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NE Primary Election 2018: Blasts from the GiN Past re Sen. Deb Fischer

Originally published April 29, 2018, By Linda. Updated April 29, 2018. Leave a Comment

NE Primary Election 2018:  Blasts from the GiN Past re Sen. Deb Fischer

I spent a bit of time recently researching the various Republican primary candidates challenging Senator Deb Fischer for the U.S. Senate seat she currently occupies.  In the process, I couldn’t resist revisiting some vintage GiN.  And when I say that, I’m not talking about a dusty bottle of an adult beverage, but articles that were […]

Filed Under: 2018 Elections, Elections, Featured, Nebraska, Republican Party, State Sovereignty, US Senate Tagged With: 2018 Primary election, deb fischer, Featured, gin, government, Grassroots in Nebraska, nebraska legislature, nebraska unicameral, senator fischer, U.S. Senator Deb Fischer, u.s. senators nebraska

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

Candidate Profile: Tom Carlson for Governor

Originally published April 19, 2014, By Linda. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

Candidate Profile: Tom Carlson for Governor

Due to other commitments which tend to monopolize my time these days, I’ve been hesitant to continue the GiN tradition of publishing candidate profiles for fear I could not do them justice.  However, it occurred to me today that the GiN archives are a goldmine of information about a few of the current crop of […]

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OBAMACARE: When You Put Out a Fire, What Do You Replace It With?

Originally published March 29, 2014, By Linda. Updated July 21, 2015. 2 Comments

OBAMACARE: When You Put Out a Fire, What Do You Replace It With?

No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: “But what would you replace it with?” When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with? — Thomas Sowell I agree wholeheartedly with Thomas Sowell, so you may be surprised to learn that the purpose […]

Filed Under: Featured, Federal, Health Care, Medicaid Tagged With: aca, affordable care act, free market, free market solutions, government spending, Health Care, health care law, health care reform, health insurance, health insurance reform, healthcare reform, limited government, medicaid, nebraska legislature, nebraska unicameral, obamacare, progressivism, thomas sowell

Projections re Cost of Medicaid Expansion: Too Good to Be True

Originally published February 18, 2013, By Linda. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

Projections re Cost of Medicaid Expansion: Too Good to Be True

Editor’s Note: This article is part of a series, see the bottom for a complete list. There are a lot of Latin phrases you learn when you’re in law school. Some of them have even made their way into common, everyday English! One of those is the warning caveat emptor, “Let the buyer beware.” Expressed […]

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Money for Nothing and Health Care for Free

Originally published February 15, 2013, By Linda. Updated July 21, 2015. 2 Comments

Money for Nothing and Health Care for Free

Author’s Note: This is the seventh 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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Senator Jeremy Nordquist: Listens to His Master’s Voice . . . But Who’s His Master?

Originally published February 9, 2013, By Linda. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

Senator Jeremy Nordquist: Listens to His Master’s Voice . . . But Who’s His Master?

Author’s Note:  What follows is a reprint of an article published in the February 8, 2012, edition of the Lincoln Journal Star.  The only difference between what you will find in the Journal Star and what you see here is a small but substantial one.  As my article appears below, I have added links to […]

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Sending Granny (and Gramps) to the Home

Originally published February 4, 2013, By Linda. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

Sending Granny (and Gramps) to the Home

Author’s Note: This is the fourth 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, and see the […]

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Government’s Getting Us Where it Wants Us — Eating Out of Its Hand

Originally published January 31, 2013, By Linda. Updated July 21, 2015. Leave a Comment

Government’s Getting Us Where it Wants Us — Eating Out of Its Hand

Filed Under: Bar Room Banter, Budget, Budget, Charity vs Welfare, Civil Society, Education, Featured, Federal, Founding Principles, Government Spending, In the News, Lincoln Public Schools, Local, Nebraska, Personal Responsibility, Progressivism, Regulation, Taxes, Welfare Tagged With: 16 ounce soda limit, banning unhealthy food, bill avery, brown bag lunch, brown bagging, C. S. Lewis, C. S. Lewis on tyranny, childhood obesity, clancy brothers and tommy makem, connemara, diet, dr. bob rauner, eating at school, fast food kids' meals, food ban, food police, food stamps, free lunch, free or reduced price lunch, free school lunch, God in the Dock, government, government regulation, government spending, healthy food, Hispanic Federation, home cooking, homefeeding, homeschooling, is soda a food, keep the smoke from risin' barney, kids' meals, lb447, limit food stamp use to healthy food, limited government, mayor bloomberg, meals at school, michael bloomberg, Michelle Obama, mike douglas show, moonshine, mountain tay, NAACP, ne, nebr, nebraska, nebraska budget, nebraska legislature, nebraska medical association, nebraska medical association public health committee, nebraska unicameral, new york city, nutrition, obesity, obesity among children, one size fits all, one size fits all government program, parental rights, platte institute snap program, politicians, politics, progressivism, public health committee, public kitchens, public schools, reduced price school lunch, revenuers, sales tax exemption on food, sales tax on food, salt ban, school inspector confiscates kid's lunch, school lunch program, school lunches, silver tongued devil, snap, snap program, soda ban, soda tax bill, state senator bill avery, state senators, summer school lunch program, supplemental food and nutrition program, taking lunch to school, tax subsidies, taxing unhealthy food, the hand is quicker than the eye, toys in kids' meals, trans-fat ban, tyranny, Unicameral, USDA, USDA regulations

People Don’t Walk Away From a Fool and His Money

Originally published January 28, 2013, By Linda. Updated February 25, 2018. Leave a Comment

People Don’t Walk Away From a Fool and His Money

Editor’s Note: This article is part of a series, see the bottom for a complete list. * * * * * * * * * * You’re probably familiar with the old adage “a fool and his money are soon parted.” Paul McCartney put a twist on this proverb in his lyrics for the song […]

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