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OSU's Second Amendment Center Runs Out of Ammo [Robert VerBruggen] Ohio State University's Second Amendment Center, funded largely by the anti-gun Joyce Foundation, has called it quits. Randy Barnett has details over at the Volokh Conspiracy. Barnett argues that the Center closed because its purpose — to argue against an individual-right interpretation of the Second Amendment — was rendered moot by Heller. In NR last year, I detailed how the Joyce Foundation funded law-review symposia on the Second Amendment (subscribers can read my piece here). Whatever the Foundation and Center's problems, I found the Center's head, Prof. Saul Cornell, very...

The 8th Ohio District Court of Appeals has sided with Cleveland in the city's fight to enforce its illegal local gun control ordinances. A three judge panel has declared that Ohio R.C 9.68 - which became law in 2007 with passage of HB347 to preempt local gun control and ensure statewide uniformity of gun laws - is unconstitutional. Judge Colleen Conway-Cooney, Democrat facing re-election in 2010, Ann Dyke, Democrat facing re-election in 2010, and Melody Stewart, Democrat facing re-election in 2012, reversed a lower court's decision to uphold the law. Dyke was elected to the appellate court in 1987, after...

U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. David Raymond Baker was buried Tuesday at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., on Tuesday morning.

GROVE CITY, Ohio — Police said that a robbery victim acted in self-defense when he shot a man who was trying to rob him late Monday morning. The incident occurred at about 11 a.m. behind a Wendy's restaurant, located on Broadway. Investigators told 10TV's Glenn McEntyre that a man was walking his dog when another man approached him with a gun and demanded his wallet. The victim complied and then pulled out his own gun, shooting the robber, police said. The accused robber, Keith Walker Jr., ran to a nearby neighborhood where he collapsed. Walker underwent surgery at Grant Medical...

http://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-Downtown-912-Project/calendar/11491471/What: WAKE UP OHIO!When: October 25, 2009 3:00 PMWhere: Geauga County Fairgrounds Grandstand 14373 N. Cheshire St. Burton, OH 44021EVENT: WAKE UP OHIO!DATE: October 25th, 2009TIME: 3pm - 5pmWHERE: Geauga County Fairgrounds Grandstand, 14373 N. Cheshire Street, Burton, OH 44021SPEAKERS: RECENTLY ANNOUNCED: Joe The Plumber.DOC Thompson from WRVA DOC fills in for Glenn Beck about every 2 months, and he was one of the featured speakers in Washington, DC on 9/12!Pastor James Manning, from Harlem, he has been really speaking out about the corruption in Washington (if you are not familiar with Pastor Manning, this is a MUST SEE!) -http://www.youtube.com......

A former music teacher for Mentor Schools has admitted sexually assaulting a high school girl during a 16-month period. Barry Valentine, 35, of Mentor, pleaded guilty Thursday to 16 counts of sexual battery — one for each month the assaults occurred — in Lake County Common Pleas Court. He now faces up to 80 years in prison and/or a $160,000 fine when he is sentenced Dec. 7 by Judge Vincent A. Culotta. Valentine repeatedly sexually assaulted the victim from July 2007 through February 2008, Assistant Lake County Prosecutor Mark Bartolotta said. “At the time, she was 15 and then 16...

Cordray weighs in on McDonald v. Chicago by Keith Loria October 16, 2009 01:33 PM. Now that the United States Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments in the case of McDonald v. Chicago, the Second Amendment is back in the spotlight. Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, who will join arguments in the case, believes that the people's Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms is fundamental and cannot be denied by state and local governments. He outlined his perspective in an exclusive interview with Public Nuisance Wire. PNW: The Second Amendment has become a hot topic of late....

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A homeowner fires shots at a suspect outside their home in West Chester. Police say a man kicked in the door to Edward Honerlaw's home in the 8200 block of West Chester Road, shortly before 2 pm today. After a brief scuffle, the intruder fled to his pickup truck. Honerlaw fired a shot at the suspect's vehicle. Police describe the suspect as a male, white, around 35 years-old, six-feet, 175 pounds, with a gray beard. He was wearing a white hooded sweat shirt. Police are looking for a tan Ford F-150 pickup truck with an extended cab, Ohio license DDK3796....

Subodh Chandra Add a Cleveland voice to the legal wrangling over President Barack Obama's birth. Former Cleveland Law Director Subodh Chandra waded in Thursday, Sept. 17, with a complaint to the State Bar of California that focused more on the leading challenger of Obama's U.S. citizenship than on the issue itself. Chandra asked the bar to investigate Orly Taitz, a California lawyer pressing cases centering on Obama's citizenship across the country, for making disparaging remarks about a federal judge and for wasting the court's time with frivolous cases. Taitz is an outspoken member of the so-called "birther" movement that claims...

CINCINNATI -- A volunteer religious teacher has been dismissed in Cincinnati after writing a letter to the editor backing a Roman Catholic nun ordered to stop teaching for supporting women priests.Dr. Carol Egner said she has been told she can longer teach her Old Testament class to sixth-graders at Our Lady of Lourdes parish.The archbishop of the Cincinnati Archdiocese recently banned a nun, Sister of Charity Louise Akers, from teaching at parishes and institutions after 40 years because she supports the ordination of women as priests. Akers says she refused to renounce her support of women priests as a matter...

Ohio law allows any private business who chooses to prohibit guns on their property to put up a "no guns allowed" sign. Some do so because they don't like guns, some do it as a courtesy to notify gun owners that they serve alcohol so are off-limits under the Ohio Revised Code, and some do it because they have been mislead. There are many ways for a business owner to be mislead on the issue of whether or not to ban guns in their business. Some have been told by lawyers or insurance providers that they will have addition liability...

To hear the media darlings at the anti-gun Joyce Foundation-funded International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) tell it, guns - the tools some criminals use - are responsible for violence and accidental deaths in America, rather than the criminal or the ignorant. And every police office thinks so. Or do they? In the wake of two tragic accidents in Ohio involving small children and guns, several state media outlets have addressed the issue of kids and guns. In addition to contacting Buckeye Firearms Association, several reporters interviewed area law enforcement officers. Their comments put the anti-gun front group known...

One week after ignoring thousands of phone calls from his constituents and helping a Democrat filibuster kill nationwide CCW reciprocity, Republican Senator George Voinovich of Ohio told editors at the Columbus Dispatch he knows what the Republican party's biggest problem is. According to the anti-gun Senator, who has decided to retire after recognizing a 2010 re-election bid would meet the same fate as anti-gun Mike DeWine's did in 2006, Ohioans just can't relate to pro-gun Republicans from the South. On Monday, Voinovich told Dispatch editors "We got too many Jim DeMints (R-S.C.) and Tom Coburns (R-Okla.). It's the Southerners. They...

Saturday was the sixth annual Party in the Park family picnic of Ohioans For Concealed Carry, held in Liberty Park just North of Columbus in Liberty Township. Despite the poor weather which went from a dark and cloudy morning to rainfall that lasted until mid-afternoon, more than one hundred and fifty people turned out to enjoy the food and company of other gun rights activists from across the state, many of them openly carrying their defensive firearm. Gun control advocates will try to tell you that guns in public or guns around kids, or really gun ownership in general are...

Last night, the Northwest Baptist Church, in Toledo, OH, held a rally celebrating the right to keep and bear arms, and spreading the message that the exercise of that right is in no way incompatible with Christian values. The rally will point to numerous biblical references claiming Jesus Christ would support second amendment rights. "We're just informing our folks you got to be able to protect yourself and what does the Bible have to say about it. We know our constitution. But this is the final authority here above our Constitution is the word of God," said Reverend Andrew Edwards...

WEST TOLEDO (WTOL) - A rally will be held Monday, June 29 in west Toledo in support of the right to bear arms. Sponsors say they are worried about the Obama administration's view on gun control, even though there's been no new restrictions. The rally will point to numerous biblical references claiming Jesus Christ would support second amendment rights. "We're just informing our folks you got to be able to protect yourself and what does the Bible have to say about it. We know our constitution. But this is the final authority here above our Constitution is the word of...

...[A] pair of Congressmen have decided to apply the nuclear option - restrictive amendments to their budgets, to let the Department of Homeland Security know they don't like the proposed Customs and Border Patrol measure designed to change the definition of a switchblade knife. The new CBP definition, if adopted, would basically cut the modern knife industry to the quick as approximately eighty percent of knives currently in production would fall into the definition of switchblade because of their assisted-opening feature. Representatives Bob Latta (R-Ohio) and Walt Minnick (D-Idaho) have co-sponsored an amendment to the Department of Homeland Security appropriations...

One of Cleveland's complaints about Statewide Preemption, which has led them to sue the State of Ohio over it, is that it scrapped their mandatory handgun registration. Our neighbors to the north have had an even more stringent gun registration scheme since 2001 despite the fact that "there is no convincing research showing that the gun registry has saved a single life." Gary Mauser, professor emeritus, Institute for Canadian Urban Research Studies, Faculty of Business Administration, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B. C. explains. It is time to pull the plug on the long gun registry. The present Canadian firearms program...

Earlier this week, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled that a 2006 law prohibiting cities from imposing residency requirements on employees is constitutional. This follows on the back of the Ohioans For Concealed Carry v. The City of Clyde case in which the OSC also determined was constitutional and that statewide preemption of gun laws is valid. The editors of the Cleveland Plain Dealer feel these rulings are "audacious and arrogant assault[s] on local autonomy and taxpayers and, oh yeah, the Ohio Constitution." The issue at hand is that some municipalities have taken the Home Rule concept beyond what it was...

Buckeye Firearms Association is pleased to report that Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray's office has filed a Motion to Intervene in a lawsuit filed by Buckeye Firearms Foundation, Inc. against the City of Cleveland. The lawsuit was filed by the Ohio not-for profit foundation, to stop the City of Cleveland from prosecuting law-abiding gun owners under local ordinances that restrict gun ownership and concealed carry (CCW). The lawsuit also asks the Court to declare 20 different local ordinances unconstitutional on the grounds of state preemption of firearm laws, on the grounds that the ordinances are in conflict with R.C. 9.68....

Thirty-nine states have provisions for legal armed defense in restaurantsYesterday, the bill to remove Ohio's ban on self-defense while dining was introduced. If passed, this bill would allow a lawful citizen with a concealed handgun license (CHL) to remain armed while eating in a restaurant that serves alcohol as long as that person was not drinking. Soon, we'll see the typical responses from the anti-gun, anti-freedom crowd. Usually the first attack on legislation like this is that they claim this will result in people getting drunk, getting into fights, and that will lead to shootings. Of course, they neglect to...

In my first Examiner article this year, I wrote about Ohio's ban on concealed carry while dining in restaurants that serve alcohol. Ohio law reads: Sec. 2923.121. (A) No person shall possess a firearm in any room in which any person is consuming liquor in premises for which a D permit has been issued under Chapter 4303. of the Revised Code or in an open air arena for which a permit of that nature has been issued. A great many restaurants, excluding fast food joints, serve alcoholic beverages meaning that lawful self-defense is denied to CHL holders if they choose...

Cincinnati's WKRC (the tri-state area's CBS affiliate) is reporting that an unprecedented number of women are taking their protection into their own hands by getting a gun. According to a report by Local 12 Reporter Liz Bonis, "gun stores are seeing more women customers than anyone can remember. Many women are also getting permits to carry a concealed weapon." The news report documents some of the reasons why many women are in a hurry to arm themselves. From the story: When Jenny Jeffery recently made the decision to get a license to conceal and carry a weapon she says it...

As we reported earlier this month, more Americans than ever oppose new government efforts to regulate guns, in spite of the best efforts of the media propaganda machine's anti-gun bias. There is also growing evidence that the years of pro-gun advocates' warnings about the danger of declaring spaces to be "gun free" zones (i.e. infringing on citizens' Second Amendment rights) is also starting to penetrate. Thanks to a story by WCPO (Cincinnati ABC) reporter Brendan Keefe aired late last year, thousands of viewers in the greater Cincinnati area were exposed to a fact that the establishment media is normally fond...

The last state mandated report from the Ohio attorney general showed nearly 143,000 concealed handgun licenses had been issued in the Buckeye State since the program's inception in 2004. Considering the substantial increase for 2008 over the previous year, it is safe to assume that the number is over 150,000 by now. When concealed carry was being considered, those opposed to such licensing claimed that it would lead to shootouts over soccer matches and fender benders, that CCW holders would be dropping their guns at the mall leading to accidental discharges, that cops would be killed during routine traffic stops...

For the first time publicly, Diocese of Scranton Bishop Joseph F. Martino made it clear Wednesday that he might eventually bar U.S. Sen. Bob Casey from receiving communion if the senator doesn’t follow his advice on opposing abortion. The bishop also said the senator should now think twice about receiving communion after voting Tuesday to confirm an abortion rights supporter, former Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, as Health and Human Services secretary. “If necessary, future determinations will be made regarding whether Sen. Casey is worthy to receive Holy Communion,� a Diocese of Scranton statement on Casey’s vote said. “However, at this...

Okay, technically, Catholics in the US are only allowed to dispense from the year-round Friday abstinence from meat if they substitute a comparable penance for it ... but in practice, the vast majority of Catholics have forgotten to even do this. Bishop R. Daniel Conlon, however, has dispensed with the substituting ... and has instead brought back the simple Friday abstinence from meat in his diocese. I especially respect that he ties this sacrificial abstinence to witnessing for the unborn and providing them with concrete assistance: "I am inviting the Catholic people of the Diocese of Steubenville to resume...

As a little boy, Bishop George V. Murry was raised as an African Methodist Episcopal, but was so impressed by his experience at his Catholic school that he convinced his parents to allow him to convert. Eventually, they too, became Catholic. In the Diocese of Youngstown, 406 converts have joined the Church just in time for Easter. On Saturday, 169 people received the Sacrament of Baptism, and 237 who were baptized in another denomination received the sacraments of confirmation and the Holy Eucharist. Adults who want to become Catholic must enter a months-long education process known as RCIA, the Rite...

As I've noted on this site, the groups of people you generally see engaged in food stamp fraud these days are Muslims often tied to terrorist groups like Hezbollah, which is what the fraud is,in part, financing. And as we all know, those involved in food stamp fraud are scamming taxpayers in a major way. Yet, in Ohio, prosecutors are seeking to reduce food stamp fraud from a felony crime to a misdemeanor.

When Jory Aebly was shot in the head, execution-style during a mugging five weeks ago in Cleveland, Ohio, that should have been the end of it. Doctors at the Metro Health Medical Center told his family it was a "non-survivable" injury, according to the hospital's Web site. But Tuesday, a very-much-alive Aebly was wheeled to a press conference before he went home in what some believe is a true "miracle," possibly good enough to help earn deceased Pope John Paul II sainthood. "It's one in a million," Dr. Robert Geertman, a neurosurgeon involved in Aebly's treatment, said in a press...

Columbus man charged with threatening Blue Jackets Friday, March 27, 2009 9:01 AM By Aaron Portzline THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Peter Stenzel, 52, has been arrested and charged with inducing panic after placing at least three threatening phone calls to the Blue Jackets -- specifically goaltender -- Steve Mason during last night's win over Calgary. According to the Columbus police report, Stenzel was wearing a Calgary Flames T-shirt when he was arrested at his residence in Columbus. He is charged with menacing and inducing panic, a misdemeanor. "They got his number from caller ID, and it was given to special duty...

Has the Bible verse John 3:16 become too controversial to be displayed at sporting events? Some might be asking that question after a basketball fan at the NCAA Tournament had his sign featuring the famous New Testament quote snatched away from him by a security guard. The incident took place last week during Round One of the annual contest, as Siena College, a Catholic school, was taking on Ohio State at the UD Arena in Dayton, Ohio. CBS Sports coverage posted on YouTube shows the sign being confiscated by a security guard, who then folds it up several times so...

B.J. Raymond netted 15 points to lead a balanced scoring attack and Xavier outlasted Wisconsin in a defensive battle, 60-49, to earn a trip to the Sweet 16 in the NCAA Tournament's East Region. Xavier (27-7), slated as the fourth seed, will play either top-seeded Pittsburgh or No. 8 seed Oklahoma State in the regional semifinal on Thursday.

Workers at the UK factory of Japanese motor giant Honda are due to make the last cars for four months because of an extended shutdown caused by the slump in sales. Production at the plant in Swindon, Wiltshire, will be halted until June 1. The 4,200 workers will receive their full basic pay for the first two months, reducing to 60% for the rest of the production shutdown.

Washington, Jan 26 - Washington D.C. (January 26, 2009) – Congressman Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement addressing news reports that President Obama and advisors are considering nationalizing parts of the U.S. banking system. In the statement, Kucinich urges Congress not to nationalize banks, but to place the Federal Reserve under the Treasury Department. “At a time when millions of Americans are losing jobs, homes, and pensions, our government is prepared to give another trillion to the banks. We are ready to compound the moral hazard by nationalizing banks, which are allegedly profit-making entities. “This is anti-democratic. Instead of...

Imagine being taxed on the number of miles you drive instead of the amount of gasoline you buy. Oregon has tried it. North Carolina is thinking about it, and Ohio is exploring an idea to replace or supplement the state's existing fuel tax with a vehicle miles tax. The Vehicle Miles of Travel tax is being hailed as an innovative way to generate transportation revenue by states that have seen gasoline tax dollars stagnate because of people driving less and cars becoming more fuel efficient. A task force that studied Ohio's transportation needs said that a mileage tax has the...

COLUMBUS -- A man once hired by Gov. Ted Strickland to head a state office because of his ties to Ohio's religious community stands accused of being involved in an online prostitution ring.

First Jeb drops out, then Kit Bond retires, now this. The lifeboats are filling up awfully fast. In other news, I am hearing rumors coming out of Ohio that Senator Voinovich is seriously considering making an announcement next week that he won’t be running for re-election. According to my sources, Rob Portman would likely be the Republican to replace him. This also opens up the GOP gubernatorial nomination for former Republican Congressman John Kasich. It’s just a rumor, but the Quinnipiac poll taken last month wasn’t exactly encouraging.

JACKSON, Ohio (WSAZ) -- Deputies say a bizarre shooting Sunday night involved a 4-year-old wielding a shotgun. The Jackson County, Ohio, Sheriff says some teenagers were babysitting some younger children in a mobile home just outside Jackson. The police report says a 4-year-old got angry after 18-year-old Nathan Beavers stepped on his foot. The reports say the boy then went into a back room, loaded a shell in a 20-gauge shotgun, came out and shot Beavers in the arm. The babysitter was hospitalized, but the injury was not life-threatening. Another teen was also hit with shotgun pellets. The sheriff says...

Governors of five U.S. states urged the federal government to provide $1 trillion in aid to the country's 50 states to help pay for education, welfare and infrastructure as states struggle with steep budget deficits amid a deepening recession. The governors of New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Ohio and Wisconsin -- all Democrats -- said the initiative for the two-year aid package was backed by other governors and follows a meeting in December where governors called on President-elect Barack Obama to help them maintain services in the face of slumping revenues. Gov. David Paterson of New York said 43 states...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wachovia Corp's shareholders approved the bank's takeover by rival Wells Fargo & Co on Tuesday, bringing one of the largest mergers stemming from the financial crisis near to completion. Separately, regional bank PNC Financial Services Group Inc said its planned takeover of National City Corp was approved by shareholders of both banks and is expected to close by December 31.

VIDEO HERE. Barack Obama stated his intention to bankrupt the coal industry in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle. That would throw countless people out of work, devastate the economy of many coal producing states, and send electricity prices skyrocketing for everyone. Sarah Palin opposes Barack's bankrupt plan and pledges to fight with everything she has for working Americans! Please ask everyone you know to vote for her Tuesday November 4th!!!

As John McCain prepared to return today to campaign in Ohio, he denounced what he considers an attack on his favorite everyman: "Joe the Plumber." The Republican presidential candidate reacted yesterday to a story in The Dispatch about the use of state computers to access personal information about "Joe" -- suburban Toledo resident Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher. State and local officials are investigating why his driver's-license and vehicle-registration information was accessed shortly after Wurzelbacher became a household name. Republicans, including McCain, painted the news as a politically motivated invasion of privacy and an attempt to dig up dirt.

From a Columbus Dispatch story on election developments in Ohio: Starting today, county elections boards can begin verifying voter eligibility for absentee ballots cast and discard envelopes to process ballots for scanning. Those envelopes are the only way to link a ballot with a particular voter. With that deadline looming, 13 Obama staff members sent letters yesterday to the Franklin County Board of Elections voluntarily withdrawing their voter registrations and any absentee ballots cast. County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien wrote to the campaigns this week reminding them that state law doesn't allow temporary residents to vote; voters must live at their...

President George W. Bush late Friday asked Attorney General Michael Mukasey to investigate whether hundreds of thousands of newly registered voters in the battleground state of Ohio would have to verify the information on their voter registration forms or be given provisional ballots, an issue the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in on last week.

Could Joe the Plumber become Joe the congressman? Joe Wurzelbacher, the most famous plumber in America thanks to John McCain and Sarah Palin, told conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham Friday he's considering a run for Congress in 2010. That would pit Wurzelbacher against longtime Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur for Ohio's 9th district on the state's northern border, which includes Toledo and Sandusky. "I'll tell you what, we'd definitely be in one heck of a fight, Marcy Kaptur definitely has a following in this area," he said of the possibility. "But, you know, I'd be up for it." Wurzelbacher's chances...

CINCINNATI, Ohio, OCT. 23, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI appointed Bishop Dennis Schnurr of Duluth, Minnesota, and treasurer of the U.S. episcopal conference, to be coadjutor archbishop of Cincinnati. The Archdiocese of Cincinnati announced last Friday that Archbishop Schnurr will succeed Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk, 74, upon the latter's retirement. "I hope that all the members of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati are as happy as I am about the appointment of Archbishop Dennis Schnurr as coadjutor archbishop of our local church," said Archbishop Pilarczyk. "I wish Archbishop Schnurr many years of fruitful and joyous service in our midst. I know that the...

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Further reinforcing the Stateside docket's return to life after the Vatican's summer recess, the Pope has named Bishop Dennis Schnurr of Duluth as coadjutor-archbishop of Cincinnati. His move announced this morning in Rome, the 60 year-old prelate (shown above with Benedict XVI last year) will assist -- and, in time, succeed -- the nation's longest-serving metropolitan, Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk, who reaches the retirement age of 75 next August. The likelihood of an advance check-in for the next leader of Ohio's 500,000-member mother-fold had been foreseen from early this year. A product of the NAC and Gregorian named to the...