Overnight News Digest: Science Saturday (Obama calls the ISS edition)
Welcome to Science Saturday, where the Overnight News Digest crew informs and entertains you with this week's news about science, space, and the environment. In keeping with the theme of the past...
View ArticleThe Koch 'Free Enterprise' Meeting to 'Protect America' -- Conducted in Total...
For some reason, holding Top Secret Meetings to save our "free market" way of life, kind of bugs me. It's not just that I don't trust Billionaires -- it just kind of bugs me they want to Buy our...
View ArticleBREAKING: O'Keefe ACORNs Ohio Medicaid (ACTION ALERT)
This just in - wire tap and deceptive video editing artist James O'Keefe has struck again. The scene of the crime? Ohio's hard pressed Medicaid offices. I haven't had a chance to watch 22 minutes...
View Article5 time "Jeopardy" champion to head consumer protection.
Richard Cordray from the great state and former electoral battleground, of Ohio.
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O'Keefe's Medicaid 'sting' attacks public workers for following the law
Ohio Gov. John Kasich TPM's Ryan Reilly sums up James O'Keefe's latest smear job, this time on Medicaid offices and public employees in South Carolina. A man goes into a public assistance office in...
View ArticleGulf Watchers Wednesday - Gulf Coasters beg Colbert for coverage - BP...
Topics: Gulf Coasters turn to Colbert, A Year After BP Caps Well, Fishermen Still Fight for Survival, Year After Gulf Oil Spill, Columbus Company Still Waits For Claim, BP Oil Still Ashore One Year...
View ArticleKelley Williams-Bolar is a pathological liar
And she doesn't deserve the clemency/pardon she's after in a hearing being held today. In the trial she had, she claimed that she was close to getting her degree at the University of Akron. She whined...
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Ohio Secretary of State certifies SB 5 referendum; new poll shows big lead...
(Progress Ohio) Not that there was much doubt after more than a million signatures were collected to force a referendum on Ohio's anti-worker SB 5, but it's official. SB 5 will be on the Ohio ballot...
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Ohio: Brown keeps double digit edge, Obama has narrow lead
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) Quinnipiac University (7/12-7/18, Registered Voters, May results in parentheses) Sherrod Brown (D) 49 (45) Josh Mandel (R) 34 (31) Sherrod Brown (D) 50 (44) Kevin Coughlin...
View ArticleLocal Energy, National Breakthroughs: Deepak Bhargava of the Center for...
"Staying true to progressive traditions means always asking the question, 'Who is really getting the most screwed in our society?' and always having a commitment to going there." That's how Deepak...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: Science Saturday (Shuttle era over and new moon for...
Welcome to Science Saturday, where the Overnight News Digest crew informs and entertains you with this week's news about science, space, and the environment. In keeping with the theme of the past...
View ArticleOhio YMCA Closures Highlight Need for Major Non-Profits to Have Public Input...
The YMCA of Greater Cincinnati oversees 17 YMCA branches (http://www.cincinnatiymca.org/...) in Southwestern Ohio and Northern Kentucky. On June 29, 2011, the Greater Cincinnati YMCA voted to close...
View ArticleUpdate: “Social Security is not an entitlement; it is a promise ..."...
UPDATE: To everyone saying it is an entitlement, this update's for you. First, I agree, it Social Security, et alia, are entitlements. I chose the title of this diary because it was a quote from...
View ArticleAn Open Letter To John Boehner
Dear Honorable John Boehner, Since you have decided to hold my student loans, my grandparents' social security checks, my father's veterans benefits, and the economy in which we all live hostage, I am...
View ArticleCut Jobs & Derail Economy: Republicans' 5-Part Plan to Rig the 2012 Election
If you can see through the bull, you already know one of America’s most immediate problems is high unemployment – not “out of control” government spending. But many in Congress aren’t interested in...
View ArticleOhio Catholic Leaders to Boehner: Listen to Catholic Church, Not Tea Party
Cross-posted from Bold Faith Type By John Gehring A day after the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops criticized the House GOP's debt plan, more than 70 Catholic priests, sisters, theologians and...
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Ohio Redistricting: The 'Screw Jim Jordan' Republican version
The Hill says Boehner has been intimately involved in Ohio's redistricting process. The state is losing two congressional seats because of weak population growth. While Republicans control the whole...
View ArticleOhio Redistricting: Slimming Down the Bullseye State
Republicans hold the trifecta in Ohio this time around, despite several polls showing their approval ratings hovering somewhere between stubbing your toe and chlamydia. We also know Ohio Republicans...
View ArticleI Support Reckless Spending
Today, Crossroads GPS reached out to me through a Youtube Video, asking me to contact Sherrod Brown about the problem of reckless spending. It's not just Senator Brown being targeted. There are videos...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: Science Saturday (Debt Ceiling Hostage Crisis edition)
Welcome to Science Saturday, where the Overnight News Digest crew informs and entertains you with this week's news about science, space, and the environment. In keeping with the theme of the past...
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