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Today Jill Miller Zimon ranted about “throwing around” the terms “Socialist!” and “Communist!”. Her reasoning seemed to be that Bush also advances socialist policies, therefore it’s “stupid” to call a spade a spade.
Since Jill included a definition of “stupid”, I was hoping she’d include a definition for socialism too so [...]
Dennis Spisak and Progress Ohio want you to think that a clear majority of Americans want a “Climate Action Mandate”. People actually said they want a mandate?!? Well, not really.
According to a poll sponsored by Environmental Defense Fund (sponsor of the DDT genocide), Americans believe that we should address climate change now in a way [...]
The Houston Chronicle today has the headline U.S. gives $40 billion to save AIG, gets ownership stake – shouldn’t that read “U.S. takes $40 billion to save AIG, gets ownership stake”?
After all, the US can only “give” what it steals first.
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…but Barack Obama seems poised to give it a whirl. Citing support for "common-sense" gun control, Change.gov, the official website of the office of the president-elect lists the following approach:
Address Gun Violence in Cities: As president, Barack Obama would repeal the Tiahrt Amendment, which restricts the ability of local law enforcement to access important gun [...]
Problem is widespread as evidenced by 7 violent attacks in 7 Days at The Ohio State University campus
Often when the issue of safety on campus arises – typically due to news of a violent attack on or near campus like this one, the media and educators assert that they are shocked because “campus is supposed [...]
It dawned on me today that I hadn’t checked the criminal records search for the candidates in the OH-15 Congressional race. I’m sure the Republicans and Democrats vetted their candidates to ensure that there are no felonies or anything really embarrassing, but it never hurts to check – and sometimes you can gain insight into [...]
A friend of mine pointed out a post on a political forum, and I thought I’d take the opportunity to clarify a few points that the original author seemed to overlook:
However, the core problem with libertarianism is that the philosophy refuses to acknowledge that our rights come God (like the Declaration of Independence states).
The [...]
It should be interesting to hear how this plays out. Note the careful choice of words - he wasn’t caught in a “sting”, the media says he was part of a “ring”.
Federal prosecutors last week arrested four people in connection with an expensive prostitution operation, the Times reported.
A person with knowledge of the case [...]
Ohio has been seeing it’s share of presidential campaign ads on TV. Mostly from Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in my market. I’ve found a few of the ads to contain troubling authoritarian messages.
Take for example Obama’s “Choices” ad with footage of him at the 2004 Democratic National Convention:
[applause] It is that fundamental belief: I [...]
My brother sent me a link to The Consumerist which had some interesting articles on individuals being assertive about their liberties.
I found one story to be especially interesting for a number of reasons such as the customer’s attitude toward an ignorant police force who needlessly harassed him, and the way the media portrayed [...]
A neighbor sent an email supposedly from Dick Morris with the following assertion about Hillary Clinton:
3. She wants to grant constitutional rights to enemy combatants captured on the battlefield.
Hillary may “want to grant constitutional rights”. Unfortunately, she can’t - nor does the Constitution “grant” rights. If a person takes the time to read the [...]
I recently came across a Letter To the Editor (LTE) in the Toledo Blade, here it is:
2nd Amendment is about collective right
In The Blade’s Dec. 27 Readers’ Forum there was a letter headlined “Other amendments suffer in 1939 ruling.” The letter writer questioned if the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is a collective right, [...]
When the Federal Assault Weapons Ban was due to sunset, Bush explained that he was in favor of the ban and that if the Congress passed a renewal of the bill, he would sign it.
I asked my pro-Gun Republican friends what they thought about that, and the consensus was that - for political reasons - [...]
Of course we can’t eliminate the possibility of an elaborate government disinformation plot, but stories like this seem to indicate that encrypted data security is alive and well. Here’s the meat:
For more than a year, the government has been unable to view drive Z.
A government computer forensics expert testified that it is “nearly impossible” to [...]
Today I was out volunteering my time canvassing for a presidential candidate. I was delivering fliers to people on a list of reliable party voters in my neighborhood and it had been relatively uneventful aside from the occasional “Good afternoon” exchanged with passing neighbors out for walks.
As I was climbing the mile-long hill out of [...]