A Candidate's View: Green Jobs for Warren County
When I marched with a sign saying "Jobs, Jobs, Jobs" in Franklin's parade on July 3, someone shouted from the crowd, "How you gonna' bring them here?" Good question. Franklin, like Middletown, has been...
View ArticleBest Way to Ensure We Don't Have Speaker Boehner
We beat him. We literally beat him. Check out Ed tonight where Ed tees off on Boehner and Howard Dean hits some irons down the fairway on Boehner. Must see Ed TV. Ed also talks to Justin Coussoule ,who...
View ArticleOH-Gov: Clash of the Titanics: Strickland Stricken, 9 Points Down -- It's...
Not since the 1900 Presidential election, when voters had to choose between war-monger McKinley and Darwin-denier William Jennings Bryan, have the two major parties presented American voters with...
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Morning Feature: Why is the SoS of Ohio important?
We need to remind the voters (Fred) that this election in November 2010 is about the "battles won". We do not want "The Empire Strikes Back". To me that represents a return, a regression, a reversal...
View ArticleRepro-Briefs: Graphic Billboards, Defunding Services, and Other State News
Graphic billboards go up in Texas, anti-choice legislators still trying to defund Planned Parenthood, ACOG opposes Amendment 62 in Colorado, and clinics challenge Louisiana law. Written by Robin Marty...
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Treme Tuesday (a bit late) - Majestic Mortuary in Central City
Majestic Mortuary on Oretha Castle Haley Blvd, in Central City. Photo by New Orleans LadyIt's no surprise that the pilot of the HBO series Treme ends with death. Antoine Batiste is, after all, a...
View ArticleGulf Recovery: BP Worker Exposes Truth of Working Oil Spill Cleanup
Project Gulf Impact wants to use its diary in the Daily Kos Blogathon for the next three days to allow residents of the Gulf to be heard. Project Gulf Impact is down in the Gulf right now conducting...
View ArticleGulf Recovery: on Cultural Ecology
"If I can't crab, what am I going to do? I'm 70 years old. This is the only way I know how to make a living." (link) Raise your hand if you've ever heard a décima. If not, let this play in the...
View ArticleCongress Hinges on Ohio and Ohio is Coming Unhinged
If control of the House and/or Senate flips to Republicans narrowly, it will be because of lost seats and lost opportunities in Ohio. Five of Ohio's ten Democratic Representatives are in...
View ArticleOH-Sen: The One Way that Lee Fisher can Win, with New Poll Results
Besides other bad news for Lee Fisher, last week scientists at the Low-Energy Physics division of CERN announced their finding that Fisher is the anti-particle of charisma. Let's just say that in...
View ArticleOH-Gov: Clash of the Titanics: Kasich Topping 50% in New Poll
Last week, Reuters-IPSOS set things straight on the Ohio Governor's race by showing Republican John Kasich beating incumbent Ted Strickland by nine points, 48-39. Today, Rasmussen confirms those...
View ArticleConstitution à la carte
Apparently, we've all been reading it wrong. This Constitution thing? You don't have to take it all at once. You can just grab yourself a big slice of 2nd Amendment pie, a lucky few get to add a...
View ArticleAnother Tea Party FAIL
Aw, poor teabaggers. Their new economic model to encourage teabaggers to shop at teabagger-supporting businesses isn't working so well. The Tea Party Exchange suspended operations on Tuesday, Aug. 17...
View ArticleI do have a position on whether Ganley's an idiot.
From Roll Call [sub req.] Cleveland-area Republican House candidate Tom Ganley declined to indicate Thursday whether he thinks President Barack Obama is Muslim. “I don’t have a position on whether he’s...
View ArticleBilingual Ballots in Ohio? (With Video)
I am Ohio's Secretary of State. As the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections negotiates with the U.S. Justice Department this afternoon about how to provide bilingual ballots for Puerto Rican American...
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Treme Tuesday - Washington Square in the Marigny
The street musicians featured in HBO's hit TV series Treme make the best money playing the high-traffic tourist areas, such as Jackson Square and Royal Street (during the day). The real estate around...
View ArticleBoehner Pops His Head Up Again-- Blue America Responds
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View ArticleCongressional Candidates’ Views on Clean Energy, Climate Change: OH-01
Today, we examine Ohio’s 1st Congressional District, which encompasses Cincinnati and parts of nearby suburbs. Cincinnati is home to the Reds, but in the House it's represented by the self-described...
View ArticleOhio's Fisher slams Senate opponent on jobs
In a blistering attack, Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate said Rob Portman, his Republican opponent, had "sold out American workers" and was the "chief architect" of trade...
View ArticleThe teabagger business model
Hilarious: An Ohio-based shopper loyalty program aimed at tea party supporters has been sold to a conservative group that plans to take it national. Washington-based Unite in Action says it bought the...
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