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By Matthew Mayer This article isn’t about the pros and cons of payday loans. For that discussion, just read this or this or this. The facts about payday loans are clear.  They work. They’re needed. They need some reform, but not run out of the state. So this article is directed at the self-serving, self-dealing […]
Generally speaking one expects our politicians regardless of political color to do their very best for all sectors of the population. Not so in Ohio. Yesterday the Republican heavy Ohio Senate voted to change the Payday Loan industry. And change it in such a fashion that the vast majority of the 1600 or so Payday […]
New Jersey art dealer, George Wieschenberg of Lambertville, was sentenced to six years of prison for being a marijuana “farmer.†According to MSNBC, Wieschenberg, pleaded guilty to “operating a marijuana production facility,†in which he grew marijuana plants, said State Attorney General Anne Milgrim. Back in October of 2007, New Jersey State Police officers saw […]
An estimated 2500 people rallied outside of the Statehouse in Columbus Ohio to protest new legislation aimed at curtailing the loan practices used by the Payday loan industry. Ohio lawmakers have passed House Bill 545, which sets the maximum annual interest rate on payday loans at 28 percent, this is a far cry from the […]
John McCain (R-AZ) swept OH, RI, TX and VT by huge margins to secure his party’s nomination for the presidency, while Hillary Clinton (D-NY) staved Barack Obama (D-IL) off with double-digit margins in OH and VT and a narrow win in the TX primary (as of this writing, the TX caucuses have not been called, […]
There’s a poll out there saying that the majority of Americans feel that the press is out of touch, and that the majority get their news from the internet. Yet this year’s primary elections have managed to have the normal voters smash the preconceived notions of the chattering class, who backed one than another candidate, […]
Senator Clinton was civil until she started losing. Obama is answering her, charge by charge. This is not going to be enough. The Clintons have a veritable Kitchen Sink Factory to create weapons to hurl at their opponents. But Hillary’s own tub is full of dirty bathwater. Maybe it’s time for Obama to throw the […]
Earlier this month, Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan told The New York Times that the choice that Jewish voters had in the Dem primary was “almost an embarrassment of riches†and that they felt “a certain amount of distress that they have to choose […]
Since when does a dying campaign inspire a sudden cash infusion of 35 million dollars? In a conference call pep talk to contributors, that’s what the sputtering Clinton machine announced Thursday. They claim that in February, they have suddenly received $35 million from 300,000 people, two-thirds of whom were new donors, and that most of […]
So who was the mysterious oppo researcher who gave Matt Drudge that photo of Barack Obama dressed in a turban and Somali garb on a trip to Africa in 2006? And why does his campaign consider it a “smear photo?†For that matter, why did John McCain apologize after one of his surrogates kept referring […]
A Mixed Bag… …But not as bad as Clinton or Obama “He is really hard to get a fix on with gun rights.” John McCain and the Second Amendment: how does he stack up? When we tackled the question, we have to confess, we didn’t know. We assumed that McCain’s record on Second Amendment issues […]
The Failed War on Drugs Combined Edition for January-February 25 Links to stories about Corrupt Cops, Reforms, Botched Drug Raids, News, This Week in Drug History and More The USA’s Second Longest Running “War”–After the “War on Poverty” Corrupt Cops, This Week in Drug History, Reforms, News, More! Our January-February Special Edition of the “Failed […]
The story is going around, and even Drudge is carrying it. A Michigan state Marine Reserve Unit who has practiced “urban warfare” training in downtown Toledo with little or no problems has now been banned by the mayor, who claimed “people were frightened” by seeing Marines walking around in downtown Toledo. The problem is that […]
(London, UK) The Autism Awareness Campaign UK is urging the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rt.Rev. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of York, Rt.Rev.Dr.John Sentamu, the Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormack Murphy O’Connor and other senior church leaders to speak out on the suffering of some parents, carers and people with autism and Asperger’s Syndrome on Autism Sunday […]
  ALONG THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL Will A Year of Firsts Yield More of The Same Old, Same Old?  January 30, 2008  By RB Scott Boston, Massachusetts  Note: RB Scott, a former staff writer and editor at Time, Life, People and Sports Illustrated, frequently writes about national politics.  As  the barrow […]
Riley Ann Sawyers–“Baby Grace” as she was known to millions–is finally at rest The story of a little Two-Year-Old Girl’s too-short life Petition seeks to Name Island in Memory of Riley Ann Sawyers What can you do to help? The little girl, whose unidentified body was found in a plastic storage tote resting on the […]
Hot damn. The government is going to stimulate the economy. Not with a lap dance or lubricated love glove, but with taxpayer dollars. Come summer, Mister and Miz America will get a rebate from Uncle Sam. What a man! Some people will get more than a thou of their own money back. Consumers will rush […]
As 2008 opened wide, predictions were made by seers of all stripes. Britney and Hillary would triumph/implode. Pakistan would stabilize/explode. The housing market would rebound/erode. Predictions re the latter tended to focus on nuts, bolts, and bailouts. As in– Bernanke and Paulson, foreclosures and bankruptcies, and government powered plans to keep prices inflated and mortgage […]
While the Defendants’ Attorneys Vie, A Judge has Approved Movement of Riley Sawyers’ Body Riley Sawyers was Once Known as “Baby Grace” to Millions Worldwide Riley Sawyers’ Body To Finally Rest in Ohio Galveston County District Judge David Garner approved an agreement which will release little Riley’s body to her family back in Mentor, Ohio. […]
In the Republican and Democrat debates at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH, on January 5th the candidates had a common strategy: Keep kicking the presumed frontrunners when they’re down to make sure they stay down. Sen. John McCain (AZ), Fmr. Sen. Fred Thompson (TN), Rep. Ron Paul (TX), Fmr. Gov. Mitt Romney (MA), Fmr. […]
“There are days when you feel like you are going to lose your mind.” In an interview with ABC 13 Sheryl Sawyers’ grief was raw. She said she felt she was in a bad dream, that this was something that only happened to other people. Both Sheryl and Robert’s love for their little Riley was […]
Defense Experts Want to Examine Little Girl’s Body Motion by Zeigler’s Attorney Trenor’s Attorney May Also Join Motion Prosecutors in the Riley Sawyers case have asked the judge to schedule a hearing on Jan. 3rd in order to hear the defense’s request to have the stepfather, Royce Zeigler’s experts examine the little girl’s body. Riley’s […]
Mom says “He did it” Stepfather’s attorney: “He’s Innocent” Statements from the Only Two People Present When Riley Sawyers Died Now that capital murder charges have been filed in the case of Riley Sawyers,’Baby Grace,’ it’s interesting to look back and see when and how the attorneys of Kimberly Trenor and Royce Zeigler began to […]
Who Killed “Baby Grace”, 2-year-old Riley Sawyers? Clyde Zeigler’s Attorney Says “he innocent” The Battle Begins Between Two People who May Face the Death Penalty The opening salvo was launched a few minutes ago in what is expected to be a fight to the death between Kimberly Trenor and Clyde Zeigler II. The mother and […]
Prosecutor Seeks Capital Murder Charges New Evidence Cited What’s the Evidence and What’s it Mean? Galveston County District Attorney Kurt Sistrunk is going before the grand jury today to seek capital murder charges against the mother and step-father of little two-year-old Riley Sawyers. Kimberly Trenor and Royce Zeigler are being held on the lesser charges […]
Fmr. Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) and Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) have taken the lead among Iowans who say they “definitely†or “probably†will attend their respective party caucuses on January 3rd, according to The Des Moines Register‘s latest poll. This is the first time Obama has beaten Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) in the Register‘s poll […]
A Memorial Service Was Held Sunday In Ohio Riley Sawyer’s Story Made Headlines in Many Parts of the World Memorial Fund Set Up Mourners left wooden crosses, angels and other reminders of a 2-year-old girl that made headlines worldwide as “Baby Grace”. The memorial service, held in Mentor, OH, previously the home of Riley Sawyers […]
What’s Going to Happen? Nobody Knows, Everybody’s Guessing A state of confusion and shock in the college football world? What could be better! After #1 Missouri and #2 West Virginia both lost last night, who’s going to be in the title game is a guess–and there are plenty of those being made right now. Here […]
DNA Match Between Bodies of Baby Grace and Riley Sawyers Kimberly Trenor is Pregnant Accused Turn Against Each Other Other Little Missing Little Girls Studied News continues to emerge in the case of Riley Sawyers/Baby Grace, Kimberly Trenor, Clyde Zeigler II, and the authorities concerned. Two weeks after twenty-year-old Robert Sawyers submitted DNA samples to […]
Kimberly Trenor was “Disciplining” 2-year-old Riley Zeigler Missed Day of Work to Participate Trenor’s Pregnancy Likely Occurred After Brutal Beating It was day like any other late July day in East Texas, hot and muggy, when Royce Zeigler, 24, decided to stay home from work to help 19-year-old Kimberly, his new bride of less than […]
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