AUSTIN, Texas — The twin revelations of the IRS targeting conservative political organizations and, now, that the U.S. Justice Department was spying on The Associated Press — all in a few days — mean this: It is time to air the dirty laundry of this administration’s intelligence and surveillance programs — and it is way past time for heads to roll in Washington.
posted: May 17
Well, this is a fine mess.
I dread being the bearer of bad news, especially in an uncertain economy, questionable employment gains and high allergen levels, but here it goes: Jell-O salad is dead.
“He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to … cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.”
I’m not altogether certain I should be making this announcement. It could be construed as bragging or, at the very least, taunting. It may well lead to a glut of unwanted phone calls from neighbors seeking my expert counsel. At the worst, it might make some of the fellows out there feel a bit, well, inferior.
Highly doubtful
Skulking around Capitol Hill last week, I detected some unease among Republicans, even though they are a hefty majority in the U.S. House.
While the concept of viewing a fixed image dates back to Aristotle, and there is some disagreement among scholars as to who should be credited for being the first to recognize the practice of saving someone’s image, finding the person responsible for making the first commercial camera is a whole lot easier.
John Kasich now must know how Barack Obama frequently feels. Republican lawmakers just won’t take yes for an answer.
The beloved marble lions that flank the entrance to the New York Public Library were called " monstrosities" when they appeared in 1911.
Many of you remember the napkin story.
History is one of our greatest teachers.
WASHINGTON — Enough with this “enough” business.
If you need help deciding why you’re grateful this Mother’s Day, try spending four days without a mother in the house.
WASHINGTON — Mistakes were made.
The future of the Republican Party is much in the news. Should the GOP (a) become more supportive of “open and avowed” homosexuals and homosexual “marriage,” and/or (b) appeal more thoughtfully and articulately to racial minorities, and/or (c) place social issues in some near-invisible tier of irrelevance and focus, instead, on economic growth? These are but three of the options under discussion by a gleeful commentariat and furrow-browed Republican “strategists” (a Republican “strategist” often is someone who had a good idea in about 1985, got a reputation for it, and has lived off it without saying anything compelling or doing anything noteworthy since). Demographics, ideological shifts, public perceptions, how much money is raised and how much is spent, and the like are all important questions. But the most salient question should be: Why does a political party exist in the first place?
WASHINGTON — Bob Dole tries to go to work every day. On this particular spring morning, ew in his law firm office, he wore a crisp white shirt with a pen in his pocket and a blue necktie festooned with tiny American flags.
WASHINGTON — Enough with this “enough” business.
As Ohio’s treasurer and watchdog of Ohioans’ hard-earned dollars, I am proud to stand up to support sanity and fiscal responsibility in state and local government. That’s why I urge the Ohio legislature to pass House Bill 5 in order to simplify Ohio’s municipal income-tax system.
NEW YORK — “There is no video that justifies an attack on an embassy,” Obama told the United Nations last September 25. A fortnight after the deadly attack on America’s mission in Benghazi, Libya, Obama surely knew that an al-Qaeda-propelled assault, not a YouTube recording, killed U.S. ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, Foreign Service officer Sean Smith, and former Navy SEALs Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods.
Video surveillance cameras have been growing in popularity for years, but in recent weeks their advance has gotten a turbo boost. After helping to identify two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, they went from occasionally desirable to universally vital.
I received a great Mother's Day gift last year. We were just about to cut into a beautiful cake topped with mounds of fresh strawberries, raspberries and blackberries, when our son rounded the corner into the kitchen. He looked at me with a straight face, said, "Happy Mother's Day," and handed me an old brown dustpan that has to be at least 45 years old.
WASHINGTON — Thirty-one months ago Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell affronted the media and other custodians of propriety by saying something common-sensical. On Oct. 23, 2010, he said: “The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.” He meant that America needed conservative change from the statist course of Obama’s presidency (the stimulus, Obamacare, etc.), therefore America needed a president who would not veto such change.
TIFFIN, Ohio _ The Sisters and Associates of St. Francis in Tiffin, Ohio, do not approve of detention beds being used for immigrants held at the Seneca County Jail.
Be forewarned, what you are about to read is a shameless promotion. It is presented with considerable bias by a writer with more than a bit of skin in the game. The bias, in this particular instance, is exceptionally egregious, as the skin in question is the author’s daughter and a group of her friends, of whom he is shamelessly fond.
“Jason Collins proves that bravery takes many forms,” wrote the Washington Post’s Sally Jenkins.”
Texas mom Kara Sands was outraged when she learned that her 5th grade son was being taught that the United States was partially to blame for the 9/11 terrorist attacks which killed nearly 3,000 Americans. She was so furious that she posted photos on Facebook of the test administered to her son’s class at Flour Bluff Intermediate School in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Like many of you, I get publications from the universities from which I graduated. In my case, that would be Miami University and the University of Dayton.
WASHINGTON — They lost me at the word “women.”
One of the things that politicians do well is read polls. No matter what their IQ, lawmakers have a knack for figuring out what will play well with the American voters.
There is a beautiful song, “From Clare to Here,” sung by Nanci Griffith. You may know it.
A few thoughts on Tuesday’s election …
This is a tale that would bring a smile to the face of Josef Mengele, Adolf Hitler and Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger: the true story of a black abortionist making a fortune killing black babies — and occasionally a black mother — in the filthiest conditions imaginable.
Whenever you meet someone new, it’s common for them to ask for whom you work.
It has been three years since a drug raid on an abortion clinic in Philadelphia uncovered a house of horrors disguised as an abortion clinic.
Factual information is needed for voting on the May 7th school levy. Unfortunately, I’ve seen little of it.
I am proud of the excellent work that Elida students and teachers do every day, supported by volunteers, booster groups, support staff, and community groups. Elida schools continue to make improvements each year academically, despite the ever-changing “targets” established by the state. Our high school has been rated excellent eight of the last 10 years. The middle school has been rated excellent seven of the last 10 years, twice rated excellent with distinction. Three of the last five years, the district has been rated excellent.
I am proud of the excellent work that Elida students and teachers do every day, supported by volunteers, booster groups, support staff, and community groups. Elida schools continue to make improvements each year academically, despite the ever-changing “targets” established by the state. Our high school has been rated excellent eight of the last 10 years. The middle school has been rated excellent seven of the last 10 years, twice rated excellent with distinction. Three of the last five years, the district has been rated excellent.
In a little more than a week , we will be celebrating Mother's Day once again. When you realize and think about that day, the title of Mother's Day just doesn’t seem big enough, complete enough or whole enough.
While it is not possible to answer all the e-mails and letters from readers, many are thought-provoking, whether those thoughts are positive or negative.
My buddy Bill called Monday to grouse about the challenges of raising his 7-year-old son. In the process of his complaining about short attention spans, long snow days and the high cost of keeping up with the high cost of keeping up, he finally got around to asking my advice.
Spring, summer, fall, winter, spring, summer, fall, election.
What sort of person worries that a man accused of bombing hundreds of innocent civilians is being treated unfairly, or questions whether law enforcement police interrogators are trampling his constitutional rights?
During my salad years, there was never a thought that at any point in my life I would be expected to endure something this invasive. Yet, as soon as enough calendar pages fly away in the wind as they do in one of the oldest of transitional devices to indicate the passage of cinematic time, I get the letter from the good folks at the Gastro-Intestinal Associates telling me it’s time again for a colonoscopy.
The oil boom that transformed Lima and its region more than a century ago is mirrored today in Ohio communities less than 200 miles to the east. New technologies for finding and extracting natural gas and crude oil from deep shale deposits have made much of eastern Ohio ground zero for the largest national energy boom in decades. As a result, the world’s largest energy corporations are rushing in to drill Ohio’s energy wealth and pipeline it to global markets. While much of Ohio and the nation will experience short-run benefits from this energy “gold rush,” we should also prepare for some unintended consequences.
Seconds seemed like minutes as Matt Parrish and his wife, Kristine, realized that it was the sound of gunfire that had awakened them from a sound sleep at 1 ’o clock in the morning.
After the Senate rejected a bill expanding background checks for gun buyers on April 17, President Barack Obama claimed “there were no coherent arguments” against it. But in fact, the bill’s opponents argued, coherently and persuasively, that background checks are not an effective way to stop criminals from obtaining weapons.
Ordinarily, I’d thank you for writing.
My 5-year-old raised her voice from the back seat of my car.
The American liberty movement, with little argument, was pretty much born and nurtured in the environs of Boston. And that is apparently where it died.
WASHINGTON — In a reprieve from the horror of the most recent terrorist attack, the nation’s attentions turned to the man who declared the war on terrorism, George W. Bush.
A little battered and bruised, Ohio Senate President Keith Faber can take solace today knowing what often matters the most is the final score, not so much how you got there.
Ah, too bad:
A little battered and bruised, Ohio Senate President Keith Faber can take solace today knowing what often matters the most is the final score, not so much how you got there.
As former President George W. Bush, joined by President Obama and three living former presidents, dedicates his library this week in Dallas, it’s important to remember that presidential libraries are relatively new. In 1941, while he was still in office, Franklin D. Roosevelt established the first such archive in Hyde Park, N.Y., to preserve personal papers and mementos from his time in office. His successor, Harry Truman, signed the Presidential Libraries Act into law, authorizing the National Archives to help set up and operate these treasure troves of American politics and policy.
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