John Kroger Plays It Cool

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John Kroger Plays It Cool

Source Weekly

The ink was barely dry on the health care reform legislation when 14 attorneys general from states across the country – including Rob McKenna up in Washington – rushed to file a lawsuit claiming that it's unconstitutional.
To his credit, Oregon Attorney General John Kroger didn't join the stampede. “Based on a preliminary review of the legislation,” Kroger's office announced, “the Oregon Department of Justice is of the opinion that the health care reform bill is constitutional and that the challenges to the legislation are without merit. Legal scholars around the nation have expressed similar views. As a result, Attorney General Kroger will not waste taxpayer dollars on filing meritless litigation.”

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Shrouded in Mystery: Christ's sheets, Congressional gunfire and Palin's quest

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The author has been sent on the road to discover a lost country formerly known as America. He is reporting from the rabbit hole, wondering if it was the pill or Easter egg, on assignment for Or-Bust.com and The Source Weekly.
Domestic Terrorists, in Richmond and Russia
Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) simply couldn't stand Democrats getting all of the attention for death threats and racial slurs after the passage of health care reform, so he first declared that his offices were shot at by gun-toting Liberals (later reported by Richmond police to be “random gunfire”) then decried Dems for announcing that they'd been threatened at all. But this wasn't enough for Cantor (who looks like that suck-up in-law you wish would stop talking) so he launched another PR bonanza about Mr. Norman Leboon of Philadelphia.

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You Keep A Knockin'

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Dear Mr. Conger,
Please stop knocking on doors. You agitate my dogs when you do so. Surprisingly, some of us like to sleep in on the weekends. Please stop using paper door hangers to promote yourself. You talk about wanting a “Green revolution” for Oregon yet you are wasting paper products on doorknobs to promote yourself (interestingly enough, they are not printed on recycled paper.) Are you riding your bicycle around town while you promote yourself or are you being shuttled around in a gas-powered vehicle? If so, is it a hybrid or electrical vehicle? I would guess you're an SUV man.

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Final Four: A victory for fans outside of New Yawk

The Source Staff

Easily the best thing about this year's Final Four is the absence of a New Yawk team, or some other big East Coast metro college team, and all the attendant hype that they invariably get from Dickie V and all the talking head experts on ESPN who refer to the game being played as “basketbawl”. Thankfully we won't hear a lot of: ” Hey, I love Jimmy B and da Cuse and he'll have the big ones taking it to the rack and the small ones hoisting up trifectas,” blither.

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