Why Do We Have To Choose Between Privacy Or Security?
If you aren't doing anything wrong then this should not be a problem, right? The media coverage over what National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden did, by publicly revealing the large...
View ArticleWhy Can't We Drug Test Welfare Recipients? I Got Tested For My Job
Friends of mine who are somewhat liberal ask me, Why can't we drug test welfare recipients? I got tested for my job. It's true, many people are tested for drug use before being employed. Even the...
View ArticleBad Journalism About The Affordable Care Act Trickling Down To My Local Station
The problems with the national Healthcare.gov website have been reported quite a bit by a national media that loves to parrot Republican talking points. I really hoped that the bias in the reporting...
View ArticleBefore Obamacare The Health Care System Worked?
Good Oral Health Is Important One of the old tropes used by the GOP and their complaint corporate media drones is that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will 'destroy' a health care system that we were...
View ArticleMy Free School Lunch Horror Story
After reading the story about Rep. Paul Ryan's false 'no free school lunch' story he told at CPAC and the general feeling among conservatives that kids need to work for their free lunches, I wanted to...
View ArticleGov. Kasich Campaign Ad Tries To Make You Forget Anti-Union Law He Supported
Lieutenant Steve - brainwashed police officer Ohio Governor John Kasich has been batting a thousand for ridiculous campaign ads so far this election season. My current favorite is titled 'He Listened'...
View ArticleCatholic Group Plans To Move Same-Sex Marriage Debate To School Districts
An evangelical Catholic group asked central Ohio Catholics to change the argument against same-sex marriage to 'a child-focused civil institution that unites children with their mothers and fathers.'...
View ArticleUS Army Recruiting Station Goes Rogue
One of my Facebook friends posted a meme the other day that caught my eye. It wasn't so much the content of the picture but who originally posted it. It seems a US Army recruiting station in Washington...
View ArticleOhio Press Group Says We Deserve Better Political Reporting
I found an interesting guest column in my local paper the other day from Dennis Hetzel, who is executive director of the Ohio Newspaper Association and president of the Ohio Coalition for Open...
View ArticleA $15 An Hour Minimum Wage Would Help All Of Us
A meme showed up in my Facebook feed the other day that tried to undermine the movement to raise the minimum wage to $15 and hour by comparing 'burger flipping' with a 'real job' as if that proved the...
View ArticleStop Scapegoating The Poor, Please!
Once again a politician, setting themselves up for higher office, goes to the 'kick a poor person' playbook to build some conservative cred. Ohio Auditor Dave Yost, who likes to kick things...
View ArticleThere Is No Compromise On Civil Rights If You Want My Vote
Democrat Heath Mello, running for Mayor of Omaha, NE is not a progressive Sometimes I dislike people who focus on one single issue to decide if they will vote for a particular candidate. For example...
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