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Politician Deafness & Other Natural Phenomenon

Originally published September 16, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated September 16, 2010. 2 Comments

Politician Deafness & Other Natural Phenomenon

Posted by Shelli Dawdy Why do federal elected officials seem to be impervious to the objections of their constituents, specifically when those objections are voiced in large numbers? That phenomenon was very well illustrated by the drama that reached a crescendo on October 3, 2008. Congress passed the bailout bill (TARP) despite call ratios into […]

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Firearms Safety Refresher Course

Originally published September 6, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated September 6, 2010. Leave a Comment

Firearms Safety Refresher Course

“Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.” – Thomas Jefferson This little gem has been making the email forward rounds, thought others may enjoy… “Firearms Refresher Course” An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject. A gun in the hand is better than a […]

Filed Under: 2nd Amendment, Bar Room Banter Tagged With: Constitution, Facts are Stubborn Things, firearms, free enterprise, gin, Grassroots in Nebraska, Gun rights, limited government, media, nebraska, political humor, Principles & Philosophy, right to bear arms, second amendment, shelli dawdy, stubborn facts

Federal Red Ink Tsunami: The Life Boats Are Within Our Reach

Originally published August 19, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated March 9, 2012. Leave a Comment

Federal Red Ink Tsunami: The Life Boats Are Within Our Reach

By Shelli Dawdy In two recent articles, I laid out what I believe to be some unfortunate truths. In Don’t Count On A Republican Congress To Save The Day I theorized there is ample evidence and information that placing all hopes on the results of November’s election is a fallacy. The title of the second, […]

Filed Under: Deficit, Featured, Government Spending, Like Drunken Sailors, Taxes Tagged With: 10th Amendment, 9th amendment, ballot initiative, cartoon, entitlement programs, exercise of state sovereignty, Facts are Stubborn Things, Featured, federal deficit, federal government, federal spending, free enterprise, gin, government spending, governors, Grassroots in Nebraska, gulf coast oil spill, immigration, legislators, limited government, missouri nullifies healthcare law, missouri prop c, missouri voters, nebraska, ninth amendment, nullification, nullifying effect, overspending by government, Principles & Philosophy, printz vs the united states, red ink spill, red ink tsunami, ruling class, shelli dawdy, solution to our problem, state action against federal government, state legislatures, state representatives, state sovereignty, stop the insanity, stubborn facts, Tenth Amendment, tenth with teeth

Don’t Count On A Republican Congress To Save The Day

Originally published August 14, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated December 5, 2011. 1 Comment

Don’t Count On A Republican Congress To Save The Day

Editor’s Note: This article is part of a series about the perils of a perpetual focus on the next election cycle, on Washington, D.C. politics, and a need for appraising the sober realities about state sovereignty and politics as usual. Following this article, there were, in order, three others published:  “GOP Congress Will Not Save […]

Filed Under: Activism, Featured, Federal Tagged With: 2010 elections, bailout, cause of healthcare costs, congressional leadership, control of congress, democrat controlled congress, democratic majority, election 2010, Facts are Stubborn Things, Featured, federal, federal debt, federal deficit, federal government, focus on federal government, free enterprise, gin, Grassroots in Nebraska, healthcare bill, healthcare law, healthcare reform, house of representatives, incumbent politicians, incumbent protection, Issues & Policies, limited government, medicaid, medicare, medicare in trouble, nebraska, partisan politics, party politics, political games, political gamesmanship, politics, Principles & Philosophy, repeal healthcare, republican congress, republican incompetence, republican leadership, republican party, shelli dawdy, solutions to problem of growing government, source of rising medical care costs, state sovereignty, stimulus bill, stimulus programs, stubborn facts, take back congress, tarp, Tenth Amendment, unemployment compensation, unsustainable debt, unsustainable deficit, unsustainable programs, us government, us house

Charity…Entitlements…Do Names Matter?

Originally published August 12, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated May 2, 2012. Leave a Comment

Charity…Entitlements…Do Names Matter?

This is a sequel to early article “Charity By Any Other Name Does Not Smell As Sweet” What’s in a name? As famously dramatized by Shakespeare… JULIET: ‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What’s Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor […]

Filed Under: Charity vs Welfare, Civil Society, Featured Tagged With: benjamin franklin on charity, benjamin franklin on poverty, benjamin franklin quotes about charity, best ways to help the poor, changing political terms, changing the language, charity welfare relief public assistance entitlements, entitlement programs, entitlements, Facts are Stubborn Things, Featured, founding fathers, free enterprise, gin, government handouts, Grassroots in Nebraska, Issues & Policies, limited government, nebraska, overcoming objections to public policies, Principles & Philosophy, public assistance, relief programs, removing stigmas, shelli dawdy, stubborn facts, welfare, welfare state, words matter

Anatomy of a Shell Game

Originally published August 11, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated March 9, 2012. 1 Comment

Anatomy of a Shell Game

In light of the new American tradition of passing legislation so we can find out what is actually in it, perhaps it’s a bit early to make definitive statements about the “Jobs” bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday (August 10). Although there are certain to be many fascinating surprises revealed about […]

Filed Under: Budget, Featured, Government Spending, Governor, Health Care, Like Drunken Sailors, State Sovereignty, Stimulus, Taxes, Tenth Amendment Tagged With: aid to medicaid funding, aid to states, american recovery and reinvestment act of 2009, buying votes, education funding in stimulus bill, extension of stimulus funds, Facts are Stubborn Things, Featured, federal government encroachment on states, free enterprise, gin, government employees payoff, government spending, Grassroots in Nebraska, jobs bill, limited government, medicaid funding boost, nancy pelosi’s job bill, nancy pelosi’s most ethical congress in history, nebraska, Principles & Philosophy, shelli dawdy, state aid, state sovereignty, stubborn facts, taking over states, teachers union payoff, what’s in the jobs bill

Charity By Any Other Name Does Not Smell As Sweet

Originally published August 10, 2010, By Linda. Updated January 25, 2011. Leave a Comment

Charity By Any Other Name Does Not Smell As Sweet

This article was first published on the GiN site on April 22, 2010 and in a slightly edited form under the title “Churches misguided in opting for a government solution” in the Lincoln Journal Star as a local view column on April 30, 2010. We are republishing this article as it’s sequel “Charity…Entitlements…Do Names Matter” […]

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