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Congressman Jim Jordan accepted an invitation from Homeland Security to travel with a bipartisan delegation touring Arizona’s border. The Congressman believes that one of the most important challenges facing our country is to secure the border. His comments in the news reveals just how important the fence is to controlling the border.

“It has cut down on the number of illegals crossing the border where they have put the fences thus far.”

“Now illegals are going around the fence to rural areas. it’s no longer a few-minute sprint, it’s miles in the desert and agents have time to apprehend them. The fence needs to continue to go up.”

Congressman Jim Jordan

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No one would call it a tax hike. Just me and perhaps some other conservatives. In my world anything the government does to increase revenue is a tax hike because it takes more money from the taxpayer and gives it to the government. Here is Strickland’s new gas tax. It will generate $9 million in surplus plus the other money originally designated for the OSHP.

With the Ohio State Highway Patrol set to lose millions of dollars a year in fuel taxes this summer, Gov. Ted Strickland said today that he will reduce the amount of fuel that gas stations can write off as having evaporated.

Strickland said the move will generate $38 million a year, more than covering the $29 million that the patrol was expecting to lose from the phase-out of its share of Ohio’s fuel tax.

Closing the tax loophole to gas dealers could bump up gas prices slightly.

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Sketchy reporting again from the New York Times. Hey. It’s not a blog… they get the big bucks. Read the title, content and see if it read right…..

Lower Voter Turnout Is Seen in States That Require ID
By CHRISTOPHER DREW
Published: February 21, 2007

States that imposed identification requirements on voters reduced turnout at the polls in the 2004 presidential election by about 3 percent, and by two to three times as much for minorities, new research suggests….

Federal law requires only first-time voters to verify their identities. But about half the states require documentation from all voters.

Requirements for photo identification have been hotly debated, and Dr. Vercellotti said their potential impact needed to be studied closely.

[Note this is in error: Ohio also now requires: CC] Only two states, Indiana and Florida, now require all voters to show photo ID, and voters without it are allowed to cast only provisional ballots. Indiana officials have said voter turnout increased by 2 percent last November, compared with the 2002 midterm election, despite the enactment of a photo ID law in 2005.

Three states — Hawaii, Louisiana and South Dakota — require voters without photo ID to sign affidavits to cast regular ballots. Photo ID laws in Missouri and Georgia have been struck down in court, and several states are considering similar measures.

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