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Monday, April 7, 2014
Tea Party groups unite around core conservative values
Saturday, April 5, 2014
Fire Mozilla Firefox
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If you haven’t been following the firing resignation of
Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, Investors Business Daily reports :
In Mozilla Case, The Left's Intolerance Is Out Of The Closet
Intolerance: The left hounded a CEO from his job over a
2008 donation in favor of a California measure opposing gay marriage. So much
for free speech and job performance. This is a descent into mob tyranny and
mediocrity.
Here’s more on this chilling development at American Thinker.
There
are lots of ways to let the company know that they lost your support. If
you want to send Mozilla a message, uninstall their product. Go to your Control
Panel. Choose uninstall for Mozilla Firefox.
Before you do that, pick an alternative, perhaps Chrome, Opera, or Safari.
Newt Gingrich emailed
the following:
A Case of
Liberal Tolerance
As the inventor one of the web’s
foundational technologies, JavaScript, and the co-founder of the organization
behind one of its most popular browsers, Firefox, Brendan Eich has done more
than most people to promote a free society and an unrestricted exchange of
ideas.
But that didn’t count for much when
various tech and gay rights publications reacted with outrage to his recent
appointment as CEO, on the basis that he had donated $1,000 six years ago to
support California’s ban on same-sex marriage.
Eich had never advocated his beliefs
on the issue publicly, and there was no question about his treatment of or
respect for gay employees and associates at Mozilla. Yet that donation,
indicating a sliver of difference with the left, was enough to force him out of
his own company. He resigned yesterday.
Mozilla’s executive chairwoman
actually took to the company’s blog to apologize, apparently for appointing
someone as chief executive who had not acceded to every tenet of social
liberalism. “Mozilla prides itself on being held to a different standard,” she
wrote, “and, this past week, we didn’t live up to it. We know why people are
hurt and angry, and they are right: it’s because we haven’t stayed true to
ourselves.”
She's right, they haven’t. Having
spent decades preaching diversity and tolerance of different beliefs, the left
now refuses to tolerate different beliefs itself.
As Andrew Sullivan, a gay man himself
and an advocate of same-sex marriage, points out about the
Mozilla case, “What we have here is a social pressure to keep your beliefs
deeply private for fear of retribution. We are enforcing another sort of closet
on others. I can barely believe the fanaticism.”
“If we cannot live and work alongside
people with whom we deeply disagree,” he argues “we are finished as a liberal
society.”
The new bigotry is on the left, and
as Sullivan points out, it isn’t liberal at all. It’s totalitarian. Consider
that the Mozilla Corporation and those who screamed for Eich’s resignation
assert that his deviation from social liberalism is not just a cause for
criticism, but a disqualification for employment. They are literally arguing
that his private thoughts about an issue like marriage should prevent him from
holding a job.
The ability to kill a man’s job, of
course, is devastating. Thousands of people donated to Proposition 8 and
similar efforts, and their names are listed in public databases. Are all of
their jobs now at risk? How about people who have contributed to candidates
supporting traditional marriage? Are all of them unfit as coworkers?
(And if, by the way, having opposed
same-sex marriage in 2008 is a disqualification for employment today, will the
enforcers of liberal toleration be going after President Obama or Hillary
Clinton as their next project?)
Perhaps most outrageous of all, these
people have called for Eich’s resignation, most likely, for his religious
beliefs. Anti-religious bigotry is as repulsive as any other form
of bigotry. Yet it is becoming more pronounced on the left all the time.
Freedom of thought and religious
liberty will be central issues of the next generation. Already both in
government and in civil society, there are movements devoted to forcing
Americans to renounce or to violate their consciences. Mozilla, along with the
Hobby Lobby and Little Sisters of the Poor cases before the Supreme Court, are
just a few of the most recent examples.
A lot rides on these cases. We can’t
afford to shrink from defending our civil liberties, or we won’t have any left
to defend. [end message from Newt]
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Good reason to uninstall Mozilla Firefox.
Health Care Compact (HB 227) Passes out of OH House Committee
From State Rep. Wes Retherford --
Health Care Compact Bill Passes From Committee, Awaits Vote In House
Proposal will give Ohio more control over costs and health care outcomes
April 02, 2014
Columbus - State Representative Wes Retherford (R-Hamilton) has announced that House Bill 227—legislation that would enter Ohio into a multi-state health care compact—has passed from the House State and Local Government Committee.A multi-state health care compact would allow Ohio to have full control over the federal health care dollars spent within the state, which in Ohio alone would equate to $35 billion annually.
Additionally, states within the compact have the authority to craft their own health care systems and regulations to best suit their individual needs, rather than relying on centralized control by the federal government.
“In terms of health care, I do not believe that the current ‘one size fits all’ ideology used by the federal government works,” said Rep. Retherford, who jointly sponsored House Bill 227 with State Representative Terry Boose (R-Norwalk). “Instead, I think that each state deserves to decide what is needed. Ohio knows what’s best for Ohioans. That is the bottom line and that is what we are trying to do with this bill.”
Eight states have passed health care compact legislation. The compact would go into effect with the approval of the U.S. Congress.
House Bill 227 now awaits a vote by the full House.
Obama's Deportation Rate Hits Record Low - NOT Record High!
From Ernest Istook --
Although the Obama administration claims deportations have hit an all-time high, they’ve actually hit record lows, covered-up by a shell game of phony numbers, said Jessica Vaughan, the Center for Immigration Studies’ director of Policy Studies.
Ms. Vaughan’s report went viral Monday morning about how 68,000 convicted criminals were released by immigration officials last year rather than deported. She revealed the bigger bombshell about phony deportation numbers during her interview on my talk radio show Monday afternoon on The Washington Times Radio Network.
The true number of deportations in 2013 was 135,000, the lowest since 1973, she told me — only one third of the 400,000 that is often claimed.
“These numbers show that the president is hardly the deporter-in-chief as so many of the ethnic advocacy groups have tried to paint him,” she told me. “A better title would be releaser-in-chief … because ICE is now releasing more illegal aliens than they are trying to deport when their agents find them in the interior of the country.”
How do they manipulate the numbers?
She described a cover-up that substitutes numbers from the Border Patrol — which apprehends those who have newly crossed our borders — and using them to pump up ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), which is supposed to apprehend and deport violators from the interior. Those apprehended by the Border Patrol are transferred to ICE custody just before being returned to their country of origin, enabling ICE to claim a statistic but without having to enforce the laws in the heartland.
“It’s really just a shell game of numbers,” Ms. Vaughan said. “But the kind of enforcement that most people would notice, which is in our communities, has gone down very dramatically in the last couple of years”
And how about the 68,000 convicted criminals who ICE had in their custody — but then released last year?
“Crime is not a job Americans won’t do,” she said. Yet, “people who have committed crimes here are being sent back to our communities when they should be sent home to their countries. These policies create real victims.”
ICE’s official internal reports unfortunately do not detail the specific offenses involved, but Ms. Vaughan said ICE chooses to treat as lesser offenses certain assaults, vandalism, sex crimes, and DUI’s. She described those drunken drivers as “a serious hazard on the roadways but not being taken seriously by immigration officials … until you get to three convictions or more.”
For someone killed or injured by a drunk driver, that’s three convictions too late.
The entire interview with Jessica Vaughan is available in the podcast of my March 31st show, and is on The Washington Times’ radio page: http://www.washingtontimes.com/radio/
Ernest Istook spent 25 years in public office, including 14 years in Congress. He was rated one of the top 25 conservatives in the U.S. House of Representatives. Then was a Heritage Foundation fellow and a fellow at Harvard’s Insitute of Politics, where he led a study group on Propaganda in American Politics Today.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Ohio Early Voting: 2014 Election
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Early voting for the May 6, 2014 Primary Election has started. To get your Vote by Mail Application, please click here.
Voters have until 9 p.m. Tuesday, April 7, to register to vote or make address changes. Voters who have a driver’s license or an official state ID can make address changes online at the secretary of state’s website.
We would also like to note that, as usual, in this primary election we again see the Democrats, this time joined by the black pastors in the Cleveland area, purposely misleading voters with false information claiming voter suppression over recent changes to early voting in Ohio.
To counter this shameful attempt to mislead voters we have included this link to arm you the facts regarding these false claims of voter suppression and to help educate the public.
For a Voter Guide created by the League of Women Voters and the N/E Ohio Media Group (Plain Dealer) please click here.
Below is the list of candidates running in GOP Primary Races in the Cuyahoga County area.
Congress District 9
Richard May (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Richard-May-for-Congress)
Matt Lynch (http://www.mattlynch.com/)
Senate District 23
Harry Ristmae
To counter this shameful attempt to mislead voters we have included this link to arm you the facts regarding these false claims of voter suppression and to help educate the public.
For a Voter Guide created by the League of Women Voters and the N/E Ohio Media Group (Plain Dealer) please click here.
Below is the list of candidates running in GOP Primary Races in the Cuyahoga County area.
Issues
Issue 7 (Sin Tax Extension) -- Vote No (Click here to follow and help Anti-Sin Tax Coalition)
Congressional Races
Congress District 9
Richard May (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Richard-May-for-Congress)
Robert Horrcocks (http://www.horrocksforcongress.com)
Congress District 14
Matt Lynch (http://www.mattlynch.com/)
OH Senate Races
Senate District 23
Harry Ristmae
Tom Haren (http://haren2014.com)
OH House Races
House District 76
Linda O'Brien (Write-In) (http://lindajobrien.us)
Sarah LaTourette (http://sarahlatourette.com/)
Senate District 21 (Male)
Joe Miller
OH Republican Party State Central Committee
Joe Miller
Dave Gunning
Senate District 24 (Male)
Jack Boyle
Jeff Dean
Senate District 24 (Female)
Nancy Suhadolnick
Nancy Suhadolnick
Cynthea Sabolich
Senate District 25 (Female)
Brittany Williams
Denise Verdi
The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections is in the need for Republican Poll Workers. Click below to become a poll worker and do your part to keep integrity in the election process.
The Cuyahoga County Board of Elections is in the need for Republican Poll Workers. Click below to become a poll worker and do your part to keep integrity in the election process.
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Join the Counter Rally against Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants
On Monday March 31, 2014 a new national amnesty organization, Fast for Families, will roll into Painesville, OH for a rally in support of amnesty for illegal immigrants.
Painesville is one of the stops on the Fast for Families Bus Tour for Immigration Reform & Citizenship targeting the 14th Congressional District as they have/will done in over 100 other districts across the country.
Some of the sponsors of Fast for Families Bus Tour include America's Voice, National Council of La Raza and SEIU to name only a few.
To stand as a voice of opposition to this event please join our friends the Grassroots Rally Team of Ohio in a counter protest as they stand against Amnesty and in solidarity supporting our existing immigration laws being enforced and our borders secured.
Date: Monday March 31, 2014
Time: 5:00 P.M. - 7:00 P.M.Where: 1 Victoria Square, Painesville, OH
Map: http://goo.gl/maps/A8VVU
Please bring your flags and appropriate signs if you wish, such as “No Amnesty”, “Enforce Our Immigration Laws”, etc..
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It should also be noted while this pro-amnesty event is being held in Painesville - a Sanctuary City - the Grassroots Rally Team played a vital role in helping to defeat a Pro-Amnesty Resolution being considered by the City of Painesville.
Yes - you read that right! A resolution in support of amnesty was defeated in a Sanctuary City by a conservative group(s) and individuals. You can help continue this fight and join the Grassroots Rally Team of Ohio & other Patriots this Monday!
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Alert: College Board’s Advanced Placement U.S. history course
The 6th rule of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals is:
Education – Take control of what people read and listen to – take control of what children learn in school.
Americans have ben waking up to the
threat posed by Common Core as a means of control over K-12 curricula. OhioansAgainst Common Core are working to get our state legislators to reject it, as
just happened in our neighbor state of Indiana. Bravo Indiana!
As bad as Common Core is, there is
another threat that is just as destructive: it's a frightening change in the College
Board’s Advanced Placement U.S. history course. From Heartland.org:
A dramatic, unilateral change is taking place
in the content of the College Board’s Advanced Placement U.S. history course.
In fall 2014, almost half a million high school sophomores and juniors will
learn a very different version of U.S. history from the course of study now in
place. Currently, a five-page topical outline gives teachers clear guideline
for their course. This long-established outline conforms to the sequence of
topics state and local boards of education have approved. In contrast, the new,
redesigned Framework is a detailed 98-page document that does far more than list required
topics.
This change in format is best described as a
curricular coup that sets a number of dangerous precedents. By providing a
detailed course of study that defines, discusses, and interprets “the required
knowledge of each period,” the College Board has in effect supplanted local and
state curriculum by unilaterally assuming the authority to prioritize historic
topics. This inevitably means that some topics will be magnified in importance
while others will be minimized or even omitted. If concerned parents,
educators, and elected public officials do not speak out, the College Board
(led by David Coleman, generally considered the architect of the Common Core
national standards) will continue to develop similar frameworks for its 33
other Advanced Placement (AP) courses and thus become an unelected de facto legislature for America’s public and
private high schools.
Frowning at American History
The new Framework inculcates a consistently
negative view of American culture. For example, the units on colonial America
stress the development of a “rigid racial hierarchy” and a “strong belief in
British racial and cultural superiority.” The Framework ignores the United
States’ founding principles and their influence in inspiring the spread of
democracy and galvanizing the movement to abolish slavery. The Framework
continues this theme by reinterpreting Manifest Destiny—rather than a belief
that America has a mission to spread democracy and new technologies across the
continent, the Framework teaches that it “was built on a belief in white racial
superiority and a sense of American cultural superiority.”
The units on colonial America focus
unbalanced attention on the conflicts between the colonists and Native
Americans. While students will learn about the Beaver Wars, Chickasaw Wars, and
King Philip’s War, they will learn little or nothing about the rise of
religious toleration, the development of democratic institutions, and the
emergence of a society that included a rich mix of ethnic groups.
A particularly troubling failure of the
Framework is its dismissal of the Declaration of Independence and the
principles so eloquently expressed there. The Framework’s entire discussion of
this seminal document consists of just one phrase in one sentence: “The
colonists’ belief in the superiority of republican self-government based on the
natural rights of the people found its clearest American expression in Thomas
Paine’s Common Sense and in the Declaration of
Independence.” The Framework thus ignores the philosophical underpinnings of
the Declaration and the willingness of the signers to pledge “our lives, our
fortunes, and our sacred honor” to the cause of freedom.
Ignoring Cultural Giants
The Framework also sidesteps any discussion
of the personalities and achievements of American giants whose courage and
conviction helped build our country. It excises Benjamin Franklin, James
Madison, and the other founders from the United States’ story. George
Washington’s historical contributions are reduced to a brief sentence fragment
noting his Farewell Address. Two pages later, the Framework grants teachers the
flexibility to discuss the architecture of Spanish missions, which presumably
merits more attention than the heroes of 1776.
The Framework consistently highlights
negative events while ignoring positive achievements. For example, although it
does not mention the sacrifices U.S. civilians and armed forces made to defeat
fascism, it does recommend that teachers focus on “[w]artime experiences, such
as the internment of Japanese Americans, challenges to civil liberties, debates
over race and segregation, and the decision to drop the atomic bomb [which]
raised questions about American values.”
AP U.S. History should give students a
balanced curriculum that acknowledges both America’s founding principles and
its continuing struggles to be faithful to those principles. Instead, the new
College Board Framework seems determined to create a cynical generation of what
it calls “apprentice historians.” Is this really what we want our children to
learn about America’s history?
The AP US History Framework is not a fait accompli. There is still time for parents,
educators and public officials to closely scrutinize it and then demand a new
curriculum that does not trump state curricular requirements with warmed-over
political correctness.
Another topic to discuss with your legislators at Bring Your Legislator To Class Day on April 9.
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