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A Tribute to GiN Founder Shelli J. Dawdy

Originally published March 22, 2018, By Linda. Updated March 25, 2018. 8 Comments

A Tribute to GiN Founder Shelli J. Dawdy

We could begin this eulogy with a recitation of the usual facts and statistics, but we won’t. This is an unusual remembrance for an unusual lady: Shelli J. Dawdy. She admonished us to keep this short because, in her opinion, long obituaries grow boring. We have no doubt she would most like to be remembered […]

Filed Under: Featured, GiN Members, Local, Nebraska, Sovereignty Tagged With: a new america, gin, Grassroots in Nebraska, linda rohman, patriots, shelli dawdy, Shelli J. Dawdy, teaparty founder

Google’s Earth (Day) Missing Something

Originally published April 23, 2013, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

Google’s Earth (Day) Missing Something

So…yesterday was Earth Day. Typically I grit my teeth and do my best to ignore the whole thing. Why do we need a whole day dedicated to this subject? Aren’t we barraged with it everywhere we turn already? I thought I was doing just fine with “waste not, want not”, “use it up and wear […]

Filed Under: Featured, Happy Hour, Sustainable Development Tagged With: biodiversity, biological diversity, convention on biological diversity, google doodle, google earth day 2013, nafta, simulated reserve and corridor system, the wildlands project, un, united nations, us man and biosphere project

A Little Music to “Sequester” By

Originally published February 28, 2013, By Linda. Updated July 21, 2015. 2 Comments

A Little Music to “Sequester” By

For those of you who dread the Kalends of March, repeat after me: 

Filed Under: Budget, Deficit, Featured, Federal, Government Spending, Happy Hour Tagged With: federal budget cuts, panic about sequester, panic about sequestration, results of the sequester, sequester, sequester March 1st, sequestration, sequestration cuts, spending after the sequester

Dr. Benjamin Carson — Speaking Truth to Power

Originally published February 13, 2013, By Linda. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

Dr. Benjamin Carson — Speaking Truth to Power

The phrase “speaking truth to power” is actually of Quaker origin from the fairly recent past — 1955 to be exact.  It was the title of a pamphlet published by the Society of Friends that suggested to the two major superpowers nonviolent means of resolving the Cold War.  If it appears cliché to the reader, […]

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Senator Jeremy Nordquist: Listens to His Master’s Voice . . . But Who’s His Master?

Originally published February 9, 2013, By Linda. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

Senator Jeremy Nordquist: Listens to His Master’s Voice . . . But Who’s His Master?

Author’s Note:  What follows is a reprint of an article published in the February 8, 2012, edition of the Lincoln Journal Star.  The only difference between what you will find in the Journal Star and what you see here is a small but substantial one.  As my article appears below, I have added links to […]

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Congratulations! She’s Having His Baby . . . and You’re Paying for It!

Originally published February 8, 2013, By Linda. Updated July 21, 2015. 1 Comment

Congratulations! She’s Having His Baby . . . and You’re Paying for It!

Author’s Note: This is the fifth in a series of articles about Nebraska’s Medicaid program, the Unicameral’s apparent intent to expand it, and the many reasons why expansion is an uncommonly bad idea. Although they don’t have to be read in order, here are links to the previously-published articles in the series, and see the […]

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Establishment GOP to Tea Party: We’re Just Not That Into You

Originally published February 6, 2013, By Linda. Updated July 21, 2015. 2 Comments

Establishment GOP to Tea Party: We’re Just Not That Into You

This article is for any grassroots organizations who still think working with Republican leadership is the way to change the political landscape for the better: You’d have to be intentionally oblivious to be unaware that the Republican Party powers-that-be and the associated high rollers who fund the Party and the candidates it fields have a […]

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Sending Granny (and Gramps) to the Home

Originally published February 4, 2013, By Linda. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

Sending Granny (and Gramps) to the Home

Author’s Note: This is the fourth in a series of articles about Nebraska’s Medicaid program, the Unicameral’s apparent intent to expand it, and the many reasons why expansion is an uncommonly bad idea. Although they don’t have to be read in order, here are links to the previously-published articles in the series, and see the […]

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Government’s Getting Us Where it Wants Us — Eating Out of Its Hand

Originally published January 31, 2013, By Linda. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

Government’s Getting Us Where it Wants Us — Eating Out of Its Hand

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Obama Versus Someone Who Actually Knows What He’s Talking About

Originally published January 23, 2013, By Linda. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

Obama Versus Someone Who Actually Knows What He’s Talking About

I’ve been studying economics this school year along with my two teenaged sons in our homeschool.  We listened to a lecture the other day during which Nobel Laureate economist Robert E. Lucas, Jr., was quoted.  After hearing our president’s remarks on the occasion of his second inauguration, I felt compelled to go back and listen […]

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