Month: May 2023

Comment on this storycomment LOVELAND, Ohio – For the past few weeks, people have been canvassing Ohio to collect signatures for a November ballot proposal that codify the right to abortion in the state constitution. I take our dog for a walk on a popular walking and biking trail where signature gatherers have, for two or three days a week, staked out a spot near a busy side street with shops and restaurants. A petitioner came up to me early on and asked, “Do you want to sign the petition to protect the choice?” I smiled and replied, “I’m pro-life….

I’m not looking to start beefs for the sake of starting beefs, but the mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, Quentin Lucas, wrote a couple of tweets the other week that bothered me. “Over the past few days, you may have noticed that certain candidates across the state have begun posting nasty attacks on large swaths of Missourians — typically black people, women, LGBTQ+ people, and the millions of us in Kansas City and St. . Louis. My advice: don’t commit,” he wrote the first messagepublished on May 22. He concluded through writing: “The attacks are performative, whether to hide a…

Comment on this storycomment If 2016 was the most important election of our lives, 2024 is shaping up to be the most daunting. It looks like we’re headed for a rematch between Joe Biden and Donald Trump that almost no one, except the candidates, wants. In an April NBC poll, nearly two-thirds of voters said they didn’t think Trump should run for president again, and more than two-thirds said the same about Biden, largely because they think he’s too old. How did a once great nation end up facing an election between two very old and very unpopular white people?…

A man in his 30s was killed in a terrorist attack near the northern West Bank settlement of Hermesh, the IDF said on Tuesday. The Israeli was initially seriously wounded in the attack, Magen David Adom said as his paramedics treated the man, who suffered gunshot wounds to the chest and shoulders, at the scene along with medical personnel from FDI He was rushed to Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera in serious condition before he was pronounced dead. Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said early Tuesday afternoon that he had received a security update on the situation and would hold…

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is investigating a suspected carjacking at Lane Avenue and Manotak Avenue. >>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE

Covid inquiry extends deadline to produce Johnson’s evidence The Consult Covid-19 has extended the deadline for the submission of evidence, amid an ongoing tug-of-war over whether Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages and notebooks will be delivered to you. The previous deadline had been 4pm today, but following a request to postpone it by a week to June 5, the chairman of the inquiry has granted a “short extension” until 4pm on Thursday. The Cabinet Office has so far refused to hand over the documents. The notice published on Tuesday said the Cabinet Office has claimed it does not have the documents….

The Watergate break-in and subsequent unraveling of Richard Nixon’s presidency had a profound impact on American politics, and an even greater impact on American filmmaking. Watergate popped the balloon of American exceptionalism—the idea that American politics was purer than anyone else’s. In doing so, it spawned a new genre of conspiracy thriller: neurotic blockbusters like The Parallax View and The Conversation. Ironically, the real Watergate scandal was more of a free farce than a dagger in the heart of democracy. The black ops team that was spying on Nixon’s opponents hired a locksmith who couldn’t pick locks and then installed…

One might also consider the constitution’s position on public money allocated to non-public schools with religious ties: “No religious or other sect, or sect, shall ever have any exclusive right or control over any part of the school funds thereof. state.” That went out the window years ago. Meanwhile, Republican leaders in the General Assembly have consolidated their power by drawing GOP-leaning districts for the Ohio House of Representatives and the Ohio Senate, then challenging the Ohio Supreme Court on the issue. And to make majority rule even less likely in Columbus, Statehouse Republicans want to make it harder to…