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Obama – GOP Tax Compromise is a $858 billion Compromise of Principle

By Shelli Dawdy Webster’s online dictionary provides some example phrases for some words. I find one of the examples for the word compromise, fascinating 1: “To avoid an argument, always be ready to seek compromise.” There’s no question we’ve heard a lot about bipartisanship and compromise. I’m not naive, compromise is of course, a necessary [...]

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

It’s been an amazing year and a historic election because of the hard work and devotion to our state and country from “ordinary” citizen patriots like you! At Grassroots in Michigan we want to thank you for all you do and will continue to do as we enter a New Year, for our great state …

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Virginia Ruling Declaring Health Care Reform Unconstitutional and Social Security Parallels

“At its core, this dispute is not simply about regulating the business of insurance—or crafting a scheme of universal health insurance coverage—it’s about an individual’s right to choose to participate.” A federal judge in the Eastern Virginia District Court released a summary judgment Monday declaring the individual mandate portion of the health care law passed [...]

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Nebraska Groups Working with the UN to Expand Welfare

By Shelli Dawdy On December 9th, we published an article about the “Symposium on Maternal Child Health in Nebraska” convened by the National Association of Social Workers and United Nations Foundation in Omaha on September 30, 2010. As I reported, friends from Omaha arranged for a person to attend the event for the purpose of [...]

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A Merry Christmas at American Airports?

Please note that the new TSA screening procedures are of an offensive nature, so humor generated about the whole subject naturally tends to be…a bit racy. We recommend viewer discretion. For a few serious articles on the topic, check out the following… Think Concerns Over New TSA Airport Security Overblown? Alternative to Virtual Strip Searches [...]

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Tax Deal Details and Summary

Summary of Tax Deal More Details on Tax Deal Obama won the great tax-cut showdown of 2010 ˜ and House Democrats don’t have a clue that he did. In the deal struck this week, the president negotiated the biggest stimulus in American history, larger than his $814 billion 2009 stimulus package. It will pump a …

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As D.C. Hemmorhages Red Ink, House Sends Trojan Horse Bill To Senate

By Shelli Dawdy As the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, the federal government ended November as the 26th month in a row spending more money that it had taken in (by $150.4 billion) and the most recent projections available mean Fiscal Year 2011 could reach a new record $1.5 trillion deficit, topping the 2009 [...]

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