You've Got to Be Kidding?

Republican state lawmakers on Thursday decided they were not going to allow Ohio voters, who had just passed a ballot measure (Issue 1) enshrining the right to abortion in the state constitution by a 56.6 to 43.4 margin, to implement that measure.   Claiming without any evidence that “Foreign Billionaires Don't Get to Make Ohio Laws,” Ohio GOP lawmakers announced plans to introduce several bills to override this ballot measure in the coming weeks.   Then, to seal the deal, Republicans declared, “To prevent mischief by ‘pro-abortion courts’ with Issue 1,” the Ohio Republican legislature “will make modifications to existing laws,” which would include removing jurisdiction on this issue from the judiciary and give it to the Republican legislature, basically removing voters and the courts from having any say on the issue whatsoever. Why, if I didn’t know better, I’d almost think Republicans are justifying canceling Ohio voters’ choices by simply making some bogus claim about “fore...

Republican Mayor Craig Shubert of Hudson, Ohio, who last fall started a huge controversy by demanding every school board member in his city resign, or be criminally charged with disseminating child pornography after high school students taking a class for college credit, which included exercises encouraging students to write stories or essays they would not share with their parents - was interpreted by Mayor Shubert as promoting “child pornography.”   Now, this week during a Hudson city council meeting, Mayor Shubert took a strong stance against ice fishing in a local park, pointing out that “If you open this up to ice fishing, while on the surface it sounds good, then what happens next year?   Does someone come back and say, ‘I want an ice shanty for X-amount of time?” he asked referring to the use of portable shelters for ice fishing.   He then added “And, if you then allow ice fishing with shanties, then that leads to another problem — prostitution,” he continued. “And...