Ohio cleared to opt out of Affordable Health Care Act

Ohio Health-Care cleared for the fall ballot.

Ohio wants to send a message to the Obama administration "Keep health care between doctors and patients, and keep bureaucrats out of it." Voters in Ohio will get the chance to decide whether Ohio can opt out of the national health care overhaul after the state's top election official said Tuesday that opponents of the federal law have enough signatures to put a constitutional amendment on the Nov. 8 ballot. Ohio has 427,000 valid signatures. They had submitted more than 546,000 and needed roughly 358,000 of them validated to make it on to the ballot.

The measure would change the Ohio Constitution to prohibit any federal, state or local law from forcing Ohio residents, employers or health care providers to participate in a health care system. It also would prevent the state from enacting a Massachusetts-style health care program, where the state requires a minimum level of insurance coverage.

If passed, the amendment would not apply to any law or rule in effect before March 19, 2010, so as not to prohibit Ohioans for participating in programs such as Medicare.

A coalition of tea party organizations, small government advocates and religious groups gathered the signatures to get the health care measure on the ballot and now plan to mount a statewide campaign in support of it.

The coalition has more than 35,000 volunteers, an "army of grass roots support," ready to mobilize to raise money to turn out voters in November's election, said Jeff Longstreth, campaign manager for Ohioans for Healthcare Freedom, a group that played a large role in the petitions.

Obamacare is a job killer, it has been a disaster for the country and the economy, and the bulk of it doesn't even kick in until 2014.

Far right terrorism is NOT on par with foreign Islamic threat

The American MSM seems to have been thrown a curve with the new revelations in the shootings in Norway. While most of the MSM was eager to jump on the story and publicize the ethnicity of the perp to advance it's theory that extremism comes in all flavors and even caused CNN to do a knee jerk, insane article that tries to claim that "Far right domestic terrorism is on par with foreign threat" but the MSM has been extremely slow in revealing other facts about the violence in Norway.

It seems that there is a significant pro-Palestinian movement in Norway, and Norway was getting ready to vote for Palestinian Statehood The teenagers who took part in Norway's ruling party youth camp in the island of Utoya met with Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere and demanded he recognize Palestine on Wednesday, two days before the deadly terror attack which left many of them dead. Earlier in the week, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visited Norway and was told that Oslo will recognize Palestine, but not just yet. The Norwegian FM told the youths Oslo is waiting for the official Palestinian proposal to be submitted to the UN in September.

Glen Beck has come out on his syndicated radio show he likened the victims of the shooting at a Norwegian summer camp to young members of the Nazi Party. In a seven-minute segment Monday morning on the Premiere Radio Network's "The Glenn Beck Program," Beck described the attack "as a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like the Hitler Youth. I mean who sends their kids to a political camp?”

The American media is often slow to produce details about terrorist attacks, and mass murders especially in the U.S. unless it can verify immediately the perp is a native born American. After checking ethnicity and immigration status of the killer they either rush to use the story as proof that not only Muslims commit terrorist acts. If the perp turns out to be an illegal alien, a minority, or Muslim, they work hard at covering up the details.

For example in Binghampton in 2009 (Vietnamese immigrant, 13 dead), or in the case of the “Georgia Man“ earlier this year (Central American, two dead), we know it will go down the Orwellian Memory Hole. But if the perp is a native-born American alas, there is a flurry of interest as the ruling class in America tries to use it as an excuse to suppress its critics. Unless, of course, the “American” turns out to be the son of Muslim immigrants, like 2009 Fort Hood shooter Nidal Mailk Hasan, 12 dead.

Currently there are six deaths (including the suicidal killer) that occurred last Saturday evening in Texas (Gunman opens fire, killing 6 in domestic dispute at Grand Prairie roller rink, By Tanya Eiserer and Theodore Kim, Dallas Morning News, July 23, 2011, how many people know that the victims were Vietnamese ?

The murders in Norway are reprehensible, and unforgivable for any reason, political or otherwise. Terrorism is a despicable act no matter which group claims responsility. The MSM's cover-ups and excusing Muslims from responsibility only make it worse.

Modern terrorism as we know it today was born and bred in the Middle East. The Palestinians perfected their craft throughout the later half of the 20th century, and became a media sensation as they incorporated commercial aircraft into their reign of terror. Tens of thousands have been terrorized and killed by Muslim terrorist.

I am not advocating blaming ALL Muslims, any more than I would advocate blaming all Right wing Norwegian Christians for the latest terrorist attack in Norway. But the media cover ups are just compounding and distorting the problem. There are a much
larger number of Islamist terrorists who commit the vast majority of terror attacks worldwide, and represent a greater threat than the rare, although sadly effective, domestic terrorists like Norway's Breivik or the always cited Timothy McVeigh.

The facts show that more than 90% of the terror attacks committed each year are done by avowed Muslims in the cause of jihad. That is not an indictment of all Muslims any more than Breivik's Christianity is an indictment of all Christians. It is simply noting who is perpetrating these horrific acts and what their cause is, and informing the public of the facts, not propagandizing these incidents to fit their political narratives.

As the late great Jack Web used to say, "Just the facts ma'am, just the facts " that is what should drive our counter terrorism efforts, not Orwellian double-speak, and political correctness gone mad.

Jackass of the Week Award :Sheila Jackson Lee

U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, says 'the minority community' blames racism for the Republican refusal to increase the debt limit without conditions. Then she goes on to play the race card, "Only THIS president, Ony THIS one has received the kind of attacks and disagreements and inability to work, only THIS one ".
Translation : Questioning Obama's costly government takeover of health care, his failed $800 billion 'stimulus' plan and the over $4 trillion in new debt equals racism. Lee says she speaks on behalf of the 'minority community.' Would this be the minority community with 16.2 percent black unemployment, up from 12.6 percent in the two-and-a-half years of the Obama administration ? -- Larry Elder

Sheila Jackson Lee is an embarrassment to the entire state of Texas. The district she represents is in Houston’s inner city and her constituents are about 95% black and solidly Democratic. As a result, she will have that seat until she either dies or retires, or they can redistrict her out of office.

Her race baiting of opponents and anyone who disagrees with her is legendary. She’s a disgrace.

Obama's Head Fake on the Debt Plan

Mark Steyn

Obama announced a 4 trillion dollar deficit plan. His media barking dogs ran off to file their pieces praising Obama and calling him ""the only adult in the room", the problem is, there is no plan. The only plan that Obama has put on paper was his February budget that increased spending, and doubled the debt.

The Democratic Senate has shown no interest in producing a budget for two-and-a-half years. Sen. Reid can't even be bothered pretending he's interested in spending reductions. His only interest is to carry on spending without limits. Obama's budget plan ? Obama rolls out his teleprompter and his aides write some really big numbers on it, he reads them, and that passes for leadership.

The time has come for a balanced budget amendment

Republicans captured Congress in the 1994 midterm election by campaigning on the need for a balanced budget amendment when the federal deficit was only $203 billion.The Congressional Budget Office reported last Thursday that the federal deficit reached $1.2 trillion after only the first 10 months of the fiscal year.

The fact we are having this heated debate is evidence that we have reached critical mass with a massive intrusive Federal government that taxes us to death, and has a blank check to borrow whatever the difference is between what it spends, and what it takes in. Common sense should tell us this is a recipe for disaster, and in fact that disaster has already begun to play out.

When we had these budget compromises in the 1980s and 1990s, spending was reduced, taxes were raised, and the crisis was kicked down the road, but only for a short period of time. Over time, the tax increases always remain, but the spending begins to increase almost as soon as the deals are finished. A constitutional amendment is the medicine for Washington's spending ailment.

We have witnessed an unprecedented spending binge from this administration. Even in the face of a failing economy, rising unemployment, and a growing mountain of debt for our children and grandchildren, this administration still demands a blank check to waste money on failed welfare programs, a failed economic stimulus program, a health care bill that keeps driving up costs, and no one understands, and continues to shove it's disastrous green energy initiatives down our throats. Instead of a serious discussion about our budget, Obama gives us talking points, and threatens us if we fail to raise the debt limit for his reckless irresponsible administration.

The whole idea of the Debt Ceiling is for the Government to explain it's spending, and for the American people to ask what are we getting for our money ? In the case of the Obama administration we are getting unprecedented spending levels for welfare and entitlement programs that are rife with massive fraud, and waste, class-warfare against the business class, stifling over-regulation, the end of our manned space program, an irresponsible, piecemeal approach to defense spending cuts, with no oversight, and no discussion, higher unemployment, a stalled economy, and continual cries for more money.

Obama owns this mess, he isn't cleaning up Bush's mess, he is only creating a bigger mess. He is using the recession, and the crisis to advance his own political agenda, which has been a Franco-German welfare state, and it has been disastrous for our country and the economy. Obama hasn't caused runaway government spending, but he sure has kicked up into the stratosphere.

2010 midterms gave us fresh hope.This amendment will demonstrate we are taking action. If conservatives across the country can stand behind this, we may have a chance of getting it through. That’s what it is going to take.

Amending the constitution is an arduous endeavor. Not only would both chambers have to pass an amendment, but 38 state legislatures would have to ratify it. More likely this year,may be an agreement to grant the president “enhanced rescission” the ability to target wasteful spending via a line-item veto.

Personally, I think that a vote on a balanced-budget amendment is one of the demands we should exact for a vote on the debt ceiling. The current effort to enact a balanced budget amendment is not going to go away. Cut, Cap and Balance, is driven by the very real predictions that our nation is heading for bankruptcy.

There is growing realization that the only way to get the spenders in Washington to stop spending is to give them no choice.