OH-Sen: Senate Majority PAC's Ad Hits Portman's (R) Record Pushing Bad Trade...
More of this please:xYouTube VideoThe Democratic group Senate Majority PAC on Tuesday is launching a $640,000 ad campaign attacking Republican Sen. Rob Portman’s record on creating jobs in Ohio.The...
View ArticleThe Secret Service is keeping its eye on Black Lives Matter as Republican...
According to Politico, the U.S. Secret Service is keeping its eye on Black Lives Matter activities and activists ahead of this summer’s Republican National Convention:Intelligence gathering for the...
View ArticleOH-Sen: League Of Conservation Voters Endorses Ted Strickland (D) For U.S....
Some big news out of Ohio today:A major environmental group is endorsing Democrat Ted Strickland in his bid to take Ohio’s Senate seat from Sen. Rob Portman (R) this year.The League of Conservation...
View ArticleOH-Sen: Portman's (R) New Ad Touts Work For Company That Allegedly Sold...
Wow:xYouTube VideoOhio Sen. Rob Portman is touting his work on behalf of ArmorSource, a manufacturer of protective headgear based in his home state, in a new re-election ad this week. The Republican...
View ArticleOH-Sen: Koch Bros Super PAC's New Ad Praises Rob Portman (R) For Not Doing...
Well this is just ridiculous:xYouTube VideoA conservative SuperPAC is supporting Ohio Sen. Rob Portman with a multi-million-dollar ad campaign over the Republican-controlled Senate’s refusal to...
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WI, CA, OH, IL & NV-Sen: 21st Century Democrats Helps These Dems Take...
Received this e-mail today from the Progressive group, 21st Century Democrats:Catherine Cortez Masto (D. NV)The math is clearer every day.Democrats can take back the Senate, but they need our support...
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OH-Sen: AlterNet Teams Up With Ted Strickland (D) In Telling Rob Portman (R)...
Received this e-mail today from AlterNet on behalf of former Governor Ted Strickland’s (D. OH) U.S. Senate campaign:It’s official! Ohio Democrats overwhelmingly voted for TedStrickland to take on...
View ArticleGun shop owner praised for refusing sale
I looked; I checked and double-checked. I found the latest edition of David Waldman’s GunFail; Jen Hayden’s busy with other news and I can’t find any mention of an item that has made national news — in...
View ArticleWI, NH, NC, IL, OH, NV, PA, AZ & FL-Sen: Council for a Livable World All...
Received this e-mail today from the Council for a Livable World:This is it – the final 24 hours before the first fundraising deadline of 2016 elections. With the Republican Party imploding at the...
View ArticleIL, MO, OH & NV-Sen: Elizabeth Warren (D. MA) Helps Her Final Four Picks...
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D. MA):We have work to do to elect a Democrat to the White House in November and stop Donald Trump. But the fight over President Obama’s...
View ArticleJohn Kasich blames 'the minority community' for Ohio's sky-high infant...
John Kasich has managed to make himself look like the responsible moderate in the horror movie that is the Republican presidential primary, but it’s important to recognize that he’s neither responsible...
View ArticleJohn Kasich's Christian charity in Ohio Medicaid expansion has its limits
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, would-be president, has made a very big deal in his run on being the moderate, the one guy willing to buck the rest of the Republican party and take Obamacare's Medicaid...
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Ted Strickland promises Rob Portman 'is going to feel the heat' over Supreme...
Ted Strickland, Democratic challenger to Sen. Rob Portman in Ohio, is going to make the Republican's life hell this election, which is no more than is deserved. Portman is fully engaged in Mitch...
View ArticleTrouble Ahead: 'BradCast' 4/1/2016
On today's BradCast, several ominous signs for the days ahead -- for Wisconsin voters, for RNC convention goers, and for all the rest of us...In WI, voter registration and DMV computers go down just...
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USGS cites induced quake threat to Perry Nuclear & other fracking quakes,...
news of a new report on man-made induced earthquakes from the USGS was at the top of my news feeds all week, with coverage of it in not just the US media but also the global press...in this report,...
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Ted Strickland emerges as right's number one target, with a lot of help from...
In the 2012 election, the Kochs and a bevy of their right-wing cohorts made an all-out assault on Sen. Sherrod Brown, a progressive stalwart, spending over $20 million to try to take him down. Now...
View ArticleOH-Sen: People For The American Way Endorses Ted Strickland (D) For U.S. Senate
Another major Progressive group is getting behind former Governor Ted Strickland’s (D. OH) U.S. Senate campaign:Today, People For the American Way (PFAW) announced its endorsement of former Governor...
View ArticleClinton v. Clinton: An updated comparison of the 2008 and 2016 primaries
With the completion of the Wisconsin primary, in which Hillary Clinton yet again did just a little better than she did in 2008, it’s time to update the Democratic primary comparison graph. We first...
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OH-Sen: Strickland (D) Goes After Portman (R) & His Koch Backed GOP...
Received this e-mail today from former Governor Ted Strickland’s (D. OH) U.S. Senate campaign:Add this to the mountain of evidence that climate change is real, caused by human activity, and a major...
View ArticleCost sharing blocks the poor's access to health care
(Cross Posted at The Makeshift Academic)The notion that health cost containment requires people to put “skin in the game” has a long pedigree. Requiring people to pay something through premiums or...
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