Successful Black Youth Amazes White Friends with Birthday Hanging?
Associated Press published a story about our letter to Attorney General Holder, requesting the reopening of the federal investigation of what was officially certified to have been the suicide by...
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A Challenger for John Kasich in Ohio
Today in series of events in Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati, Cuyahoga County Commissioner Ed FitzGerald made official what has been obvious for a while: he's going to take on Taxin' John Kasich for...
View ArticleRumi in a Red County
Last night, I posted a quote from Rumi on Facebook. It was a short poem dug up from the recesses of my brain, something that made me feel rebellious--something bold I needed to grab onto after last...
View ArticleArmy say NO MORE TANKS! But Congress insists...
In yet another (see gun control laws, sequester, yada yada yada) instance of the government doing exactly what people do not want, we have this:Built to dominate the enemy in combat, the Army's hulking...
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Less popular than Mitch McConnell -- Now that's saying something
Beware Republicans, whenever you stand with the NRA, and against the will of the majority of the People-- you can end up less popular than Mitch McConnell, if and when you do ... the People are...
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Poll Dancing - 5 Senators Who Voted Against Gun Background Checks Take A Hit...
There are polls and there are polls. Then there are more polls. It can be daunting to figure out which to trust, especially after the 2012 Presidential Campaign when the country was barraged with new...
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Senator Portman's "Hairshirt" in Youngstown
STANDING OUTSIDE SENATOR PORTMAN'S OIL & GAS FORUM IN YOUNGSTOWN State Representative Bob Hagan was outraged by Senator Portman's vote against Universal Background Checks. Portman chose to ignore...
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Republican governors face decimation in 2014
Pennsylvania's one-term governor. The RNC's "autopsy" was really darn proud of the party's governorships:The GOP today is a tale of two parties. One of them, the gubernatorial wing, is growing and...
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Republican legislators deny Medicaid expansion to millions
There are a handful of Republican governors who aren't so crazy that they think taking free money to provide health care to more of their constituents is a bad idea. In fact, eight of them including...
View ArticleMay '70: 1. Finally On Our Own...
[The introduction to my effort to help reclaim the revolutionary events of May, 1970 from the Great American Memory Hole. A repost, but I think it actually holds up under a second reading (not because...
View ArticleBlock The Vote
A few months back I wrote about how Republicans were trying to keep college students from voting – they removed voting booths from campuses, they tried to knock kids off the voter rolls for using their...
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Transwoman's body found in pond near Cleveland...tied to concrete block
This really gets old. On April 17 the decomposing body of transwoman Cemia Dove, 20, was found in a pond in Olmsted Township, near Cleveland. This is the third African American transwoman found...
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A crazy man with a "fighting rifle"
On March 10th, in the small town of Middlefield, Ohio, James Gilkerson took a right turn too fast onto the State Route 608. Two local police officers--Erin Thomas and Brandon Savage--were patrolling in...
View Article43 Years Ago Today
Kent State.Jeffrey Glenn Miller, 20 Allison B. Krause, 19 William Knox Schroeder,19 Sandra Lee Scheuer,20RIP.This event is what changed everything, for me, at least...Rock on.
View ArticleNew NRA President calls for Americans to have military training
for possible use against the United States government.Two other things stand out about Porter. First, he appears to signal a doubling down on the NRA’s base among older, white male Southerners or to...
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Hellraisers Journal: Mother Jones Released from Military Bastille
Friday May 8, 1903 From The Comrade:"How I Became a Socialist"William Thurston BrownThe Comrade continues its monthly series, "How I Became a Socialist," by featuring Comrade William Thurston Brown in...
View ArticleUpdating old stories
I try to make a concerted effort to update past stories when appropriate. This week we have movement in four stories from varying measures of the past.An arrest has been made in the Cleveland area in...
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Obama May Have Aimed For Greatness, But He’s Hitting Average
On the evening of the New Hampshire Primary in 2008, after he had come in a close second to the woman who would eventually become his 1st Secretary of State, then-Senator Barack Obama addressed a crowd...
View Article"Job Creators": Greedy developer bullies women's shelter into closing.
Corporations are people in this country, huh? If so, they're the assholes of the group.From Yahoo:For more than 100 years, the Anna Louise Inn in downtown Cincinnati has been a safe, serene place that...
View ArticleThe Ohio Governor's Race: the Draft Cordray movement
This week, the Senate is scheduled to vote on the re-appointment of Richard Cordray to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Republican Senators, presumably because they believe that consumers...
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