It’s not 45 million, it’s more like 10 million. The Business & Media Institute’s Julie Seymour has the details.

The 74th Carnival of Ohio Politics, compiled by the ever-gracious Lisa Renee at Glass City Jungle, is here.

It is a splendid collection indeed worthy of tungsten, the element, as Lisa noted, with the atomic number 74.

I’d be sympathetic to the Toledo Blade’s call for restoring “cuts” in Michigan’s higher education budget (more likely “reductions in projected increases”) made by the legislature and governor if I thought the universities themselves were making even the most minimal attempts at cost-cutting. Instead, the response has been huge tuition increases:

Michigan State University was forced to raise tuition by 9.6 percent, and Central Michigan University by an astounding 21 percent.

Forced, schmorced. The fact that the University of Michigan’s Cost of Attendance for in-state residents for the upcoming academic year (that is, I believe, before the next round of tuition hikes) is almost $21,000 for freshman and sophomores, and over $22,000 for juniors and seniors, is ridiculous. In-state tuition alone is within sight of $10 grand for frosh and sophs, and just under $11 grand for upperclassmen.

As pointed out here, “somehow” Florida’s colleges manage to get by charging only a small fraction of that. Someone from Michigan ought to go down there and find out how — and bring an Ohio delegation along to share costs. The only ground rule is that football and basketball are not to be discussed.

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Hillary’s lapdogs made a point of taking out Don Imus (HT The Corner via Instapundit). Not noted at the article — On Election Day in 2000, Imus made a special point of saying that as a Democrat he almost had himself convinced that he could vote for Hillary, but changed his mind in the voting booth. I don’t recall whether or not he said he voted for her GOP opponent Rick Lazio. But I do recall at the time telling myself “This guy is cruisin’ for a bruisin’. She will not forget this.”

Update: The country should not forget this (no link available; from a cardholder-only library database; bolds are mine):

 

New Square (the Skevere Hasidic group in Rockland County, NY — Ed.) has just had the colossal fortune of having four of their best in the can at a moment when an election brought them a United States senator who is a shoplifter. Her husband was taking armchairs and coffee tables as he left the White House. In the annals of thievery, there been nothing like this: The New Square four, who stole $40 million in federal funds, wind up with the president of the country as their can opener. Indications are that the wife did it all.

Every time Hillary Clinton passes a bank, the burglar alarm goes off.

Her name now and forevermore is Senator Shoplift.

 

….. the tan brick two-story school building at 105 Heyward St. ….. listed 1,544 students in a post-secondary school who were receiving Pell Grants. The students were an illusion, the government checks were not. The four administrators of the school cut up the grants. They made Kalman Stern the school chancellor or provost or whatever. He was listed as a 32-year-old genius. When a federal investigator finally got into the building he found that Kalman was 92. The registrar, Ayre Reich, wrote that he was glad he came to “America.” One student was found. Her name was Polyna, an English major who needed a Russian interpreter to speak to the investigator.

 

….. (In August 2000 — Ed.) She came to New Square even though women had been left outside in the rain when Al Gore appeared there. She came to see the Rebbe although he would not shake hands with her, as he does not with all women.

What did she care? Women’s rights? Embarrassment? Humiliation? What are these words about? I am going to win an election and take everything in sight, Senator Shoplift.

….. (In January 2007, outgoing President Bill) Clinton was delighted to meet with Senator Shoplift and two men from New Square and issue pardons to four.

….. (this was) the most indefensible case of corrupting the country we ever have had. This couple, these Clintons, these no account people, found a way to join the larceny on Heyward Street, which is in Williamsburg.

 

The author? Old-style liberal columnist Jimmy Breslin, who used the “Senator Shoplift” term in at least two columns (Jan. 31 and Feb. 4, 2001).
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Didn’t know this — It is against a 1996 federal law passed by a Republican Congress and signed by a Democrat President included a provision forbidding states to give in-state tuition to illegal immigrants and their families. 10 states have done so anyway in open defiance of the law. The feds have done nothing. Oh-so-predictable efforts to get Illegal Immigration Shamnesty passed on a piecemeal basis include a provision to overturn this.

In a sane world, taxpayer lawsuits in the 10 scofflaw states would easily overturn those state laws. Unfortunately, the absurd claim that taxpayers don’t have standing to bring such actions was used by the Supremes (third item at link) to throw out a lawsuit challenging a tax abatement in Ohio’s Lucas County (so who the bleep does?). There is a difference in the in-state tuition for illegals situation because there is a clear conflict between federal and state law, but I suspect that the courts would not find this difference persuasive.

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Even if she carries through with her threat to run against Nancy Pelosi for Congress, Cindy Sheehan has proven that she’s not serious about winning (HT Hot Air). Not running as a Democrat guarantees that she will lose. The relatively light-turnout primary would be the time to take out Pelosi, not the heavy-turnout November 2008 election, where San Fran Dems will vote for any “D” with a pulse. As batty as she is, Sheehan surely knows this.

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The Campaign for Ohio’s Future (Bankruptcy) failed to round up the petition signatures they needed to get their economy-crippling initiative on the ballot. In fact, contrary to my prediction, they didn’t even get close:

“The signatures that have been collected are valid even though we will not qualify for this November ballot. Basically, it can be used at any future time,” said Jim Betts, spokesperson for the campaign.

Needing 10 percent of the total gubernatorial vote from last November in signatures supporting the amendment, which comes to about 400,000, the petition drive brought in just 150,000 signatures and 160 resolutions of support from local school boards, according to the campaign.

I believe Mr. Betts’ claim about transportability to future elections is questionable. If the initiative’s wording is changed in any way, it is no longer what the petitioners agreed to when they signed.

From Bloomington, Illinois:

Sunday, July 8, 2007 11:02 PM CDT

BLOOMINGTON — Hy Roznowski got a perfect match.

We’re not talking about Donna, his wife of 53 years. But she’s been a good match too, and Roznowski said he couldn’t have survived the past 20 years without her.

The match we’re talking about is the heart he received 20 years ago Sunday — the one that saved his life.

On July 8, 1987, Roznowski, of Bloomington, made headlines in Central Illinois and in Kentucky when he got a heart transplant at Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Ky.

The procedure was newsworthy in Central Illinois because heart transplants among people here were rare at that time. In Louisville, the procedure was newsworthy because Roznowski was Jewish Hospital’s 36th heart transplant patient, making the hospital eligible for Medicare funds for transplants.

Now, Roznowski, 75, belongs to another group: people who have survived for 20 years after a heart transplant.

“I’ve got 25 more to go,” said Roznowski, a retired teacher known for his sense of humor. “I’m planning to live to be 100.”

Kim McCullough, of the Gift of Hope Organ & Tissue Donor Network, said that according to the publication Clinical Transplant 2005, about 12 people nationwide have survived for 20 years or longer after a heart transplant.

Go here for the rest of the story.