Somebody call Hollywood. There’s a movie here: The inspector general’s report found that inmates “took two computers that should have been disassembled, placed hard drives into the compu...
https://moelane.com/2017/04/12/ohio-computers-network-prison-inmates/
Elections matter: “All three Planned Parenthood facilities in Ohio disposed of aborted fetuses in landfills, thereby violating state code, the attorney general announced Friday.” The atto...
https://moelane.com/2015/12/12/planned-parenthood-ohio-mike-dewine/
Personally, I’m not sure why. I mean. Ted Strickland? What would you do with a Ted Strickland, once you have one? Twenty-eight of Hillary Clinton’s top bundlers have donated to Ohio Democra...
https://moelane.com/2015/11/19/looks-like-hillary-clinton-is-buying-ted-strickland/
See if you can detect the not-very-hidden flaw in the Ohio redistricting proposal that passed last night: The current five-member redistricting panel, which includes the governor, secretary of st...
https://moelane.com/2015/11/04/ohio-redistricting-reform-will-not-actually-reform-anything/
The numbers are pretty entertaining: incumbent Rob Portman (R) raised almost eight million this year, with eleven million in the bank, while former governor Ted Strickland (D) raised about two an...
https://moelane.com/2015/10/19/ted-strickland-ohio-senate-fundraising/
I ask because Ohioan legislators are ‘fuming‘ over this: Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) said in a statement on his Facebook account that he was similarly “disappointed” in the decision to ren...
https://moelane.com/2015/08/31/ted-strickland-mt-mckinley-denali-ohio-chicken/
There’s an interesting – in the ‘Chinese curse’ sense of the term – thing happening in Ohio’s Democratic Senate primary. The not-really-short version is that national Democrats hav...
Come, I will conceal nothing from you: when I saw this tweet I said Gotta be an African American. No white Democrat would ever dare say this*. Ever. And then I clicked through, and lo! He was. ...
https://moelane.com/2015/07/29/bill-patmon-planned-parenthood-ohio-defund/
James Taranto drilled down on this, I think: I'm not sure what Republicans need in 2016 is someone who says things like "I don't know about you, lady…" http://t.co/zXnZMKxuGo — James Taranto ...
https://moelane.com/2015/06/21/john-kasich-did-himself-no-favors-with-his-medicaid-expansion-answer/
As well as using the Ohio Democratic party as the bagman. A former chief executive officer of the red-light camera company Redflex has pleaded guilty to bribing Columbus elected officials – in...
https://moelane.com/2015/06/19/red-light-cameras-ohio-democrats/
Such a pity… well, no. It’s not. But the proprieties must be observed: “Former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland will seek to challenge Republican Sen. Rob Portman next year, launching what cou...
https://moelane.com/2015/02/25/ohio-senate-rob-portman-ted-strickland-senate/
This is not a euphemism. Thank you for sending me a copy of David Cole’s video . Mr. Cole has obviously invested a great deal in researching his subject and I admire his tenacious curiosity. ...
https://moelane.com/2014/10/03/marcy-kaptur-holocaust-denial-ohio-oh-09/
This call is justified, I think. The New York Times: Just five weeks before Election Day, Ohio Democrats have descended into recriminations… Yeah, there’s no need to write anything further. ...
https://moelane.com/2014/09/28/quote-of-the-day-doom-in-ohio-gov-edition/
(via @baseballcrank) It is, of course, too early for a DOOM call itself. But this is one of the warning signs: Top employees are preparing to leave Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ed FitzGeral...
https://moelane.com/2014/08/18/doom-ed-fitzgerald-ohio-john-kasich/
No, really. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ed FitzGerald indicated Tuesday that he is staying in the race despite the latest revelation that he drove without a valid driver’s license for y...
Wait, what? I almost don’t want to write about this. Ed FitzGerald, the Democrat running against Gov. John Kasich, is somehow less well known today than he was a few months ago. A Quinnipiac U...
https://moelane.com/2014/07/31/ohio-ed-fitzgerald-john-kasich-elections/
Background: the Federal Trade Commission got a bug up ah, decided that some boilerplate, non-binding, non-enforceable language in the Music Teachers National Association (a small nonprofit out of...
Jammie Wearing Fools sums the situation up nicely: …blithering idiot Joe Biden last night declared he was going to say something outrageous and followed through in his inimitable style by calli...
https://moelane.com/2013/09/13/charlie-wilson-democrats-ohio-joe-biden-vawa-wife-beater/
Yeah I suspect that this is not going to be actually hard to do. The murder case prosecutors hope to bring against accused Cleveland abductor Ariel Castro, who police say induced several miscarri...
https://moelane.com/2013/05/12/ariel-castro-ohio-death-penalty-fetal-homicide/
In case you were wondering whether the Kermit Gosnell case was making a lick of difference: The state is shutting down an abortion provider in Cuyahoga Falls. The Ohio Department of Health recent...
Also… NAME! THAT! PARTY!!!!! For the record: civics instruction, Democrats? She admitted voting twice in the presidential election last November, and now, Obama supporter Melowese Richardson ha...
Interesting tax reform plan coming out of Ohio from Governor John Kasich: The plan’s centerpiece is a 20% cut over three years in all of the state’s nine income tax rates. The top rate would ...
Oh, this is entertaining: On FNS, David Axelrod Has No Response To OH Early Vote Numbers youtube.com/watch?v=Hrsbm-… — Kirsten Kukowski (@kakukowski) November 4, 2012 For those without video:...
https://moelane.com/2012/11/04/tweetyoutube-of-the-day-chris-wallace-makes-axelrod-squirm-edition/
…exercise in Dear God, but these people are nuts. I’ll give this guy the 1 Billion dollar thing – then again, nobody really expected Obama was going to be outspent – and the stuff about t...
https://moelane.com/2012/11/03/so-im-going-through-my-spam-filters-and-i-find-this/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ShdiYQ1EHvA From those who missed it: the commercial is cut from two rallies yesterday: The Republican nominee — who addressed a crowd app...
https://moelane.com/2012/11/03/new-romney-ad-revenge-or-love-of-country/