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Few things make me more upset than “journalists” who have no knowledge of the facts of a story, write about it or get on television, answering phantom questions about hypoteticals. Then the anchor or host treats their answers like they relate to the story at hand. Then they guide the reader or listener through [...]

I was listening to NPR on WMUB this morning about the freshman Ohio senators starting their terms and how hard their jobs will be dealing with the State having a $1.9 billion budget deficit, GM, Delphi, DHL and other large companies pulling out of Ohio and various other things.
Many of the in-coming senators went [...]

I collect newspaper clippings for blog ideas. Mostly, the articles are things that sent my blood pressure over the edge or got me wondering “what if it were different” or just things that make me go “hmmmmmmmmmm..”
These clippings sit on my desk, tugging at me to write a blog post about them. But there [...]

I don’t really have an opinion about the Blagojevich thing other than the following:
Blagojevich IS the elected governor of Illinois
In America, you are innocent until proven guilty, even if they have tapes of you admitting a crime. Ask Rodney King
The Illinois state constitution gives the governor, not the legislature or the voters, the power to [...]

According to the Wall Street Journal, U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel paid $57,500 from a campaign account to a Web-design company owned by his son over two years, paying more for Internet services than any other House member during the same period, according to federal records.
My first thought was that perhaps the web site was worth [...]

In a Huffington Post article today, Steven Shehori wrote a satirical piece, claiming that 37% of Americans could not locate America on a map of the United States of America. In it, he writes a quote:
Shirley Matheson, a part-time Arby’s employee residing in Dayton, Ohio, agreed with Weiss’s assessment. “I live in the U.S.A., so [...]

Dear President-elect Barack Obama;
I am a small business owner. I do quite well for myself as I am in a knowledge-based business servicing the youth sporting market and the retail services industries. I also dabble a bit in coffee and Web 2.0 consulting.
I was running some numbers this afternoon on the bail-out plans that [...]

I grew up Catholic.
One of the things you learn very early on is this earthly life is a test of your faith for a reward of either heaven and eternal life or hell and eternal damnation. Life here is supposed to be hard, we are supposed to feel pain because these trials are [...]

Yesterday, I read a tweet from a young someone I’m following who had jury duty. She tweeted:
The judge just told us we are not allowed to create a blog about the trial. The geezers in the room laughed. I twittered it our.
My first reaction was annoyance with the blatant disregard of the judge’s order (yes, [...]

I’ve been watching and listening to all this bail-out talk over the past couple months and have come to a singular conclusion, regardless of which industry we’re talking about. All the bail-out money is attempting to do is to preserve a status quo and not really fix any underlying cause of any of this. Like [...]

In the 1968 film adaptation of Ian Fleming’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: The Magical Car, there is a scene where the Baron of Vulgaria steals Chitty, kidnaps Grandpa and assembles all the smart guys of the kingdom to make the car fly. It is reasoned that if they just kinda disassemble the car, examine every piece of hardware, then [...]

Wow, win the presidential election, promise your kids on national television in front of 71 million viewers that they will get a new puppy and the press EXPLODES with puppy dog stories.
Rufus reported this way back in March when he posted a story about Sam Zell, when one of his reporters declared “all Americans care [...]

Sure, Barack Obama is African-American and yes, he is the first black president of the United States of America and that is historic. But, he is also a really smart man who knows how to inspire greatness in others and instill dreams that people act on instead of just wishing and praying.
Obama was elected because [...]

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The family down the street flies the flag every day, even puts a light on it at night and takes it in during the rain. At Christmas time, they decorate their house with a large Nativity star, a manger set and a large sign that reads “Jesus is the Reason for the Season.”
It makes [...]

This was outside my polling place in Ohio. Notice that the McCain/Palin sign is as close as the law allows. Clearly, the letter of the law is being invoked, but not the spirit. I’m pretty certain that an over-eager supporter put this there, but this really is not helping put your candidate in the best [...]

I was reading an interview of Sarah Palin by Kimberley Strassel that appeared in the November 1 WSJ. I got a few paragraphs into the interview and was stopped cold by the following paragraph.
The tasks of “fixing” Washington and “shaping up” the GOP are no small things, whether from inside the West Wing, or depending [...]

First, just watch the video. All the way to the end.

I know Alaska is part of these United States, but how ignorant of racism is Sarah Palin? It is almost as surreal to watch as John McCain singing “bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran” to a Beach Boys tune! Before she can lead America, she [...]