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$130k for School Diversity Manuals Just the Tip of Nebraska Stimulus $$$ Iceberg

Originally published July 22, 2011, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated March 9, 2012. 1 Comment

$130k for School Diversity Manuals Just the Tip of Nebraska Stimulus $$$ Iceberg

  Certainly many Nebraskans have heard about the $130,000 in Federal “Stimulus” dollars which were used to purchase “diversity manuals” by Omaha Public Schools for all 8,000 of its employees (including the custodians). For those who didn’t catch the story in local media, ample opportunities abounded via many media outlets nationally, both online and off. […]

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A Republic If You Can Keep It

Originally published July 15, 2010, By Linda. Updated September 21, 2014. 2 Comments

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 can keep it.” This exchange […]

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Government Schools Produce Ignorance As Revealed By Jaywalking July 4

Originally published July 13, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 13, 2010. 2 Comments

Recently, we’ve run a series of posts responding to a misleading article in the July 4 edition of the Lincoln Journal Star. One of those posts was entitled Is Ignorance Bliss? No. Ignorance is Ignorance. It addressed the problems inherent in our education system – people don’t know history anymore. For at least the past […]

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GiN Series Refuting the Flawed July 4th Article on the Founders

Originally published July 13, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 13, 2010. Leave a Comment

GiN Series Refuting the Flawed July 4th Article on the Founders

We’ve recently posted a series inspired by a Lincoln Journal Star on July 4 entitled “Whose side are the Founding Fathers on?” Part One: “The Founding? Move Along Folks, Nothing to See There. Onward Progress!” Part one points out that the author of the LJS article attempts to appear unbiased, yet he adopts a very […]

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