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Dream Small

Originally published May 2, 2018, By Linda. Updated May 2, 2018. Leave a Comment

Dream Small

In 2016, during a period of about a year when it seemed possible — even likely — that Shelli would win her battle with cancer, she and I plotted out an article for the GiN website that would explain to our readers what had been going on in our lives to cause our extended hiatus […]

Filed Under: Character, Charity vs Welfare, Civil Society, Constitution, Faith, Featured, Founding Fathers, Founding Principles, Taking Action, Welfare Tagged With: charity, charity relief assistance welfare entitlements, charity welfare relief public assistance entitlements, christian charity, government charity, government welfare, limited government, private charity, private charity vs public welfare, public charity vs private charity

NE Medicaid Expansion: The Race is On (AGAIN)

Originally published April 14, 2018, By Linda. Updated April 22, 2018. 1 Comment

NE Medicaid Expansion:  The Race is On (AGAIN)

Back on January 17, 2013, I published an article here at the GiN website entitled “NE Medicaid Expansion: The Race is On.”  I followed up with an entire series of articles detailing why Medicaid expansion is an uncommonly bad idea.  Those articles were widely read and, I believe, effective in helping to prevent Medicaid expansion […]

Filed Under: Charity vs Welfare, Featured, Government Spending, Health Care, Medicaid, Nebraska, Personal Responsibility, State Legislation, Taxes, Unicameral, Welfare Tagged With: ballot initiative, ballot initiatives, Featured, Health Care, health care reform, healthcare reform, initiative petition, medicaid, medicaid expansion, nebraska medicaid expansion

Who’s Attempting to Legislate Morality?

Originally published July 25, 2016, By Linda. Updated July 25, 2016. Leave a Comment

Who’s Attempting to Legislate Morality?

Filed Under: Civil Society, Faith, Featured, Founding Principles, Legal Limit, Morality, Personal Responsibility Tagged With: 2016 election, christianity, election, government, law, moral relativism, morality, personal responsibility, political philosophy, political principles

Christmas Wishes From George Washington

Originally published December 25, 2014, By Linda. Updated July 25, 2016. 1 Comment

Christmas Wishes From George Washington

“May the Father of all Mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us all in our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way, everlastingly happy.” — George Washington Letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, 1790 And from us here at GiN, a song of the […]

Filed Under: Faith, Holiday Tagged With: christmas, george washington

We Can Be Thankful for George Washington’s Example

Originally published November 27, 2014, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated September 11, 2015. Leave a Comment

We Can Be Thankful for George Washington’s Example

Whether you’re staying close to home or traveling far this Thanksgiving, hopefully you’ll have some time for family fun and a bit of relaxation. At a convenient point during our family’s festivities, I’m going to pass around a copy of George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1789. I would like my children, who are all now […]

Filed Under: Character, Featured, Founding Fathers, Founding Principles, History Tagged With: american history, cincinnatus, george washington, holidays, republic, thanksgiving

“Gender Identity” Ordinances: City Officials Subvert the Law

Originally published November 13, 2014, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated September 11, 2015. Leave a Comment

“Gender Identity” Ordinances: City Officials Subvert the Law

In “Under Those Sermon Subpoenas: ‘Disappeared’ Ballot Initiatives”, I explained that subpoenas issued to a number of Houston pastors in mid-October were part of a larger story with parallels to events here in Nebraska. The targeted pastors were part of a coalition of churches, pro-family Christian organizations, and groups which undertook a petition drive to […]

Filed Under: City of Lincoln, Featured, Local, Morality Tagged With: ballot initiatives, Christian, city of houston, City of Lincoln, corruption, fairness ordinance, gender identity, homosexuality, law, ordinances, rule of law, sexual orientation, writ of mandamus

The Lesser of Two Evils is Still Evil

Originally published May 4, 2014, By Linda. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

The Lesser of Two Evils is Still Evil

I was sitting at my kitchen table today sorting through the week’s mail, the lion’s share of which was campaign mailers from political candidates.  That’s not surprising, since the primary election is May 13th.  What was a surprising coincidence was, at that very moment, one of the candidates for the state legislature in my district […]

Filed Under: 2014 Elections, Character, Civil Society, Elections, Featured, Founding Principles, Health Care, Medicaid, Nebraska, Republican Party, Ruling Class, Unicameral Tagged With: character and electibility, character counts, character matters, edmund burke, electability, electable, founding principles, gin, Grassroots in Nebraska, healthcare, ne, nebraska legislature, nebraska unicameral, politics, public opinion, role of a state senator, role of an elected official, role of an elected representative, state senators, Unicameral, what makes a candidate electable

Who’s Hate-filled and Bitter? Marriage, Domestic Partner Benefits & Fairness Ordinance

Originally published August 23, 2013, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. 1 Comment

Who’s Hate-filled and Bitter? Marriage, Domestic Partner Benefits & Fairness Ordinance

Filed Under: City of Lincoln, Education, Featured, Morality, State Legislation Tagged With: 2000, 2012, 2013, benefits, board of regents, bob phares, bob whitehouse, chuck hassebrook, civil unions, colleges, constitutional amendment, danielle conrad, domestic partner benefits, government employees, homosexuality, howard hawks, jeremy nordquist, jim mcclurg, kent schroeder, lincoln fairness ordinance, marriage, nebraska, petition referendum, sara howard, state senators, tim clare, universities, university of nebraska, unmarried cohabitation

Saturday (March 16) Conference for Concerned Citizens

Originally published March 15, 2013, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

Saturday (March 16) Conference for Concerned Citizens

If you’re interested in important issues like… Discriminatory “Anti-Discrimination” legislation like the Lincoln and Omaha “Fairness” ordinances creating new classes of protected individuals including homosexuals, transgender, etc. Implementation of “ObamaCare” – the health care law Efforts to implement “green” policies (referred to as sustainable development by many, and also known as Agenda 21) Rights of […]

Filed Under: Events, Meetings, Morality Tagged With: 103rd unicameral, agenda 21, concerned citizens conference, defend the family international, dr. scott lively, green agenda, Health Care, march 16 2013, nebraska legislation, obamacare, parental rights, Sustainable Development, Unicameral, west point nebraska

Senator Nordquist Admits His Associations Appear Improper — Sorta

Originally published March 6, 2013, By Linda. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

Senator Nordquist Admits His Associations Appear Improper — Sorta

Last week I decided to have a conversation with the Counsel for the Accountability and Disclosure Commission about concerns I first disclosed in an editorial published in the Lincoln Journal-Star and reprinted here that I titled “Senator Jeremy Nordquist Listens to His Master’s Voice . . . But Who’s His Master?”  My concerns about Senator […]

Filed Under: Beneficiaries, Character, Clients, Featured, Health Care, Medicaid, Ruling Class, Senators, State Legislation Tagged With: abstain from voting, appearance of impropriety, building bright futures, building healthy futures, conflicts of interest, ethical concerns, ethical rules for nebraska politicians, ethical rules for nebraska state senators, ethical violations by nebraska senators, ethics, ethics nebraska unicameral, governmental ethics, nebraska accountability and disclosure commission, nebraska state senators ethics, one world, one world community health center, one world health center, public confidence in government, public faith in government, public trust, self dealing, self interest of state senators, self-dealing by senators, senator jeremy nordquist, unethical, unethical conduct, violation of public trust, vote selling

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