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Primary Sources

Other document links: Founding Documents – GiN Documents

Links to primary source document archives in full text:

Don’t be fooled by the following list; it may be short, but the amount of material provided by these few sites is extensive!

Online Library of Liberty

Liberty Fund’s extensive collection of primary source materials focused on liberty, in full text, dating back 4,000 years and covering such topics as philosophy, economics, the law, and more.

The Avalon Project

Read original source documents; a growing list from the beginning of recorded history to the present.

The Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University has established a document archive of primary source materials, along with additional information about America’s Founding. In addition to the documents, we highly recommend the site’s Special Exhibits page, which provides a great deal of information on the Constitutional Convention, Federalist / Anti-Federalist Debates, Ratification of the Constitution, and the Election of 1800.

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City of Lincoln

Why Process Matters

A great deal has been said in the Lincoln Journal Star and elsewhere about the "fairness" ordinance passed by the Lincoln City Council. It is a great mistake to say that the process by which the Council amended the ordinance does not matter. It matters a great deal. Read more »

Why Every Lincoln Voter Should Sign Referendum Petition

As many Lincolnites know, a referendum petition effort has been organized in response to the Lincoln City Council's vote on Monday, May 14, 2012 to create protection for a new class of persons based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Members of the City Council subverted the rule of law in multiple ways. Read more »

Occupy Lincoln Shanty Town: City of Lincoln PERMITing Hypocrisy

We have a Shanty Town on Lincoln’s Centennial Mall with an increasing number of tents. “Residents” of this new community have every intention of staying indefinitely. Just how is that possible? Whatever disagreements I have with the Occupy Lincoln group, I do agree, of course; they have a fundamental right [...] Read more »

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GiN Appetizers…Tidbits of Truth

"Nothing is easier than spending the public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody."

~ Calvin Coolidge, Fourth Annual Message, December 7, 1926

Economics

Online Library of Liberty
Political Math Blog
The Tax Foundation
US Debt Clock

Let’s see some ID…

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 [...] Read more »

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

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, the passage of the Nebraska resolution on April 13, 2010[1. The Sovereignty Resolution was originally [...] Read more »

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 [...] Read more »

Campaign Finance

BREAKING: NE Teachers Union Funded Term Limit Extension Ads

Radio ads advocating for the extension of the current limit on Nebraska State Senators’ terms have been playing on Nebraska airwaves for the past couple of days[1. The airing of the ads was first reported by Linda and later confirmed by my husband and a number of the attendees at [...] Read more »

NE Proposed Amendment No. 1: Vote AGAINST More Political Games

Editor’s Note: If you’re looking for information about any of the other proposed amendments which will appear on Nebraska ballots statewide on November 6, click HERE. Nebraska voters should reject Proposed Amendment No. 1 … BUT – the opportunity for a serious wake up call should NOT be overlooked in [...] Read more »

Following the Jon Bruning Money Trail

As noted in the title, this article is about the subject of money, including campaign fundraising and expenditures and income / wealth earned by Bruning during his years in public office. Earlier today, we published an article, pictured at right, which covered a broad range of topics about Nebraska’s current [...] Read more »

Political Hacks Swarm NE: Invasion of the Bus People

I don’t know if everyone reading this is old enough to remember all the press about “the boat people” fleeing Vietnam in the ’70s. According to Wikipedia, references to the boat people “came into common use during the late 1970s with the mass departure of Vietnamese refugees from Communist-controlled Vietnam, [...] Read more »

Bailouts

The Myth of Nebraska’s Sovereignty Resolution (10th Amendment)

It’s both incredibly ironic and highly appropriate for me to be writing this article at this time. As February 2010 neared its end, I was very tired, but excited about GiN’s ongoing effort in support of what most people would identify as the State Sovereignty or Tenth Amendment Resolution. That [...] Read more »

These Nebraskans Are Not Alone: Proposed Debt Limit Deals Are Total Foolishness

Like many other Americans, some of our number are following the “debt ceiling debate” as closely as they can. One of them is doing so in between working even longer hours than he used to – like many other small business owners in the current economy. And despite long days, [...] Read more »

How IS That Whole European Union Thing Working Out?

The whole concept of the European Union was a move to consolidate those countries into a single government structure with a common currency. To borrow some British slang, that sounds like a simply smashing idea, doesn’t it? If one believes in the notion of limited government and the only way [...] Read more »

Lincoln Arena: A Shell Game With Bailout Money

Editor’s Note: Thanks to Don Raskey for this excellent, well researched article. Don worked hard with the No2Arena people to get the full facts in front of Lincoln voters. His continued efforts to follow up are much appreciated. By Donald Raskey The mayor and the Joint Public Agency (JPA) have [...] Read more »

Quotable

A Republic If You Can Keep It

The story goes that Benjamin Franklin was approached by a woman as he left the Constitutional Convention [1. Recorded by Constitution signer James McHenry in his diary which was reprinted in 1906. Reference.] She asked: “What have you given us?” Franklin is said to have replied: “A republic, if you [...] Read more »

Can America Survive Traitors Within?

Contributed by a Grassroots in Nebraska member… “A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among [...] Read more »

GiN Quotes Collection: Power

POWER When Excess of Power Prevails Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected; no man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. ~ James Madison, essay in the National Gazette, March 27, 1792 Essence of Government is Power The [...] Read more »

GiN Quotes Collection: Welfare

WELFARE Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who [...] Read more »

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