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Friday, April 11, 2014

Illegal immigrants don't want to be Americans; they want money: Kevin O'Brien


Below is an excellent column by the Plain Dealer's Kevin O'Brien on the difference between immigrants wanting to come here here for a better life and to become an American citizen and illegal immigrants coming here and sucking the system dry....

From Cleveland.Com -- 


Back in 2008, before then-Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora’s world started to crumble in earnest, I penned a little song parody about his throwing a couple of Plain Dealer reporters out of a news conference. They were questioning him about a county employee whose hiring looked a lot like cronyism.

It was titled “That’s Dimora”and was sung to the tune of “That’s Amore.”

A couple of days later, a delegation of guys — most of whom you’ve probably at least heard of — dropped by the editorial writers' department to chew me out for disrespecting Italians. Every one of them was as American as an apple pie chaser after a big plate of lasagna. Solid citizens. Here for the duration. Completely invested in the United States of America.

In one particular case, American and proooooooud of it.

They obviously had great love for their ethnic heritage, but they weren’t straddling continents. Their lives were here. Their families were here. Their businesses were here. Their future was here. And the most meaningful parts of their past were here.

I’m confident that if someone ran an Italian flag up the schoolhouse pole above Old Glory, to a man they would have taken offense. Because, to a man, they love this country. Somewhere along each of their lineages, some gutsy forebear risked everything to come here — legally, one would surmise — and stayed to make a life and to contribute to a better, stronger America.

They didn’t forget their heritage, but they aren’t confused about where their allegiance lies.

Contrast that with the vast majority of “immigrants,” who arrive illegally and with no interest whatsoever in contributing to a better, stronger America. They’re immigrants only in the sense that they have entered from another country. They stay as long as it suits them, or until they get caught.

Citizenship is the very last thing on their minds. Money is the very first.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush got the money motivation absolutely right when he rhapsodized about illegal “immigrants” on Sunday, during an event at the George Bush Presidential Library. The rest of it, he mangled beyond recognition:

“The way I look at this is someone who comes to our country because they couldn’t come legally, they come to our country because their families — the dad who loved their children — was worried that their children didn’t have food on the table. And they wanted to make sure their family was intact, and they crossed the border because they had no other means to work to be able to provide for their family. Yes, they broke the law, but it’s not a felony. It’s an act of love. It’s an act of commitment to your family.”

OK, Mexico is a hell of a mess. It’s corrupt. Its oil riches have been horribly mismanaged, and what hasn’t been squandered has been stolen by the people in charge. It’s drug-ridden, gang-ridden and poverty-ridden. Getting out of there has to have tremendous appeal.

But they can’t do it legally, so their lives stay there, even when their bodies are here. And going back with a bag of dollars earned up north in the land of opportunity has a lot of appeal, too.

Their apologists remind us constantly that the United States is “a nation of immigrants.” And so it is. But let’s not flatter today’s illegals by calling them immigrants. They’re just visitors, here on their own, individually conceived guest-worker program.

The immigrants of previous generations came here looking for opportunity and wealth, too. But the vast majority did so with no thought of returning. They packed what they could, booked passage on ships, said goodbye to everyone they knew and disembarked days or weeks later at Ellis Island. They were committed to being in the United States because they were convinced that the United States was the best place in the whole world to make a life.

They came to be Americans, not to be Italian or Irish or Polish people merely residing in the United States, with roots and plans no deeper than a mailing address.

That, too, was an act of love — love for the things they understood America to stand for.

They came to be Americans, not just to take what they could get and head for home as soon as they thought they had enough or felt the law closing in. They didn’t break the law to come, in hopes of being hired by an employer willing to break the law, under the nose of a government that declines to enforce the law. They came to learn and assimilate into the culture, not to change the culture so it resembled what they had left behind.

America, meanwhile, doesn’t exist because the Founding Fathers made an act of commitment to their families. Far from it.

America exists because of enormous risks — to lives, to fortunes, to sacred honor, to families — taken by people who believed strongly enough in the ideals laid out in the Declaration of Independence to commit everything to them.

You won’t find any such commitment in today’s illegal “immigrants.” They’re here to use America. And while they’re here, they, in turn, are used to increase the political power of groups that cynically play on the emotions of good-hearted, soft-headed people — like Jeb Bush.

It’s good that he spoke up the way he did, because in doing so he torpedoed his already extremely slim chance at the Republican presidential nomination. That was a public service. So was giving Americans reason to re-examine the point of immigration.

If immigration is to make any sense, it must benefit both sides — the new arrival and his new nation. In no way does the scant benefit of cheap labor begin to offset the damage that is being done to American law and culture.


Kevin O’Brien is The Plain Dealer’s deputy editorial page editor.

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Cleveland-area bingo players say No Dice on Sin Tax!

From the Coalition Against The Sin Tax --
Earlier this week, the Coalition Against the Sin Tax (C.A.S.T.) visited a popular Cleveland-area bingo game to speak with citizens about Issue 7 — the proposed $260+ million Sin Tax on alcohol and cigarettes that Cuyahoga County’s business and political leaders want to take from the County’s residents to give to Cleveland’s pro sports teams for improvements to their facilities. 

Not surprisingly, the bingo players were none too pleased with the idea of the sports owners reaching back into their kitty....


Unfortunately, there’s far too much doubt as to whether informed opinions of regular Clevelanders will be heard in this low-turnout May election, especially with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of “Keep Cleveland Strong” propaganda flooding the County like something out of an Orwell novel. 

Which makes it especially important for folks to inform themselves and stand up for themselves, including in Cuyahoga County on May 6 by voting no on Issue 7.


Join in the fight to stop the Sin Tax! (Vote No on Issue 7)

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Monday, April 7, 2014

Tea Party groups unite around core conservative values

Art credit: politicaloutcast.com


PRESS RELEASE
Monday, April 7th, 2014
For Immediate Release
Contact:Barbara Gonzalez
BayshoreTeaPartyGroup
908-902-5728 
Ann Marie Ubelis
 Beaufort Tea Party Group
843-473-7712 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE    

TEA PARTY GROUPS CONTINUE TO UNITE IN JOINT STATEMENT - TAKE A STAND ON THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
  

MIDDLETOWN, NEW JERSEY  -  April 7th, 2014      

THE LIST KEEPS GROWING! 
In less than a month, other conservative groups in the country have added their names as signatories to a Press Release sent in early March, stating that they will NO LONGER accept an RNC  'anointed' candidate who, more than likely, would be considered by these groups to be a moderate republican.
In the original Press Release, the following was stated: 


It is time for the GOP to choose a candidate who reflects the values and core principles that were once that of the Republican party, and propelled Ronald Reagan to landslide victories in 1980 and 1984 - namely: smaller government, lower taxes and respect for the rule of Constitutional law.


In the event a moderate or liberal republican is nominated by the GOP in 2016, the TEA Party and Conservative groups that joined together in this statement, have pledged to refuse any support for that nominee and urge all concerned Americans who believe in liberty, prosperity, smaller government and fiscal responsibility, to join them in their action. 


Rich Luzzi -  Morris County TEA Party, (NJ) had this to add:  
"While the GOP symbol is an elephant, and elephants have long memories, the GOP establishment  has a very short memory.  The establishment continues to push left of center Presidential candidates and calls them "moderates".  But being "socialist-light" is not the way to reach the masses. 

Most people want to live the American Dream, and pass a better life on to their children.  But both parties policies are doing the opposite, leaving us worse off and a darker future for our children.  Voter dissatisfaction with both parties can be seen in the steep decline in voter participation since 2008.  If the GOP wants engaged voters, and overwhelming victories, it needs to nominate and back a conservative candidate who can synthesize and communicate the conservative message, because the conservative message IS the American Dream."

Ralph King, Co-Coordinator  - Cleveland TEA Party Partriots, said: 
"The GOP has shown they are unable to win elections with weak candidates that do not embrace the values of the Tea Party movement that brought them historical & landslide victories in 2010."  

"Mr. Priebus, Speaker Boehner and the rest of the GOP establishment elite, please be advised, that in no uncertain terms - should you choose to ignore the message from the undersigned groups - it will be at your own political peril."

The following is the updated list of signatories as of April 7th, 2014:

 - Bayshore TEA Party Group - New Jersey 
 - East Jersey TEA Party Group - New Jersey 
 - West Jersey TEA Party Group - New Jersey
 - New Jersey TEA Party Caucus - New Jersey
 - Ventura County TEA Party - California
 - Aroostook County TEA Party - Maine
 - Bakersfield TEA Party - California
 - New York TEA Party Coalition - New York 
 - Beaufort TEA Party - South Carolina 
 - Morris County TEA Party - A NJ-non-profit corp.
 - TeamNJ - New Jersey
 - TPATH - New Jersey                                        
 - Cleveland TEA Party - Ohio
 - Wood County TEA Party - West Virginia 
 - Skylands TEA Party - New Jersey 
 - CNY (Central New York) TEA Party - New York 
 - East Bay TEA Party - Contra Costa County California 
 - Firelands Patriots of Eerie County - Ohio 
 - Mansfield TEA Party - Ohio 
 - Cincinnati TEA Party - Ohio 
  
As the election nears, more TEA Party and Conservative groups will sign this action and join their 
website: 

Check back on their website for updates: http://norino2016.webs.com/  

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Saturday, April 5, 2014

Fire Mozilla Firefox

Art credit: blog.asmartbear.com


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


Click to get your Vote by Mail Application

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.


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)




Congress District 14 

OH Senate Races

Senate District 23

Harry Ristmae


OH House Races
House District 76

Linda O'Brien  (Write-In)  (http://lindajobrien.us)

Sarah LaTourette   (http://sarahlatourette.com/)


OH Republican Party State Central Committee


Senate District 21 (Male)

Joe Miller

Dave Gunning

Senate District 24 (Male)

Jack Boyle

Jeff Dean

Senate District 24 (Female)

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.