edited by: Lisa Renee Ward,
Ohio Editor
This is the same company behind the successful Issue 3 casino campaign. I wonder why they are doing this?
[...]Gut the income tax, kill the death tax, reduce regulations and taxes on businesses Publish a “slick” new online magazine featuring cities in Michigan?:
COLUMBUS — A slick new online magazine designed to promote Ohio features Grand Haven, Saugatuck, East Grand Rapids and other cities you won’t find on an [...]
Kristof’s column about a patient who can’t get treatment is best described as a pack of lies from beginning to end.
Michelle exposed it, and doubled down (with additional links; just go there), by doing something Kristof apparently wasn’t interested in doing: research.
If Kristof’s piece is the best [...]
The madness of distorting the marketplace with helicopter money dumps never ends:
The U.S. Department of Energy has approved $11 million to fund rebates for Ohioans who purchase energy efficient appliances.
The money, which comes from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA), will provide nearly 90,000 rebates to residential consumers who [...]
In addition to DeWine firing his spokesman, DeWine’s fundraiser, Amanda Sima is leaving the sinking Titanic known as the Mike DeWine for Attorney General campaign. Amanda is one of the most prominent Republicans fundraisers in Ohio, and I had the pleasure of working with her on the Blackwell campaign [...]
Copenhagen's city council in conjunction with Lord Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard sent postcards out to 160 Copenhagen hotels urging COP15 guests [...]
Run-up: ADP reported 169,000 jobs lost in the private sector during November in the national employment report it released Wednesday.
This quickie note at a local Fox station predicts the unemployment rate will be unchanged at 10.2% and that 130,000 seasonally adjusted jobs will be lost. That same prediction is [...]
It will go up here at BizzyBlog on Sunday morning (link won’t work until then) after the blackout expires.
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The three disappearing acts cited in the column are:
The $80.7 billion in “reorganization gains” (i.e., gains resulting from the fleecing of taxpayers and creditors) recognized by [...]
From D’Iberville, Mississippi:
Posted: Dec 02, 2009 9:31 AM
Updated: Dec 02, 2009 1:07 PM
A 19-year-old girl is lucky to be alive after her car ended up at the bottom of the Tchoutacabouffa River Wednesday morning. A D’Iberville Police officer happened to be on Lamey Bridge Road checking the river [...]
Our friends at Cato think Larry Summers doesn’t know what he’s doing: “Summers’ Corporate Tax Confusion”
Pish-tosh. Summers and Obama know exactly what they’re doing. Corporations don’t pay taxes. Consumers do, and maybe stockholders pitch in a little (of course, in a healthy America, which Summers and Obama do not [...]
This one was for real, though
Missy found this one.
Fifty-one years ago in 1958, Edmund O’Keeffe, an Irish flight engineer, was reported dead by the Evening Press on Christmas Eve after a fatal air crash in Britain which killed nine people.
The test flight of the Bristol Britannia 312 (to gain [...]
From John Fund at Political Diary:
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Senator John McCain is back on the campaign trail, sort of.
The Arizona Republican made automated calls this week to puncture holes in President Obama’s health care plan, which he had vigorously attacked last year during his campaign for president. The robocalls went to 12 [...]
Elected Officials Score Lower than the General Public
The ISI civic Literacy survey was not designed to test the civic knowledge of elected officials, but it did discover evidence of an interesting pattern that may merit further exploration.
All survey respondents were asked whether they have ever engaged in any of [...]
The coverage yesterday by the Associated Press’s Stephen Bernard of payroll and human resources giant ADP’s monthly jobs report for November focused on a relatively small reduction in the size of the decline in jobs lost and not on the fact that continuing to lose jobs [...]
In their report on Ford’s November sales results, the Associated Press’s Tom Krisher and Dee-Ann Durbin seemed to downplay the company’s pretty decent month, and definitely downplayed the company’s better near-term prospects compared to its principal rivals. Additionally, despite the report’s Wednesday time stamp, the pair [...]
And he wants Brian Hicks and Michael Billirakis to be fired:
Ouch! Thems fightin’ words! Nicely done, Senator Grendell.
In 2005 I worked within the OSU student government to pass a resolution to fire Brian Hicks from their Board of Trustees, and certain people at the Ohio [...]
Great catch by Taranto at the WSJ’s Best of the Web on Obama’s Afghanistan speech:
Little wonder Obama also said in his speech that “the wrenching debate over the Iraq war is well-known and need not be repeated here.” That’s easier than admitting that he has changed his mind and [...]
Dec 3, 2009 / 05:25 am
Archbishop of New York Timothy Dolan will celebrate a special St. Patrick’s Cathedral Mass on Dec. 9 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the death of Archbishop Fulton Sheen. The Mass will be broadcast live on the Catholic television network EWTN.
Archbishop Sheen [...]
“FDIC: Quarter of U.S. households have limited or no access to banks”
Well, heck, the only thing to do then is put payday lenders out of business.
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A political match made in Heaven:
Christina Haddad and Jeffrey Polesovsky
engaged to wed
Christina Haddad, the daughter of Sam Haddad of Toledo, and Lora Haddad of Mebane, North Carolina, and Jeffrey Polesovsky, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Polesovsky of Maumee, announce their engagement.
Ms. Haddad, [...]
Gabor Steingart writes at Der Spiegel
Never before has a speech by President Barack Obama felt as false as his Tuesday address announcing America’s new strategy for Afghanistan. It seemed like a campaign speech combined with Bush rhetoric — and left both dreamers and realists feeling distraught.
One can hardly blame [...]
Closed today at $1215 [...] 
Doing 360s or what goes around comes around.
Britain’s University of East Anglia says the director of its prestigious Climatic Research Unit is stepping down pending an investigation into allegations that he overstated the case for man-made climate change.
We should believe he has done nothing wrong, yet is stepping down? [...] 
With friends like this, who needs enemies.
For the first time on an actual car today I saw one of the new Ohio plates. They aren't that great to begin with, and they don't look good on cars either. Better than the current red, white, and blue "Sunburst" plates? Probably. Barely. [...] 
When I started writing today's posts, I had no idea they would have a theme based on one of the most ridiculously read lines in cinema history.
This morning the Washington Times confirmed our surrender of Afghanistan.
See if you can out run a scorned woman with a golf club 
