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Reverend Benny & Mister Sid`s At Your Service #37

Who will be Obama's Ulysses S. Grant?

(Salem) - Not three months into his administration Barack Obama has had his own Hurricane Katrina dropped in his lap.

He didn't create the banking crisis, but it's his to solve. It's difficult to say that his leadership in this is any better than Bush's with Katrina.

Asa Hutchinson Disagrees With Portrayal in Salem-News Political Perspective Article

There appears to be a huge difference between the federal interpretation of truth, and the reality of what is taking place.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Former Homeland Security Undersecretary, DEA Administrator and Congressman, Asa Hutchinson, contacted Salem-News.com Tuesday with a complaint over a political perspective report that I wrote March 23rd 2009.

The report was highly critical of Hutchinson for lumping marijuana into a group with drugs like "cocaine" and "methamphetamine". The problem is that we aren't supposed to compare apples and oranges.

More Marines and Soldiers Pay the Ultimate Price in Afghanistan and Iraq

As we have increasingly reported in recent weeks and months, the casualty rate in Afghanistan has been climbing.

(SALEM, Ore.) - In this report we offer the few details we know about three Marines and two Army soldiers who died in service to their nation; four in Afghanistan and one in Iraq.

Our forces in Iraq are not out of the woods by any means, but the count has greatly traded places when it comes to the number of servicemen and women being killed in combat and in non-combat related incidents.

March Madness: Lessons from The Dean

The Management Moments series by Doug Dickerson is a weekly column designed to bring inspiration to those in the workplace and beyond.

(CHARLESTON, S.C.) - March Madness is here and basketball fans across the country have faithfully filled out their brackets, and are watching the madness. Through the first weekend, I am still in fairly good shape with my picks, including North Carolina who I’ve picked to win it all.

Op-Ed: Learning Process
Builds Real Knowledge
From Basic Information

WHY “Informed Opinion” Is Essential in Democracy, Part One of Two

(EUGENE, Ore.) - Everyone has “MY opinion” always ready, right in top-of-head, built from feelings and life experience. But few are "more-than-feeling”: Meaningful opinions are shaped by full information, followed by always-necessary cogitation, to produce knowledge essential for understanding and wise decisions.

That’s unavoidable, inevitable, a necessity for any possible role as responsible citizen, demanded to shape and control our American democracy.

Preliminary Information Regarding Death Investigation at Welches-area Parking Lot

The victim is identifued as 44-year old John Eugene Jarrett Jr. of Beaverton.

(CLACKAMAS, Ore.) - Oregon State Police and the Clackamas County Medical Examiner's Office are investigating the apparent accidental death of a food service delivery employee Tuesday morning who was found injured at the Welches Subway sandwich shop parking lot.

Oregon State Police Info: Lieutenant Gregg Hastings says the investigation indicates that today around 10:45 a.m., the victim, who works for Food Services of America, parked his commercial truck in the rear parking lot of the Welches Subway restaurant.

President Obama Addresses America Over Plans to Stimulate Economy

Obama's plan as proposed will bring help to almost all Americans, he says. "We said let's give them relief, a tax cut, 95% of all American families."

(SALEM, Ore.) - The President said today during a live national press conference, that wealthier citizens who have become more wealthy under the Bush Administration, will pick up the slack under the new plan for America.

Jury Acquits Washington Man in Medical Marijuana Case

After nearly two years of relentless accusations and threat of jail time, it is now all a matter of history.

(PORT ORCHARD, Wash.) - A Washington man who being prosecuted for marijuana in spite of the fact that he is a legal, registered medical marijuana patient in Washington, has been acquitted by a jury. His wife was also arrested in the May 2007 raid at their home, and she previously pleaded guilty over pressure from the Kitsap County Prosecutor's Office in Port Orchard.

Legislation to Phase Out Ownership of Dangerous Pets Passed by Senate

SB 391 not retroactive; will prevent new ownership of certain exotic animals.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Following a high profile accident in Connecticut involving a pet chimpanzee, the Senate passed legislation today to protect exotic animals and phase out Oregon’s role in the permitting of exotic pets.

Included under the new exotic-pets category are non-domestic cats, non-human primates, non-domestic dogs, crocodiles, and alligators.

Interfaith Marches in Bethlehem Deliver Message of Peace

A movement to end the violence in Palestine and Israel is spearheaded by an author with rare insight into religious extremism.

(SALEM, Ore.) - A strong message embraced in peaceful solidarity was shared with people in the Middle East during an interfaith peace march in Bethlehem, for the future of the West Bank and Israel.

Dr. Frank Romano is the author of a fascinating book called STORM OVER MOROCCO that retells the story of his captivity among religious zealots in the middle east.