Not National News: Significant Non-Citizen Voting Found in Fla. Two Days After Tampa Editorial Says It’s ‘Nonexistent’
In what is apparently completely unimportant news to just about everyone except NBC2 in Southwest Florida and Andrew Breitbart, numerous instances of illegal voting by non-citizens have been uncovered. Projecting the problems across the state and the rest of the nation would seem to indicate that many thousands of people who are registered to vote [...] Read more...
BizzyBlog, Yesterday, 11:25pm
Breaking: ORP Chair Kevin DeWine’s Proposal Passes by a One Vote Simple Majority
A related post is at the PJ Tatler. Just heard this from BizzyBlog’s Rose. I thought that the proposal required a two-thirds majority, but apparently not. I am told that the arguments in favor of the proposal to exclude from State Central Committee membership anyonewho hasn’t voted in the past three statewide primaries (2008, 2010, [...] Read more...
BizzyBlog, Yesterday, 2:13pm
Latest PJ Media Column (‘State GOP Establishments Attack Their Base’) Is Up
It’s here. It will go up here at BizzyBlog on Sunday (link won’t work until then) after the blackout expires. The State Central Committee where Kevin DeWine’s proposal to change eligibility requirements for SCC membership mentioned in the column and a couple of times previously at BizzyBlog (here and here) is today. Rumors of phone-attendance [...] Read more...
BizzyBlog, Yesterday, 11:15am
ISM January Indices: A Strong Month
The Institute For Supply Management’s Manufacturing Index, released on Wednesday, increased to 54.1% in January from a revised (due to adjustments of seasonal factors) 53.1%. Any reading about 50% indicates expansion. ISM’s Non Manufacturing Index released today increased bigtime to 56.8% in January from a revised 53.0%. Both readings significantly exceeded expectations. Positive results are [...] Read more...
BizzyBlog, Yesterday, 10:52am
The January 2012 Employment Situation Summary (020312): Unemployment at 8.3%, 243K Seasonally Adjusted Job Adds (See Updates)
From the Bureau of Labor Statistics (bolds are mine): Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 243,000 in January, and the unemployment rate decreased to 8.3 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job growth was widespread in the private sector, with large employment gains in professional and business services, leisure and hospitality, and [...] Read more...
BizzyBlog, Yesterday, 8:45am
Friday Off-Topic (Moderated) Open Thread (020312)
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BizzyBlog, Yesterday, 7:15am
Positivity: Lessons from Cancer — Love is divine
As posted at the Marysville (Missouri) Daily Forum: My focus on love these days has been catapulted to the highest reaches because of living with a terminal illness. Although I had a chance of cure when I was first diagnosed with cancer, that isn’t the case now, according to the doctors. So I’m going for [...] Read more...
BizzyBlog, Yesterday, 6:00am
Must See Reality TV
Tired of Jersey Shore, Real Housewives and want to see a documentary that will move your soul? Then you have until October 27, 2011 to see online the fabulous, heartbreaking story captured in 'Last Train Home': Read more...
Porkopolis, Yesterday, 12:46am
AP Lets Obama’s Untrue Critique of Romney As ‘Willing to Let (Auto) Industry Die’ Stand
On Tuesday, Ken Thomas of the Associated Press covered President Barack Obama’s appearance at the Washington Auto Show and allowed Obama’s criticism of Mitt Romney as being among those “willing to let this industry die” to stand, ignoring known history in the process. Obama’s statement marks him as a true ingrate, because for better or [...] Read more...
BizzyBlog, Feb 2, 10:00pm
More on State Employment: Looking at the Private Sector
Let’s compare the increase in private sector employment in states with Republican vs. Democratic governors, right to work and non-right to work states, and the various combinations of the two: Everything is as expected except perhaps the Democrat-RTW category, which only has two states, and was dragged down by the disaster in North Carolina known [...] Read more...
BizzyBlog, Feb 2, 4:30pm
Levin Takes Down Coulter on RomneyCare
Anyone who still doesn’t believe, as I have been demonstrating for well over a month (here, here, and here, for starters), that Ann Coulter hasn’t gone totally into the tank for Mitt Romney, abandoning all pretense of possessing anything resembling principles, needs to read her awful column yesterday. She spends her allotted verbiage dealing with [...] Read more...
BizzyBlog, Feb 2, 12:09pm
Unemployment Claims: 367K SA (378K With Consistently Applied Seasonal Factors)
From the Department of Labor: SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending January 28, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 367,000, a decrease of 12,000 from the previous week’s revised figure of 379,000. The 4-week moving average was 375,750, a decrease of 2,000 from the previous week’s revised average of 377,750. … [...] Read more...
BizzyBlog, Feb 2, 9:02am
Thursday Off-Topic (Moderated) Open Thread (020212)
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BizzyBlog, Feb 2, 7:15am
Positivity: Principal — Child’s river rescue part of the job
From Rochester, New Hampshire: Published Jan 28, 2012 at 3:00 am (Updated Jan 27, 2012) ROCHESTER — Gonic School Principal Gwen Rhodes said her rescue of a child from the Cocheco River on Wednesday morning was no more difficult than what educators do every day. Rhodes was quick to brush off terms like “hero” in [...] Read more...
BizzyBlog, Feb 2, 5:59am
Greenpeace Targets Ohio (and Virginia) Jobs
Greenpeace is now targeting jobs right here in Ohio (and Virginia too, but we'll get to that in a moment). You might be thinking just what does Mercury Paper and Asia Pulp and Paper Products has to do with jobs in Ohio (and Virginia), the connection is Kroger. Read more...
Weapons of Mass Discussion, Feb 2, 12:23am
Well, That Didn’t Take Long
Mitt Romney, this morning (HT Taranto at Best of the Web), in a statement which fits the “he’s trying to lose” theory: “I’m in this race because I care about Americans. I’m not concerned about the very poor–we have a safety net there,” he said Wednesday. “If it needs repair, I’ll fix it. I’m not [...] Read more...
BizzyBlog, Feb 1, 5:57pm
GOP-Governed and Right-To-Work States Saved the Economy’s Bacon in 2011
Blue and union-dominated states were mostly mediocre, or worse. Indiana has noticed. _____________________________________________ Note: This column went up at PJ Media and was teased here at BizzyBlog on Monday. _____________________________________________ The government’s State and Local Employment and Unemployment report for December released on Tuesday showed that many red states, including most of the “newly-reds” where Republican governors [...] Read more...
BizzyBlog, Feb 1, 1:30pm
Ohio’s Insurgent State Central Committee Slate (Updated)
I had the list which follows below forwarded to me this morning, along with an accompanying email, most of which I have excerpted (bolds are mine): Once again GOP Chairman Kevin DeWine is trying to manipulate the primary election to protect the GOP from Tea Party influence. Brietbart’s got it now We believe that this [...] Read more...
BizzyBlog, Feb 1, 9:20am
ADP Employment Report: +170K, December Revised Down 33K
From ADP, concerning private-sector employment growth: Employment in the U.S. nonfarm private business sector increased by 170,000 from December to January on a seasonally adjusted basis. The estimated advance in employment from November to December was revised down to 292,000 from the initially reported 325,000. Employment in the private, service-providing sector rose 152,000 in January, [...] Read more...
BizzyBlog, Feb 1, 8:45am
Wednesday Off-Topic (Moderated) Open Thread (020112)
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BizzyBlog, Feb 1, 7:15am
Positivity: Hero Rescues Woman From Submerged Car
From Redding California: POSTED: 9:15 am PST January 24, 2012 UPDATED: 9:31 am PST January 24, 2012 A Redding man is called a hero for rescuing a woman from a submerged vehicle. Police say Daniel Johnson saved the woman’s life. The car overturned in Onley Creek Sunday, with the driver was stuck inside and unable [...] Read more...
BizzyBlog, Feb 1, 5:58am
Prions and Long-term Memories
Making Memories Last: Prion-Like Protein Plays Key Role in Storing Long-Term Memories Read more...
Porkopolis, Feb 1, 12:23am
AP’s Borenstein Insists on Citing Guide to Year’s Coldest Days as Proof of Global Warming
Even when someone who helped prepare a new guide for gardeners on the coldest temperatures seen annually in different parts of the country says that their output doesn’t fit the global warming agenda, an AP reporter decides that it really does. In preparing his write-up last week on the release of the U.S. Department of [...] Read more...
BizzyBlog, Jan 31, 10:40pm
AP Headline For CBO’s Awful 10-Year Projections: ‘Deficit to Dip to $1.1T’
Oh joy. Today at the Associated Press, aka the Administration’s Press, in response to the Congressional Budget Office’s release today of an awful 10-year baseline outlook, Andrew Taylor made sure that his first paragraph was only about the projected “dip” in the fiscal 2012 deficit, and dedicated his second paragraph to the bad things that [...] Read more...
BizzyBlog, Jan 31, 9:56pm
IBD to Al Gore and the ‘Climate Change’ Movement: You’re Full of Globaloney
Okay, the folks at Investor’s Business Daily didn’t use those words in their Monday evening editorial. But they could have (bolds are mine): When Global Warming Freezes Over (browser window title: “The Data Show There’s Been No Warming For Over a Decade”) Global warming alarmists won’t give up their campaign to spread fear and backward thinking [...] Read more...
BizzyBlog, Jan 31, 7:40am
IBD to Al Gore and the ‘Climate Change’ Movement: You’re Full of Globaloney
Okay, the folks at Investor’s Business Daily didn’t use those words in their Monday evening editorial. But they could have (bolds are mine): When Global Warming Freezes Over (browser window title: “The Data Show There’s Been No Warming For Over a Decade”) Global warming alarmists won’t give up their campaign to spread fear and backward thinking [...] Read more...
BizzyBlog, Jan 31, 7:40am
Laffer: ‘Gingrich’s Tax Plan Beats Romney’s’
In the Wall Street Journal today (bolds are mine): Gingrich’s Tax Plan Beats Romney’s … the key is a good tax plan and the ability to implement it. Mr. Gingrich has a significantly better plan than does Mr. Romney, and he has twice before been instrumental in implementing a successful tax plan on a national [...] Read more...
BizzyBlog, Jan 31, 7:10am
Tuesday Off-Topic (Moderated) Open Thread (013112)
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BizzyBlog, Jan 31, 7:00am
Tuesday Off-Topic (Moderated) Open Thread (013112)
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BizzyBlog, Jan 31, 7:00am
Positivity: Lighthouse Pregnancy Center offers ‘true choice’ to women in need
From Denver: Jan 31, 2012 / 02:53 am Lighthouse Pregnancy Center hosted a dinner and auction on Jan. 26 to help raise the funds needed to open its doors as the first Catholic crisis pregnancy center in Denver, Colo. “Lighthouse brings together the community to provide education, outreach and services that will encourage and uphold [...] Read more...
BizzyBlog, Jan 31, 5:57am
River Days highlights
In case you didn't attend, the story of the 2006 River Days Parade was Commissioner candidate George Crumm. He had a massive showing - easily out numbering supporters of 16-year incumbent Skip Riffe. Plus, during the parade there was an airplane flying overhead towing a huge "Crumm for Commissioner" banner. In Scioto County, this is the campaign to watch. Read more...
projectlogic, Jan 31, 2:41am
Wulsin continues to ignore would-be constituents
Her campaign can't quit yapping about how they want to debate Jean Schmidt 24/7, yet Victoria Wulsin is still refusing to answer questions about malariotherapy. Now, her supporters are trying to make those questions go away - by deleting them. Read more...
projectlogic, Jan 31, 2:41am
Project Logic is limping back to life. Maybe.
For a number of reasons, this blog went silent a few months ago. To be fair, for the most part I went silent. Read more...
projectlogic, Jan 31, 2:41am
Wulsin should follow RAB, BSBs examples
I was just about to post an entry commending both Right Angle Blog and Buckeye State Blog for closing off their sites as a virtual "moment of silence" on September 11th... then I saw this in my email. Read more...
projectlogic, Jan 31, 2:41am
Is Ted Strickland anti-business?
From RedState's coverage of the first Blackwell-Strickland debate: Read more...
projectlogic, Jan 31, 2:41am
Shaq for Sheriff
can't believe this is true, but star basketball player, and one of the most intimidating men alive, Shaquille O'Neal, is running for County Sheriff in either Broward County or Orange County, FL. Here's the story from Politics1.com: Read more...
Viking Spirit, Jan 31, 12:45am
Chuck Norris Facts
I just came across these "Chuck Norris facts" through Google. I know this is a non-political post, but these things are so funny that I've gotta post them. Here are a few of my favorites: Read more...
Viking Spirit, Jan 31, 12:45am
Schmidt Scores High in Another Rating
Family Research Council Action and CitizenLink recently released their Vote Scorecard for the first session of the 112th Congress. FRC Action and CitizenLink scored numerous votes that were detrimental to the family. The new Scorecard details how members of Congress voted on pro-life and pro-family issues. In all, eight Senators and 46 Representatives had 100 percent, "True Blue" voting records in the scorecard. Read more...
Weapons of Mass Discussion, Jan 31, 12:28am
Dovilla Applauds Committee Passage of Public Corruption Legislation
Release: COLUMBUS—State Representative Mike Dovilla (R-Berea) applauded the committee passage of House Bill 323. Read more...
Weapons of Mass Discussion, Jan 31, 12:28am
Schmidt Earns Endorsement of Ohio Right to Life PAC
Brad Wenstrup says he is the true pro life conservative. Yet, he gave taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood, an organization accused of covering up child rape. Not very conservative, pro life, or pro family to me. But, Congresswoman Jean Schmidt has shown and earned high scores on these issues as well as endorsements. Ohio Right to Life PAC has endorsed Jean Schmidt: Read more...
Weapons of Mass Discussion, Jan 31, 12:28am
Rush: The GOP Establishment Believes That Romney Cannot Beat Obama
I learned quite a bit about a lot of people during the past week. Not much of it was encouraging. I learned that Mitt Romney and his acolytes are at least as treacherous as Team Obama, if not moreso. Their ability to tell lies without even a hint of remorse is really something. I also [...] Read more...
BizzyBlog, Jan 30, 8:55pm
Juan Williams Finds Racism in Candidates’ (and Others’?) Use of ‘Constitution’ and ‘Founding Fathers’
So a guy whose contract was terminated by NPR on a phony pretext for not toeing the liberal line enough, including writing a book (“Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America–and What We Can Do About It”) which indicted the modern civil-rights movement for, well, undermining Black [...] Read more...
BizzyBlog, Jan 30, 5:39pm
Latest PJ Media Column (‘GOP-Governed and Right-To-Work States Saved the Economy’s Bacon in 2011′) Is Up (Update: More Comparisons and Specific State Commentary)
It’s here. It will go up here at BizzyBlog on Wednesday (link won’t work until then) after the blackout expires. _________________________________ UPDATE: The column necessarily had to summarize matters a bit more than I would have liked. It’s worth digging a bit deeper to show the differences between right-to-work and other states, and GOP-governed and [...] Read more...
BizzyBlog, Jan 30, 9:35am
Monday Off-Topic (Moderated) Open Thread (013012)
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BizzyBlog, Jan 30, 7:15am
Positivity: Barstow woman walks for first time in 10 years
From Barstow, California: Terri Medina lost both legs due to diabetes, but fought to walk with the help of prosthetics January 29, 2012 9:04 AM Before coming to Rimrock Villa Convalescent Hospital last summer, Terri Medina spent her days sitting idly in a wheelchair. But today the 50-year-old former mortgage loan professional is doing something [...] Read more...
BizzyBlog, Jan 30, 7:00am