Liberals on the Ohio State School Board are trying to eliminate American Government and History standards in Ohio.
The State School Board will meet on Sept 18th and 19th to consider a proposal urging the Ohio Legislature to turn the clock back by eliminating the required end of course testing in American Government and History. This will all but destroy what we accomplished six years ago with the passage of the Founding of America Documents curriculum, which guarantees that all 88 school districts teach the founding documents, namely The U.S. Constitution, The Declaration of Independence, The Bill of Rights, the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers, The Northwest Ordinance, and The Ohio Constitution in the 8-12th grades with an end of course exam. This threat is serious to eliminate the Constitutional studies in the classroom. Click here to contact State School Board members and urge them to vote NO on the resolution. Click here to read the resolution.
On this week's broadcast, we bring to you a special presentation of Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, who is the new nominee for Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom. Governor Brownback was nominated by President Trump last month and is awaiting confirmation by the U.S. Senate. Here is the message he delivered at the OCA Spring Freedom Banquet in 2016. This is a powerful message of faith and personal commitment. CLICK HERE FOR THE MESSAGE BY GOVERNOR BROWNBACK. Tune in and tell a friend.
D-Day Prayer Project Fundraising to Place the Prayer
We began in earnest our four-month fundraising campaign for the D-Day Landing Prayer Project. You can be part of history by helping to add this historical Presidential prayer to the WWII Memorial in Washington, D.C. by making a tax-deductible contribution to the OCA Ed Fund by clicking here. Our project goal is $300,000 by December 1st. Click on the DONATE button below.
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D Day Conneaut Ohio and the Crisis that North Korea Presents to the U.S.
On this week's broadcast, we showcase the largest D-Day Landing Reenactment in the country that takes place right here on the shores of Lake Erie in Conneaut, Ohio in Ashtabula County. Wayne Heim of the D-Day Conneaut re-enactment committee discusses its history and this year's activities. One hundred-fifty WWII veterans will be attending this year, and 1,400 re-enactors of American, British, German, and French, along with military and Higgins landing crafts for the Saturday morning landing. This year's event will be August 17, 18 and 19.
The crisis that North Korea Presents to the U.S.
Part 2 - Fred Fleitz, Senior Fellow with the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C., discusses the serious threat that a nuclear-capable North Korea presents to South Korea, Japan, and now the Continental United States. Tune in and tell a friend.
In order to safeguard the Medicaid program for those Ohioans who truly need it. the elderly, the disabled, and the poor, restraints have to be put on the program now. Governor Kasich and the controlling board in 2013 expanded Medicaid to include able-bodied, working individuals who truly can pay their own way. The Governor originally said that only a few hundred thousand people would be added to the rolls; since he made that claim the amount has tripled. Without the freeze, it is estimated that another half million could enter the program.The reality is that able-bodied, working-age adults are being put ahead of 60,000 disabled Ohioans who rely on Medicaid but are currently on a waiting list. This is morally wrong and financially unsustainable. Therefore, we are calling on the Ohio General Assembly to override Governor Kasich's veto on the Medicaid expansion freeze.
Lost Songs of the Holocaust found in UA Archives 2017
Here with a wire recorder and wire spools that hold the voices of Jewish concentration camp survivors are, from left, James Newhall, who redesigned a useable recorder, along with the Cummings Center's Jon Endres, Dr. Jodi Kearns and Dr. David Baker.
In the final months of World War II, as Allied Forces began to liberate the prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, they captured on film the horrors they saw around them. Soon, the whole world saw — images of skeletal survivors bearing silent witness to what they and millions more had been forced to endure. Dr. David Boder was determined to give the survivors a voice. In the summer of 1946, the psychologist interviewed at least 130 Jewish survivors in nine languages in refugee camps in France, Switzerland, Italy and Germany. With a wire recorder — then considered state-of-the-art equipment — and 200 spools of steel wire, Boder preserved some of the first oral histories of concentration camp survivors. He also recorded song sessions and religious services. A portion of Boder's work has been archived at The University of Akron's Drs. Nicholas and Dorothy Cummings Center for the History of Psychology since 1967. But it wasn't until a recent project to digitize the recordings got under way that a spool containing the "Henonville Songs," performed in Yiddish and German and long thought lost, was discovered in a mislabeled canister. "I think it is one of the most important discoveries from our collections in our 50-year history," notes Dr. David Baker, the Margaret Clark Morgan Executive Director of the Cummings Center. "The songs were recorded at a refugee camp in Henonville, France. The Nazis made the prisoners sing some of these songs as they ran to their forced labor sites and back each day. "That we could give the world the melody to a song sung by those sentenced to their death through forced labor during one of the most unspeakable horrors of the 20th century is remarkable," Baker adds.
Spring Freedom Banquet May 25, 2017. This year, honoring our veterans with the D-Day Landing Prayer Project. OCA President Chris Long presented the fundraising, construction and dedication phase which has begun on a 12-month calendar. The $600,000 upgrade to the WWII Memorial Monument for the Prayer's placement at the Circle of Remembrance will not be paid for by tax dollars but by private contributions from you and me. If we stay on schedule, the dedication will be June of 2018. This year's speakers included author and historian Bill Federer from the American Minute who gave an address from the notes of his book, "Prayers and Presidents" and Frank Gaffney from the Center for Security Policy who delivered a national security briefing to the attendees. Funds were collected through the OCA Ed Fund for the D-Day Prayer's construction. Make a fully tax-deductible contribution to add FDR's D-Day Landing Prayer in its entirety at the WWII Memorial in Washington, D.C. CLICK HERE
In a major breach of protocol, the State of the State Address by Governor Kasich before a joint session of the Ohio General Assembly in Marietta last week, did not open with a prayer from the clergy. OCA President Chris Long who was in attendance recounted, "There was a call to order by the Speaker of the House and Senate President, a call to quorum, the presentation of colors by the Honor Guard, and then the Senate President looked down at his notes as to what was next on the program. .......
Ohio Christian Alliance Urges Delay of Implementation of Online Voter Registration in Ohio to Safeguard Ohio's Vote S.B. 63, the online voter registration bill, has raised concerns that it may further threaten Ohio's election integrity. Ohio's elections process has been under some scrutiny over the past several years due to an increase in reported voter fraud cases, referenced in the Ohio SOS Post-Election Voter Fraud Reports May 2013, SOS December 2013 Report "Non-U.S. Citizens Register and Vote in the Battleground State of Ohio", SOS report March 12, 2015 in which it was reported that 436 non-U.S. citizens were registered to vote in Ohio, 44 of whom actually cast ballots, and the June 25, 2015 SOS report "14 Individuals Referred for Investigation for Allegedly Illegally Voting." Additionally, Franklin County reported more than 90 cases of double voting in the 2012 Presidential Election .....
WWII Memorial Prayer Act Signed Into Law by The President
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 1, 2014 It's official – The President has signed The WWII Memorial Prayer Act (S1044) into law. Earlier this month, the bill passed The U.S. Senate in a unanimous consent measure just in time for the 70th anniversary observance of the D-Day Landings. Last week, The U.S. House of Representatives passed the measure overwhelmingly by a vote of 370-12, and yesterday, The President signed the bill into law. The Ohio Christian Alliance would like to commend the bill's sponsors, Senator Rob Portman (OH) and Senator Mary Landrieu (LA), and Congressman Bill Johnson of Ohio's 6th District, who was the House sponsor, for their support of this historic legislation that will add FDR's D-Day Landing prayer to the WWII memorial in Washington D.C.
On this, the seventieth anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy, France, the U.S. Senate passed by unanimous consent S 1044 the WWII Memorial Prayer Act. The Ohio Christian Alliance would like to commend the bill's sponsors, Senator Rob Portman (OH) and Senator Mary Landrieu (LA), for their support of this historic legislation that will add FDR's D-Day Landing prayer to the WWII memorial in Washington D.C. This prayer will serve as a lasting tribute to those veterans who served the cause of freedom in defending the world against tyranny and oppression.
Ohio's Ban on Human Cloning and Animal-Human Hybrid
Today, we applaud the reintroduction of Ohio’s Ban on Human Cloning and Animal-Human Hybrid, H.B. 308, introduced by State Representative Andy Thompson of Ohio’s 95th District, along with eleven House co-sponsors. OCA President Chris Long states, “For the past ten years, OCA along with other pro-life organizations, has been working with members of the Ohio Legislature to ban embryonic stem cell research, human cloning, and in recent years, animal-human hybrid. Some medical laboratories have delved into the surreal world of intermixing animal and human DNA with no legal or moral boundaries. These experimental practices simply are outrageous! Animal-human hybrid research is currently being conducted in England, which many in the international medical community now consider to be a rogue medical state. This experimentation has also been conducted in U.S. laboratories, thus the need for legislative language to provide guardrails.”
FDR’s D-Day Landing Prayer Act in observance of the anniversary is read on the U.S. Senate floor by Senators Rob Portman and Co-Sponsor Joseph Lieberman.
