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Founder’s Harvest Ale is my favorite beer, and by far the best light/mid-weight IPA I have ever had – better even than the legendary Pliny T...

First question that comes to mind, is if the gas lobby's claims that the waste-water is safe are true, why doesn't PA dispose of it,...

When a politician, who is a public figure and not protected by the law the way private persons are, is his/her own undoing, as in Mr. Weiner...

One of my pet peeves is grocery chains buying State Liquor Licenses and moving the State Store inside their big-box store. Seems every time...

Two things struck me this morning… 1- Chanting crowds are chanting crowds the world over. Maybe we’re not as different as we like to think w...

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2011/04/19/kasich-100-days-bob-evans.html I'm beginning to believe Kasich is jus...

Are we seeing the advent of the culture/religion as an interntional special interest group? Or has it been this way all along? Does it make ...

... and we keep on keeping on with our master plan to indelibly mark our legacy as both the embodiment of national hubris and a living/actin...

"Merit assessment" of teachers opens up whole new horizons for abuse of power. What about the incompetent principal or dean or sch...

You are hearing a lot of Public vs. Private salary comparisons. Broad comparisons are not accurate, because the private sector has so many ...

After a little research and reading, I think I’ve done a complete about-face on public unions and collective bargaining. Here is what I thin...

The House has voted to let the Pentagon continue using taxpayer dollars to sponsor NASCAR race teams . By a 281-148 vote, lawmakers rejected...

There is a movement among Athens County "Friends" to pledge part of their incomes to increased taxes. http://www.athensnews.com/oh...

The "revolution" most often goes like this: -groundswell for "democracy" erupts, driven by several different sources wit...

http://www.npr.org/2011/01/28/133249970/loss-of-solar-jobs-has-mass-rethinking-state-aid Uhhhh... guvmint stupid. Not read fine print. But p...

People have less money to spend, so they are spending less; and with less spending, the economy is having a difficult time getting back on...

"If They Bring a Knife to the Fight, We Bring a Gun" - Barack Obama Both sides seem to be trying to "establish a narrative...

With the release of the info that China may support a combined N+S Korea, under South rule, WikiLeaks may have brought the North closer to i...

I don't believe the TSA body scans and increased security is necessarily a reaction to terrorism, although it is being marketed as such ...

Now I realize that I function best as critic and pitchfork wielder -- and it's more fun than actually solving the problems. But I keep...

I cannot understand, and dare not imagine, the desperate straits that about half of our country finds itself in: that through collective ign...

Subject to revision, I hope. Funeral Songs Elegy -Bruce Cockburn Flying Red Horse -John Gorka You’re On Your Way -John Gorka Love Is Our Cro...

Anonymous poster to HuffPost: "Islam is a RELIGION...as such, it is fair game for criticism, lampoon, ridicule, analysis, as is any oth...

This is what I believe is an accurate description of NPR. Marianne McDonald made this comment on the NPR Ombudsman forum: "...If Fox Ne...

I would like to say this: despite my critique of NPR, the federal funding kerfuffle is kind of a political football -- NPR gets approximatel...

http://www.mediaite.com/online/npr-fire ... ly-factor/ Speaking Truth to Political Correctness I condemn this knee-jerk reaction. WOUB will ...

How about a flat income tax that EVERYBODY PAYS, along with state sales tax with each state then funding the FED based on population/sales t...

...lazy and afraid, and willingly deaf, dumb and blind; like all declining empires. And we like cheap products more than we like being an in...

Amazing how the definition of "rich" changes depending where you are and your circumstances relative to those around you... 250K/y...

Most people don't realize that the "equality" they dreamed of, have fought for and voted for, didn't end up being equality...

This isn't a "most important" list, although some of them are . These are books that established my likes and (fiction) readin...

Ok. Discuss... George Carlin – “The American Dream”: “...But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason...

Why no balanced budget? Simple everyday people, like you and me, often wonder why Guvmint can’t “live within its means”. Well, for one thing...

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." - Ben Fra...

Just thought I'd mention that. Too many references to list... "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, pape...

Prediction: I’ll bet yer (ahem) that bad public sentiment will spawn a favorable outlook on new taxes industry-wide — intitially to make up ...

One of the better anonymous comments from the A-News "Letters" section: Oh yes, it sure would be nice to have some economic activi...

Rand Paul a racist? No. He was presented with what comes off every time as a classic false dichotomy argument based on what he sees in this...

I was doing pre-inspects on a couple houses yesterday afternoon. This is often what happens when I walk into an under-construction house: Th...

"If you're not doing anything wrong, then you've got nothing to fear." It's a pretty far-reaching attitude problem wit...

Via Old Hop: Sunday's Coming... The Movie Trailer.

Note this: People who grow pot in quantity for money now, don't want it legalized. These are some predictions from “Hermit” -- if pot is...

Quoting a poster "Hermit" on a local forum: "I think our economy's big problem is that it is built on the premise that pe...

... or at least, one of the reasons. What brought this on was one common blood draw and test, and one extremity x-ray. My insurance normally...

Ok, the scam has gone on long enough. Collect all the money you can, but don't make like you are any kind of viable candidate for anythi...

Good article from Old Hop. The way I understand it: "Recession" is when the economy corrects itself back toward sanity, and everyb...

I love trains, BUT... For those of you comparing the proposed (I guess it's a done deal?) government supplied train travel here in Ohio ...