Lisa Murtha

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"What advice would you give to someone who's newly married or about to be?" A profoundly moving moment on Pints with Aquinas as Matt Fradd asks the question to Catholic philosopher Peter Kreeft, who had just lost his wife of over 60 years. Unforgettable.

"Your great-grandmother was not trying to manifest a beach vacation. She was not curating an aesthetic. She was not optimizing...anything. She had a list, and the list was short, and the list was sacred. A full pantry. Healthy children. A roof that did not leak. A husband who came home. A garden that produced. A few good dresses. A reliable stove. Sunday dinner with people she loved. Enough flour for the week and enough kindness for the neighbors. That was the whole dream. That was the whole life. And by the standards of most of human history, achieving that list was a roaring success. Then the twentieth century happened, and somebody figured out that a woman who is content is terrible for business. A woman with a full pantry is not running to the store. A woman who is satisfied with her kitchen is not redoing it every four years. A woman who knows what enough looks like cannot be sold the next thing. So they got to work. They made the small house embarrassing. They made the old car embarrassing. They made the home-cooked meal embarrassing, and then when nobody knew how to cook anymore they sold it back as a meal kit with a celebrity chef on the box. They raised the cost of living until both parents had to work, and then they sold daycare and convenience food and weekend therapy to fix the exhaustion that working both jobs created in the first place. They took your great-grandmother's list and called it poverty. They took her life and called it limited. They took her contentment and called it a lack of ambition. And then they sold you ambition. They sold you a bigger house you cannot clean, a car you cannot pay off, a wardrobe you do not wear, a calendar you cannot survive, and a vague constant feeling that you are still falling behind. You are not falling behind. You are running a race that was designed to have no finish line. The race itself is the product. -copied and pasted author unknown

Did you know that Amy Acton and David Pepper's campaign lawyers—Elias Law Group—are the folks behind the Virginia referendum? The effort may produce a congressional map in the Old Dominion State that favors Democrats 10-1 over Republicans, despite 46% of Virginians voting for Trump in 2024. Wasn't David Pepper one of the Dems crowing about "gerrymandering" when Ohio created its congressional maps? Yes. Yes he was. He once wrote - according to an Ai deep search - (in tweets that have been erased): “The Ohio House not only wants to gerrymander the state…they get mad if people complain about it.” And then saying about the GOP efforts in Ohio to redistrict that it “violates the spirit and language of the Ohio Constitution, and the mandate of 70% of voters who voted to end partisan gerrymandering. Twice.” Ironically, what Pepper is criticizing is precisely what’s happening in Virginia right now – and being ushered in by the DC beltway law firm he and Amy Acton choose to work with. The law firm that is founded by Marc Elias – Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign lawyer and the guy in the middle of Fusion GPS, the Steele Dossier and the Russia Probe. What happened in Virginia last night: the nonpartisan commission (enacted by a constitutional amendment passed by 67.5% of voters) the same type of commission Pepper and Dems pushed for in Ohio (but failed to get with Issue 1) is being skipped over in favor of – you guessed it – a Democrat-controlled legislature drawing the congressional map. A map that will almost eliminate Republican representation in the state. If the principle of gerrymandering is something Pepper – and his running mate Amy Acton – opposes, then we can expect him to rebuff his law firm and denounce their efforts in Virginia, right? Because he’s opposed to “partisan gerrymandering that favors one party,” right? davidpepper.substack.com/p/d… #Ohio #OhioNews #AmyActon #DavidPepper

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Setup, Sabotage, Sting or Something Else? Ohio GOP candidate Rosemary Oglesby-Henry arrested for allegedly pointing a gun at accuser Kevin Farmer in her home—no weapon found by police. Farmer, a city council rival with prior assault charges against Oglesby-Henry, may be the real threat. First Black Republican woman eyeing OH-1 seat—smacks of dirty politics? Full story in the column. #OhioPolitics #Cincinnati #Breaking #GOP #OH1 #News theohiopressnetwork.com/news…