his own take on this extraordinary news. John Fund will be on the Victoria Taft Show tonight 7:35pm AM 860 KPAM. Stream at kpam.com.

Something is very wrong at our elite universities. Last week Larry Summers resigned as president of Harvard when it became clear he would lose a no-confidence vote held by politically correct faculty members furious at his efforts to allow ROTC on campus, his opposition to a drive to have Harvard divest itself of corporate investments in Israel, and his efforts to make professors work harder. Now Yale is giving a first-class education to an erstwhile high official in one of the most evil regimes of the latter half of the 20th century–the government that harbored the terrorists who attacked America on Sept. 11, 2001.
“In some ways,” Mr. Rahmatullah told the New York Times. “I’m the luckiest person in the world. I could have ended up in Guantanamo Bay. Instead I ended up at Yale.” One of the courses he has taken is called Terrorism-Past, Present and Future.

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In all of the stories over the weekend about the violence in Iraq, insurgent bombings, and the loss of two more American troops, did you ever read this? See below:

Also Monday, the Defense Ministry reported Iraqi security forces had killed 35 insurgents and arrested 487 in nationwide raids since Wednesday, when bombers blew up a major Shiite Muslim shrine in Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad.

“All of them are Iraqis and affiliated to different terrorist groups and especially al-Qaida in Iraq,” Maj. Gen. Jassim Mohamed told The Associated Press. “But we don’t have confirmed reports that they were behind Samara bombings.”

Also today: Iraq TV says top Zarqawi aide captured

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Interior Ministry forces captured a top aide to al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi during a raid in western Iraq, state television reported Monday.

Also today: did you see the story of how Germany fed the US Saddam’s war plan for Iraq one month before the invasion? And how, at the end of the story, the NYTimes calls the people who kidnapped the Christian Science Monitor stringer “militants” and not terrorists? What does that make Zarqawi, bin Laden, Zawahiri–militants?

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Mommy, What’s it like to live in a state where state officials actually listen to their constituents and where bureaucrats are listened to by their bosses when they see wrongs being committed? We wouldn’t know in Oregon, but Wisconsin is and so is Maryland.
(Read here about how the Minutemen are pushing the agenda in Maryland.)

I’ve told you about this case. In Tennessee they actually had “tour groups” come from all over the United States filled with illegal aliens with phony papers (rental agreements, envelopes with a stamped, return address, and rental agreements direct from Kinkos. Sound familiar? Ah, yes, I thought so. It is, of course, exactly what the Robleto brothers were doing in Oregon except in Oregon you don’t get convicted for it. Find out about the cases here, and here and here. And, of course, Youngs and company want to issue these driver’s certificates (see story below). Why? To make it easier for illegal aliens to drive in Oregon. I see why they would want to make sure criminal drivers had passed a test, but, as you can see, if they’re willing to phony up papers etc, come into the country illegally, then why would we want them here?

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee stopped issuing driving certificates to illegal immigrants Friday after investigators learned out-of-state applicants were using fake papers and bribes to get cards.
One major problem was the variety of documents, such as utility bills or housing leases, that people could use to prove they lived in Tennessee. The department was flooded with certificate requests, and employees were overwhelmed trying to verify the paperwork, he said.
The wallet-size certificates were labeled “not valid for identification” in bold red letters, but federal prosecutors say banks accepted them as legal identification and they could be passed off as official ID at other places.
A dozen people pleaded guilty in recent months after two federal investigations found shuttles from as far away as New Jersey had brought South and Central American immigrants with fake residency papers to get certificates at state licensing centers in Knoxville.

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In all of the stories over the weekend about the violence in Iraq, insurgent bombings, and the loss of two more American troops, did you ever read this? See below:

Also Monday, the Defense Ministry reported Iraqi security forces had killed 35 insurgents and arrested 487 in nationwide raids since Wednesday, when bombers blew up a major Shiite Muslim shrine in Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad.

“All of them are Iraqis and affiliated to different terrorist groups and especially al-Qaida in Iraq,” Maj. Gen. Jassim Mohamed told The Associated Press. “But we don’t have confirmed reports that they were behind Samara bombings.”

Also today: Iraq TV says top Zarqawi aide captured

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Interior Ministry forces captured a top aide to al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi during a raid in western Iraq, state television reported Monday.

Also today: did you see the story of how Germany fed the US Saddam’s war plan for Iraq one month before the invasion? And how, at the end of the story, the NYTimes calls the people who kidnapped the Christian Science Monitor stringer “militants” and not terrorists? What does that make Zarqawi, bin Laden, Zawahiri–militants?

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Mommy, What’s it like to live in a state where state officials actually listen to their constituents and where bureaucrats are listened to by their bosses when they see wrongs being committed? We wouldn’t know in Oregon, but Wisconsin is and so is Maryland.
(Read here about how the Minutemen are pushing the agenda in Maryland.)

I’ve told you about this case. In Tennessee they actually had “tour groups” come from all over the United States filled with illegal aliens with phony papers (rental agreements, envelopes with a stamped, return address, and rental agreements direct from Kinkos. Sound familiar? Ah, yes, I thought so. It is, of course, exactly what the Robleto brothers were doing in Oregon except in Oregon you don’t get convicted for it. Find out about the cases here, and here and here. And, of course, Youngs and company want to issue these driver’s certificates (see story below). Why? To make it easier for illegal aliens to drive in Oregon. I see why they would want to make sure criminal drivers had passed a test, but, as you can see, if they’re willing to phony up papers etc, come into the country illegally, then why would we want them here?

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee stopped issuing driving certificates to illegal immigrants Friday after investigators learned out-of-state applicants were using fake papers and bribes to get cards.
One major problem was the variety of documents, such as utility bills or housing leases, that people could use to prove they lived in Tennessee. The department was flooded with certificate requests, and employees were overwhelmed trying to verify the paperwork, he said.
The wallet-size certificates were labeled “not valid for identification” in bold red letters, but federal prosecutors say banks accepted them as legal identification and they could be passed off as official ID at other places.
A dozen people pleaded guilty in recent months after two federal investigations found shuttles from as far away as New Jersey had brought South and Central American immigrants with fake residency papers to get certificates at state licensing centers in Knoxville.

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The Portland Business Journal is asking you whether a cell phone tax should be imposed in order to fund schools. Please tell them how you feel here.

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In Paris a 23 year old Jewish man was laid to rest after being kidnapped, tortured and murdered by a gang of Islamofacists. Last night on the Victoria Taft Show, John Loftus spoke of the shared background of the new wave of Islamofacists and Nazis. Sadly, he appears to be right.

Halimi’s family and others in the Jewish community said that had the authorities admitted earlier that the young man had been attacked for being a Jew, he could possibly have been saved.Halimi was found dying, covered with burns and cuts, on Monday February 13. He had been kidnapped three weeks earlier, after a Muslim gang sent a blonde to seduce him. Halimi had agreed to meet with her after meeting in a chat room. Immediately after his abduction his mother went to the police, saying he was kidnapped by anti-Semites. Sources in the community said three Jewish youngsters had managed to escape similar abdications in recent months.
Blogger shout out to Michelle Malkin

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Problems with Portland Public Schools? Of course not says the Portland Tribune today. Let’s play a game: if you can detect the oxymoronic thought in these sentences, you get a cookie.

“The district’s options have helped keep Portland’s capture rate — the rate at which Portland parents send their kids to Portland schools — at 85 percent, one of the highest among urban school districts nationwide. • School choice is No. 1 on the list of “Things That Don’t Need Fixing” in Portland Public Schools. “

Otherwise a fine series of articles in the Tribune today.
P.S. The PPS says it’s cracking down on the liberal school transfer policy this year. When you consider this, ‘capture rate’ takes on a whole new meaning, doesn’t it?

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