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LB512 and Common Core — A Potential Threat to Local Control of Schools

Originally published March 18, 2013, By Linda. Updated May 14, 2016. 3 Comments

LB512 and Common Core — A Potential Threat to Local Control of Schools

Just a quick post today to call your attention to a bill in the Unicameral that’s not attracting much attention, but should.  WHEN THE EDUCATION COMMITTEE HELD A HEARING CONCERNING THIS BILL ON FEBRUARY 25TH, NO ONE SPOKE IN OPPOSITION. LB512 was introduced by Senator Jim Scheer (Dist. 19), who’s a new face in the […]

Filed Under: Big Brother Government, Data Gathering, Education, Featured, Government Spending, Nebraska, Senators, State Legislation, State Sovereignty, Stimulus, Unicameral Tagged With: 10th Amendment, bill and melinda gates foundation, bribing state governments to accept federal control, common core curriculum, common core state standards, Education, k through 12 educational standards, language arts standards, local control of education, math standards, nebraska department of education, nebraska state board of education, race to the top program, standards for math, state sovereignty, state standards for education, stimulus funds, u.s. department of education grants

Deserving of Darts: NE Unicameral – Voter ID Bites the Dust

Originally published April 1, 2012, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. 5 Comments

Deserving of Darts: NE Unicameral – Voter ID Bites the Dust

The Nebraska Unicameral, is, as we all know, a one house legislative body, and, officially “non-partisan”. After having observed the legislative process for quite some time, both from a distance, and up close, we stopped puzzling over this paradigm. What the Nebraska Unicameral is, is clear. Last fall, Linda wrote the following article: Nebraska is […]

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Health Care Reform: Republicans Helping Implementation (For Our Own Good)

Originally published December 6, 2011, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. 3 Comments

Health Care Reform: Republicans Helping Implementation (For Our Own Good)

“The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.” ~ James Madison, 1829 So, all quiet on the health care front? Definitely not. There were recent news reports about the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to consolidate and hear several health care law […]

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So We Had A Resolution, Huh? Hmm. How IS That State Sovereignty Thing Workin’ Out For Us?

Originally published November 8, 2011, By Shellinda. Updated July 21, 2015. 2 Comments

So We Had A Resolution, Huh? Hmm. How IS That State Sovereignty Thing Workin’ Out For Us?

Last updated, September 2014 Nebraska was one of only fourteen states to see the successful passage of a State Sovereignty Resolution in the two year period 2009 – 2010, while well over thirty states had resolutions. In other words,

Filed Under: Big Brother Government, Budget, Constitution, Data Gathering, Electronic Monitoring, Featured, Federal Legislation, Founding Principles, Government Spending, Governor, Health Care, Information Sharing, Like Drunken Sailors, Nebraska, REAL ID, Senators, State Legislation, State Sovereignty, Tenth Amendment, Unicameral Tagged With: 10th Amendment, 2009 permit application transcanada, afp-ne, american sovereignty, americans for prosperity, americans for prosperity-nebraska, annette dubas, annette dubas transcanada payment, atkinson state dept. hearing, bad faith legal argument, beau mccoy, bitumen, canadian neb, charles and david koch, charles koch, chris langemeier, cir, collective bargaining for public employees, commission of industrial relations, dave heineman, david koch, deb fischer, definition of public purpose, eminent domain, energy security, environmental groups, ex post facto, fischer real id, flint hills resources, foreign trade zone, ftc investigation canadian market manipulation, gas prices, governor heineman, gulf coast, hardisty alberta canada, healthcare implementation, heavy crude, heineman, holt county nebraska, illinois, indiana, interim study report natural resources, interstate commerce, iowa, j. peter ricketts, job creation, jon bruning, kansas, kate sullivan, kelo v new london, ken haar, kentucky, keystone xl, keystone xl market manipulation, keystone xl pipeline project, keystone xl pipeline section 52 application, koch foundation, koch industries, labors local #1140, lee terry, lee terry congressional research service, lee terry crs, life liberty property, lobbying on pipeline, michigan, midwest padd ii, midwestern states gas prices, mike friend, minnesota, missouri, national energy board canada, national id card, national interest, natural resources committee, ne congressman lee terry, nebraska, nebraska attorney general, nebraska eminent domain, nebraska kelo law, nebraska legislature, nebraska sovereignty, north american made energy security act, north dakota, nullification, ogallala aquifer, ohio, oklahoma, padd iii, padd iii region, pete ricketts, philip verleger, pipeline regulatory, pipeline siting authority, platte institute, politics makes strange bedfellows, presidential permit application, proper role of government, property rights, public employee unions, public service commission, real id, representative lee terry, rod kaminski, sandhills, sen. dubas, sen. tony fulton, sen.fulton, senator annette dubas, shareholder presentations, south dakota, special law, special legislation, special session nebraska, special session pipeline, startribune, state director afp-ne, state senators, state sovereignty, synthetic crude, tar sands, tennessee, Tenth Amendment, tony fulton, transcanada, transcanada market manipulation, transportation and telecommunications committee, u.s. constitution, u.s. state department, uncamerical, usgc, waiting for godot, wisconsin

Your Mama’s SO Ugly, She’s — DISABLED???

Originally published August 29, 2011, By Linda. Updated March 9, 2012. 1 Comment

Your Mama’s SO Ugly, She’s — DISABLED???

  “THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, […]

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The State of Nebraska Has YOUR Medical Records: Next Up…the Feds

Originally published March 31, 2011, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated March 9, 2012. 1 Comment

The State of Nebraska Has YOUR Medical Records: Next Up…the Feds

As I work on completing publication of the series of articles on the subject of nullification, it’s important that we move back towards dealing with the health care issue. I’m starting with a subject no one is talking about when they talk about “stopping Obamacare”…medical records technology, and how the government is commandeering those medical […]

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Outrageous Terror Drill Planned for Saturday in Iowa

Originally published March 25, 2011, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated October 13, 2012. 4 Comments

Outrageous Terror Drill Planned for Saturday in Iowa

  UPDATED Friday, March 25, 2011 Thanks to one of our site’s regular readers and commenters, Glen, we’ve learned that the drill has been cancelled. According to a report by the Associated Press (see update at the bottom of the article), the Treynor, Iowa, high school where the drill was to occur, received a threat […]

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History Has Proven Nullification a Failure – Just Look at REAL ID

Originally published March 14, 2011, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated May 26, 2013. 7 Comments

History Has Proven Nullification a Failure – Just Look at REAL ID

This is Part 2 in a continuing series on nullification. For Part 1, click HERE. In Part 1, I explained that in the past year, I’ve come to realize that nullification is not a solution that should be pursued by the states. That change of opinion, the result of much research and reflection, includes a […]

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Coming to a Wal-Mart Check-Out Near You: How to spy on your fellow citizens

Originally published December 8, 2010, By GiN Admin. Updated January 25, 2011. 6 Comments

Coming to a Wal-Mart Check-Out Near You: How to spy on your fellow citizens

By Shelli  Dawdy Having been largely raised by a grandmother who grew up during the Depression, being frugal comes second nature to me, so I do a good deal of my basic-item shopping at Wal-Mart. Many of us know that Wal-Mart has been long maligned by the left. As a fan of a free market, […]

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ACTION ALERT: Call your State Senator Friday AM

Originally published February 4, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated September 7, 2014. Leave a Comment

Editor’s Note: Thank you to Laura Ebke of NE Campaign for Liberty for alerting us to these issues. The Nebraska Campaign for Liberty’s Legislative Watch group “NebraskaLiberty’s Unicam Watch” has been busy reading bills introduced in this session and have identified two bills in particular—both carryovers from the last session—which will likely come to a […]

Filed Under: Action Alerts, Big Brother Government, Data Gathering, Governor, Information Sharing, REAL ID, State Legislation, Unicameral Tagged With: Action Alerts, campaign for liberty, Constitution, constitutional rights, driver's license, Grassroots in Nebraska, lb 261, lb 550, liberty, national guard, nebraska legislature, nebraska unicameral, privacy, Unicameral, using national guard as police force, watchdogs

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