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“Methinks [...] that you could buy Greenland, for that money [...] you could certainly install pull up bars in every airport in America, thereby solving the health crisis in America.”

Ohio AG to probe allegations against Columbus Zoo ex-execs JULIE CARR SMYTH, Associated Press April 1, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3FILE—This file photo from May 22, 2014, shows Jack Hanna, Director Emeritus of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, right, Betty White, actress and longtime animal advocate, center, and Tom Stalf, then President and CEO of Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, left, at the grand opening of the Heart of Africa exhibit at the Columbus Zoo & Aquarium. Ohio Attorney G...

STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Mississippis longest-running film festival is now underway...

(AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File) The crew over at The Dispatch is having a normal one. As I wrote yesterday, Jonah Goldberg let it be known that he could never forgive Ron DeSantis for how he ran his gubernatorial campaign, despite the fact that he triumphed over a rabidly left-wing, absolute degenerate in Andrew Gillum (see Never Trump Come for Ron DeSantis and When All You Do Is Hate Trump, Everything Looks Like Trump). Apparently, support for disastrous foreign policy and abortion aren’t red ...

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The early stage discussions include former elected Republicans, former officials in the Republican administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Trump, ex-Republican ambassadors and Republican strategists, the people involved say. More than 120 of them held a Zoom call last Friday to discuss the breakaway group, which would run on a platform of “principled conservatism,” including adherence to the Constitution and the rule of law – ideas those involved say have be...

Heather Cox Richardson Offers a Break From the Media Maelstrom. It’s Working. She is the breakout star of the newsletter platform Substack, doing the opposite of most media as she calmly situates the news of the day in the long sweep of American history. Heather Cox Richardson, a history professor at Boston College, is more or less by accident the most successful independent journalist in America.Credit...Tristan Spinski for The New York Times Published Dec. 27, 2020Updated Dec. 30, 2020 Last...

Letters: Protest fireworks, nanny state, vaccine hope and HB6 Letters to the editor Articles claims need more investigation Wednesdays online article "Man indicted for rioting, shooting fireworks at police during Columbus protests", stated that a homeless man “is accused of firing commercial-grade fireworks at police officers during a protest in May.” First, let me correct The Dispatch:  it was a riot, not a protest.  Second, I must ask where a homeless man got “commercial-grade” fi...

All Americans need to recognize racism When The Dispatch launched “Black Out” – a nine-part series looking at the impact of racism in central Ohio as described by Black people who have lived with it – a reader questioned why. Why talk about those long-ago issues of the 1960s? Why dredge up old problems? The question answers itself. The reader’s question demonstrates why we need more discussion and understanding of racism. The Black Out series, which began last Sunday and concludes on ...

What? he calls nonemergency and he says knowing full well, given the benefit of the history the state wants you to use to convict him. knows he was being recorded. hes done it before. so he says in the call -- im not going to play it for you again. youve heard it more times than most people. and he called him an asshole. he didnt call him an asshole. but he said these assholes. that group of people who in the past have gotten away. so he called. and he spoke ton t the dispatch. and he went throu...