Posted by admin - March 25, 2012 - Blog
During another campaign season long ago, Abraham Lincoln warned that a house divided against itself cannot stand. Tonight, his warning should still echo in our ears, here in this house that he built… this Grand Old Republican Party. At many levels over the last year we have debated – argued, and even fought amongst ourselves. [...]
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Posted by admin - February 20, 2012 - Blog
This is the text of a speech I delivered February 18th 2012 at the Ohio Christian Alliance Freedom Luncheon before Rick Santorum’s keynote. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the [...]
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Posted by admin - January 19, 2012 - Blog
During the last five years, more than 17,000 people in Ohio have reported their food stamp benefit cards lost or stolen at least 10 times. Here’s a virtual certainty: many of those cards weren’t lost or stolen – they were sold, illegally. Here’s another certainty: the scam means there are kids going to bed hungry. [...]
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Posted by admin - November 23, 2011 - Blog
Here’s the original proclamation by our first president. I don’t know what I could add to say it any better. May you and your families have a blessed and happy day of thanksgiving. By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation. Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the [...]
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Posted by admin - November 11, 2011 - Blog
Yesterday, at the Veteran’s Hall of Fame reception, I met a man who had been a POW in WWII. He’d been an enlisted man, and had been sent to a work camp – a place where he’d been forced to slave at hard labor on starvation rations. He was there a year. There was a [...]
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Posted by admin - September 18, 2011 - Blog
Inmates at the Sandusky County jail are raising their own food instead of sitting idly in their cells. The taxpayers are the beneficiaries – and Sheriff Kyle Overmyer is a Taxpayer Hero. I stopped by the jail during a trip to northwest Ohio on Friday. As I arrived, I noticed a neat, modern jail with [...]
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Posted by admin - September 11, 2011 - Blog
A famous Washington Post columnist wrote this week that – once we have remembered September 11 this week – it is time to put the day behind us. The timing was disrespectful, but his thesis is foolish. America is not weaker as a result of 9-11. If we are weaker than we once were, it [...]
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Posted by admin - August 30, 2011 - Blog
Among the sloppy and untrue ideas that stain our civic fabric is this: that governments may do whatever they deem proper, as long as the ends are good. I emphatically disagree – and that’s how I ended up in a fight this week with Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald. For the last several years, Cuyahoga [...]
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Posted by admin - August 5, 2011 - Blog
You may have never heard of Ely, Nevada, population 4,255. But the federal government writes a check for $3,700 every time one of its residents steps on to a half-empty airplane at its tiny airport. The federal subsidy for Ely – and other little airports like it – are the argument behind the partial FAA [...]
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Posted by admin - July 11, 2011 - Blog
Here’s a dangerous idea circulating in Washington: an obscure provision of the 14th Amendment allows the President to ignore the debt ceiling law and do what he wants – that Congress does not matter. It may be time for Congress to go to court to clip the wings of the Imperial Presidency. Is it real? [...]
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