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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

Government vs Capitalism OR Crony Capitalism? What Can We Do About Greed?

Originally published October 23, 2011, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated July 21, 2015. 10 Comments

Government vs Capitalism OR Crony Capitalism? What Can We Do About Greed?

A lot of people are talking about the Occupy Wall Street movement and we did publish an article about the OccupyLincoln movement this weekend. One of the central themes one can detect within this movement regards “corporate greed”, and it started with a specific criticism of the corporate greed on Wall Street and its influences […]

Filed Under: Charity vs Welfare, City of Lincoln, Civil Society, Featured, Founding Principles, History, In the News, Local, Progressivism, Radicalism, Republic vs Democracy Tagged With: "occupation movement", #ows, adam smith, bailouts, basics of economics, capitalism, central control of economy, central planning, corporate greed, cost containment, cost of health care, crony capitalism, defying gravity, economic policy, effects of federal reserve, free markets, free to choose, freedom of choice, friedman on greed, government, government paternalism, government regulation, government spending, government spending on medical care, greed, greed vs self interest, Handouts, hedging against inflation, human nature, individual responsibility, inflation, keynesian economics, limited government, medical costs, milton friedman, minimum wage, new deal, occupy movement, occupylincoln, paternalistic government, personal responsibility, phil donahue, political philosophy, political self-interest, politicians, politics, public policy, public schools, school choice, self-interest, tarp, Taxes, the bailout, uncertain caused by government, virtue, voucher

Is It Heartless or Just Lawless? Right and Wrong in a Whatever World

Originally published October 17, 2011, By Linda. Updated July 24, 2016. 1 Comment

Is It Heartless or Just Lawless? Right and Wrong in a Whatever World

What follows is the story of two parents. One is a citizen of the United States, born and bred here, currently living in Ohio. The other is a person who was born in another country and crossed the border into the United States illegally, bringing his or her children along. Both parents placed their children […]

Filed Under: Charity vs Welfare, Civil Society, Founding Fathers, Founding Principles, Immigration, Progressivism Tagged With: absolute truth, american citizens, american principles, amnesty, boundary hopping, charitable giving, civil society, compulsory attendance laws, conservatism, conservatives more charitable, conservatives vs liberals, cost of education, democracy vs republic, deportation of illegals, educational theft, ends justify means, ethics, firm foundations, founders, founding philosophy, freedom and liberty, friedman on conservatism, government-run, heartless conservatives, house upon sand vs house upon rock, illegal immigrants, illegal immigration tuition, immigration reform, jesus' sermon on the mount, john adams, judeo christian values, judeo-christian, lawless, lawlessness, liberalism, milton friedman, modern liberalism, moral relativism, morals and public policy, nebraska's ruling class, no child left behind, parental rights, political philosophy, political ruling class, presidential election, private investigators following students, progressivism, prosecuting parents, public education, public schools, representative government, republic vs democracy, rick perry, rick perry heart, rick perry heartless, rick perry illegal immigration, right and wrong, right wrong, rights of citizenship, rule of law, rule of law not men, ruling class, school choice, school districts, secure border, self-government, sermon on the mount, situational ethics, state run education, texas dream act

Comment on GiN Site Reveals Troubling Attitudes of Too Many

Originally published February 10, 2011, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated February 10, 2011. 1 Comment

Comment on GiN Site Reveals Troubling Attitudes of Too Many

“Unions exist to protect workers and ensure that our children receive a quality education and that those who work for the state and educate your children live healthy, decent lives. I am opposed to CIR reform. The CIR is not the source of the problem. CEO salaries are the source of the problem.” The above […]

Filed Under: Featured, State Legislation, Unicameral Tagged With: agriculture subsidies, ceo, cir, cir changes, cir reform, class warfare, federal funding, government budgets, government unions, governor, home schooling, homeschooling, income brackets, income tax, income taxation, industrial relations act, lea, Legislation, legislator, legislature, nanny state, national educaton association, nea, nebraska, nebraska budget, nebraska economy, nebraska state education association, nsea, private schools, progressive income tax, public education, public employee unionization, public schools, redistribution of wealth, state budget, state employee collective bargaining act, teachers unions, Unicameral, unionized public employees, unionized workers, welfare state

E Pluribus Unum? LPS Thinks Not So Much.

Originally published October 26, 2010, By Linda. Updated May 8, 2012. Leave a Comment

E Pluribus Unum?  LPS Thinks Not So Much.

Is there such a thing as American culture anymore, or has the push for “multiculturalism” essentially destroyed the values, traditions, beliefs, and experiences we, as Americans, once commonly held? In an October 2, 2010, article in the local paper, Lincoln Public Schools touted its hiring of four “advocates” to represent African-American and Hispanic students within […]

Filed Under: Featured, Local Tagged With: advocates, america, american cultural, asian academic achievement, asian students, at risk youth, black families, chinese immigrants, e pluribus unum, Education, entitlement programs, failure of multiculturalism, fdr, government welfare, great society, internment camps, lbj, lincoln public schools, lps, mom and apple pie, multiculturalism, paid advocates, president johnson, pubic education, public schools, racial inequality, school systems, segregation, unity in diversity, war on poverty, welfare

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 […]

Filed Under: Constitution, Education, History, Quotes Tagged With: a republic if you can keep it, alexander hamilton, american democracy, american history, benjamin franklin, Constitution, constitutional convention, constitutional government, constitutional republic, democracy vs republic, did benjamin franklin say a republic if you can keep it?, direct democracy, edmund randolph, failing schools, federalism, federalist papers, fisher ames, founding fathers, founding of america, george washington, government education, government run schools, historical quotes, historical revisionism, history revisionism, i cannot tell a lie, ignorance of history, james madison, james mchenry, john adams, justice marshall, lincoln journal star, ljs, myths about american history, notes on the convention, original sources, primary sources, public schools, Quotes, quotes of the founders, republic, republican form of government, rewriting history, studying history, the federalists, thomas jefferson, tyranny of the majority, united states history, us history

In the News: Week of September 23-30, 2009

Originally published October 2, 2009, By mllewendy. Updated October 2, 2009. Leave a Comment

In Nebraska

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Send a Message About Sept. 8 Presidential Address SKIP SCHOOL & P.A.S.S.!

Originally published September 4, 2009, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated September 4, 2009. Leave a Comment

Kevin Elliot of LA came up with a beautiful idea regarding the President’s address to schools. A Parent Approved Skip School Day! Included below is part of the official announcement by the White House regarding the intended address and the letter that Kevin will be sending to his child’s school principal. He offers the letter […]

Filed Under: Action Alerts, Education Tagged With: civil disobediance, Education, indoctrination, kevin elliot, P.A.S.S. Day, president obama, president to address schools, presidential address, public schools, pull your kids out of school september 8, school skip day, sept 8, tuesday september 8

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