A new Republican-backed bill is being considered that would dramatically undo a major and controversial education initiative that was supported and signed by former Gov. John Kasich. In 2015, Ohio was facing an epidemic of failing schools. An Ohio Department of Education report for 2014-2015 found that only six of the…
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Christian Employers Alliance to Launch First State Chapter in Ohio
The Christian Employers Alliance (CEA) announced Saturday that it will launch its first state-level chapter in Ohio after a kick-off event scheduled for May 6. The organization was founded when the Little Sisters of the Poor and other religious organizations were forced to defend their freedom of faith and…
Read MoreCommentary: Once Again, a Liberal Activist Judge Is Halting a Sensible Immigration Policy
If you look up the phrase “activist judge” in the liberal lexicon, one of the names that will no doubt appear at the top of the list is Richard Seeborg, a federal district court judge in San Francisco appointed by President Barack Obama. Earlier this month, Seeborg issued a nationwide…
Read MoreRoger Stone Asks Judge to Dismiss Case, Wants Unredacted Copy of Mueller Report
by Chuck Ross Roger Stone is calling on a federal judge to dismiss charges against him stemming from special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, while also demanding an unredacted copy of the final report. Stone’s lawyers made the demands in a flurry of court motions filed on Friday, days…
Read MoreCommentary: Game of Thrones Might Be the Greatest Advertisement for Capitalism Ever Written
by Barry Brownstein Consider these numbers. The final season of Game of Thrones cost about $100 million to film. In 1300, the entire medieval English real GDP was only 40 million English pounds. Game of Thrones doesn’t hide the desperate poverty of common people living in a fantasy version…
Read MoreKim Says He’s Open to Third Summit With Trump
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un says he will give the U.S. until the end of the year to make a “courageous decision” on stalled nuclear talks, warning of “very bleak and very dangerous” consequences if Washington does not change its approach. Speaking to a session of North Korea’s rubber-stamp…
Read MoreDan Crenshaw Scolds Omar and Ocasio-Cortez for Their ‘Dishonest Attack’: ‘I’m The Guy Who Went Overseas’ After 9/11
by Molly Prince Republican Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw responded to Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota on Friday after the duo criticized him for taking offense to Omar’s description of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. “It’s terrorists who killed almost 3,000 Americans, we should…
Read MoreNotoriously Liberal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Sides With Trump on Immigration
by Kevin Daley The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily lifted an order suspending the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), a Trump administration policy that requires Central American asylum-seekers to remain in Mexico before their appearance in immigration court. Though the Friday evening stay is not indicative of the…
Read MoreUS House Panel Chairman Gives IRS April 23 Deadline on Trump Taxes
The Democratic chairman of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee on Saturday set a new April 23 deadline for the Internal Revenue Service to comply with his request for six years of President Donald Trump’s personal and business tax returns. In a letter to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig, Ways…
Read MoreFederal Judge Compares Trump to George Wallace and the KKK in Stunning Speech
by Kevin Daley A federal trial judge delivered a stunning rebuke of President Donald Trump on Thursday, comparing the president’s “assault on our judiciary” to the Ku Klux Klan and segregationist George Wallace. U.S. District Judge Carlton Wayne Reeves of the federal trial court in southern Mississippi launched those…
Read MoreCincinnati Mayor Silent on Trump’s Latest Sanctuary City Proposal
Cincinnati is one of two self-declared sanctuary municipalities in Ohio, but its mayor has been silent thus far on President Donald Trump’s latest immigration proposal. The Washington Post reported last week that Trump was reconsidering a plan to place migrants in sanctuary cities, such as Cincinnati and Franklin County. Trump…
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