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It’s a shakedown. Trump is going after “enemy” law firms with relentless vengeance

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By way of executive orders, President Donald Trump has accused several of American’s largest and most prestigious law firms of substantial misconduct and is punishing them. The firms are left with a Sophie’s choice: either capitulate and strike a deal or risk losing their clients. It’s self-preservation versus standing up to an unprecedented threat to our […]

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Social Issues

Republicans want to tell us how to think

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The Republicans of yesterday wanted limited government. Today’s Republicans want to tell us how to think. President Trump is banning DEI because it forces “illegal and immoral discrimination programs, going by the name ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion.’” Based on what evidence? According to Franklin County Commissioner Kevin Boyce, DEI does not promote hiring on the

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Political Issues

Don’t be fooled by pants-on-fire lie

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Issue 1 on the November ballot will remove politicians from the business of drawing voting maps. In Ohio Senate President Matt Huffman’s view, Issue I is “gerrymandering at its finest.” The irony is striking. Huffman and Ohio’s Redistricting Commission disregarded seven orders from the Ohio Supreme Court to observe the constitutional mandate to draw maps

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Political Issues

Simply blaming Trump for lying is the easy way out

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No one seriously questions that our immigration system is broken, but even with plenty of legitimate reasons to support comprehensive reform, Donald Trump chooses to engage in fiction to gain votes. Why? Because lying works; voters don’t question what they hear. And, yes, Democrats also lie. It’s just that Trump has elevated lying to a

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Social Issues

War can’t be sanitized no matter how we try

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The Israeli goal of eliminating Hamas raises the question, is the war’s resulting civilian Palestinian death toll proportional, as the International Committee of the Red Cross puts it, “in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated?” More than 35,000 Palestinians have died in the Gaza war, roughly two-thirds of whom are women and children. I

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Political Issues

We can’t trust politicians to draw election maps

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We vote for our legislative representatives, but the reality is, they select the voters who put them in office. Sounds crazy, but it’s true. A group called Citizens Not Politicians is poised to bring real change to how state and congressional legislative districts are drawn in Ohio. Before explaining what’s coming, let’s take stock of

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Inequities in the Economy

Minimum wage debate has the wrong focus

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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno and his primary opponents all oppose raising the minimum wage. Both Moreno and Matt Dolan believe the minimum wage was never intended to be a living wage. Says who? Here’s what President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had to say about wages over 90 years ago: “It seems to me to be

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Gun Policy

  Permitless carry means more gun violence

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Bowling Green State University recently published a study concerning a law passed in June 2022 that permits citizens to carry firearms in public without a license. In the year since, we are told, there was “a significant decrease in crime incidents involving a firearm” in Ohio’s eight most populous cities. Gun zealots will surely herald

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Political Issues

When a politician has been in office too long

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Is there an age when politicians should leave public office? Looking at age, national leaders are out of sync with the people they represent. The median age in the U.S is 39 years. The median age of members in the U.S. House of Representatives is 58. Sixty-one representatives are 70 to 79 years old, and 11

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Political Issues, Social Issues

Ballot initiatives and walking the tightrope of politics and religion

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This post comes from my friend, Rev. Tim Ahrens, a strong advocate for social justice. In 1912, it was just called “The Initiative.” The Initiative represented the constitutional right of all Ohioans to shape fair and equitable laws through the ballot box of initiatives and referenda. The Ohio Progressive Republican League helped establish this constitutional

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