tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-93135382011-08-27T18:39:26.183-04:00"Socialism, born and raised in France, is unpersuasive even to the promiscuously persuadable French." - Will RogersSteven J. Kelso Sr.http://www.blogger.com/profile/02896102241779847797noreply@blogger.comBlogger28671100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9313538.post-82166883197411621992007-05-29T16:45:00.000-04:002007-05-29T17:01:52.319-04:00

And the saddest part is that too many of you right-wingers support such goings-ons.From the AP via The Columbus Dispatch:Enforcers of Ohio's new smoking ban have heard about 200 complaints a day accusing businesses of allowing people to light up or leaving out ashtrays.The complaints, which have been mostly against bars, have been coming into the Ohio Department of Health's toll-free hot line

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Despite her cancer and the fluff coverage surrounding her, the true nature of this Tipper Gore-ish biddy turns my stomach. From the AP via The Charlotte Observer:Elizabeth Edwards says she is scared of the "rabid, rabid Republican" who owns property across the street from her Orange County home -- and she doesn't want her kids going near the gun-toting neighbor.Edwards, the wife of Democratic

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From the AP (via The Washington Times):An EU official called on Germany to impose speed limits on its autobahns to fight global warming, drawing angry responses yesterday in a country that cherishes what it calls "free driving for free citizens." One of the two positive and lasting legacies of the late Republican Congress (the 2nd being welfare reform) was the reversal of DEMOCRAT law that

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Some may have thought my recent post on the Democrat Party "extreme:"Kill terrorists? No.Kill Communists? HELL NO!Kill some wacko in Waco who no one ever heard of? YES!If so, I'd invite you to ponder the following report from The Washington Times:A House Democrat has arranged for a conference room in the Capitol building to be used tomorrow by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a

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A little rebellion now and then...is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, 1787 3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)From The Cincinnati Enquirer:When Ohio's ban on smoking in public places went into effect Dec. 7, Oakley pub R.P. McMurphy's complied.For about four hours.But as the minutes ticked by and it seemed the new law

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From The Columbus Dispatch:A last-ditch fight against the state’s antismoking law became so heated yesterday that two proponents of the law left a hearing early for their own safety.The State Highway Patrol advised the two American Cancer Society representatives to leave the Ohio Department of Health hearing because of threats from some in the crowd, said Wendy Simpkins, spokeswoman for the

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OK, that's like saying that a good shot of whiskey will cure what ails ya, but it is a good enough of an introduction to Mr. Will's column on the latest union shenanigans as any.Read and enjoy!

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...I spy the real reason for the Smoking Nazis march through America (hint: it has nothing to do with your health!)From FOXNews:A freshman Democratic lawmaker sent a hand-written note Wednesday night to a neighboring Republican congressman to apologize for the situation that erupted after his staff complained to U.S. Capitol Police about cigar smoke.No word yet that Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison

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200 years?From the BBC:The US Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by a high school teacher from Arizona sentenced to 200 years in jail for possessing child pornography.Morton Berger had claimed the sentence was so disproportionate to his crime it breached the constitution. The state has the nation's toughest laws on child abuse and exploitation.Indeed, the prosecutor had asked for a 340-

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Kill terrorists? No.Kill Communists? HELL NO!Kill some wacko in Waco who no one ever heard of? YES!'nuff said.

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Rush Limbaugh states that Vice President Dick Cheney is his hero and he's mine too; the interview is here.

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If Barack Obama were 100% white instead of just half, not a damn soul would take him seriously.From the AP (My Way News):Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama ridiculed Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday for saying Britain's decision to pull troops from Iraq is a good sign that fits with the strategy for stabilizing the country.Obama, speaking at a massive outdoor rally in Austin,

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I lost respect for the Senator when he gave that wonderful speech on the Senate floor on the evils of Bill Clinton's actions (and then refused to cast a vote for impeachment!), and a whole, heaping-helping of respect when he performed a Stepin Fetchit routine to "win" Maxine Walter's endorsement for his spot on the ticket with Algore (don't ask; it's embarrassing).That said, I'm a redemption kind

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Please make sure that you check back soon: not only will I make major changes to the site, several major announcements are pending.Thank you, as always, for your support.

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A new blog, The HBCU Republican Connection, has joined the intellectual fray and I invite you to check them out. Recent posts concern the Tennessee Corker/Ford race and the new president of the NAACP -- a black Republican!The opinions may not be what you expected -- check them out!

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Bo Schembechler, the coach for that football team up north when I was growing up, passed away this morning, he was 77. I do not know if angels play football, but if they do, I'd love to see Woody and Bo face off again.My sympathy and prayers go out to the family, friends and former players.

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While I will try to post at least once a day, I will be spending the rest of the year (yep, while it seems like the turn of the century -- 2001 -- was just yesterday, 2007 is almost here) streamlining the site, recharging the batteries preparing for the coming battle and trying to find that pink tool belt for my wife (don't laugh; she'd LOVE it!)First off, I must apologize to my readers for

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In an era when a proper understanding of economics is desperately needed, America's #1 defender of the free market has left us.For those with a subscription to The Wall Street Journal, a wealth of information can be found here.

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When I was growing up in the late 70s/early 80s, they swore on their mother's graves that all that they wanted was to create smoking areas on planes, nothing more. They swore that they would advance no farther.Well, today the Smoking Nazi's are well entrenched and now they are standing at your doorstep.From the San Mateo Daily Journal:Belmont is set to make history by becoming the first city in

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I will be live-blogging over @ the State of Ohio Blog Alliance all day and into the wee hours of the morning as we will have instant news, analysis and results (many times before the networks themselves!!!!) We broke a couple of scoops during the primaries so feel free to stop by early and often.

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Welcome my friends to the show that will end the day after the election (this has been a long election season and we all need to take a break). Below you will find my endorsements, predictions of both Ohio and other national races that interest me and enough witty and urbane commentary to keep you and your friends riveted for a whole half an hour or so. So, now that the ol' crystal ball has been

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From the Miami Herald: Barbra Streisand's politics didn't find a wholly agreeable crowd during her Monday concert at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise.As Babs traded political barbs with a George W. Bush imitator, a fan of the songstress who apparently disagreed with her politics pelted her with a beverage. And as her anti-GOP riff ended, another man in the crowd found himself being escorted out

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They endorse nothing but Democrats this year.

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Ala P.J. O'Rourke:I am so moved by principle and idealism, so indignantly high-minded, that I'm changing sides. At least the Democrats aren't hypocritical about being scum. After Gerry Studds was censured for molesting an underaged congressional page, he was reelected six times. Therefore, in the mid term elections, I'm working to get Demo crats into office.And work it is. There's the problem of

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That's just what a school teacher in Pennsylvania did!And we are to believe that it is the religious right who uses the schools to indoctrinate?

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I have nothing against birth control which prevents conception, but I do not believe that we have enough money that we have the luxury to ignore the federal Constitution and create a "right" to force our neighbor to pay for our "fun."That said, the next time you hear a pro-abort claim that greater access to birth control is the only way to prevent abortion and the only way that both sides of the

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From a press release from the National Black Republican Association:Black Republican Tony Williams, son of liberal Juan Williams who is a political commentator for NPR and Fox News, is running for the Washington, DC Council Ward 6 seat. Let's show our support for Tony and our other black Republican candidates by contributing time and money to their campaigns. A fundraiser is being held for Tony

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From The (New York) Amsterdam News:Having gained control over most predominantly Black political districts, an increasing number of African-Americans are campaigning to represent majority Whites districts.While some view that trend as progress, others worry that the Black community may lose clout in the process."As districts begin to reflect a broader, multi-cultural, multi-ethnic orientation,

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From The Plain Dealer:An East Side abortion clinic will be forced to close this month after state regulators uncovered more than a dozen health code violations, prompting officials to reject the center's request for a new license.In a lengthy compliance report issued in June, the Ohio Department of Health cited the Center for Women's Health in Cleveland for failing to have patient transfer

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Since the push for homosexual "marriage" has little to do with marriage and everything to do with forcing society to respect homosexuality, I submit the following story for your perusal (from LifeSite):A school district in western New York has refused to transfer high school students out of classes being taught by a transsexual teacher, denying a request by parents.Five parents submitted written

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Just call them the $Bucks$From The Columbus Dispatch:Boy Scouts can return to Ohio Stadium during the next home football game, but they won't usher, an OSU official said last night."We're going to let them back in," Associate Athletic Director Steve Snapp said. "We're not sure what their functioning is going to be. ... They are certainly back for this next game and I think for the foreseeable

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From the Daytona Beach News-Journal:For those who grew up in the 1970s and later, abortion horror stories of wire clothes hangers, tissue-eating lye and rickety kitchen tables seem like grotesque folklore.A return to those back-alley butcher days has seemed impossible for many of the children of Generations X and Y, even those who think Roe v. Wade ushered in a bloodier, more tragic era with the

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From the Daytona Beach News-Journal:It's been more than 40 years, but Judy can still see the face of the white-haired doctor who snuffed out her pregnancy with an abortion.She remembers floating in an ether-induced fog, smelling the pungent antiseptic odor wafting through the room, feeling the cold, hard examining table.The early-1960s abortion turned out to be one of three heart-wrenching times

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From the (Albany, N.Y.) Times Union:One day last January, Jonathan Tonkowich was sitting in math class at Thomas Aquinas College in southern California, daydreaming about how to do something constructive for the pro-life cause. What he came up with was Wash for Life (http://www. washforlife.org), which will make its debut on Sept. 16.His idea: Local pro-life youth groups in all 50 states will

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From an editorial by The (Toledo) Blade:SCORE another victory for the merchants of death.The U.S. tobacco industry may have lost a major civil racketeering case in federal court but analysts say the outcome isn't likely to hurt the industry's bottom line.That's because Big Tobacco, with some relatively minor new restrictions, is still entitled to peddle the only consumer product that, when used

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Your attention please, an airman has given his life for your freedom.From ONN:A Central Ohio airman has died while serving his country in the Iraqi war zone.Air Force Master Sergeant Brad Clemmons, a Chillicothe native, was killed by a roadside bomb while riding in a military convoy on Monday."He would tell you that he died for his country proudly," said his mother, Pam Clemmons.Clemmons attended

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It is an entertainer like Barbara Streisand, one of the wackier members of the left who urges us serfs to dry all of our clothes on clotheslines while she travels around the country charging 600 friggin' dollars to hear her belch out songs!!!!!!Hypocrite.

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Coming from D.C. (via The Guardian):On a street once known as Murder Row, a teen center founded to steer youths away from drugs and crime has become an outpost in another crusade -- a nationwide push by anti-abortion activists to expand their foothold in heavily black and Hispanic inner cities.The campaign involves crisis pregnancy centers, whose counselors seek to dissuade women with unplanned

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Monday? Wednesday! Oh wow, I'm really out of it!!!!! Check this out: Terri Schiavo Nurse Keeps License, Complaint About Interview Dismissed

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From the Kaiser Foundation:About 30 clergy and lay church leaders representing nine denominations on Tuesday at a seminar in Rapid City, S.D., received advice from several religious organizations about how to hold appropriate discussions with their congregations about "divisive" issues such as abortion, the Rapid City Journal reports. The educational program, titled "Controversy and the Clergy,"

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From The Wall Street Journal via The Columbus Dispatch:After fielding a barrage of calls from regional managers this summer, Steve Keyes, human-resources officer at Nationwide Mutual Insurance, faced a quandary: What to do about exposed midriffs in the office.Employees of the Columbus based insurer were increasingly showing up for work in low-cut tank tops, flip-flops and blouses with spaghetti

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From an editorial by The (Toledo) Blade:PRESIDENT Bush's quest to extend control over National Guard troops for disaster relief should be short-stopped in Congress. That's not just our opinion: Governors of all 50 states and Puerto Rico feel the same way, according to their letter to congressional leaders.With good reason, the governors are up in bipartisan arms over a provision in a military

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The ladies on The (Toledo) Blade editorial board have got their panties in a bunch again:A CENTURY ago, American anarchists promoted one of the dumbest ideas in political history. Tear down the state, destroy our institutions, and kill the leaders of our government, and things will be much better. Anarchism is thankfully out of fashion, but the Republicans who control the Michigan Legislature

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Ohio seems to have more than its share.UPDATE: Could the judge be any more blatant? From the AP via ONN:The judge suspended two one-year juvenile prison sentences for each boy. He said he knows the decision will be criticized."I shouldn't be doing this, but I'm going to. I see positive things about participating in football," McKinley told Campbell at Tuesday's hearing.If a small-town team can

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From The Columbus Dispatch:A federal judge ruled yesterday that Nationwide doesn't have to pay for flood damage caused by Hurricane Katrina's storm surge.U.S. District Judge L.T. Senter said the insurer isn't liable for water damage to the home of Julie and Paul Leonard of Pascagoula, Miss."Almost all the damage to the Leonard residence is attributable to the incursion of water," Senter said in a

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From the AP via the Dayton Daily News:Twenty-five schoolchildren who kept in touch with a Marine in Iraq and welcomed him to their classroom attended his funeral service with their teacher."He told them about honor, courage and duty," Fishcreek Elementary School teacher Tracy Piatt told mourners on Monday at Holy Family Roman Catholic Church during a funeral Mass for Cpl. Joseph A. Tomci, 21, of

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Your attention please, a solider has given his life for your freedom.From The (Toledo) Blade:A veteran U.S. Army soldier and 1980 graduate of Camden High School was killed in Iraq last week by an enemy explosive, the U.S. Defense Department announced yesterday.Army 1st Sgt. Aaron D. Jagger, 43, was among three soldiers who were killed Wednesday when a roadside bomb detonated near their vehicle in

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My prayers go out to the family, friends and co-workers of Steve Centanni and the unnamed "cameraman from New Zealand."

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From the AP via The Columbus Dispatch:The thwarted terrorist airline plot in Britain is sparking a bitter new round of finger-pointing in Connecticut's bruising Senate race.Democratic nominee Ned Lamont, the anti-war candidate who toppled Sen. Joe Lieberman in the Connecticut primary last week, said he was surprised by Lieberman's and Vice President Dick Cheney's claims that his views on Iraq

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From LifeSiteNews.com:Officials in the Florida city of Hialeah have revoked the occupational status of an abortion clinic that is the subject of a police investigation into the murder of an infant born-alive on the premises.According to the Miami Herald, at Hialeah's city council meeting Tuesday, city officials revoked A GYN Diagnostic Center's occupational license, effectively putting an end to

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From The Washington Post:A leading conservative antiabortion group has joined Democrat James Webb in criticizing Republican Sen. George Allen for opposing abortion while owning stock in the manufacturer of the morning-after pill.Chris Freund, policy director for the Family Foundation in Richmond, said social conservatives should be troubled by Allen's investment in Barr Laboratories Inc., maker

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From the AP via WCMH (NBC-Columbus):About 200 fans of the rock group Kiss protested Saturday in front of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland. They're demanding that the band be inducted into the hall.Fans, some from as far away as California, carried signs and had painted their faces in black-and-white to resemble Kiss band members.Those participating in the half-hour

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From The LA Times:California's leading union organization, bucking organized labor's long-standing neutrality on the issue of abortion, is for the first time taking a strong stand in favor of abortion rights.Wrong! The labor unions are fully-owned subsidiaries of the Party of Death itself -- the Democrat Party. More Democrats = More dead babies. Your vote counts!And an editorial by The Pocono

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Unbelievable!

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Your attention please, a Marine has given his life for your freedom.From The Plain Dealer:A 21-year-old Marine from Northeast Ohio, serving his second tour of duty in Iraq, was killed Wednesday morning by a roadside bomb, his family said.Cpl. Joe Tomci enlisted in the Marine Corps right after his graduation from Stow High School in 2003.His father said he loved what he was doing. "He felt that

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From the Cincinnati Enquirer's blog Politics Extra:Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory gave the key to the city last week to funkmaster general Bootsy Collins at last weekend's Macy's Music Festival in downtown Cincinnati."That key opens the door to any house where funk is occuring," the mayor said today. "Or any house that needs more funk...which is every house."And this will be the only thing that

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Your attention please, a Marine has given his life for your freedom.From The Cincinnati Post:Two weeks ago, Timothy Roos' daughter, Annaliese, was born. Two days ago, the Marine corporal's family learned he'd been killed in Iraq.Roos, 21, who grew up in Delhi Township, Ohio, playing army in the woods with his brother, Adam, was killed in an explosion in Ramadi, where he was a vehicle commander."

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From their editorial:Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was right about one thing following her disastrous Middle East mediation trip: The Security Council must pass a cease-fire resolution soon. Rice errs, however, if she thinks America and Britain will be able to dictate most terms for such a deal.Israel's deadly airstrike Sunday on the hilltop Lebanese village of Qana, which brought an

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It is quite obvious that Arnold Schwarzenegger has spent too much time among "the beautiful people."From the AP via The Plain Dealer:British Prime Minister Tony Blair and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced an agreement Monday to bypass the Bush administration and work together to explore ways to fight global warming.The two leaders announced the pact as they met with business leaders

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I realize that I should not be heartened by the suffering of another human being, but in this case, I cannot help it.From FOXNews:News that Fidel Castro had ceded presidential powers to his brother Raul after undergoing surgery to stop internal bleeding ushered in a period of uncertainty at home and celebrations by his enemies abroad, while fueling speculation on the gravity of his illness.The

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From The Wichita Eagle:A Sedgwick County grand jury has found no criminal conduct in the death of a 19-year-old woman, who died after she visited a Wichita abortion clinic.District Attorney Nola Foulston said Monday afternoon that the grand jury had been dismissed without returning an indictment.An autopsy determined that Gilbert -- a Texas resident who had Down syndrome -- died in January 2005

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YUCK!How about giving black youths a good primary education?

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And it comes from Democrat Al Sharpton.From the AP via ONN:Blacks who have succeeded in the corporate world must not turn their backs on the civil-rights activists and groups who helped open the doors for them, the Rev. Al Sharpton said Monday."They are the results of us," Sharpton said during a panel discussion at the annual convention of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. "When

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Sorry for another abortion post, but it has been that kind of weekend.From The Seattle Times:Anyone looking for an ideological rallying cry in Elizabeth Heffron's play "Mitzi's Abortion" won't find one.Instead, you'll get an even-handed, ambitious yet jumbled and ungainly tragicomedy -- which, almost in spite of itself, manages to break your heart anyway.Oh really? Check out a few paragraphs:The

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From The Oklahoma Daily (The University of Oklahoma):When Meghan Knowles was 27 years old, she found out she was pregnant.Instead of the usual rejoicing associated with pregnancy, there was only fear and apprehension."I was attending another university [other than OU and had no health insurance and very little income," Knowles said. "I am [also] considered a high-risk pregnancy, and with no help,

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You kidding me?From WFOR(CBS-Miami):Hialeah Police Homicide Detectives are investigating the gruesome discovery of a dead baby's body inside of an abortion clinic but conflicting stories may prove there's more to the discovery than meets the eye.The body was found at "A Gynecologists Diagnostic Center," 3671 West 16th Avenue in Hialeah.Witnesses tell police that a young woman, whose identity has

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I sure as heck don't get to say that very often!Remarks by Senator Mike DeWine to President Bush (via AllAfrica.com):Mr. President, I wish to discuss a critical issue that I have addressed in this chamber numerous times in the last several years and that is the situation in Darfur. It is truly a shame that in July of 2006, the horrendous conditions and continued violence look very similar to

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From a column by Marie Cocco of Newsday (via the Akron Beacon Journal): I hereby declare on oath that I will carry my valid U.S. passport, my birth certificate or my naturalization papers so that proof of citizenship can be offered on demand to partisan election workers, who will determine on Election Day if I may cast a vote.Congress has not -- yet -- passed this requirement. But the day draws

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Need a little good news?From The Blade:A local radio broadcast team is proposing that the name of Toledo-raised actor-comedian Danny Thomas be added to that of Toledo Express Airport, and have found a champion in City Council President Rob Ludeman.Gary Shores and Harvey J. Steele, co-hosts of the morning show on WKKO-FM (99.9), say it is Thomas' founding of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

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UPDATE: As promised, Pres. Bush has vetoed this horrible legislation!Though he obviously should have vetoed several of the outrageous spending bills (not to mention that McCain/Feingold power grab), if this goes down in history as the only GWB veto, history will treat it well.From the AP (via The Blade):The Senate voted today after two days of emotional debate to expand federal funding of

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World's first test-tube baby is pregnant.To the absurd:Cameras offer TV surveillance in town of 420The mooning was an act of protest. Recorded in all its glory last fall, it was transmitted onto the television screen in Judy Trebesch's office at City Hall. And while nearly everyone in this town of about 420 people knows about the incident -- and a few think they know the person attached to that

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These days, he can use all the friends that he can get.From an editorial by the Dayton Daily News:Former vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman is relatively without honor at home, defining home not only as his state but his political party. He is being vigorously challenged in a primary for renomination to the U.S. Senate. In a nutshell, liberals are mad because he has been a staunch

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I have returned from recording an interview with Karen Kasler of The Statehouse News Bureau's The State of Ohio. While this was the first time that I have been interviewed for television (I have been interviewed in print twice), I am sure that I did better in the interview than I did navigating the Statehouses' cavernous innards.Karen Kasler was well prepared and knowledgeable about blogs and I

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All from The Plain Dealer:The debate over immigration reform introduced Americans to a system choked by backlogs, exploited by smugglers and skirted by millions living in the country illegally.Forgotten in the heated discourse, some worry, are the immigrants who came legally and graced their new communities with talent and skills.Chetan Amin says that would describe most Asian-Americans in

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Frank Gabrenya, movie reviewer for The Columbus Dispatch, has difficulties with the new release by Andy Garcia, a Cuban ex-pat.The problem? It's nice enough to the communists! A taste:No one can question Garcia's passion, although one can be puzzled about exactly what the actor-director is mourning. The Cubans replaced one dictator with a different, perhaps worse, one...Perhaps? Perhaps!

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Both stories deal with the Catholic Church.From LifeNews.com:The Catholic Church restated its opposition to embryonic stem cell research on Wednesday saying it plans to excommunicate scientists who conduct it because it involves the destruction of human life. Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo made the comments to an Italian Christian magazine.What I want to know is, when will the Church

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Your attention please, a soldier has given his life for your freedom.From the AP via the Akron Beacon Journal:An Ohio soldier known for his commitment to achieving his goals and helping others while growing up in this rural community was killed in Iraq in his second tour in the country.Sgt. Benjamin Laymon, 22, died Saturday near Baghdad when his patrol was hit by small arms fire and an

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From a column by Jack Lessenberry of The (Toledo) Blade:For years, Michigan leaders have been concerned that the state was losing both money and brains. Last week, the Michigan Legislature did something designed to make both things worse. It repealed the law requiring motorcycle riders to wear helmets.The question is: Will the governor veto it?That vote came after hundreds of bikers roared around

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From the AP via The Decatur Daily:The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) national assembly has softened its 2-year-old policy on disinvesting in companies that do business with Israel and has shifted more strongly against late-term abortions.The new Mideast policy, approved Wednesday, says that regarding both Israel and Palestinian territory, church assets should "be invested in only peaceful pursuits.

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In one article, Steven Conn, an associate professor of history at Ohio State University manages to compare pro-life Americans to Hitler, Stalin, South American dictators, Islamic radicals and the Taliban.No intolerance there.

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An update from an earlier post.From The Cincinnati Enquirer:A judge ordered the Cincinnati Planned Parenthood Clinic on Wednesday to turn over all records for abortion patients under 18 to the lawyers for the family of a teen who had an abortion at the clinic.Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Patrick Dinkelacker's decision is believed to be only the second time a Planned Parenthood clinic has

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First the Episcopalians, now the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) (continues to) go goofy.From the AP via The Plain Dealer:The divine Trinity -- "Father, Son and Holy Spirit" -- could also be known as "Mother, Child and Womb" or "Rock, Redeemer, Friend" at some Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) services under an action Monday by the church's national assembly.Delegates to the meeting voted to "receive" a

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The People's Republic of Maryland persecutes those who fail to tow the line for the radical gay agenda -- and a Republican has joined in.From The Baltimore Sun:Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. fired one of his appointees to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority yesterday after the board member asserted on a local cable talk show that homosexuals lived a life of "sexual deviancy."The

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From Reuters:Newly elected leader of the U.S. Episcopal Church Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said on Monday she believed homosexuality was no sin and homosexuals were created by God to love people of the same gender.Asked how she reconciled her position on homosexuality with specific passages in the Bible declaring sexual relations between men an abomination, Jefferts Schori said the Bible was

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From The (Canton) Repository:A friend of mine is married to a doctor who also performs abortions. Recently, their 9-year-old son heard a word whose meaning he didn't know and asked, "What is an abortion?" His mother, choosing words carefully, described the procedure in simple terms."But," said her son, "that means killing the baby." The mother explained that there are certain months during which

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The question of "life" is The Question of the 20th century. Race and poverty are dimensions of the life question, but discussions about abortion have brought the issue into focus in a much sharper way.How we will respect and understand the nature of life itself is the over-riding moral issue, not of the Black race, but of the human race.The question of abortion confronts me in several different

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From The Washington Prowler:Okay, Google says it has a problem coming up with an interesting way to highlight Memorial Day on its site. So why can't they do something on Flag Day? Is that so hard? We think not. We hear that several Washington-based Google lobbying consultants suggested that Google do something for today, but that it was poo-pooed by corporate higher-ups out in California. Is it

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By Jeffrey Lord in The American Spectator:The book reviewers were absolutely hostile, enraged at what they read."The book is one which has the glow and appeal of a fiery cross on a hillside at night. There will undoubtedly be robed figures who gather to it, but the hoods will not be academic. They will cover the face," snarled one, ominously comparing it to a work of the Ku Klux Klan. "This

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Your attention please, a soldier has given his life for your freedom.From The Plain Dealer:The Police Department is mourning the loss of a police officer killed in action in Iraq on Thursday as he served in the Ohio National Guard.Sgt. 1st Class Daniel Crabtree, 31, of Green was serving in the Guard's 2nd Battalion, 19th Special Forces Group, according to a statement released Friday by Cuyahoga

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Colin McNickle of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review had the best response to one of the most foolish of the supporters of taxation without respiration:Washington Post columnist Sebastian Mallaby called a death tax repeal a "reward for the hereditary elite.""The estate tax, like a cigarette tax or a carbon tax, is a tool for reducing a socially damaging phenomenon," he says.What, personal industry?A

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Here:During the primaries, Howard Dean began goading the press to talk about religion but, after claiming the Book of Job was his favorite book in the Bible, was unable to place it in the correct Testament. Regular Talmudic scholars, these Democrats.Throughout the 2004 campaign, the Democrats were looking for a Democrat who believed in God -- a pursuit similar to a woman searching for a boyfriend

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Townhall.com liberally reprints part of Chapter One: On the Seventh Day, God Rested and Liberals Schemed.It's Ann at her best:Liberals hate science and react badly to it. They will literally run from the room, lightheaded and nauseated, when told of data that might suggest that the sexes have different abilities in math and science. They repudiate science when it contradicts their pagan beliefs -

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Posted, without comment (hey, you know who you are)From John McCaslin in his Inside the Beltway column (scroll down):Capitol Hill staffers are laughing at circulating phony legislation that somebody, somewhere dreamed up: The Americans With No Abilities Act.The prankster even affixed the sponsorship of Democratic Sens. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Barbara Boxer of California to the act,

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From a column by the Cincinnati Enquirer's Peter Bronson:A hearing in a Hamilton County courtroom May 24 was like so many others: lawyers twisted common sense into pretzel arguments, stretching everyone's patience thinner than last month's paycheck.It could be just another endless chess match in civil court. Or maybe it will put Cincinnati on the map in a national battle over access to abortion

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From the Dayton Daily News:Former Reds pitcher and semi-retired announcer Joe Nuxhall was released from Mercy Hospital Fairfield on Monday afternoon. And if his father is strong enough, Kim Nuxhall said he could be back to playing golf this morning."He's a happy guy," Kim Nuxhall said. "He said he enjoyed his weekend there.'"The 77-year-old Hamilton native and Fairfield resident was admitted to

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All from National Review Online.Made me think of a better interjection: D'oh!A Jay Nordlinger Impromptu...Was quite interested in a story about the Chinese community in Havana. Here is a taste: "Many Chinese immigrants arrived on the island after fleeing communism and economic difficulties in China in the late 1940s and 1950s, building a bustling merchant and agricultural class before their

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It appears so.From The Washington Times:The long-fought Senate immigration bill that opponents say grants amnesty to 10 million illegal aliens is unconstitutional and appears headed for certain demise, Senate Republicans now say.A key feature of the Senate bill is that it would make illegals pay back taxes before applying for citizenship, a requirement that supporters say will raise billions of

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From the AP via The (Toledo) Blade:Kimberly Dozier, the CBS reporter wounded by a car bomb in Iraq, now has a Purple Heart at her bedside in a U.S. military hospital in Germany after a young American soldier gave her his medal, the network said.Dozier, 39, was seriously injured in a blast Monday while covering a story on Memorial Day in Iraq. Her camera crew, Britons Paul Douglas and James Brolan

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From the AP via The (Toledo) Blade:A state-appointed commission is urging North Carolina to provide reparations for the 1898 racial violence that sparked an exodus of more than 2,000 black residents from Wilmington.The 500-page report that was produced after six years of study also said the violence, which killed as many as 60 people, was not a spontaneous riot but rather the nation's only

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108 years later!From ONN:A tax on telephone service that has been in place for more than 100 years is being dropped by the federal government.The Internal Revenue Service announced Wednesday that it will stop collecting the federal excise tax on long-distance telephone service.First imposed in 1898 to help cover the governments cost of the Spanish-American War, the current rate for the excise tax

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