From the SCOTUSblog:
Answering a 127-year old constitutional question, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to have a gun, at least in one’s home. The Court, splitting 5-4, struck down a District of Columbia ban on handgun possession.
Justice Antonin Scalia’s opinion for the majority stressed that the Court [...]

Click here for details from The Dispatch blog. These flirtatious emails hardly sound like emails between a harasser and victim.

Ralph Nader is an idiot and an annoying safety-nazi busybody. But I suppose he succeeded in pushing himself into the 24-hour cable TV news cycle.
For those of you not familiar with it, here is the Black Like Me book by John Howard Griffin that Ken made reference to.
And to quote economist John Maynard Keynes when [...]

Regardless of the details of the veto, Ted Strickland is sounding more fiscally conservative than the entire Ohio House Republican caucus:
On June 13, Strickland struck down $200 million lawmakers tried to raid from the fund as part of a $1.57 billion economic stimulus plan. He said uncertainty over projections in the state’s two-year budget makes [...]

I have confirmed that this comment was left by Jennifer Urban.
I’m trying to be fair about this story, as it is clear that disgraced former AG Marc Dann created an environment which was completely inappropriate and hostile towards women.
But I question Ms. Urban’s timing, as he had plenty of opportunity to discuss such harassment during [...]

From The Dispatch:
For 36 years, Ohioans have been sending a portion of their paychecks to the state — an act that cost the median filer $619 in 2005.
Some Ohio lawmakers say it’s time to let Ohioans keep that money.
“To me, it just seems pretty logical,” said Rep. John Adams, R-Sidney. His House Bill 534 calls [...]

Assistant Ohio Attorney General Jennifer Urban is now claiming that Leo Jennings and Anthony Gutierrez sexually harassed her. Watch the videos from Channel 6 Columbus here and here. The video didn’t work in Firefox 3 for me, but they load in Internet Explorer.
Why the delay with coming forward with these allegations? In my exclusive interview [...]

OK folks, lets play compare and contrast with the reports of Former Attorney General Betty Montgomery’s speech to today’s Americans for Prosperity Ohio luncheon at the Columbus Athletic Club…
First, from Reginald Fields in the Plain Dealer Blog:
Betty Montgomery rips former opponent Marc Dann
Montgomery, a former state attorney general and auditor, used much of her 30-minute [...]

Wow that was fast. That is Jim Petro’s quickest flip-flop to date.