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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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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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Focusing Only On Fiscal Issues & Economy HUGE Mistake

Originally published November 20, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated November 20, 2010. Leave a Comment

Focusing Only On Fiscal Issues & Economy HUGE Mistake

This three video series lasting approximately 30 minutes is worth the watch. Speaking to a church congregation, Ann Coulter entertains with her typically cutting wit. Beyond that, however, she speaks to essentially every pressing issue of the moment and the political forces at work. In some ways Coulter’s wit is cutting because she is one […]

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Did That Sovereignty Resolution Mean Anything?

Originally published September 8, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated January 23, 2011. Leave a Comment

Did That Sovereignty Resolution Mean Anything?

By Shelli Dawdy On March 29, 2010, I published an article here about the effort taken by GiN and so many Nebraskans to get the Sovereignty Resolution passed through the Nebraska Unicameral. Since then, I’ve been wondering…will that effort go to waste? Sovereignty…what does it really mean? On April 13, 2010, the Nebraska Unicameral passed […]

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What IS American Culture? We Used To See It On TV

Originally published August 27, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated August 22, 2015. Leave a Comment

What IS American Culture? We Used To See It On TV

Funny how spending a generation not teaching what America is about will produce a generation that…has no real idea what America is all about. We shared the Jay Leno “Jaywalking” segment from the Fourth of July that exhibits multi-generational ignorance of American history. Leno had to ask Grandpa the history questions in order to illicit […]

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GOP Congress Will Not Save Us: Time To Choose Ourselves

Originally published August 15, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated January 23, 2011. Leave a Comment

GOP Congress Will Not Save Us: Time To Choose Ourselves

In my most recent post, “Don’t Count on a Republican Congress to Save the Day“, I made the case that a majority Republican Congress is not likely to result in either an overall reversal of the disastrous direction of our government or a repeal of such things as the historically bad healthcare law. In fact, […]

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GiN Quotes Collection: Government

Originally published January 1, 2009, By mllewendy. Updated May 4, 2012. Leave a Comment

GOVERNMENT Previously featured on our front page: Nothing is easier than spending the public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody. ~ Calvin Coolidge, Fourth Annual Message, December 7, 1926. Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: […]

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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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