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122 days ago Paula Brooks announced her candidacy against Pat Tiberi. Amusing, I know. Back then, we knew she didn't live in the district she claims she wants to represent. Apparently, nothing has changed. For the past four months, Paula Brooks has maintained her home, campaign office, and ...
Congress
In one of the best worst movies in the past twenty years, From Dusk 'Til Dawn , Harvey Keitel plays a preacher who has lost his way. Keitel and his two kids get kidnapped by George Clooney and his brother Quentin Tarantino as the two criminals attempt to flee to Mexico. Once they cross the ...
World
Leave it to the government to not learn the lesson Cash for Clunkers taught us: Ohio will use $11,000,000 federal stimulus money to provide rebates to people who buy energy efficient appliances for their homes. The U.S. Department of Energy approved the state plan Thursday. Ohio aims to ...
Other
Ted Strickland's new Director of the Department of Development is off to an amazingly awful start. First there was the hiring of an unqualified 20-something filmmaker of something called "Johnny Appleweed" to run one of the divisions within the Department. And now .....this : A slick new ...
Other
Ted Strickland
This week, renowned political analyst Stuart Rothenberg revealed his "Dangerous Dozen" House seats for 2010 . Of the 12 seats rated most vulnerable, two are in Ohio - the 1st and 15th. Ohio’s 1st: Rep. Steve Driehaus (D) knocked off then-Rep. Steve Chabot (R) last year, and now Chabot is ...
Congress
Republican National Committee
Mary Jo Kilroy
The short answer? Yes. Did they vote for Obama? Yes. Can Republicans win many of them back? Absolutely. A piece from Kristen Soltis drew my interest recently: For those who are focused on the short-term fortunes of the Republican Party, young voters seem an irrelevant distraction. It's also ...
Congress
Don Young
Republican National Committee
A conservative Ohio blogger recently pushed a rumor via twitter that Dave Yost was considering ending campaign operations. Well, I decided to ask the man himself. Yost's response? "Absolutely untrue." Yes, Yost's campaign to defeat Mike DeWine is quite a hill to climb, but that's why we have ...
Other
Thank you, Lee Fisher. You've chosen your most vulnerable deficiency as your primary campaign message. Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Lee Fisher said he would focus on "jobs, jobs, jobs" for Ohio and said the current administration isn't being aggressive enough in that department. First off, ...
Congress
Lee Fisher
Ohio Democrats have picked their strategy for 2010. Go negative. From a New York Times article back in October : ...Mr. Corzine’s strategy for a comeback victory has turned into a template for Democratic candidates to survive in the 2010 midterm elections. Its shorthand description: winning ...
Congress
Rob Portman
One of the biggest complaints from conservatives about the Stimulus was that it didn't encourage investment or long-term economic growth. Rather than addressing the job crisis by bettering the business environment, it relied on temporary funds to pay for temporary jobs. And now we're seeing it ...
White House
Stimulus Plan
Earlier this week we highlighted how Strickland's team hired a 20-something director of an Indie movie called Johnny Appleweed (no, that isn't a typo) to run one of his divisions in the Department of Development. And somehow while focusing on that story I missed something far worse than hiring ...
Other
When I started writing today's posts, I had no idea they would have a theme based on one of the most ridiculously read lines in cinema history. But man, when it rains, it pours. And this time, it's a failure of a nature much more personal to many on the left. AIDS funding. ...the Obama ...
White House
That line from the Ten Commandments is just too perfect, I gotta use it again for this post. Another Afghanistan story caught my eye as it highlights yet more hypocrisy from the Obama Administration and, if they support such an effort, the left. From The Guardian : The US is seeking to extend ...
World
Afghanistan
Barack Obama
Hamid Karzai
Richard Holbrooke
Washington, D.C
This morning the Washington Times confirmed our surrender of Afghanistan. The pullout of U.S. forces, planned for July 2011, will be unconditional , Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates told Sen. Carl Levin, Michigan Democrat, who is Senate Armed Services Committee chairman. Folks, when there ...
World
Afghanistan
Washington, D.C
Carl Levin
General David Petraeus
I won't bore you with a summary of last night's speech. If you read this blog, you've likely read plenty about it already or watched it yourself. And one thing is clear - the sheeple have lost their shepherd. Of all demographics that make up the electorate, the few that haven't seen a drastic ...
White House
Barack Obama
When I heard that last night's speech was going to bump A Charlie Brown Christmas from my evening viewing, I was livid. I took it out by youtubing a few clips. And I found that quite a few lines were frighteningly appropos to the President. A few actual lines I picked out: Linus Boehner: ...
Congress
Sherrod Brown
Charlie Crist
Ted Strickland's obsession with failure continues. What now, you ask? Green jobs. The silliest part, he can't even take credit for the mess. Governor Ted Strickland today announced that 25 Ohio projects will receive more than $13 million in grant awards funded through the American Recovery ...
Congress
Gene Green
Ted Strickland
Whoever it is, it probably matches up with who ya voted for last year. Do you trust government, or do you trust the guys with a vested interest in improving their revenue? This shouldn't be that tough a question.
Other
Recently, John Kasich had an opportunity to sit down with Dick Armey, Howard Dean, and Arianna Huffington to discuss the future of capitalism. Kasich's performance highlights just how articulate he is not only on the big ideas, but focusing on unique and specific concepts in an intelligent and ...
