Plunderbund

I’m not against Concealed Carry laws in principle. I actually kind of like Ohio’s law since it requires applicants to take a firearms safety course and submit to a background check.
But there are just some places guns don’t belong. For example: bars, churches and especially schools.
I know there are SOME people out […]

Amongst all the bleating from the right over out “totally radical” economy, the “average” American is treading water.
“Americans earned a smaller average income in 2005 than in 2000, the fifth consecutive year that they had to make ends meet with less money than at the peak of the last economic expansion, […]

Rep. Kucinich has been a favorite target of my fellow lefty bloggers, which I always considered curious given his ideology. The most common criticism? That he’s an absentee representative, always running for President. Given the fact that he virtually never misses votes, I’ve aways found that criticism shallow.
Until now.
There is a post […]

FINALLY a presidential candidate with some balls!
Gov. Bill Richardson ordered the state Health Department on Friday to resume planning of a medical marijuana program despite the agency’s worries about possible federal prosecution.
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Say what you want about Kucinich but…

Frank Rich often leaves me thinking after I read his columns, and today is no exception. I do some work with a group focused on youth civic engagement, so I was interested in Rich’s reference to a new NYT/CBS poll showing that the percentage of young people (ages 17-29) who self-ID as Republicans […]

The video is one giant Rorschach test. What do you see?

This Abukar Arman mess just won’t go away. It seems the Ohio right-wing blogosphere is obsessed with this man, and unwilling to take his writings at face value. Just yesterday, BizzyBlog had this to say:
Abukar Arman has expressed support in his writings for known terrorists, terrorist organizations, and groups that wish to impose […]

I’m almost starting to feel bad for David Brennan- he just can’t seem to catch a break.
Even Mary Taylor, our Republican State Auditor, who received tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from the Brennan family, is beating on Brennan and his for-profit charter school business…
State Auditor Mary Taylor slapped 19 community schools operated […]

Deb Pryce, our Representative here in Ohio’s 15th District, is supposed to announcing her retirement today.
Which is more great news for Mary Jo Kilroy. Not only was Mary Jo able to avoid the expense of a primary (after Brooks recently dropped out), but now she won’t be running against an incumbant opponent either.
Rumor has […]

Ohio’s major manufacturers (and the largest power consumers in the state) are pushing back against deregulation of the electricity market.
Members of the Ohio Coalition for Affordable Power said Wednesday they will back legislation that would halt the move to market-based electric rates before deregulation kicks in fully in January 2009.
Otherwise, coalition members fear their […]

“Black Jack Johnson, NYC, R-O-C-K-I-N-G”

According to the Ohio Department of Liquor Control’s annual report:

Spirituous liquor sales reached a record $672.7 million in Fiscal Year 2007. This was an increase of $33.9 million, or 5.31 percent, compared to sales in Fiscal Year 2006.
The increase in liquor dollar sales can be attributed to increases in product prices, consumers purchasing premium priced […]