Border Crossing Crisis

The surge of young illegal immigrants flooding across our southern border is being called a crisis by the Department of Homeland Security. The Department of Health and Human Services is engaged in a massive effort to house and care for tens of thousands of minors who have survived a “death train” ride and extensive abuse on their dangerous trip to the USA.

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Common Core Forum at OUE

     As you may be aware, there is an ongoing conversation about the value, cost and effectiveness of the Common Core Standards Initiative. Many questions remain about the Standards from how they were developed to what impact they will have on school administrators, teachers, parents and most of all the students.

     On...

Electric Coal and Politics

     “When I was asked earlier about the issue of coal…under my plan, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket,” said then candidate for President, Barack Obama. The President spoke those during an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle editorial board documenting his energy policy and thus his “War on Coal...

HONORING BLACK AMERICAN HISTORY

     February is Black History Month and for a clear understanding of our nation’s history we must acknowledge that blacks as well as whites have played a pivotal role in ensuring our freedom and liberty in America over the last 300 years.

     That being said, every time the issue of race rel...

PRESS ADVISORY

(Open letter on Benghazi)

Many prominent people are calling for a Select Committee to investigate Benghazi on behalf of the families of Ambassador Christopher Stephens, U.S. Foreign Service Officer Sean Smith, Security Officers Glen Doherty and Ty W...

For the Record:

The main stream media says Republicans are doing poorly in the polls for trying to delay Obamacare and negotiate for less debt. Some people blame the Tea Party as extreme for speaking up about Obamacare and the spending problem.

Congressional Republicans entered the fight knowing they would get thrashed by the media while Obama and Senate Leader Reid beat them to a pulp. The Tea Party warned of obvious problems with Obamacare and huge debts.

IRS ADMITS TARGETING CONSERVATIVE

TEA PARTY GROUPS DURING 2012 ELECTION

We The People Ohio Valley demand Congressional investigation

A top Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official admitted to the deliberate targeting of conservative tea party and patriot groups by Federal officials in the run-up to the 2012 election. This stunning admission confirms the suspicions and complaints made by numerous tea partiers and other conservative groups during the ...

Perhaps it is time for Ohioans to question the wisdom of implementing President Obama’s Medicaid expansion plans for the existing system which is inefficient and flawed. According to the Heritage Foundation, with the expansion “Ohio would see increased spending in the first five years by $407 million and an increase on the budget by around $1 billion total by 2022 in the first scenario. Under a flat 90 percent match rate, costs increase from $...

The endorsement of the Kasich/Obama Medicaid expansion by Michael Gonidakis, former executive director of Ohio Right To Life, raises some questions (op-ed column, Feb. 27). Gonidakis supposedly left Ohio Right to Life this past December, well before this endorsement.

Gov. John Kasich appointed Gonidakis to a board that regulates doctors in October, before Gonidakis left Right to Life, and he evidently was confirmed on Feb. 28. Could it be that Gonidakis lobbied the Ohio Rig...