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Hey, Ohio, how will John Boehner screw you over with sequester?
We're talking to you, John With draconian sequester cuts just around the corner and with the Republican leadership refusing to do a damn thing to stop them, it's time to start looking at the impact...
View Article"I got 98% of What I Wanted. I'm Pretty Happy."
Barbara Morrill has a great piece here about how the upcoming sequester is going to hit Ohio. Knowing how much human beings love a good media show, I decided to set the data to a short video. Nothing...
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Wealth Inequality Is Much Worse Than You Think (And Congress Just Made it Worse)
First thing you need to do is watch the video above, by YouTube user politizane. We’ll wait. Okay, finished? Great. I’m sure you’re mind is a little blown.Sure, you knew inequality was bad, and maybe...
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Hate attacks provoke Oberlin College Campus 'Day of Solidarity': all classes...
The afternoon convocation Monday, March 4, 2013, 3:30 p.m. EST will be live streamed at http://new.oberlin.edu/...Today, the local Fox-TV affiliate in Cleveland Ohio refers to a 130 am incident: "KKK...
View ArticleI wonder how often this happens
Last week a federal grand jury indicted the owner of a large natural gas drilling operation for dumping fracking waste into storm drains in northern Ohio. According to his employees, about 400,000...
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Ohio GOP Figured Out How to Kill Obamacare. Will it Work? You be the Judge.
The idea is simple enough. But is it really legal?You be the judge:A Bill working its way through the Ohio House, [HB 91] The Health Care Freedom Act, is targeting an Obamacare provision that can...
View ArticleNorthern Ohio: Boycott Racist Cossel Farms
Via Little Green Footballs: The White House created the hashtag #askFLOTUS for citizens to tweet their concerns about childhood obesity to the First Lady. Predictably, the hashtag was quickly hijiacked...
View ArticleSherrod Brown for President in 2016
With all the talk about how Hillary Clinton is the strongest candidate we could run in 2016, I can't help but dredge up the often unnecessarily bitter 2008 primary battle and remember all of the...
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Winning in the Four-letter States
Name the states with four letters.Iowa, Ohio, Utah. These states don't exactly inspire transpeople with confidence about the prospect for progress. Iowa has done the best of the three, of course, but...
View ArticleHellraisers Journal: 2012 Hell-Raiser of the Year Award goes to....
You..ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes. -Mother JonesSaturday, March 14, 1903 Denver,...
View ArticleSen. Rob Portman (R-OH) Shows Us Exactly Why Republicans Suck
The big story in Ohio today is that Ohio's Republican senator, Rob Portman has come out in favor of gay marriage. Why the big change from someone who is just as "severely conservative" as Mitt Romney...
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In Honor of the CPAC Conservative Autopsy
I figured today was just as good a time as any to revive my postmortem on the 2012 election from the archives of Virally Suppressed in celebration of what was billed by CPAC as "C.S.I. Washington DC:...
View ArticleChange of Heart: Rob Portman and Marriage Equality
I've spent a lot of time today, both on here and on Facebook, complaining about how it took his own son coming out for Senator Rob Portman of Ohio to support marriage equality. The severely localized...
View ArticleYour War on Drugs: 59 Police car chase, 137 bullets, 2 unarmed people dead.
This is your war on drugs; ongoing and completely untrammeled by the Sequester. There will ALWAYS be money to chase drug users.Before I get to the story, let me say I read the story a couple times and...
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Guys, If The Girl Is Drunk It Is Rape – Period
The Steubenville, Ohio rape trial is over and both boys were found guilty. News reports of some of the testimony on Saturday really ticked me off. It is real simple guys, if the girl is shitfaced...
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BREAKING: Steubenville's Jane Doe Receives Death Threats
Steubenville's rape victim, Jane Doe, is now receiving death threats.The group, Busted Bitches And Internet Stalkers …Because Sometimes Playing Fair Just Doesn't Work first posted this news, along with...
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More GOP governors considering Arkansas model for Medicaid expansion
The Arkansas model for Medicaid expansion recently approved by the Obama administration appears to be appealing to a number of Republican governors who see it as a way to take the Medicaid money...
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GOP self-evaluation is deluded from page one
Count Florida Gov. Rick Scott while you can, GOP, because it won't be much longer. The GOP releases a shiny new report on why the party sucks so bad, yet they can't get out of the first page before...
View ArticleA Brief Conversation on Steubenville
I had a text conversation with my best friend (I'll call him Jim) earlier today concerning the Steubenville rape case. I don't know why I feel the need to post it here; we are in accord on many things,...
View ArticlePolitical Geography Part 6: County Trends by State
Welcome to Part 6 in a continuing series on the political geography of the states. This segment looks at the county trends in statewide elections across multiple election years in most of the states....
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