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Families Need Medicaid Like Fish Need Bicycles

Originally published February 11, 2013, By Linda. Updated July 21, 2015. 8 Comments

Families Need Medicaid Like Fish Need Bicycles

Author’s Note: This is the sixth 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 – see the […]

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Arbor Day’s J. Sterling Morton: We Don’t Know Him

Originally published April 27, 2012, By Linda. Updated July 4, 2016. 2 Comments

Arbor Day’s J. Sterling Morton: We Don’t Know Him

Some men, long dead, are famous for what they DIDN’T do. For example, George Washington almost certainly didn’t chop down a cherry tree and later confess because, as he is reputed to have told his father, he “could not tell a lie.”1 This myth was popularized in a fable written by Mason Locke Weems about […]

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Majorities Don’t Always Know Best

Originally published July 24, 2010, By Linda. Updated October 13, 2012. 4 Comments

Majorities Don’t Always Know Best

Did you ever seek to persuade your mother to let you do something by telling her that “everyone else is doing it”? Mothers all over the world are prepared for that one! “If everyone else jumped off a bridge, would that make it all right for you to leap off it as well?” Clearly, an […]

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GiN Quotes Collection: Freedom / Liberty

Originally published January 1, 2009, By mllewendy. Updated July 8, 2011. Leave a Comment

FREEDOM / LIBERTY 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 torment us for […]

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