Oregon is one of the most beautiful places that I have visited. I have dear friends who live there. I would love to have a summer home there.

Though the sparsely populated areas of the state tend to be conservative, the Portland area is rabidly liberal. After a visit there last summer, my wife and I decided that the two hardest things to find in Oregon are an American flag and a church.

One would think that all would be love and peace in the land of tolerant, kind, liberalism. However, that's not true at all. On March 4th, a socialist neo-Nazi group launched balloons carrying the Nazi flag. From the Associated Press:

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Flags bearing the infamous Nazi swastika symbol were found attached to red balloons seen floating over neighborhoods in Tigard in the past couple of days.

A neo-Nazi group is claiming responsibility. A group calling itself the American National Socialist Workers Party sent a Portland television station an e-mail saying it sent the balloons flying over the suburb.

Anti-semitic leaflets were also found scattered in a Tigard store's parking lot.

Barack Obama has a senior foreign policy advisor on his campaign who has suggested that the United should send troops to Israel and enforce peace on all sides. That means killing Israelis if they dare fight back against Palestinian attacks. Someday "they" may come for the Jews in the United States. If they do, they will have to walk over the bodies of a lot of dead Christians first.

The following pictures were taken by the Tigard Police Department and appear at the KATU television station website. Part of me doesn't want to publish the pictures while another part of me says that people need to know what's going on.

Pray for Israel and the Jewish people.