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Day By Day© by Chris Muir.

Palin on energy, Biden, and national security.

Freeze Warning for Northern Idaho and Northeast Washington

From Weather Underground:

A freeze warning remains in effect from 2 am to 9 am PDT Monday.

Temperatures in the valleys of north Idaho and northeast Washington away from large bodies of water are expected to drop into the upper 20s to mid 30s tonight. Areas of frost are also likely in many valley locations. Precautions should be taken to protect plants and other vegetation sensitive to frost and freezing temperatures. Temperatures near freezing are also possible for many valley locations again on Monday night across the same areas. Another system will move through Tuesday... likely bringing additional clouds to hold temperatures up somewhat Tuesday night before warmer conditions gradually arrive through the latter half of the week.

A freeze warning is issued whenever freezing temperatures are expected during the growing season. The growing season for the
northeastern mountains of Washington and the northern Idaho Panhandle runs from may 21 through September 20. 

Sign on Table Mountain Last Week

The sign has been removed.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/aug/26/huge-protest-sign-be-taken-down/

The Audacity of Hype: Change we dare not believe in

Economist Professor Thomas Sowell unloads on Obama:

One of the few political cliches that makes sense is that "In politics, overnight is a lifetime."

Less than a year ago, the big question was whether Rudolph Giuliani could beat Hillary Clinton in this year's presidential election. Less than two months ago, Barack Obama had a huge lead over John McCain in the polls. Less than a week ago, the smart money was saying that Mitt Romney would be McCain's choice for vice president.

We don't need Barack Obama to create "change." Things change in politics, in the economy, and elsewhere in American society, without waiting for a political messiah to lead us into the promised land.

Who would have thought that Obama's big speech at the Democratic convention would disappoint expectations, while McCain's speech electrified his audience when he announced his choice of Governor Sarah Palin for his running mate?

Some people were surprised that his choice was a woman. What is more surprising is that she is an articulate Republican. How many of those have you seen?

Despite the incessantly repeated mantra of "change," Barack Obama's politics is as old as the New Deal and he is behind the curve when it comes to today's economy.

Senator Obama's statement that "our economy is in turmoil" is standard stuff on the left and in the mainstream media, which has been dying to use the word "recession."

Not only has the economic slowdown failed to reach the definition of a recession, the most recent data show the U.S. economy growing at a rate exceeding 3 percent-- a rate that many European economies would die for, despite our being constantly urged to imitate those countries whose end results are not as good as ours.

Barack Obama's "change" is a recycling of the kinds of policies and rhetoric of the New Deal that prolonged the Great Depression of the 1930s far beyond the duration of any depression before or since.

These are the same kinds of liberal policies that led to double-digit inflation, double-digit interest rates and rising unemployment during the Carter administration. These are "back to the future" changes to economic disasters that need repeating.

Make no mistake, the political rhetoric of FDR was great. For those who admire political rhetoric, as so many of Barack Obama's supporters seem to, FDR was tops. For those who go by actual results, FDR's track record was abysmal.

Although the Great Depression of the 1930s began under Herbert Hoover, unemployment during Hoover's last year in office was not as high as it became during each of the first five years under FDR.

During the eight years of FDR's first two terms as president, there were only two years in which unemployment was lower than it had been under Herbert Hoover-- and not by much.

World War II has been credited by some with getting the United States out of the Great Depression. What the war did was put an end to the New Deal, as national survival became the top priority and replaced FDR's anti-business and class warfare rhetoric.

Senator Obama's rhetoric today is the anti-business and class warfare rhetoric that worked so brilliantly in a political sense for FDR in the 1930s. But Obama is following an opposite course from FDR when it comes to recognizing threats to American national security.

Senator Obama has repeatedly tried to deal with national security threats with rhetoric. He tried to dismiss the threat of a nuclear Iran with because Iran is "a small nation"-- even though it is larger than Japan, which launched a devastating attack against the United States at Pearl Harbor.

FDR had the good sense to begin urging greater military preparedness in 1940, more than a year before the United States was attacked. He said, "If you wait until you see the whites of their eyes, you will never know what hit you."

Cutting the military budget and taking foreign policy problems to the United Nations are Obama's version of "change."

That is change that we dare not believe in. It is the audacity of hype.

"Scholars" Don't Like Palin

Über-scholar, Nick Gier posted the following:

Presidential scholars say she appears to be the least experienced, least credentialed person to join a major-party ticket in the modern era.

Least experienced, other than Sen. Obama, he means.

The fact that “scholars” like Nick don’t like her is quite reassuring. I’m sure even more people will vote Republican now.

Palin on Palin

McCain may postpone convention

Looks like some of the most vocal Dems got their wish come true — Hurricane Gustav may hit New Orleans during the RNC.

I bet they didn’t expect the Republicans to reschedule the convention, though.

From The Politico:

John McCain said the Republican National Convention may be postponed, after federal officials said Hurricane Gustav was gathering to a devastating Category 5 as it headed toward star-crossed New Orleans.

“It just wouldn't be appropriate to have a festive occasion while a near-tragedy or a terrible challenge is presented in the form of a natural disaster,” McCain told Chris Wallace of “Fox News Sunday” in an interview taped for Sunday. “So we're monitoring it from day to day and I'm saying a few prayers, too.”

McCain also said: “I'm afraid, Chris, that we may have to look at that situation and we'll try to monitor it. I've been talking to Govs. Jindal, Barbour, Riley. Chris, I've been talking to all of them.”

Officials at the convention, which is to open Monday in St. Paul, Minn., tell Politico they are figuring out how to handle the formal business of nominating McCain even if some delegations are not able to attend.

The officials also are preparing program contingencies in case speakers such as Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal have to cancel.

Maria Cino, the convention’s president and chief executive officer, said in a statement to Politico: "Like all Americans, our prayers are with those who will be affected by Hurricane Gustav. We continue to closely monitor the movement of the storm and are considering necessary contingencies.

Speaking of Bill Ayers...

Day By Day© by Chris Muir.

Obamopolis

 Day By Day© by Chris Muir.

Here’s the real picture.

Who Is Bill Ayers?

Some investigative reporting that you won’t hear on the MSM.

If McCain had these kinds of ties with Timothy McVeigh, we wouldn’t hear the end of it.

But the Obama-Ayers ties remains suppressed.

Dems Hoping for Another Katrina to Hit New Orleans

Former Chairman of the DNC, Don Fowler, joins Michael Moore and Keith Olbermann  being caught on tape hoping that Hurricane Gustav will hit New Orleans during the Republican National Convention.

You just have to wonder how some men could be so evil that they would seek the destruction of thousands of lives in order to win at politics.

I’ve always said that you couldn’t tell which of the two were the Party of the Stupid and Party of the Wicked.

These videos make it pretty clear who the Party of the Wicked is.

HT: Mike Costello

Alaskans on McCain's Pick

McCain Nomination Event

Palin: Wasilla's Beauty Queen

Jim Palin, father of Todd Palin, displays a photo of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's beauty queen competition photo, black and white, a 1991 photo of Sarah and her husband Todd, center, and a prom photo of Sarah and Todd. —Associated Press

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HT: Huckleberries

Does chick mate spell checkmate for McCain? Fans of family 'electrified' by Palin for VP selection

From World Net Daily:

Pro-family advocates and Republicans are saying presumptive GOP nominee for president Sen. John McCain may have checkmated Democrat Sen. Barack Obama with his choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate.

She's a woman, young, has been governor of Alaska for about two years, is pro-life and doesn't believe homosexuals should be granted the special privilege of "marriage" rights, is a mother, has a son in the U.S. military and wants to expand America's energy production.

"Absolutely brilliant," said Mathew Staver, chief of Liberty Counsel, the Liberty Alliance Action and dean of the Liberty University school of law.

"The excitement was palpable among conservative leaders when they heard that Gov. Palin was Sen. McCain's choice for vice president. There is a high level of optimism among conservative leaders that the McCain-Palin combination is a ticket that will connect with values voters," he said.

Palin & Guns

Lieutenant Col. David Cogdell helps Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin test out the Engagement Skills Trainer at the training village on Camp Beuhring, Kuwait, on July 24, 2007.

I’m not sure Obama or Biden could tell the difference between the butt, barrel, or trigger of a gun.

And as everyone now knows, Palin is a long-time card carryinig member of the NRA.

HT: Huckleberries

Jon Stewart: Barack Obama Completes Us

Jon Stewart from the Comedy Channel has a hysterical video out.

Even the liberals are enjoying poking fun at Obama’s messianic pretense.

HT: Adam G.

An Army of Teachers

In his DNC acceptance speech, Sen. Barack Obama called for giving a world-class education to every student.

How?

I’ll invest in early childhood education. I’ll recruit an army of new teachers, and pay them higher salaries, and give them more support. And in exchange, I’ll ask for higher standards and more accountability.

An “army of new teachers” is a new Democrat talking point.

Of course, you have to ask yourself — why do we need an “army of new teachers” when enrollment across the nation has peaked and is declining?

University Professors Love Obama: They Spent Their Summer Vacations Giving to Obama

“Educators contributed at least $2.3 million to his campaign in June and July, surpassed only by lawyers, who make up Obama’s top-giving industry since the campaign’s start, and retirees. Nine of Obama’s top 25 contributors—based on contributions from employees and their families—are universities: University of California, Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, University of Michigan, Georgetown, University of Chicago, University of Washington and University of Pennsylvania, in descending order.”

—Open Secrets

Here’s the rest of the details. This should give you pause.

Nine of Obama’s top 25 contributors—based on contributions from employees and their families—are universities: University of California, Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, University of Michigan, Georgetown, University of Chicago, University of Washington and University of Pennsylvania, in descending order. Employees at the University of California and their families gave Obama more than $80,000 in June and July, for a total of more than $576,000 since his campaign began. Harvard employees and relatives also gave about $80,000 since Obama clinched the nomination, for a total of more than $407,000 to his campaign.

“Senator Obama is trying to deflect the ‘elite’ label that the Republicans are attempting to pin on him, but at some of the nation’s most elite universities, he’s clearly their favorite,” said Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics. “Just as college professors helped finance John Kerry’s campaign in 2004, they and others in education are solidly backing a Democrat in hopes of winning the White House in 2008.” Obama has collected nearly $10 million from the education industry since the start of the ’08 campaign 19 months ago. Between Obama and McCain, 89 percent of the education industry’s contributions have gone to the Democrat.

Club for Growth on the Palin Pick

The Club for Growth described the Alaska Governor as a genuine reformer who has taken on wasteful spending in her own state.

“At a time when many Republicans are still clinging to pork-barrel politics, Governor Palin has quickly become a leader on this issue,” said Club for Growth President Pat Toomey. “She is a principled reformer who understands how badly wasteful spending has marred the Republican brand.”

Governor Palin has proven herself to be a reformer unafraid to take on the establishment, which she did early on when she took on the incumbent Republican governor of Alaska in 2006. Only nine months in office, Governor Palin instructed the state to abandon the notorious pork project secured by Alaska’s politicians, the $223 million “Bridge to Nowhere.” While many Republicans in Congress are afraid to antagonize Washington’s biggest porkers, Sarah Palin stood strong for fiscal responsibility. Palin is also a persistent advocate of drilling in ANWR and expanding America’s domestic oil supply in general.

Palin: Uninspiring Tax Policy Record

From Cato-at Liberty:

On tax policy, Alaska governor Sarah Palin has a rather uninspiring, albeit brief, record. The following is some information gleaned from State Tax Notes.

Palin supported and signed into law a $1.5 billion tax increase on oil companies in the form of higher severance taxes. One rule of thumb is that higher taxes cause less investment. Sure enough, State Tax Notes reported (January 7):

“After ACES was passed, ConocoPhillips, Alaska’s most active oil exploration company and one of the top three producers, announced it was canceling plans to build a diesel fuel refinery at the Kuparuk oil field. ConocoPhillips blamed the cancellation on passage of ACES [the new tax]. The refinery would have allowed the company to produce low-sulfur diesel fuel onsite for its vehicles and other uses on the North Slope, rather than haul the fuel there from existing refineries.”

There are good reasons for an oil-rich state to tax oil production, but a fiscal conservative would usually use any tax increase to reduce taxes elsewhere. Perhaps I’m missing something, but I see no evidence that Palin offered any major tax cuts. She did propose sending $1.2 billion of state oil revenues to individuals and utility companies in the form of monthly payments to reduce energy bills, but that sounds like welfare to me, not tax cuts.

Palin has offered a few narrow or minor tax breaks, including:

• A tax credit for film production in the state, offering about $20 million per year in breaks.
• A cut in an annual business license fee from $100 to $25 (the legislature went half way to $50).
• A one-year suspension of the state fuel tax to save taxpayers about $40 million.
• A repeal of tire taxes to save taxpayers $2 million.
• A tax credit for commercial salmon harvesting to save taxpayers about $2 million.

That’s about it.

 Palin’s tax policy will be teased out shortly.

24 Years Behind the Times?

Saundra Lund says that the Republicans are 24 years behind the times since “everyone knows” that the first woman to receive an electoral vote was Democrat Geraldine Ferraro, running mate of Walter Mondale in 1984.

Ignorance for the Democrats is bliss.

The actual first woman to receive an electoral vote was Tonie Nathan, the Libertarian vice presidential nominee in 1976.

Find out more about Tonie Nathan in the comprehensive new Encyclopedia of Libertarianism.

The next time you hear that lame comment from a Democrat, remind them that they were actually 8 years behind the times.

HT: David Boaz

Dr. James Dobson: McCain’s Choice of Palin 'Outstanding' -- Focus Action founder cites 'bravery and integrity' of Alaska governor

Here’s a ringing endorsement for Gov. Palin from one of the evangelicals leading spokesmen.

Focus on the Family Action founder and chairman James C. Dobson, Ph.D., issued the following statement today after learning that Sen. John McCain, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, had selected Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential running mate.

Dr. Dobson will further discuss McCain's pick tonight at 9 p.m. ET on Fox News Channel’s Hannity & Colmes.

From CitizenLink:

“Sen. McCain’s selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is an outstanding choice that should be extremely reassuring to the conservative base of his party. She is a strong executive who hates corruption and puts principle above politics. After floating the names of Tom Ridge and Sen. Joe Lieberman in recent weeks – selections that would have created consternation among pro-family Republicans – Sen. McCain has chosen a solid conservative who has a reputation for espousing common sense.

“Gov. Palin’s commitment to the sanctity of life is not just a political position. She was advised to abort her fifth and youngest child when it was learned he had Down syndrome. She refused. That’s bravery and integrity in action.

“Gov. Palin’s views align with Sen. McCain’s own stated position that human life is precious and must be protected – and that gives us confidence he will keep his pledges to voters regarding the kinds of justices he would nominate to the Supreme Court and the way he would conduct our nation’s domestic and international affairs. This selection by Sen. McCain is a very encouraging sign for his campaign.”

And on “The Dennis Prager Show” today, James Dobson said:

“I have only endorsed one presidential candidate in my life and that was George Bush in the second term after I had watched him for four years. I did not do that in his first term. So I’m very reluctant to do that. You marry a politician you can be a widow pretty quickly.
…
“But I can tell you that if I had to go into … the voting booth today, I would pull that lever [for McCain-Palin].
…
“hen I look at the choices that are ahead and what the implications are for this country, and now especially with this selection, with just an outstanding VP candidate as a running mate, I tell you what I am relieved and very excited.”

As are many, many people I know.

Cylons and Republicans Working Together?

I’m not the first to notice this.

Two days ago, Carmen Andres posted photos suggesting that there might be a connection between John McCain and Battlestar Galactica's Colonel Tigh.

And Palmer Houchins of Paste magazine notes that there may be a link between Sarah Palin and Laura Roslin.

The Dems could have as much fun with this as McCain has had with his “Obama is The One” ads. 

Rethinking the 2008 Election

As you can probably tell, I’m on the horns of a dilemma.

I said I wouldn’t vote for McCain no matter what. I figured that his VP choice wouldn’t matter — it would be either a clone of himself or someone worse.

I was wrong.

His pick of Gov. Palin has caused me to completely rethink the 2008 election.

And it has done the same thing for many of the people that I know quite well — not just here in Moscow, but across the entire US.

Even my 70–year-old mother-in-law has said that this will cause her to vote Republican this year.

McCain’s choice may have changed everything.

Virtual protest flushes message of WSU activists

The following commentary by Michael Costello ran in today's Lewiston Tribune. Costello is always well worth reading.

You can find a copy on his website: The Pajamahadin.

Darn! They just don’t make campus troublemakers the way they used to. Or at least, they don’t make them around here the way they do in Berkeley. Now down there, even though they don’t raise holy heck the way they did back in the sixties and seventies, they still know how to entertain. Up here in the Great Northwest, the most that can be said of campus activists is that they are a bit boring.

Shortly after I spread my copy of the Thursday edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News across my knees for my evening read, I came across the disappointing news that a compromise had been reached in the tree standoff between Washington State University and local tree huggers who were trying to preserve a few trees from chainsaws. WSU had already removed a few trees and planned to remove a few more as part of its efforts to make the older, western side of campus more accessible for the handicapped.

Shortly after the project was started this summer and after a few trees were felled, bored local tree huggers leapt into action and expressed their indignation by creating a website. It was a website with photos of the threatened trees, poetry, odes to “the fallen,” and an online petition. It was a far cry from the protests I recall from my college days.

Apparently, this is what campus activism has come to. A website. How about a virtual protest? Maybe the campus cops can create their own website where they would spray the virtual protesters with electronic tear gas. We could have riots using World of Warcraft interactive computer games. Why not? WSU brags about being a “wired campus.”
And even though protests at the University of California, Berkeley put WSU’s to shame, even Berkeley’s campus activists have tempered their passions. They even have their own save the trees protest in progress that we can use for comparison. In late 2006, when it was learned that the University planned to remove a small grove of trees to make room for a new athletic center, tree huggers scurried up those trees and have resided there ever since. Like WSU’s trees, Berkeley’s were part of a landscaping project and therefore are not really part of a heritage, except perhaps, the long dead landscape architect’s. The species is not in any way endangered. There are millions of them in Alameda county and well over 100 million statewide.

I was sort of looking forward to watching WSU activists trying to spend the upcoming winter in a tree, although they probably would have just Photoshopped pictures of themselves in the tree and posted it on their website.

Wimpy protests are something of a WSU tradition. Perhaps 15 years ago, a group of activists announced that they would be spending the night on Terrell Mall to raise awareness for the plight of the homeless. They lasted only until about midnight, when they decided that it was getting too cold, so they went home, claiming that they had made their point and there was no reason for them to suffer any more discomfort.

I recently discovered another wimpy WSU protest. For the last six months or so, I have noticed that urinals are frequently left unflushed in the men’s rooms. At last I actually happened upon one of these non-flushers and challenged his hygiene.
Did he need instructions on how to operate the appliance? Was he marking his territory? Perhaps it the finest thing he that had produced all day, and he wanted to leave it for others to admire?

“No,” he sheepishly answered. He informed me that the plague of unflushed toilets on campus was part of a protest of Washington State University’s water use policies.

“If it’s yellow, let it mellow.”

Ah well, every great cause needs a good slogan.

After all, he explained, the flush water was only going to irrigate WSU’s new golf course, which many disapprove of. Not only is the golf course a playground for the wealthy, but it’s a waste of precious groundwater. In fact, another group of campus activists has been protesting that same issue, although I don’t thing this latter group has yet mustered the gumption to even make a website.

So Washington State University is not just fighting for its right to rearrange its landscaping, it is engaged with protesters with poor bathroom habits for the right to irrigate its landscaping.

Somehow I doubt that WSU’s brand of protests will ever make it into the history books. 

Former UI classmates remember Palin as quiet, bookish

This is worth reproducing in toto.

The following article ran in today’s Lewiston Tribune.

MOSCOW - Talk about coincidence.

"It's crazy," was about all Sara Taft could say Friday morning when Republican presidential candidate John McCain selected Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, 44, as his running mate.

Taft attended the University of Idaho with Palin when she was Sarah Heath.

And her dad, Denis Taft, went to the Naval Academy with John McCain.

Taft said she didn't know Palin well when they were communications students in the mid-1980s in Moscow, but remembered her because they had similar names.

"That's why it stood out," Taft said from the Seattle area, where she's a human resources manager for a vehicle auction company. "But that's all I could remember."

Denis Taft and McCain also went to flight school together in Pensacola, Fla., she said. "They used to drink beer and eat oysters together."

McCain, an Arizona senator, surprised many when he picked Palin, a relative newcomer to politics who's been in the governor's office for just 20 months.

Brian Long is another Palin classmate who registered shock when McCain made his announcement in Ohio, with Palin, her husband and four of her five children by his side.

"I'm really interested in politics, so I know she'd been mentioned from time to time," said Long, a Coeur d'Alene defense attorney and 1987 UI student body president. "But it did surprise me a little because I always remember her being pretty quiet in class."

Long described himself as a "dyed-in-the-wool Democrat" who wouldn't likely be swayed by Palin's new stature. But if he was a Republican, "I'd probably be gunning for a press secretary position," he joked.

"We always like to see our fellow alums do well," Long added. "But I'm curious to see her debate against (Democratic vice presidential nominee) Joe Biden on foreign policy. She's running with the big dogs now."

Like Palin, Long was born in Sandpoint in 1964. Palin moved to Alaska with her family when she was still a baby, however, while Long was raised in northern Idaho.

Larry Richardson, a real estate broker in Eagle, remembers seeing Sarah Heath's name frequently when they were both UI students because she was involved with so many activities.

"Obviously, she's a smart gal, and that's kind of how I remember her, as being one of those bookworm kind of girls," Richardson said.

As soon as he heard rumors Thursday night that Palin might be McCain's pick, Richardson said he grabbed his 1987 Gem of the Mountains yearbook and found her picture.

Richardson said he has an independent bent in politics with Republican leanings, and saw Palin's selection as a smart move.

"I know why they're using her, because they want to get the female vote, obviously," he said. "I think that's going to help their campaign."

But Palin's lack of national and international experience could also be a weakness, Richardson added.

"It's like a crapshoot," he said. "It's like rolling the dice and saying, 'Let's go for it.' "

Palin graduated in 1987 with a bachelor of science degree in journalism with a broadcast news option and a political science minor, said Kenton Bird, the director of the UI School of Journalism and Mass Media.

Bird said he spoke with several of Palin's former professors two years ago when she was elected governor, but none could offer any firm recollections of her time in Moscow.

The university issued a statement saying Palin was part of its "legacy of leaders."

"University of Idaho alumni are sizable in number, but remain a close-knit community," the statement said. "A large number of university alumni, such as Sarah, have gone on to distinguish themselves in public service."

The Republicans have picked a VP who has more executive experience than the Dem’s Presidential pick. Then again, just about anyone the Republicans would pick would have more experience than Obama.

Priceless.

Vote McCain for life

When I told my 19–year-old daughter about Obama’s voting against the “Born Alive” bill in Illinois, she was just about nauseous.

People really need to educate themselves about how extreme Obama is when it comes to abortion.

To vote to withhold medical assistance to a baby born alive during a botched abortion is the height of wickedness.

The following letter to the editor appeared in today’s Lewiston Tribune:

Vote McCain for life

This year's presidential election holds a very clear choice for pro-life America.

Sen. Obama has an extreme pro-abortion record. He has stated, "I have consistently advocated for reproductive choice and will make preserving women's rights under Roe v. Wade a priority as president."

Tragically, the Roe decision has legalized the deaths of over 53 million unborn babies since 1973.

Sen. Obama is also a co-sponsor of the Freedom of Choice Act, which if passed would effectively wipe out all current federal, state and local restrictions on abortion, including any restrictions on partial-birth abortions. At a 2007 appearance before Planned Parenthood, Sen. Obama emphatically stated, "The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act."

As Illinois state senator, he voted three times against a bill that would have protected babies who survive abortions. Even hard-core pro-abortion leaders in Congress voted for a similar anti-infanticide bill. This example demonstrates how radically pro-abortion Sen. Obama is.

On the other hand, Sen. John McCain has voted to oppose Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that allows abortion for any reason. He has voted consistently against federal funding of abortion and for parental notice. And he has voted in favor of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban and for legislation that provides protection for babies who survive abortions.

Finally, any candidate running for state or federal office who supports or votes for Sen. Obama cannot truthfully say he/she is pro-life.

Please check the record, choose life and vote pro-life.

Kerry Uhlenkott

Grangeville 

Five Years Ago Today

As reported in today's edition of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News.

Moscow's city supervisor will officially make $88,857 this year. In reality, he'll likely get more. How much more, city officials aren't saying, and Idaho government secrecy laws won't let the public find out.

How can government secrecy laws prevent taxpayers from knowing how much a government official makes?

This is beyond me.