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 Amicus Brief highlights Ohio Health Care Freedom Amendment as evidence of mandate’s unconstitutionality
Columbus, OH – The 1851 Center for Constitutional Law today submitted to the United States Supreme Court a “friend of the court” brief asserting that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate is unconstitutional. The brief highlights for the High Court Ohioans’ placement of the Ohio Health Care Freedom Amendment (“Issue 3″) in Ohio’s Bill of Rights, and its role in the Court’s analysis of whether the mandate withstands constitutional scrutiny.
The individual health insurance mandate, described as a “minimum essential coverage requirement” in the PPACA, attempts to require each citizen of the United States to purchase a qualifying heath insurance policy that, thus far, must cover items ranging from substance abuse and mental health coverage to maternity care. Through requiring these coverages and others, the mandate is expected to drive up costs of health insurance premiums nationwide.
Continue reading Ohioans Submit Brief to United States Supreme Court Challenging Constitutionality of Individual Mandate
 A mother in Hoke County complains her daughter was forced to eat a school lunch because a government inspector determined her home-made lunch did not meet nutrition requirements. In fact, all of the students in the NC Pre-K program classroom at West Hoke Elementary School in Raeford had to accept a school lunch in addition to their lunches brought from home.
NC Pre-K (before this year known as More at Four) is a state-funded education program designed to “enhance school readiness” for four year-olds.
Read the entire story.
 By Howard Fischer, Capitol Media Services
Attorney General Tom Horne accused the Obama administration Tuesday of trying to thwart Arizona’s voter-ID laws in a bid to get more illegal immigrants to the polls — presumably to cast ballots for the president and Democrats.
Horne acknowledged that a brief filed by the Department of Justice in a case to be heard next month by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals centers around the agency’s argument that Arizona’s law requiring proof of citizenship to register is pre-empted by federal law. But Horne, a Republican, told Capitol Media Services he sees something more sinister.
“I think the motive is that the more illegals that vote, the better the Obama administration thinks it will do,’’ he said. Read the entire story….
 COLUMBUS, Ohio
The 1851 Center for Constitutional Law today submitted to the Ohio Attorney General, on behalf of liberty groups and business leaders, initial signatures and summary language to begin the process of adding protections against forced union participation to Ohio’s Bill of Rights.
The Ohio Workplace Freedom Amendment, which would “guarantee the freedom of Ohioans to choose whether to participate in a labor organization as a condition of employment,” will appear on the November 2012 ballot if 386,000 signatures are submitted by early July. Specifically the Amendment would provide that, in Ohio: Continue reading Coalition Begins Initiation of Constitutional Amendment to End Forced Unionism in Ohio
 The Senate Judiciary Committee’s vote on the so-called “Respect for Marriage Act of 2011″ will take place Thursday November 10th.
The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on a crucial bill that would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act and undermine marriage in America. Not coincidentally, opponents of natural marriage are doing everything they can to push this vote in their favor. Just days ago, a group of 70 major companies that have been cowed by pro-homosexual activists issued a brief opposing the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) law that defends marriage as being between one man and one woman. These companies include: Continue reading Senate Vote on DOMA Set for Thursday
By John W. Whitehead
“They’re trying to scare the pants off the American people that we need these things… Fear is a commodity and they’re selling it. The more they can sell it, the more we buy into it. When American people are afraid, they will accept anything.”–Kate Hanni, passengers’ rights advocate
“Uncontrolled search and seizure is one of the first and most effective weapons in the arsenal of every arbitrary government…Among deprivations of rights, none is so effective in cowing a population, crushing the spirit of the individual and putting terror in every heart.”– Justice Robert Jackson, chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials
The transition to a police state will not come about with a dramatic coup d’etat, with battering rams and marauding militia. As we have experienced first-hand in recent years, it will creep in softly, one violation at a time, until suddenly you find yourself being subjected to random patdowns and security sweeps during your morning commute to work or quick trip to the shopping mall.
Perhaps you have yet to experience the particular thrill, and I use that word loosely, of being manhandled by government agents, having your personal possessions pawed through, and your activities and associations scrutinized. If so, not to worry. It’s only a matter of time before more and more Americans will experience such a military task force knocking at their door. Only, chances are that it won’t be a knock, and they might not even be at home when government agents decide to “investigate” them. Continue reading VIPR Searches and the American Citizen: ‘Dominate. Intimidate. Control.’
An interesting article in the New York post appeared that indicated the Occupy Wall Street movement protesters are finding out the what they are “protesting” for, may not be what they really want…. Read more.
 Herman Cain surprised everyone this past weekend by coming out on top of the Florida Straw Poll. He garnered over 37% of the votes – beating out the two media declared front runners Romney (14%) and Perry(15.43%) combined.
Now, yes things are volatile and the front runners can change almost daily. It wasn’t long ago that Michelle Bachmann was the front runner in the straw polls but only received a little over 1% of the votes in Florida.
Are the tides turning? Can one man really bring hope and change and not fluff and stuff?
I think Herman Cain has some great ideas. His 9-9-9 plan is very intriguing and should be seriously considered. However, one thing that has not been mentioned or even asked of Cain is this: Will the national sales tax, personal tax and corporate tax rates be set in stone – unchangeable by politicians in the future and how will he insure that it can never be changed? And shouldn’t food and clothing – the necessities of living be exempted from the 9% national sales tax?
Continue reading Cain Gaining Momentum and Presenting Real Hope and Change
By Lurita Doan - Townhall.com
As the Obama agenda proves increasingly impotent, Americans have witnessed Obama’s czars crash and burn or run for cover over the past thirty months. From Van Jones to Kevin Jennings to Nancy-Ann DeParle to Todd Stern toRon Bloom, Obama’s style of management–bypassing the senate-confirmed agency heads–has failed to yield the results promised to the American people. You would think Obama would give up on the failed idea of using a curious collection of White House czars to manage complex economic and regulatory issues. No way.
Instead, in the American Jobs Act, Obama is proposing a new group of czars as a part of his “jobs” act– the American Infrastructure Financing Authority (AIFA) czars. President Obama’s newest czars will be given the authority to manage over a trillion dollars of federal funding for roads, bridges, buildings, waterways, dams and other infrastructure.
Here we go again. No doubt, Obama hopes that few legislators or American citizens will read the deadly details buried within the 199 pages of his proposed American Jobs Act that will establish this latest czar-ship, nor understand just how expensive AIFA is going to be.
As with Obama’s other czars, the AIFA czar comes with infrastructure requirements of his own: staff, office space and technology needed to perform the job. Managing what is in reality a trillion dollar budget is going to require a huge new staff that will, essentially represent an entire new federal agency. Of course, nowhere does President Obama tell us why a new czar is required to manage infrastructure projects. More importantly, Obama does not explain why the vast federal bureaucracy now responsible for these activities must be bypassed and a new, redundant agency is built.
Make no mistake: the AIFA Czar position is redundant. All of the infrastructure projects and tasks identified to be performed by Obama’s new Czar are already the responsibilities of the Senate-confirmed heads of Department of Transportation, the U.S. General Services Administration and the Department of Energy.
Original article found at http://townhall.com/columnists/luritadoan/2011/09/19/obama_proposes_new_czar
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Some Interesting Facts on Issue 2
One of the interesting features of Issue 2 is that people who are in favor of repealing SB 5 (or Issue 2 on the ballot) is that it will cut teachers salaries and thus hurt the children. In reality, that’s one of the scare tactics government unions are using to turn people against these reforms. Nothing in Issue 2 determines salary levels. It only ends the practice of handing out automatic pay raises, or “step” increases, and longevity pay – or bonuses just for holding the job for a certain period of time. Issue 2 also asks that performance be added as a factor in teacher compensation, a goal President Barack Obama set out in his national education policy in 2009. I am sure your private sector job doesn’t include automatic pay raises but factors in performance. Shouldn’t those who teach our kids also be held to the same or higher standards? Continue reading Some Interesting Facts on Issue 2