The name of the police officer who shot and killed Ferguson’s Michael Brown last weekend was finally released early this morning: Darren Wilson, a Ferguson cop for six years. Ferguson’s police chief also unveiled a previously unseen investigative report contradicting what witnesses and even police have said so far about the shooting. The report alleges […]
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The police have declared war in Ferguson. Once again this week, military-suited cops from the suburbs of St. Louis fired tear gas into residential neighborhoods and wooden pellets and rubber bullets and piercing sound cannons at peacefully assembled protesters seeking something like a humane response to the highly dubious police shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old […]
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“I’M SECEDING FROM THE NATION.” In a hilarious 911 call, a fellow from Texas named Doug Leguin who’s “pissed off at America” decided to announce his new republic of one—and warn everyone that he was about to seize a mostly unoccupied mansion outside Dallas. He said he was mad at the police, too, for “shooting […]
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No one realized how upset we’d all be if Robin Williams met an untimely fate. And now he has, and we are. No pressure, Intel, but if you should feel like spending $100 billion or so in Oregon, it’s on us. The agreement the Oregon microchip czars reached with officials will save Intel (and deny […]
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It’s Monday, and it’s gonna be hot. Hot like the deserts of Iraq, where, beyond the sectarian hyperviolence, we might also be looking at a military coup. The prime minister doesn’t want to stop being the prime minister. Did a prominent Nascar driver murder a guy on Saturday? Opinions vary. Will Tony Stewart be charged […]
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Probably the only thing more ridiculous than how badly private contractor Oracle and state officials flubbed Oregon’s much-anticipated, now-scrapped health care exchange: The lawsuit Oracle just filed against the state as a result. You know how it is: You go to all the trouble of getting to Iraq, you’ve got to stay awhile. President Obama […]
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GAME ON. (EXCEPT IT’S NOT A GAME.) President Barack Obama last night gave the go-ahead to drop bombs on the Islamic State, the Sunni militants looking to establish a caliphate over large parts of Syria and Iraq. The Pentagon has since confirmed those airstrikes have begun. The Islamic State, better known as ISIS, has come […]
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Russians and their infamous appetites, right? Moscow’s answering the most recent round of Western sanctions over Ukraine with some new rules of its own. For at least the next year, it’s banned fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, milk and dairy imports from the US, the European Union, Australia, Canada and Norway. I have no idea what […]
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Big Internet News (for the relatively prosperous parts of the city at least)! Regardless of whether our overlords down in Mountain View deign to bestow Google Fiber on us, Portland’s getting super-fast internet. CenturyLink announced this morning it’s going to roll out the service in undisclosed neighborhoods through 2015. Sure, a court of law found […]
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On Wednesday, you’re going to start seeing more ads describing why Dr. Monica Wehby should supplant US Sen Jeff Merkley. Here’s where they came from. Just the other day Denis was obsessing over the various amounts of monetary “unclaimed property” he’s left in his wake while traipsing rakishly around this nation, and now the New […]
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That was… brief. What was supposed to be a 72-hour “humanitarian” cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, between Israel and Hamas, lasted only two. Palestinian militants have been accused of killing two Israeli soldiers and kidnapping another (Hamas, of course, denies it all)—prompting condemnations from Secretary of State John Kerry and the very strong chance of […]
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Impeachment Lite! Some House Republicans are having a hard time saying the “I” word when it comes to President Obama. So they’ve decided to do the next best thing! In a total party-line vote, they’ve agreed to sue him in federal court—arguing that he overstepped his constitutional bounds by using executive orders to modify pieces […]