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• Kasich finally forms campaign committee, still has no plan for Ohio

  As conservatives and conservative-sympathetic editorial writers attack Strickland for "not balancing" a budget that doesn't even exist yet for a time period that is BEYOND his current term of Governor, John Kasich has offered only one solution for all of Ohio's ills: a repeal of the Ohio income tax.
  
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  Posted: May 02, 2009, 5:34pm EDT
  

• Dear GOP, it's still not 1994... not by a long shot

  Bizarre. While there was a sizeable number of party switchers leading up to and through 1994, it was mostly politicians switching TO the Republican Party, not prominent long-standing members switching AWAY from the GOP.

  I guess this means that Specter's switch is no longer "just a Pennsylvania story" anymore?

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  Posted: April 29, 2009, 2:59pm EDT
  

• John Boehner's an idiot: his comments on the first 100 days of the Obama Administration

  You ever wonder if the Ohio GOP debates putting these things up on their website:
  "The President's first 100 days can be summed up in three words: spending, taxing, and borrowing."Name me a government that didn't spend, tax, or borrow. I guess you could say the same thing for [...]
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  Posted: April 29, 2009, 11:32am EDT
  

• John Boehner's last term in Congress?

  The Hamilton Pulse Journal is reporting that Republican Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones has taken out petitions to run for the Republican nomination in John Boehner's district. Jones told the paper that he is not yet announcing a candidacy but has only picked up the paperwork to run if' [...]
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  Posted: April 29, 2009, 10:02am EDT
  

• Republicans voted against stimulus money to prepare for swine flu pandemic

  
  This borders on political malpractice. First, the vote itself, and then RNC Chairman Michael Steele's attempt to defend the vote which, I'm sorry, took place two months ago, not six.

  They voted against keeping police on our streets, tax cuts, and preparing our nation in case of a swine [...]

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  Posted: April 29, 2009, 4:04am EDT
  

• Arlen Specter (D)- PA: Smart move conservatives.

  Democrats are one vote away from a filibuster-proof majority in the U.S. Senate once Al Franken is FINALLY seated. The Democrats control the U.S. House and the White House. George W. Bush and Carl Rove prayed for that kind of majorities just eight years ago.
  
  So what does the [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2009, 1:33pm EDT
  

• Disproving the "Going Gault" conspiracy theory: Exhibit A: Its proponents

  I'm starting to wonder if Bizzyblog should be declared mental incompetent for his own protection. He's still clinging to his newest conservative conspiracy theory as to why the economy tanked: people started last summer "going Gault" (think rich people on strike) in order to avoid Obama's crushing three percent' [...]
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  Posted: April 28, 2009, 10:22am EDT
  

• Coughlin's coverup: Falsely tell the sources they'll be outed and sued

  So if you've been following the story about Kevin Coughlin's extramartial affair which began while she was a student of his at the University of Akron, you've noticed the tendacies of anonymous commenters who have been suggesting all sorts of crazy things without any evidence, including things like Coughlin has' [...]
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  Posted: April 27, 2009, 12:04pm EDT
  

• Weeks after Coughlin sexual affair story breaks, no lawsuits

  Three of Ohio's law school graduate bloggers (Tim Russo, Pho, and myself) agree that the story written by James Brenner for Cleveland Scene magazine alleging that GOP gubernatorial candidate/State Senator Kevin Coughlin began an affair with a student while teaching at the University of Akron and continued for a' [...]
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  Posted: April 25, 2009, 10:48am EDT
  

• Ohio Supreme Court finds little fault in Strickland Administration's response to massive public records request

  The Ohio Supreme Court, in an unanimous decision by the all-GOP court, found that the Strickland Administration has largely properly handled the massive public records request by fresman State Representative Seth Morgan (R-Montgomery Co.) requesting just about any record dealing with the formation or the Governor's public education funding reform' [...]
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  Posted: April 24, 2009, 4:54pm EDT
  

• Yet another stupid Republican bill: Eliminate the income tax for college graduates

  (HT: Weapons of Mass Discussion... even though no discussion ever occurs there... let alone a mass of it.)
  
  There's apparently an epidemic among Ohio Republicans to suddenly repeal the state's income tax.
  
  State Representative Cheryl Grossman has now introduced House Bill 44 which would eliminate all State [...]
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  Posted: April 23, 2009, 12:03pm EDT
  

• In Warren County, ideology trumps intellect

  So, in order to show "solidarity" with the Tea Party Republicans, the Warren County Commissioners are refusing any state money funded by the federal stimulus package... maybe. From the Pulse Journal:
  
  

  Commissioners rejected $373,000 in stimulus money to buy three new transit buses and upgrade their fleet, citing [...]

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  Posted: April 22, 2009, 11:31am EDT
  

• BizzyBlog knows less about national intelligence than he does about economics...

  This video clip pretty much refutes the entire misplaced outrage by conservatives over a recent DHS report:
  
  
  
  

  Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

  
  Here's BizzyBlog today about the current conservative outrage of the moment:
  

  That’s okay,I’m sure' [...]

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  Posted: April 16, 2009, 10:42am EDT
  

• Coughlin's coverup? EPIC FAIL

  Tim Russo over at BloggerInterrupted is absolutely correct. The effort by Coughlin to use the threat of litigation may have kept the news about Coughlin's extramarital affair out of print (for now), but the story has gotten a far greater distribution through the Internet than the circulation of one' [...]
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  Posted: April 15, 2009, 6:11pm EDT
  

• Attention Tea Baggers....

  The stimulus bill wasn't a government bailout. The TARP was a government bailout. Just about every Republican politician who's running to T.V. cameras to capitalize on today's foolishness voted for TARP. In fact, one has to wonder why it tooks six months before conservatives began protesting government bailouts. Of course,' [...]
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  Posted: April 15, 2009, 5:33pm EDT
  

• Why is the conservative movement protesting lower taxes today?

  The Tea Parties were chosen today because today is the deadline to file fedderal income taxes. The protests are supposed about "repealing" the stimulus package; something nobody honestly believes is going to happen.
  
  The stimulus package had one of the largest, if not the largest, tax cuts in American [...]
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  Posted: April 15, 2009, 11:16am EDT
  

• Cleveland Scene reporter fired over written story alleging GOP gubernatorial candidate engaged in extramarital affair

  Except the reporter had multiple sources, campaign finance records showing questionable expenses, and Senate phone records showing an unsual habit of calling the alleged mistress after calling his wife at the end of the day. Tim over at BloggerInterrupted has the whole story that Cleveland Scene decided to fire [...]
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  Posted: April 14, 2009, 3:51pm EDT
  

• National "Tea Party" protests held while Americans' views about income taxes hits all-time high

  The conservative movement cannot get a break. After spending months hyping the upcoming national day of conservative protests centered around April 15th- the federal deadline to file income taxes (who waits until April 15th, anymore? Who doesn't file electronically anymore?), Gallup reports that Americans' views on the federal income [...]
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  Posted: April 13, 2009, 7:13pm EDT
  

• GOP talking heads attack Obama's failure to resolve pirate/hostage situation; hours after it had been resolved

  This is just embarassing. Poor Newt Gingrich is out there on Sunday's talk shows about how Obama's unwilling to "pull the trigger" and make the hard decisions while being completely unaware that the President had authorized that lethal force be used if the Captain's life appeared to be threatened and' [...]

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  Posted: April 13, 2009, 1:02pm EDT
  

• "Crybaby" Boehner: Voted against more money for our troops

  That's House Minority Leader Boehner protesting a Democratic proposal to end the Iraq War.

  He didn't come to Congress to be a Congressperson, he came to do something. And yet, what has my Congressman done so far this term?

  He voted against one of the largest tax cuts in American history. He [...]

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  Posted: April 09, 2009, 5:11pm EDT
  

• GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Kevin Coughlin: Moron? Nutbag? Both?

  It's scary to think this is the kind of person writing Ohio's laws. It's even scarier to think this is the kind of person the Republicans think should be our Governor!
  
  
  So in the middle of the biggest global economic crisis, Ohio GOP Gubernatorial candidate/State Senator Kevin Coughlin' [...]
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  Posted: April 07, 2009, 12:16pm EDT
  

• Let's hope she doesn't Run Like She Writes

  Yes, I understand the extreme irony if not outright hypocracy for me making fun of how long Jill's posts are.
  
  That being said, I'm glaad to hear fellow blogger Jill Zimon is running for the City Council of Pepper Pike. Apparently, Ohio Daily Blog got the exclusive (Jill, [...]
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  Posted: April 02, 2009, 3:48pm EDT
  

• Brunner breaks the 300 barrier

  In the month and a half since Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has announced her candidacy, she's had over 300 people donate to her campaign. Most of those donations have come in the past week alone. Brunner has gone from a 2:1 online donations disadvantage to actually raising more than' [...]
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  Posted: March 31, 2009, 4:30pm EDT
  

• Brunner's amazing online cash haul...

  Literally a week ago today, David Potts at Buckeye State Blog posted a story showing that Lee Fisher had raised over twice as much money as Jennifer Brunner had so far ($41k to $17.7k).
  
  As the first FEC reporting deadline since Brunner and Fisher announced their candidacies approaches, both [...]
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  Posted: March 30, 2009, 11:30pm EDT
  

• BizzyBlog claims today's housing market news is evidence market is recovering on its own... EPIC FAIL.

  This is just sad. I mean, it's getting too easy to predict this guy. As I stated just last week, here's Bizzyblog Tom Blumer's ridiculous world view: 1) Everything that happened in the economy that was bad (even though at the time Bizzy adamently denied it was bad) since July' [...]
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  Posted: March 25, 2009, 4:34pm EDT
  

• Brunner states the obvious; Fisher's blogger goes nuts

  I'm glad that Nick D. finally admitted that he was in the tank for Fisher. Nobody, not even Nick, honestly believes that it only started AFTER he resigned BSB in disgrace after revealing that he had given editorial control over BSB to the Fisher campaign.
  
  But Nick drives me' [...]
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  Posted: March 25, 2009, 11:16am EDT
  

• DOW regains almost half of its losses since Obama took office in today's trading alone

  The DOW Industrial gained nearly 500 points in today's trading alone. Since Obama took office, the DOW has only loss 5% of its value. Economic pop scientist Tom Blumer over at the inappropriately named, "Bizzyblog" continues to put the entire loss of the DOW on Obama, Pelosi, and Reid by [...]
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  Posted: March 23, 2009, 6:09pm EDT
  

• Democratic AIG bonus tax bill likely constitutional; John Boehner's... not so much.

  Here's a good Bloomberg article that explains why the Congressional Democratic bill to tax the AIG bonus will most likely survive a legal challenge. In other words, all the Senate Republicans who are hiding behind constitutional arguments are just using it as a dodge to avoid justifying why they're' [...]
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  Posted: March 21, 2009, 10:31am EDT
  

• Congressman Boccieri votes to condemn and recoup the AIG and other TARP-paid bonuses

  Meanwhile, House Minority Leader John Boehner votes the opposite: he opposed a bill that passed that recaptures the money by having the federal Treasury tax it 90% (with the expectation that state and local governments will recover the rest through taxes) and opposed a sense of Congress resolution [...]
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  Posted: March 19, 2009, 5:20pm EDT
  

• "The Cincinnati Bible Wars": Things I should have learn in Ohio history class, but didn't

  
  

  I'll admit that I'm a lecture nerd. Find me a good topic, and I'm hooked. On April 1, at 5:30 p.m., the Ohio Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society are hosting a lecture from Notre Dame Associate History Professor Linda Przybyszewski regarding the "Cincinnati Bible Wars."' [...]

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  Posted: March 18, 2009, 2:27pm EDT
  

• "None of the above" leading GOP candidate for Governor

  So, the latest Quinny poll came out yesterday. If you read the Columbus Dispatch's reporting on it, you'd think Strickland was doomed. I think what Josh Marshall at TPM has been saying about the Beltway media in Washington is true for the Statehouse media in Ohio: they're still' [...]
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  Posted: March 18, 2009, 11:08am EDT
  

• BizzyBlog's obsession with race while economy starts remarkable comeback

  If you're going to brand your blog's name to reflect a focus on a particular topic, then don't you think you should focus on that instead of favorably post an e-mail of an obvious racist white supremacist's thoughts as to why a newspaper is going out of print?
  
  The [...]
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  Posted: March 17, 2009, 6:12pm EDT
  

• Just sayin' Part II: Inflation vs. Deflation

  Remember how all those "Tea Party" protestors were complaining that Obama's stimulus plan would lead to out-of-control inflation? Yeah, so far, it's not happening. Last month, wholesale prices increased a whopping .1 percent. That's a fourth less than economists predicted. And down from an .8% increase in January. Compared [...]
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  Posted: March 17, 2009, 2:04pm EDT
  

• I'm just sayin'

  Not alot of the conservatives in the firm are talking about the Tea Party or blasting the stimulus package today. I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that we all saw less taxes withheld on our paychecks we got today.
  
  The Executive Secretary even told me' [...]
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  Posted: March 17, 2009, 11:57am EDT
  

• Marcus Fiesel died in the custody of a two-parent home

  There was a time when conservatives would denounce unelected, activist bureaucrats who made substantive law that should instead be made by the elected legislature. I guess that only applies when the policy at question is not one that gives heterosexual, married couples preference in adopting children in foster care.
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  Posted: March 16, 2009, 7:38pm EDT
  

• "Tea Party" protestors are partisan hacks. Period.

  Apparently, I'm supposed to be impressed that 4,000 people showed up in Cincinnati for the area's "Tea Party" protest. I'm not. That's about how many showed up regularly for McCain/Palin events in the fall, which isn't surprising since it's the same people in both crowds.
  
  There's nothing grandiose about' [...]
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  Posted: March 16, 2009, 4:33pm EDT
  

• Today's misleading headline of the day

  From the Hamilton Pulse Journal: "Convicted killer may walk free"
  
  That's the headline. Now when I read a headline like that, I expect that the news article is about how some guy was recently found guilty of murder, but through some weird technicality, is going to walk free' [...]
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  Posted: November 25, 2008, 1:04am EST
  

• Thanks for visiting, Dave Hickman

  One week since the re-launch, and this site has already been visited by none other than Progressive blogger pest Dave Hickman- the man who believes he's better than every other blogger there is, even though nobody listens to him.
  
  Dave, I'm not going to post your abusive comment because [...]
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  Posted: August 12, 2008, 2:18pm EDT
  

• Unstoppable constitutional right meets immovable political object

  Nobody likes criminals. Well, maybe mystery writers. Security system salespeople. Gun manufactures (for the same reasons as the security system.)
  
  You'll never find a politican running on a soft on crime platform. You'll never have a politican suggest that we need to reduce the criminal penalities for crime. If [...]
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  Posted: August 11, 2008, 10:37pm EDT
  

• The pathology of the criminal legal mind

  Nowhere has the disciplines of psychology and the law been more deeply and unhealthily wed together than in criminal law. From the first law that attempted to separate the consequence between an avoidable tragic accident to a cold-blooded plan, society has become an attempt to unlock the criminal mind with [...]
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  Posted: August 04, 2008, 11:27pm EDT
  

• Memories

  This is where it all began. This is where I first began to blog. Sometimes, you have to back to the beginning, to remember where it was you wanted to go in the first place.
  
  It's been a year and nine months since I've posted here. This site has [...]
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  Posted: August 04, 2008, 5:40pm EDT