The Shadow of Yesterday’s Triumph: Why Kicking the Can Down the Road on Welfare Reform Is Not a Solution
This summer, America will mark the 22nd anniversary of the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act. Reforming welfare was a prominent part of then-Speaker Newt Gingrich’s “Contract…
Presidential Candidates Talk Education in New Hampshire
Today, six of the Republican candidates for president met in New Hampshire for an in depth discussion of K-12 education policy. Jeb Bush, John Kasich, Carly Fiorina, Chris Christie, Bobby…
Ohio Budget Defunds Common Core Testing
The Buckeye state is fighting back against the intrusive federal testing mandates that come with Common Core education standards. A House version of the state’s budget contains provisions defunding…
Governor Kasich seeks an Article V Convention
Democracy and Power 104: Future Debt Burden A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property – an unpaid tax bill.—Hans F. Sennholz Excessive spending…
Ohio Moves Closer to Common Core Repeal
Ohio is on its way to becoming the latest state to ditch Common Core education standards. A bill that would block the state from implementing the standards, along with any…
Pro-Obamacare Ohio GOP Campaigns On Standing Up to Obamacare
Party-endorsed Ohio Republican Party (ORP) State Central Committee candidates are being promoted with inadvertently hilarious ORP flyers asserting, "It Takes a STRONG Republican Party to Stand Up to Obamacare."…
CBO Report Confirms States Should Reject Medicaid Expansion
Conservatives were right to warn that Governor John Kasich’s embrace of the Obamacare Medicaid expansion would increase government spending and hurt Ohio’s labor force, a February 4 Congressional…
10 Times Gov. Kasich Lied to Promote Obamacare in 2013
Governor John Kasich was elected in 2010 as a small-government conservative, so in 2013 he came up with several false talking points to justify his fight for…
Obamacare Backers Support John Kasich in Ohio Supreme Court Case
Briefs supporting Governor John Kasich’s enactment of the Obamacare Medicaid expansion from 21 parties including AARP, the Ohio Hospital Association (OHA), and several chambers of commerce were submitted to…
Gov. Kasich Serves as Lifeline for Obamacare
President Obama cited Ohio Governor John Kasich’s embrace of the Obamacare Medicaid expansion as proof the law works during two separate November 14 speeches, flailing to defend his signature legislative…