At an anniversary for the 30th Anniversary of the day he was elected Mayor of Cleveland. He was the only Republican not to not vote against moving forward on debate on socialized health care.
George is a man who will not hesitate to describe himself as a deficit hawk, so [...]
Not that he set out to do it, but Mr. Wright has brilliantly explained (HT A Traditional Life Lived):
Why my call that the economy’s condition since the summer of 2008 is almost solely the fault of Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, and Harry Reid is [...]
At this point, there should be little doubt that there is a concerted attempt underway to use the war in Afghanistan as a justification for punitively taxing high earners.
Last weekend (noted at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), the New York Times discovered that wars cost money. [...]
Prof. Tom Woods appearing on the Fox show, Glenn Beck, hosted this day by Judge Andrew Napolitano. [...] 
A merchant sea captain who was captured and held by Somali pirates in April reunited Thursday with the U.S. Navy crew and captain who were part of his daring rescue, thanking them for saving him.
“You are the true patriots,” Capt. Richard Phillips said on [...]
Barack Hussein Obama
Former Community Organizer (IL)
From The Heritage Foundation: Obama in Japan: Not a Bow but a Kowtow
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On President Obama’s trip across Asia, the major news has not been America’s policy posture, but rather our president’s personal posture. On Saturday, photo and video emerged of President Obama bowing at [...]
You’ve got to hand it to the propagandists at the AFP. When heavy-hitting members of the party they favor announce an idea whose main purpose is, as the New York Times suddenly “discovered” last weekend, to remind people that wars cost money and distract from supposedly [...]
Closed at $1150.00. [...] 
I noticed a tweet from Jennifer Brunner posted earlier today.
The WMD Program is on the Air at 6PM Eastern..... Click the link to listen; participate in the live blog...
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Yep. I'm talking about the stimulus again.
Senior health care solution–according to Maxine
So you’re a senior citizen and the government says no health care for you, what do you do?
Our plan gives anyone 65 years or older a gun and 4 bullets. Your are allowed to shoot 2 senators and 2 [...]
Two months ago, there was the “Dog Ate My Global Warming Data” episode. As noted at NewsBusters and at BizzyBlog (original source: National Review Online), we learned that important original information forming the underpinning of global warming alarmists’ claims about the earth heating up has [...]
"The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to dress up for it." -- Truman Capote
' [...] Attorney General Richard Cordray is by far the most interesting of Ohio Democrats, for many reasons, and today’s filing of a lawsuit against credit rating agencies is another example of that fact.
On the one hand, if properly and narrowly handled by the courts, this sort of claim could be [...]
His name is Lou Gentile of Steubenville, a former Strickland congressional staffer who worked for the Strickland office worker who exposed himself to 12 year old girls.
The unpopular Governor gave his former employee a glowing endorsement:
“I know how much Lou loves this region,” said Gov. Ted Strickland. “I [...]
It seems like a long shot, but Buckeye Staters who want this country to be saved from statist health care ought to pursue it any way.
After spending 25 minutes on hold waiting to talk to someone at Sherrod Brown’s Washington Office, I was told that the Senator [...]
Dept of Motor Vehicles...Medicare...Veterans Hospitals...United States Postal Service...
All models of 21st Century efficiency...right???
Just yesterday the US Postal Service said, "No mas!!!" and they are shutting down Operation Santa.
So if your cute little kid or niece or nephew writes a letter to Santa Claus as many millions of kids [...]
I' [...]
Unemployment continues to skyrocket:
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio’s unemployment rate was 10.5 percent in October, up from 10.1 percent in September, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services said today.
Ohio’s nonfarm wage and salary employment increased 1,400 over the month, from 5,097,000 in September to 5,098,400 in October.
And this [...]
Mitt Romney, call your office (emphasis mine).
Remember Mitt? The guy who keeps insisting that he could make RomneyCare work nationally?
From Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal…
By JEFFREY S. FLIER
As the dean of Harvard Medical School I am frequently asked to comment [...]
"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends."
-- John Churton Collins
[tinyurl.com]We now have two very good, very real examples of what early, aggressive targeting of absentee voters can do.
This is truly a paradigm shift.
The old way of campaigning is done, finito, kaput...it has gone the way of the dinosaur, the dodo bird & Tim Grendell's' [...]
It will go up here at BizzyBlog on Sunday morning (link won’t work until then) after the blackout expires.
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Supplement: The column points out what should be obvious, but isn’t to many — Where government goes, trouble follows.
Of course [...]
Unemployment in the state of Ohio is at 10.5%.
In Teddy's Bizarro World this is the true definition of turning around Ohio.
If we have to endure four more years of this guy I'm wondering where in the hell he is going to turn us around to by 2014.
Scary stuff...
' [...]My dentist is a wicked smart guy named Scott Schumann. He and a small group of folks just wrote a book together and although I have not yet read it (it just came out yesterday...give me a break...I'm not Superman) my guess is it is going to be great. Here [...]
Nov 20, 2009 / 01:21 am
An unprecedented coalition of prominent Christian clergy, ministry leaders, and scholars has crafted a 4,700-word declaration addressing the sanctity of life, traditional marriage, and religious liberty. The declaration issues “a clarion call” to Christians to adhere to their convictions and informs civil authorities [...]
Pittsburgh mayor Luke Ravenstahl, just seven years out of college, is igniting ire with his plan to levy a 1 percent tax on tuition collected by the city’s 10 nonprofit colleges' [...]
The hard-working folks over at Recovery.gov, ever on guard for that rare instance of government inefficiency that occurs only once in a decade or so, have responded with commendable speed to news reports of erroneous/incompetent/fraudulent data in the records of stimulus money spent to save [...]
Really, who knew?
In what appears to be the opening round of a rearguard action against what leftists used to call “the good war” (only because they felt they needed to pretend they had pro-war bona fides to make their anti-Iraq War arguments look stronger to the general [...]
'Tis easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows along like a song;
But the man worth while is the one who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
' [...]
"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow." -- O.S. Marden
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I am almost NEVER at a loss for words...yep, I know...sucks to be you...but I was at a loss for words when I saw on the local news (yep...I know, I know, I know...I should not be watching the local news, but I have my reason for doing [...]
Those were Ted Strickland’s words this morning as quoted in the Columbus Dispatch Daily Briefing.
Unseemly, indeed.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I take you back to July [...]
$1,144 an ounce [...] 
I read this story from 11/1 buried on page A5 of the Dispatch with great interest:
[tinyurl.com]You might have missed it so please read it before proceeding further.
Your first question as an Ohioan that you might be asking yourself is:
Why should I care about what is happening [...]
This bit reminds me of the Senate health bill which comes in at 2074 pages.
I can hear Harry Reid say in a British accent that their health care is better because it's bigger.....
Given the time frame, this is well-done (HT Conservative Blog Watch):
The long version, all 2,074 pages of it, is at this PDF link originating at this post at The Hill.
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UPDATE: Nobody with a brain ever believed it anyway, but the core claim about cost savings at [...]
Nana Pelosi isn't going to be happy about this.Yes, the government thinks we’re that fricking stupid …
Stimulus Fraud Posted 11/17/2009 07:49 PM ET
The Economy: We knew something was funny when the White House claimed that 640,000 to 1 million jobs had been created from this year’s stimulus. What we didn’t know was that it would turn [...]
It is fantastic news to hear the Senate is again deadlocked on a budget agreement, but why does Stephen Majors and most Ohio reporters insist on using the phrase “tax cut delay” or “tax freeze?”
Taxpayers must be thrilled that it isn’t actually a tax hike, so they [...]
Bill Buckley once suggested that he would rather have the US government run by the first 400 people in the Boston telephone book. And considering that 79% of voters are apparently smarter on fiscal policy than your average Democrat Congressman, I agree:
As the policy debate has unfolded in Washington [...]
