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Trump’s definition of war as ‘excursion’ won’t float

Here we go again. What else can one say to the stream of misinformation and disinformation flowing out of the White House and Pentagon since the war in Iran broke out? We have grown wearily familiar with President Donald Trump’s cavalier relationship with the facts. Combine that with his tendency to snatch words out of the air, appropriately or not, and you come up with a jumble of head-scratchers. A leading example is his repeated oddball description of the Iran war as an “excursion,” which caused brows to furrow and eyeballs to roll. Excursion? Does the president know the ...

Reality remains that many Muslims want to kill Americans

Importing people who hate America didn’t end well. See if you can spot any similarities in these four events. During the weekend, President Donald Trump attacked Iran, Ndiaga Diagne opened fire at a bar in Austin. He wore a “Property of Allah” sweatshirt on top of an Iranian flag shirt. He killed three people and injured more than a dozen before police shot him dead. Diagne was a citizen of Senegal. He entered the United States in 2000 on a tourist visa and became a naturalized citizen in 2013. On Saturday, March 7, around 20 people protested Islam outside of Gracie ...

State leaders must work to lower high cost of child care

Advocacy groups noticed a gap in Gov. Mike DeWine’s State of the State speech last week, as they worry about his failure to mention accessible, affordable child care as a priority for the year. To be fair, if the governor had mentioned everything he wanted to get done as his tenure wraps, we might still be listening to him speak. Still, it is important for DeWine and lawmakers not to drop the ball on an issue that is immensely important to many Ohio families. “Tell me how you can be pro-growth, and pro-business, and pro-Ohio when you are telling parents you should stay home ...

No easy way out of obesity

I’ve been hearing a lot lately about how it’s “taking the easy way out” to use GLP-1s to lose weight. That may be true. But then again, you might be able to say the same thing about virtually every medical advancement. When you boil it down, chemotherapy is “taking the easy way out” of testicular cancer. Penicillin is “taking the easy way out” of a bacterial infection. The MMR shot is “taking the easy way out” of getting the measles. You could be suffering and dying along with everyone else who’s had the problem since the beginning of time, but instead you’re ...

Trump reverses Obama on Iran

Donald Trump has always been the anti-Barack Obama. He rose in opposition to President Obama and has reversed many of his policies. But perhaps no Trump undertaking runs more directly counter to Obama’s approach than the Iran war. Obama sought to accommodate the Iranian regime, while Trump hopes to topple it. Obama tolerated an Iranian nuclear program, even if one theoretically constrained by a nuclear deal, whereas Trump wants to destroy it. Obama facilitated the rise of Iranian power in the region. Trump, in contrast, is endeavoring to crush it. Back then, Obama ...

The devil is in the details of Ohio HB 583

Perhaps without meaning to, Ohio Rep. Johnathan Newman, R-Troy, demonstrated perfectly the problem with a portion of Ohio House Bill 583, “regarding the provision of online library database resources by public schools, public libraries, and state agencies.” The bill would amend state code to target “inappropriate” content that has made its way onto InfOhio and the Ohio Web Library — vendors used as online information databases in most public schools and libraries. HB 583 would establish “safety policy and technology protection measure requirements” for the companies. ...