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'W' couldn't stand it. He covered his ears. Four nice men and a lady had given him the White House and now one mean man had taken away the Congress.”</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="046a1200.gif" border=0 width="417" height="288" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Broder</B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Courier New" >:</FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" > The dean of talking heads says the things that drove Jeffords out of the GOP are ones that matter a lot to suburban Republicans and Independents who'll vote in 2002. </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Verdana" ><A HREF="http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/opinion/columns/broderdavid/A80283-2001May26.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/opinion"><U>(Omens)</U></A></FONT></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#009999" FACE="Courier New" ><B>Salmon & Electricity</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Courier New" >: </FONT>Here's an analysis of the Bonneville Power Administration's “emergency” decision to release water through its dams' generating turbines despite the salmon (<I>The </I><I>Oregonian, </I>5/21/01): <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Verdana" ><A HREF="http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf?/news/oregonian/lc_21power21.frame" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf"><U>(Fish Meal)</U></A></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Verdana" >.</FONT></div> <div> Many were surprised to learn that the Biological Record of the Northwest Salmon Recovery Plan empowers the BPA to subordinate the "salmon crisis" to the "power crisis." Meanwhile, twelve conservation and fishing groups have sued the government, claiming those emergency powers are illegal under the Endangered Species Act: <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Verdana" ><A HREF="http://www.oregonlive.com/outdoors/index.ssf?/environment/oregonian/lc_61nmfs04.frame" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.oregonlive.com/outdoors/index"><U>(Lawsuit)</U></A></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Verdana" >.</FONT></div> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#009999" FACE="Courier New" ><B>Crazy Over Star Wars</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" >: </FONT><I> </I>Columnist Thomas </div> <div> Freedman dissects the Bush-league reasoning </div> <div> behind National Missile Defense in a <I>New York Times</I></div> <div> article entitled, “Who's Crazy Here?” Click on:</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/15/opinion/15FRIE.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/15/opinio"><U>("I'm crazy for tryin'...crazy for lyin'...and</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/15/opinion/15FRIE.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/15/opinio"><U>crazy for loving you..."</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="04899ce0.gif" border=0 width="409" height="206" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Death Penalty</B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" >:</FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" > For two of the better cases against </FONT></div> <div> the death penalty, check this article from <I>The Progressive</I> </div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Verdana" ><A HREF="http://www.britannica.com/magazine/article?content_id=346508&query=death%20penalty" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.britannica.com/magazine/artic"><U>(Case Against)</U></A></FONT> and David Sarashon's 6/10/01 column in <I>The </I></div> <div> <I>Sunday Oregonian </I><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Verdana" ><A HREF="http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/david_sarasohn/index.ssf?/news/oregonian/david_sarasohn/ed_11dvx11.frame" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian"><U>(Sarashon)</U></A></FONT>. And the next time you've been </div> <div> cowed by a death penalty devotee, log on to the home page </div> <div> of The Death Penalty Information Center <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Verdana" ><A HREF="http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/PressRoom.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/PressRoo"><U>(DPAC)</U></A></FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#111111" FACE="Verdana" > for the ammo </FONT></div> <div> you should have used.</div> <div> </div> <bR> <div> <B>Real Men Drill</B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" >: </FONT><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Verdana" >My old neighbor, Mary McGrory </FONT></div> <div> of <I>The Washington Post,</I> characterized the Bush League's </div> <div> energy plan in three short sentences: “Real men drill. </div> <div> Real men dig coal. Real men go nuclear.” </div> <bR> <div> Meanwhile, CNN reported (6/10/01) that the White House </div> <div> and Republican congressional leaders shook down the energy </div> <div> industry for its new multimillion-dollar advertising campaign </div> <div> to fight federal caps on California electricity prices <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000099" FACE="Verdana" ><A HREF="http://www.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/06/10/garrett.utilities.otsc/index.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/06/1"><U>(Caps)</U></A></FONT>. </div> <div> The crusade for price caps will be a big club for Democrats in </div> <div> 2002--even if BPA has adjusted its expected autumn rate</div> <div> increase from 300 percent to "just" 75. Just ask Gordon Smith. </div> <div> He has nicely co-opted the issue from John Kitzhaber.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="04a75110.gif" border=0 width="373" height="273" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B>Finally In The News</B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" >: </FONT></div> <div> <B>REPUBLICANS TO CHANGE LOGO</B></div> <div> WASHINGTON (AP)--The Republican National Committee </div> <div> announced today that it is changing the emblem of the </div> <div> Republican Party from an elephant to a condom, because </div> <div> the latter more accurately reflects the Party's political </div> <div> stance. A condom stands up to inflation, halts production, </div> <div> destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of pricks, </div> <div> and gives one a sense of security while screwing others.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>