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If you need an example of bad drug policy vs. human nature, then Oregon is your gal. She decriminalized hard drugs in 2020 and was rewarded with a 200% spike in overdose deaths. People were not more likely to seek treatment, but they were more likely to become unproductive criminals if they didn’t kill themselves.
Rising overdoses and homelessness in Oregon, where hard drugs have been legalized, may be a red flag to Vermont lawmakers considering repealing legal penalties for the personal use of opioids.
Democrats would never allow just anyone to have access to firearms under the pretense that those inclined to commit suicide would instead ask for help. Nor would they presume that the manic or psychotic would call a helpline instead of shooting up the nearest gun-free zone. But when it comes to drugs?
Liberal states and cities with education monopolies have failed kids for decades, but more recently, the problem of illiteracy has gotten more attention than they’d like. Kids can’t read.
Oregon passes made medically assisted suicide legal in 1998. That year, 16 individuals took their lives with the help of medical professionals. In 2022, that number was 278. 2022 is the year they approved suicide tourism.
On Monday, James O’Keefe announced a court win for a case started while he was still running Project Veritas. Veritas challenged Oregon’s Laws regarding recording people in public, and the 9th Circuit Court agreed with O’Keefe and Veritas.
No one in Oregon is prohibiting Jessica Bates from exercising her religious rights, but they are denying her equal access to state-managed child welfare programs, including adoption because she’s a Christian.
Nearly two years ago, I joked about making a deal with Massachusetts to give them Nashua. After Tuesday’s election, they might just take it. Way out west, eastern and central Oregon residents are working on a different strategy. They are trying to leave and become part of Idaho.
If you have any technical experience, you’ll be familiar with the phrase feature or bug. When something does something you didn’t expect, you have to ask if it was supposed to (a feature) or not (bug). And yes, it’s a joke. Like Oregon, which decriminalized hard drugs claiming they wanted to help more people … … Read more
Oregon has rapidly devolved into the template for utopia. The Left’s Eden, the promised land. A place where criminals have more rights than law-abiding citizens and defending yourself is a crime. But if you don’t like it, the same state says it’s okay to kill yourself.
This isn’t getting the sort of wide-ranging reporting it deserves. But then, why would it. A very liberal left-coast state doing very liberal left-coast things mandated masks indoors and out to address a spike in COVID cases. So, how’d that work out?
Remember that time when we told you about the five counties in Oregon that wanted to secede to Idaho. That was February. All five have voted in special elections on May 18th, and they want out of Oregon, bringing the total to seven.
We might be able to make a deal with Massachusetts. Sell them Vermont (cheap) if they will take Nashua. It’s just a suggestion. But along the same vein (sort of), five red counties in Oregon have had enough of Gov. Kate Brown and all that Oregon Democrat BS (Blue Sh!t).
Portland was long past stupid many years before George Floyd overdosed on Fentanyl. We have close to 200 posts on this progressive policy poster child. Their latest left-wing tantrum included yanking 15 million and ending the city’s gun violence reduction team. Shootings are up over 116% from 2019.
After three months of encouraging riots and violence by left-wing proxies BLM and Antifa, Oregon Governor Kate Brown has a plan to bring peace to Portland. The only problem is that she didn’t make peace with local sheriffs and police chiefs first and they are saying no, thanks we’re not interested.
TMEW just announced this to me – she gets Joe Kelly LeVasseur FB posts. Well, it’s true. The Washington Examiner, Townhall, and Oregon Live are reporting that Whites are being singled out in this order starting tomorrow morning. Now, the latter makes no mention of racial discrimination for mandated masks – just that an order … Read more
Wildly-liberal Oregon Governor Kate Brown is miffed. A County judge has just declared every one of her pandemic orders null and void. Oregon is open for business, on appeal, of course.
It’s the 21st century, “he said, she said.” He says he’s a she who says she has suffered discrimination. Why? The Miss Oregon Pageant tossed “her” a “bone” then took it back when they discovered “she” was born “with one.”
The Oregonian is reporting that this week Oregon Gov. Kate Brown signs a new law. The law requiring all eggs sold in the state must come from cage-free hens by 2024. That’s going to cost Oregon consumers. The Humane Society of the United States is egg-static. It’s turkey discrimination The egg heads at Human Society … Read more
Almost a lifetime ago in media years, Melissa Klein and her husband refused to make a cake for a lesbian couple. They are devout Christians and as such were pilloried, reported, and fined by the State of Oregon for civil rights violations. Not their own, obviously.