The Obamacare express has taken out its newest victims – this time Walmart employees working less than 30 hours per week. Forbes reports that Walmart will eliminate employer-sponsored health care benefits for 1.2 million workers that fall into this category. Walmart wrote in a blog post announcing the decision, “Anyone who has been following the news for the last several years knows that health care is a major topic of debate. From doctors’ visits and prescriptions […] 
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that the back and forth on early voting hours for the November 4th election has come to an end. The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals voided its September decision and the decision of U.S. District Court Judge Peter Economus which restored early voting hours that had been eliminated by a new state law. As such, the voting schedule that was put in place after the U.S. Supreme Court intervened […] 
Local control of schools is alive and well, but you need to go to Colorado Springs to get it. KOAA NBC 5 reports that Colorado Springs School District 11 has voted to seek approval from the Colorado State Board of Education to opt its 30,0000 students out of Common Core standardized testing. In lieu of testing all students, the District has proposed to test a random sample of students – enough to meet the federal […] 
Jason Hart of Watchdog.org goes in depth on Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion enrollment in Ohio. Hart depicts the consistently increasing monthly enrollments which veer further and further from Governor Kasich’s lowball projection of 366,000 by July 2015. Especially interesting is the backdated enrollment that is occuring which masks the true size of the expansion in current months and then sneakily includes the numbers in future caseload reports. Backdating takes place because there can be a lag […] 
In her article, “Top Ten Things Parents Hate About Common Core,” Joy Pullman of the Heartland Institute provides a summary of Common Core’s worst attributes: The Senseless, Infuriating Math The Lies Obliterating Parent Rights Dirty Reading Assignments Turning Kids Into Corporate Cogs The Data Collection and Populace Management Distancing Parents and Children Making Little Kids Cry The Arrogance The Collectivism Joy Pullman has been at the forefront of the fight against Common Core providing insightful […] -
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