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From Senator Sherrod Brown’s email (my TWENTY-FIFTH Happy Thanksgiving email from a politician):
I’m personally most thankful to have all our kids living in Ohio again, and look forward to spending as much time with them as I can. On Thanksgiving, we’ll be gathering at my brother Bob’s house and the [...]
I really do wish Mike and Fran DeWine, their family, and his extended family a Happy Thanksgiving.
But really, what I want to receive from from Fran and Mike is not what arrived in my e-mail box this morning:
Mike, Mike, Mike.
You’re not lobbying for Fran [...]
Unless you have been living under a rock (or only read the NY Times), you heard that the myth of man-made Global Warming was totally destroyed this month. Glad that’s over!:
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This will either end up being the BIGGEST story (or non-story...there really is not an "in between" on this one) this blog has ever broken in its 14 months of being in existence.
So today you are either hearing something that will have statewide and potentially national [...]
The county government reform that has taken hold in Cuyahoga County appears to be spurring another reform movement in the county's Democratic Party. This movement, however, is not being led by Acting Party Chair Pat Britt, but rather a trio of activists with a variety of ties to key party [...]
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I'm off to Columbus for Thanksgiving.
Who’s denyin’ now?
There may not be a better example of establishment media Climategate denial than Jim Tankersley’s “breaking” story at the Los Angeles Times’s Greenspace blog that President Barack Obama will attend the December 7-19 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Tankersley identifies all [...]
Martha C. Moore, a Republican icon in Ohio and 35-year member of the GOP National Committee, has died at the age of 91.
She died yesterday morning -- 11 days after her birthday -- at an assisted-living facility in Columbus and will be buried [...]
How many [...]
Original vid link (HT Instapundit):
The Climategate e-mail in question:
From: Phil Jones
To: ray bradley, mann@XXXX, mhughes@XXXX
Subject: Diagram for WMO Statement
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 13:31:15 +0000
Dear Ray, Mike and Malcolm,
Once Tim’s got a diagram here we’ll send that either later today or first thing tomorrow.
I’ve [...]
Interesting editorial today in The Dayton Daily News says, “Poor children need quality teachers, too.” It implies that the teachers in poverty schools are inferior to the teachers in high income schools.
There are a lot of interesting comments. Here is what Max said:
I am soooooo very tired of [...]
"Is your gown Armani?"
Help Wanted, No Private Sector Experience RequiredBut that happy situation, aided by ultralow interest rates, [...]
And it's not just the football team.Given how many other writers have weighed in at PJM, I appreciate their acceptance of my submission on short notice.
The subheadline is, “A leading light of climate change inadvertently exposes AGW’s crumbling foundation.” That exposure comes from a Kevin Trenberth e-mail, acknowledged as genuine. It comments on [...]
If Ohio elected a Green Party candidate to Governor, we could rechange Ohio.
We would send a Progressive Liberal to Columbus to bring back Renewable Energy Jobs, Single-Payer Health Care for All, and Clean Fair Elections back to Ohio! One who would address the issues facing regular citizens, not Lobbyists or [...]
Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, they’re concerned about the obvious: that the health bill will allow bureaucrats to ban guns. Of course it will. This is the essence of socialism. “Health” is even more effective than “commerce” in enabling the regulation of everything.
In fact, these folks should not forget [...]
Note: A slightly different version of this post originally went up in November 2007.
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I saw this about halfway through this post at Obi’s Sister. It was written to make a political point, which is fine, but it also makes a universal one (paragraphing added by me):
A neighbor (say [...]
According to the census data for the years 2005-2007 only 796 Black or African Americans live in Sidney. This has come as a major revelation to certain people at The Sidney Independent.
” Man, all this time I thought the reason I don’t have any black friends is because black people don’t like [...]
WTVG has the story, Bar owner to hire off-duty officers after shoot-out. More is expected tomorrow after the Mayor meets with the Chief of Police, so this is one of those “stories to watch” categories.
[...]It’s with a sigh, that I share this from FOX Toledo:
DOWNTOWN TOLEDO – UPDATE 4:48 p.m. EST: By a 10-2 count, Toledo City Council voted to ban texting while driving in the city of Toledo. The measure will go into effect Jan. 1.
The only two council members to vote [...]
Right Ohio proudly endorses Dennis Spisak for Governor of Ohio.
According to his website, he is true liberal who is not a fan of the corporatist nature of ObamaCare’s health insurance mandates. And, more importantly, while running as an independent, he earned almost 5% of the vote running against [...]
Recently I posted about a CNNMoney article that said Social Work is the most stressful, overworked and underpaid profession. Today I received an email from the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) that referenced the article.
Dear Colleague,
I am writing to ask you, and every single NASW member, [...]
This is Dennis Spisak.
Mr Ainsworth took the unprecedented step of publicly criticising the US' [...]
What is Cloture?
Then this column from Maura J. Casey in First Things will thoroughly depress you.
However, to quote the wise philosopher of Cleveland, Mike Trivisonno, “It is only a gambling problem if you are losing.”
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In a previous post I discussed my first sleep study, which documented my until then undiagnosed problems with sleep apnea. Last night I participated in another sleep study, and the picture on the left depicts me with dozens of electrodes glued to my body.Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray is taking the side of gun owners in a U.S. Supreme Court case over whether Chicago can ban handguns.
Cordray's office said today that it is co-sponsoring a friend-of-the court brief in the case of McDonald v. Chicago, arguing that gun rights [...]
Congressman Dennis Kucinich will be Chris Matthews' guest on Hardball on MSNBC at 5PM (with a replay at 7PM) tonight as they discuss the president's plan for Afghanistan.
' [...]
Is Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray the new Andrew Cuomo? It’s a comparison made not unconvincingly by the AmLaw Litigation Daily’s Ben Hallman, following Cordray’s move to sue credit-ratings companies Standard & Poor’s, Moody’s Investors Service and Fitch Ratings, alleging they gave inflated ratings to mortgage-backed [...] GlaxoSmithKline has advised doctors in Canada to stop using a batch of its swine flu vaccine, amid reports of severe side-effects in some patients.
The batch of some 170,000 doses was put on hold because of the reported higher than usual number of patients having anaphylactic reactions.
This may include breathing [...]
The most rigidly conservatives members of the Republican National Committee are circulating a proposal to establish a purity test for the party's candidates.
If adopted, the party would withhold money from any contender who disagreed with conservative principles on more than two of 10 essential issues identified by [...]
strong>Recovery Act funding will upgrade the electrical grid, save energy and create jobs COLUMBUS, OHIO – At an event in Columbus, Ohio this afternoon, Secretary Chu announced that the Department of Energy is awarding nearly $79 million for projects in Ohio to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies [...]
Paul Aker, one of the last few serious investigative reporters in Columbus, exposes what they are doing with your money in the Strickland administration:
Now I finally know where to go for a good deal on a Mac!
[...]Here is today’s test:
What does the phrase, “with liberty and justice for all,” mean to you? On a scale of -100, to what degree does the US live up to the ideal of “liberty and justice for all”? Please explain. Which is more important, liberty or justice? Please explain.I wonder if seniors [...]
This is the fifth year I have looked into how the media treats these two topics:
The use of “Christmas shopping season” vs. “holiday shopping season” (note how the AP photo at right uses “holiday” and not “shopping,” even though there is a C-C-, Chr-Chr-Christmas tree in the [...](H/T, Chillicothe Gazette.)
Tood Book, at one point, presented a credible opponent to "Mean" Jean Schimdt and a chance to reduce the crazy quotient of the Ohio Congressional delegation by a factor of ten by knocking off arguably the craziest Republican in Congress not named Bachmann.
Today, Book quietly exited [...]
Calls for help to the Ohio Benefit Bank hotline reveal how bad things have gotten for some Ohioans.
The Benefit Bank surveys about one of every 10 callers about their personal situation. Here is information from roughly 500 calls in October. The vast majority were seeking help with [...]
In a move that Krikorian supporters have been harping about for days now, State Rep. Todd Book has ended his run for Congress.
His statement:
Since I announced my intent to run for Congress I have been humbled and grateful for the support I have received from the district. It [...]
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