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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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What’s the difference between a “citizen” and a “subject? In colonial times, King George would have said his people were both. A new hi-tech historical find shows Thomas Jefferson saw a difference, and chose his words carefully. The original draft of the Declaration of Independence contains many erasures, smudges and cross-outs. (Cross-outs and erasures are [...]
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We went to the mat this week and saved you a cool million dollars on the rent for the Auditor’s Office over the next two years. It seems there’s a surplus of vacant office space in downtown Columbus, and we were able to negotiate a new lease that dropped our rent by more than $5 a square foot. Now the [...]
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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. [...]
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 [...]
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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