Ohio Is Trump Country

Posted on | October 22, 2020 | Comments Off on Ohio Is Trump Country

CRAWFORD COUNTY, Ohio
This morning I drove down to Mt. Gilead, county seat of Morrow County, and the route along Highway 61 was lined with Trump signs. The ratio of Trump to Biden signs was at least 10-to-1, if not higher. The county Republican Party headquarters in Mt. Gilead wasn’t yet open, but I got photos of their lobby through the window. It is difficult to explain to anyone who hasn’t been here how lopsidedly Republican this area is. In 2016, Trump got 72% of the vote in Morrow County, and 71% in neighboring Crawford County. Out of Ohio’s 88 counties, Trump won 80, with Hillary’s votes concentrated in urban areas — Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Toledo, etc. — and a few suburban areas like Lorain County (which also includes Oberlin College).

The contrast between rural and small-town Ohio and our nation’s big cities is an essential fact of the political divide in America. Folks here are not any kind of radical “right-wing,” they’re just ordinary hard-working people who enjoy the tranquil pleasures of country life, and thus have little in common with the decadent bicoastal urban elites.

Trump got 52% of the vote in Ohio against Hillary four years ago. He will almost certainly score a solid majority here for his re-election.

Category: Donald Trump, Election, Ohio

October in Ohio

Posted on | October 22, 2020 | Comments Off on October in Ohio

CRAWFORD COUNTY, Ohio
Just a few scenes of the maple trees around my mother-in-law’s house here in rural Ohio, where polls show President Trump with a narrow lead over Joe Biden but, in fact, everybody knows Trump will carry the state by a decisive margin (he won Ohio by 8 points in 2016).

Category: Ohio

Ohio’s ‘Republican’ Governor

Posted on | October 22, 2020 | 1 Comment

CRAWFORD COUNTY, Ohio
Republicans are the party of business, the party of free enterprise and deregulation. So why in the world is the Republican governor of Ohio dictating 10 p.m. “last call” at bars?

An Ohio state representative who led the charge to reverse Gov. Mike DeWine’s order to move last call at bars and restaurants to 10 p.m. could not be happier other lawmakers are joining the fight.
State Rep. Al Cutrona, R-Canfield, introduced a bill in early September to stop DeWine’s late July order to stop bars and restaurants from serving alcohol past 10 p.m. On Thursday, Senate President Larry Obhof, R-Medina, and President Pro Tem Bob Peterson, R-Washington Court House, co-sponsored legislation to do the same thing.
For his part, DeWine has said over the past two weeks he is reviewing the order. However, he also announced Tuesday the state passed 5,000 COVID-19 deaths and is averaging nearly 500 more cases a day than it did two weeks ago. . . .
The bill would allow alcohol sales within the time frame that already exists under Ohio law. It also prevents any disciplinary actions resulting from violations of DeWine’s order.
Cutrona’s bill removes alcohol-sales restrictions due to the COVID-19 state of emergency. It also stops the Ohio Liquor Control Commission from restricting hours of operation established before the emergency.
“I want to make sure these small businesses can push through these trying times,” Cutrona said. “The bar and restaurant industry is completely suffering right now. That 10 p.m. ban takes away their prime time of making revenue. If they can follow the guidelines before 10 p.m., then they can do it at 2 a.m.”

Do I want to be drinking in a crowded bar during a pandemic? No, but if you want to take your chances, go ahead.

The governor’s decision to move last call to 10 p.m. was arbitrary, and cannot be justified in the name of “science.” If it is safe to drink in a bar at 10 p.m., why does it suddenly become unsafe at 10:01 p.m.? All the governor’s policy is doing is depriving businesses of revenue, with no demonstrable health benefit. It is as if DeWine feels a need to compete with Gretchen Whitmer in the Lockdown Mania Derby.

Category: Ohio

In The Mailbox: 10.21.20

Posted on | October 22, 2020 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box Episode #1146
Bleach Cocktail: Slouching Toward Wakanda
Red Pilled Jew: What Rough Beast Slouches Toward Washington
357 Magnum: A Woman Defends Her Man From Three Attackers
EBL: Is Debate Moderator Kirsten Welker A Partisan Democrat Hack?
Twitchy: Lincoln Project Literally Peddles Iranian Disinformation To Hurt Trump, Intimidate Voters
Louder With Crowder: Trump Plays Video Of Biden, Harris Saying They’ll Ban Fracking On Giant Screens
Vox Popoli: America’s Gestapo, also, First You Lose The Pharmacies

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: And Lesbians Rule Over Them, also, Strange Days In The Land Of The Free
American Conservative: The Foreign Policy Choice This November
American Greatness: The Antifa Industry At Work, also, Did Joe Biden Take A Bribe?
American Power: Everything Is “White Supremacist”
American Thinker: This Is How The Left’s Power Structure Collapses, also, The Covfefe Revolution Is Real, And It’s Glorious
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: The Cuban Economy & The Latest Chicken-Or-The Egg Paradox
BattleSwarm: Finally – Peak 2020 Censorship Stupidity
Cafe Hayek: No, In The Late 19th Century Oil & Steel Prices Were Not Monopolistically high
CDR Salamander: USS Stout Returns
Da Tech Guy: Report From Louisiana – Senate 2020, also, Big Media & Big Tech Know What’s Best For You
Don Surber: Bernie Bros For Trump, also, Reading The Polls
First Street Journal: Joe Biden & School Choice, also, The NYT Loves Freedom Of The Press For The Left
The Geller Report: Shocking Photos Of Underage Girls On Hunter Biden’s Laptop, Including Relative? also, Biden Democrats Send Letters Threatening To Burn Down Trump Supporters’ Homes
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, also, The Real Issue
Hollywood In Toto: YouTube Censors Conservative Comic Nick DiPaolo, also, Amazon Caves, Agrees To Stream What Killed Michael Brown?
JustOneMinute: Strangely Reassuring
The Lid: New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait Claims Media Is Biased In Trump’s Favor
Legal Insurrection: Democrat Activists Planning Massive Disruptions After Election If Biden Loses, also, FBI & DNI Say Iran Interfering In Elections To Damage Trump
Power Line: How Hunter Biden’s Crew Peddled Joe’s Influence To The Chicoms, also, This Year’s Hardest-Hitting Ad
Shark Tank: Mucarsel-Powell Directs Letter To EPA On Florida’s Smog
Shot In The Dark: Why Are The Democrats Pushing Early Voting So Hard?
STUMP: Read The News With Meep
The Political Hat: Anti-Racist Education Comes To San Diego
This Ain’t Hell: Norks Are Back To Normal, also, A Taste Of WWII Bueaucracy
Victory Girls: Babylon Bee goes To Facebook Jail
Volokh Conspiracy: Rethinking The Seattle “CHOP” Takings Case
Weasel Zippers: Chicoms Are Part Of Facebook’s “Hate Speech” Censorship Team, also, Charlamagne Tha God Says Trump is Actually Talking To Young Black Voters
The Federalist: Secret Service Travel Records Confirm Hunter Biden Trips Detailed In Emails, also, Biden Falsely Claims Intel Community Has Cleared His Family of Wrongdoing
Mark Steyn: #MeToobin, Manstruation, & The Trump Effect

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ROAD TRIP!

Posted on | October 21, 2020 | Comments Off on ROAD TRIP!

Good Lord willing, tonight I’ll be in Crawford County, Ohio, then I’ll spend Thursday and Friday in Berrien County, Michigan, before returning to Ohio on Saturday, then back home on Sunday.

This is family travel, involving my youngest two children, including the handsome blond son who wants us to meet his future in-laws. Nevertheless, as fortune would have it, our trip will take us to two crucial Midwestern “battleground” states, and I’ll try to do something in the way of gathering politically relevant information. Almost certainly, I can find a way to contact the Berrien County Republican Party, perhaps swing by their headquarters in Saint Joseph (assuming, that is, that evil Governor Whitmer hasn’t shut down Republican campaign activity in Michigan).

All of which is a preamble to my usual Shoe Leather Fund reminder that the Five Most Important Words in the English Language are:

HIT THE FREAKING TIP JAR!

Category: Michigan, Ohio, Shoe Leather Fund

Hunter Biden, ‘Allegedly’

Posted on | October 21, 2020 | 2 Comments

My apologies for not providing regular updates on the Hunter Biden scandal which is, in fact, the Joe Biden scandal. That is to say, nobody would really care what was found on Hunter’s laptop computer, were it not for the fact that the son was getting lucrative foreign deals based on his father’s position as vice president of the United States.

Because the story was developing over a period of days, and getting abundant coverage elsewhere, I didn’t feel a need to add my two cents to the rapidly growing pile of headlines. But it’s turned into a major scandal, and here are three recent headlines from The Federalist:

There’s No Evidence For NYT’s
‘Russian Disinformation’ Smokescreen
Of Hunter Biden’s Emails

Secret Service Travel Records Confirm
Hunter Biden Trips Detailed In Emails

FBI, DOJ Debunk Claims The Hunter Biden
Laptop Story Is ‘Russian Disinformation’

The liberal media’s attempt to suppress this story, by repeating nonsensical Democratic Party propaganda about “Russian disinformation,” is exposed as profoundly dishonest. The media are lying. The emails have been corroborated as real. Even the Biden campaign itself has not denied that these are actually Hunter Biden’s emails, and the facts contained in those emails? It’s just damning.

Those emails, however, are not the entirety of the scandal:

Hunter Biden is facing accusations that his laptop includes numerous suggestive images of underage girls, Rudy Giuliani announced on Newsmax TV Tuesday night. Rudy Giuliani also broke the news that a text message between Hunter and Joe indicates potentially nefarious activity, including Facetiming naked, between Hunter and an unnamed 14-year-old girl.
A source close to the matter, though, who claims to have seen the images on Hunter’s laptop, told Revolver that about one-third of the images are of the same underage girl. Some of the images are topless, while in others she is shown in suggestive positions with Hunter himself.
Remarkably, while Giuliani has not alleged this, Revolver’s source claimed that the illicit photos on Hunter’s laptop were of a member of the Biden family.

“Allegedly,” I hasten to add. While I cannot verify what Giuliani says about the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop, ask yourself this: What accounts for the “Deep State” corruption of the FBI and the CIA? Why were our law-enforcement and intelligence agencies in the tank for Hillary? What sort of hidden crimes are bureaucrats attempting to conceal? Who is being protected by this war against Trump?

I don’t know. But those QAnon guys have some suspicions.

Category: Crime, Joe Biden, Scandal

Is This White Privilege? Florida Lunatic Stabs Cop in the Neck, Doesn’t Get Shot

Posted on | October 21, 2020 | Comments Off on Is This White Privilege? Florida Lunatic Stabs Cop in the Neck, Doesn’t Get Shot

When I watched the video of this incident, it bothered me:

A 21-year-old man stabbed a Hillsborough County Sheriff’s deputy in the neck [Oct. 11], according to police.
Deputy Charles Williams was hospitalized with a cut on his neck and released [Oct. 12] morning, the Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
The man accused of stabbing him, Nicholas Furgason, faces charges of attempted felony murder of a law enforcement officer, resisting an officer with violence and resisting an officer without violence
Deputies responded about 12:40 p.m. [Oct. 11] to a home in Fishhawk Ranch in Lithia, according to the news release. They were called there to help workers at Gracepoint, a Tampa behavioral healthcare provider, with an involuntary mental health evaluation on Furgason.
Furgason at first cooperated with deputies and Gracepoint staff, according to the Sheriff’s Office. After about an hour of discussion, medical officials decided they would admit Furgason to Gracepoint under the Baker Act, a Florida law that allows for the involuntary commitment of someone believed to be a harm to themselves or others.
Upon learning he would be going to Gracepoint, deputies said Furgason ran away into a wooded area. Williams ran after him while another deputy, Nicholas Cruz, followed behind in a marked patrol cruiser.
Williams caught up to Furgason and, according to the Sheriff’s Office, “used deescalation techniques” to calm Furgason down. The Sheriff’s Office released body camera footage that begins with the deputy facing Furgason on a paved trail in the woods.
“Why are you running, dude?” the deputy asks him. Furgason doesn’t answer.
“Are you scared?” the deputy asks.
“Yeah,” Furgason says.
Williams then explains that Furgason isn’t in trouble, but he has to put him in handcuffs to keep him from running away again. He approaches Furgason and grabs his left arm. Then, the video shows Furgason jerking toward the deputy and the deputy can be heard screaming.
According to the Sheriff’s Office, Furgason stabbed Williams in the neck with a knife. Furgason ran away, and the deputy followed, yelling at him to stop. The body camera video shows him pointing his gun toward Furgason and yelling into his radio that he was stabbed in the neck.
Williams then pulled out his Taser and got close enough to Furgason to use it. Williams and Cruz detained Furgason, and Williams applied gauze to his wound. Later in the body camera video, deputies picked up what appeared to be a small hunting knife from the ground beside Furgason.
Furgason was booked into the Falkenburg Road Jail on Sunday evening. He remained there Monday evening in lieu of $27,500 bail, according to jail records.

Watch the video:

Honestly, if I was the sheriff, I’d call this a failure. At a time when law enforcement is under intense scrutiny for shooting black suspects, cops need to shoot more white suspects, just to even the score.

White lunatic stabs a cop? Bang, bang. Dead lunatic.

“Stacy, you should have more compassion for crazy people. After all, you’re pretty crazy yourself.” True, but I never stabbed a cop.

The more I think about this kind of “social justice” policy, the more I like it. If cops just start routinely shooting white criminals, it creates a built-in defense against your Ben Crump types whenever a black suspect gets shot. They can’t claim your officers used “racial profiling” or “excessive force” against a black suspect if your department shot six or seven white perps last week. If “excessive force” becomes your standard policy, who’s to say what “excessive” means? You’re moving the Overton Window, see?

Forget about “de-escalation techniques.” Instead, train your officers to escalate every arrest into a guns-drawn standoff, if possible. Like, you pull somebody over for a traffic violation and they give you some attitude, whip out the pistol: “Hands up! Step out of the car!” And if they make one wrong move, blast ’em full of holes. They gotta respect the badge.

What gets me about this lunatic in Florida is, he didn’t show gratitude toward the deputy. The Baker Act is your friend. A three-day holiday in the nuthouse, that’s just what these kooks need, and they should be grateful for it. But you’re gonna stab a cop? That’s the difference between the Baker Act and getting yourself a permanent dirt nap.

Crazy People Are Dangerous.