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By Jeremy Davis at 12:02AM

Apr 1, 2010

Healthcare Debate Not over in Ohio

In my further attempts to spread the liberty message on my campus, I wrote on the efforts of the Ohio Liberty Council to combat "Obamacare" which appeared in today's edition of my column for The News Record. Although these efforts have a long way to go, I really hope that my fellow buckeyes can get behind this movement and allow us Ohioans to take a stand against the intrusive health care "reform."

Here's a quick excerpt:

No sooner after President Obama’s pen lifted from signing the health care reform bill into law, efforts to combat its effects were quickly set in motion by many groups across the nation.

Those efforts are now underway in Ohio.

Last week, the Ohio Liberty Council, a collection of grassroots organizations including the University of Cincinnati Young Americans for Liberty, initiated a statewide movement to allow Ohioans to vote on a proposed state constitutional amendment this fall. A statewide petition drive might soon be underway in order to gather the near 400,000 overall signatures needed to eventually get the issue on the November ballot.

You can read the rest here.

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By Rachel Kania at 2:06PM

Mar 25, 2010

Great News: The Grassroots Did It!

I have just heard from an inside source that Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano will air on FOX starting mid April! This is a huge success for the grassroots movement.

Freedom Watch has traveled to Drexel University and Ohio State University to do live tapings on campus. It is because of the student groups who worked together to bring the Judge to their campus that Freedom Watch will finally be on Fox for the entire American public to watch.

The show will air 1 day a week on FOX Business and if the ratings are good, they will move up to 5 days a week.

Great job everyone! Now they can hear our voices even louder!

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By Matt Cockerill at 2:21PM

Nov 21, 2009

Passage of Paul-Grayson Amendment is Epic Victory for Liberty

Glenn Greenwald has a great take on the passage of the Paul-Grayson Amendment reviving HR1207.

I have to admit I was rather cynical when the state-friendly Mel Watt version was passed. I thought HR1207 was history, as I'm sure many of you did.

It is not hyperbole, then, for Greenwald to say:

"A congressionally mandated audit that The Fed (and much of the DC establishment) desperately oppose would be a serious step towards changing the dynamic of how things function. At the very least, it would provide an important template for defeating the interests which, in Washington, almost never lose. At least yesterday, those interests did lose -- resoundingly -- and the importance of that should not be overlooked.

Can we beat Obamacare?

Borrowing President Obama's already-borrowed slogan, "Yes We Can." But in order to do it, we need to be active in our opposition. Like all of mankind, politicians act primarily to enrich and advance themselves and their loved ones. When one is immersed in the corrupt apparatus of the state, this human proclivity leads to especially unsavory practices. Thus, we see politicians vote to help wealthy special interests, or vote to advance themselves within their party, regardless of what is right or wrong. A majority certainly will vote to support the health care bill and appease the special interests therein should we stand idle.

But as the demise of the 2007 amnesty bill showed, elected officials do respond to avid grassroots sentiment. Many of these guys are career politicians, and exclusively rely on the state for their salaries. They WILL NOT support a bill they believe would seriously jeopardize their jobs and their lavish, coercively obtained "perks."

Which is why we must stand up and fight. Try to get out to your nearest town hall meeting and vocally condemn this awful bill. And most importantly, promise to oppose any politician who supports it.

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