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The latest episode of the “Consider This!” podcast is out. Conservative commentary in 10 minutes or less. I’m at half a hundred episodes with this one. Another big milestone. The lawmakers who passed the bill and the unions who promoted the bill all want exemptions from complying with the bill. “The bill”, of course, is ObamaCare(tm). But […]
This is the fourth article in an open-ended series on the elitist and dishonest Cleveland Plain Dealer “consumer journalist” Sheryl Harris. It will address a fourth question she refuses to answer regarding her biased stories about payday loans. This is part of a series of questions I asked her, but which she would not answer […]
I’ll now build on my first and second articles in my series about arrogant, elitist Cleveland Plain Dealer “journalist” Sheryl Harris. This article will address a third question she refuses to (cannot?) answer with respect to her coverage of payday lending. This is one of a series of questions I put to her, which she […]
Following up on my first article in the series of dishonest Cleveland Plain Dealer “journalist” Sheryl Harris, today’s article will address another question she refuses to answer regarding her coverage of payday lending. Remember, I’m exposing bias in Harris’ “reporting”. It’s obvious that she only examined one side of this issue, and has never done […]
Readers of my column know that journalists never give payday lending a fair shake. Well, maybe one percent are fair. The other 99% are like the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Sheryl Harris. She examines the issue from one side only, gets indignant, decides she doesn’t like payday loans,and decides to devote her life to bringing down […]
I’m all in favor of consumer reporters. They usually find lots of good ideas on how to save people money or expose shady practices being used by proprietors of businesses defrauding the public. But she also writes one negative payday loan article after another. Over and over again, they come at us. But Ms. Harris […]
While down with the flu in January, I read a lot of Richard Stark. Aka Donald Westlake. A pile of volumes from Stark/Westlake’s Parker series towered on my nightstand. The adventures and misadventures of Parker, an ultra cold hearted professional thief, were the perfect antidote to fever. The late Donald Westlake grew up in Albany, […]
In a previous post, I joked that if the Governor of Wisconsin wanted to fire all his teachers, he could hire a lot of qualified Filipino teachers to replace them. Yet this is not quite a joke: The cut backs in US medical training have resulted in the active importation of foreign medical graduates to […]
The war on fathers’ rights in adoption proceedings continues and fathers are starting to win a few battles, like the one described in this article (Toledo Blade, 9/24/10) and this Ohio Supreme Court opinion (Leagle, 7/22/10). Benjamin Wyrembek had a brief affair with a married woman. She became pregnant in 2007 and, along with her […]
The following is an article by Fathers & Families Board Member, Robert Franklin, Esq.: This case out of the Ohio Supreme Court does little but suggests much (Leagle, 7/22/10). Reading the court’s dicta, i.e. the verbal embroidery with which it decorates its actual holding, fathers’ rights in adoption cases just got a huge boost.Back in […]
Even if Rifqa never goes back to live with her parents, she, as a Christian, needs to honor them. She needs to treat them with love and respect. That’s just a fact.
 Americans have been vilified and conditioned to believe that they are the worst polluters on the planet.  The USA has the assignment; worlds whipping boy for any and all environmental abuse on the earth. Somehow it’s all our fault that 16 of the worlds 20 most polluted cities are in China.    None of the top […]
Well, he’s at it again. I’d forgotten all about adding Thomas Suddes to the Payday Loan Opponent Dunk Tank, but given his clownish behavior, he certainly belongs there. Sudden just can’t stand the fact that he isn’t smarter than other people – namely, people who recognize that when THEY have a need for short-term credit, […]
What backroom dealings are going on in Ohio government these days? Could it be that the forces opposed to payday lending (PDL) have given the nod and wink to the Ohio Division of Financial Institutions (DFI) to create a chilling effect on lenders? There’s certainly an argument to support that position. A quick recap of […]
Elyria, Ohio – Daniel Petric, 17, was convicted on Monday of aggravated murder, and attempted aggravated murder along with other charges.  The state prosecutors said that Daniel planned to kill his parents over a disagreement about the video game “Halo 3”. Daniel’s defense attorney said that because he of his age and his addiction to […]
Couldn’t help but ho ho over a Reuters report that New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine was among a group of governors urging the federal government to provide the nation’s states with a $1 trillion special stimulus package. The money would be used for general fund purposes (education, unemployment benefits, etc.) as well as for public […]
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They’re at it again. The Center for Responsible Lending, the corrupt “charity†that consistently and fraudulently attempts to ban payday loans to fill their own coffers with competing products, has released the results of another “Studyâ€. This time, in an attempt to remove consumer choice from Ohio and Arizona, they trot out a study from […]
By Honey Gillard Legendary US rocker Bruce Springsteen wowed an open-air crowd of 80,000 on the White House campaign’s final stretch in Cleveland this past Sunday, with a moving set at a campaign rally for Democrat Leader Barack Obama. With his acoustic guitar and harmonica in hand, Bruce Springsteen sang through a play list that […]
M.I.T. graduate Will Bradshaw is co-founder and President of Green Coast Enterprises, using innovative procedures to rebuild New Orleans homes devastated by Katrina. He is pro-life. He is voting for Barack Obama. When Bradshaw describes himself as “pro-life,” he is speaking about an issue that goes beyond the simplistic code word that usually refers only […]
Ohioans who believe in consumer choice, and that government should not meddle in the affairs of citizens, must vote NO on Issue 5.  This referendum seeks to overturn portions of HB 545, legislation that unreasonably caps short-term loan rates. How unreasonable are the rates? They were designed to be so low that lenders who offer this […]
The Columbus Dispatch reports that OH officials are looking into whether state and law-enforcement computer systems were illegally accessed to dig out personal information about Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher (AKA “Joe the Plumberâ€), some of which was used by the MSM to damage the credibility of this private citizen who dared challenge Sen. Barack Obama on […]
Within a few days of the “Joe the Plumber” incident, I was reading about his tax lien, that he lacked a full plumber’s license, and that the plumber currently has an income level that would make him eligible for Obama’s proposed tax cut rather than the tax increase. ABC news then found quotes a lot […]
Difference in Turnouts for Biden and Palin Interesting Ohio Claimed to Now Be Obama Blue Ohio is considered one the key battleground states in the upcoming 2008 Presidential election. While the polls are predicting Obama is ahead of McCain in Ohio, the low numbers of supporters at recent Ohio Biden rallies tell a different story: […]
By Cynthia Ruccia, Special to The Stiletto Blog Wow … flying to St. Paul, MN, for the Republican National Convention. I still feel like I’ve fallen down that rabbit hole in “Alice in Wonderland†and the world is upside down. Honestly, when 2008 started, I had a whole set of New Year’s resolutions just like […]
When Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) took the stage to deliver her remarks before the DNC, the enthusiasm of the crowd and the applause she got rivaled that of the iconic Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-MA), who perhaps delivered his last address to convention delegates on Monday. Hillary gave one of the finest speeches of her political […]
By Cynthia Ruccia, Special to The Stiletto Blog It was with very mixed feelings I travelled to Denver yesterday. On my plane from Columbus, OH, were Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner – a woman who just might be one of the biggest figures on election night, if the results in Ohio are close – and the […]
Let’s take a minute to discuss the blatant duplicity of Ohio’s Rep. Chris Widener (R – Springfield). During the Assembly’s consideration of HB 545, which nobody except obtuse politicians and corrupt charities wanted passed, Rep. Widener met with several mom-and-pop payday lenders.  He told them, to their faces, that he liked their honest business models […]
By completely ignoring the pleas of thousands of payday loan borrowers, putting 6000 Ohioans out of a job during a recession, and costing the Ohio economy millions of dollars, I hereby sentence the Gov. Strickland and the Ohio Legislature to Civil Disobedience Torture. That’s right, since Ohio’s politicians decided to act in their own best […]
By Matthew Mayer  As payday loans vanish from Ohio storefronts in the next few months because of HB 545, I thought I would provide some perspective on the issue.  The great irony here is that prostitution is illegal, yet Ohio’s legislators have lawfully rented themselves out in exchange for votes.  Darn. I […]
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