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More than half of Americans depend on government subsidies

From RT.com – Gov­ern­ment depen­dency is on the rise, with more than half of all Amer­i­cans rely­ing on the gov­ern­ment for sur­vival. While the Obama admin­is­tra­tion is broad­en­ing eli­gi­bil­ity, US cit­i­zens increas­ingly also say they pre­fer it this way. Amer­i­cans’ self-reliability has been decreas­ing as eli­gi­bil­ity for Med­ic­aid, food stamps, earned income tax credit, work pay […]

The overcriminalization of America: Are we all criminals now?

By John W. White­head – August 6, 2012 – Under the blaz­ing Ari­zona sun stands an encamp­ment of mil­i­tary tents filled with some 2,000 peo­ple. They bat­tle the heat by posi­tion­ing them­selves in front of a few large fans, but they are of lit­tle use when tem­per­a­tures reach 145 degrees. Stun fences sur­round the perimeter, […]

Addressing wrongful foreclosures in Ohio

By State Sen­a­tor Sher­rod Brown – If you’re one of the thou­sands of Ohio fam­i­lies who has expe­ri­enced the pain of los­ing your home to a wrong­ful fore­clo­sure, help could finally be on the way. But you must act quickly. Before the reports of wide­spread fore­clo­sure fraud two years ago, Ohio had 14 con­sec­u­tive years […]

Obamacare (Obamatax) contains 20 new or higher taxes on American families and small businesses

By Nel­son Hack, Mt. Gilead — Tax­pay­ers need to be reminded that the president’s health­care law cited as the ‘‘Patient Pro­tec­tion and Afford­able Care Act’’ (PPACA), is one of the largest tax increases in Amer­i­can his­tory. The Health Care and Edu­ca­tion Rec­on­cil­i­a­tion Act of 2010 (Pub.L. 111–152, 124 Stat. 1029) is a law that was […]

New ideology is turning U.S. into a nation of ‘entitlement’ junkies

From the Asso­ci­a­tion of Mature Amer­i­can Cit­i­zens BOHEMIA, NY, July 13 — “Amer­ica was founded and grew pow­er­ful because its cit­i­zens had ini­tia­tive and an entre­pre­neur­ial spirit. They worked hard and sought suc­cess. But, a new ide­ol­ogy is being intro­duced in the U.S. that saps the will to work and has the poten­tial of turn­ing us […]

What price do you place on quality of life?

By Terry Lyn Grange – We have some­thing valu­able in Mor­row County. Aes­thet­ics. I would hate to lose it. I’ve been doing a lot of dri­ving through our back roads lately and I’ve found the quaint and the quirky. I’ve seen some­one mow­ing a large yard with an old timey push mower. I’ve seen a […]

Oil and gas lobbyist claims fracking well residue “good as candy!”

By Donna Carver — Mr. Thomas E Stew­art, lob­by­ist for the Oil and Gas indus­try and exec­u­tive direc­tor of Ohio Oil and Gas Asso­ci­a­tion based out Granville Ohio, tes­ti­fied before the House Pub­lic Util­i­ties Com­mis­sion on May 22nd, 2012 con­cern­ing Gov­er­nor Kasich’s ‘Energy Bill’, SB 315. Many amend­ments were offered to SB 315 con­cern­ing full […]

Ohio legislators outlaw new ownership of dangerous exotic animals

COLUMBUS, OH – The Ohio Leg­is­la­ture passed the Dan­ger­ous Wild Ani­mal Act, which Gov­er­nor John Kasich has promised to sign, out­law­ing new own­er­ship of dan­ger­ous wild ani­mals after more than 100,000 peo­ple joined a pop­u­lar cam­paign on Change.org, the world’s fastest-growing plat­form for social change. Liz Dum­ler, an Ohio native and recent Ohio Uni­ver­sity graduate, […]

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