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Bold Plan. Free Texas.

Janice Cookston WeTexans.com Archives originally http://wetexans.com/bold-plan-free-texas/ ========================================== There has been an increased media buzz, both state and national, this week about the elimination of property tax. While voters in North Dakota defeated a proposition to eliminate the property tax in their state on Tuesday, we are pleased to hear, not deterred in reaction to that news, that Rep. Harvey Hilderbran, Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee in the Texas House, has said that he plans to introduce a property tax elimination … Continue reading →

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Read more about the article Arbor Day’s J. Sterling Morton: We Don’t Know Him

Arbor Day’s J. Sterling Morton: We Don’t Know Him

Some men, long dead, are famous for what they DIDN’T do. For example, George Washington almost certainly didn’t chop down a cherry tree and later confess because, as he is reputed to have told his father, he “could not tell a lie.”1 Similarly, there is reason to believe that Benjamin Franklin did not actually fly… more

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Read more about the article A Fine Kettle of Fish: Searching for a Federal Solution to the Asian Carp Invasion

A Fine Kettle of Fish: Searching for a Federal Solution to the Asian Carp Invasion

POLL: Which do you, as a taxpayer, prefer? A) Spending in excess of $50 million federal taxpayer dollars ANNUALLY to study Asian carp in the hope of developing a way to control and, ultimately, eradicate them from the nation’s rivers before they invade the Great Lakes; or B) Spending up to $9.5 billion to erect… more

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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… more

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OccupyLincoln: The 99 Percent, The Proletariat OR The Incoherent?

So Lincoln, Nebraska has a growing tent Shanty Town, occupied by a band of intentionally helpless Lincolnites. Ironically, Shanty Town Lincoln is located squarely on one of the best spots in the City to serve as a symbol of that city government’s, and therefore, elected officials’ and bureaucrats’ mismanagement of taxpayer dollars for a very… more

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Terribly Troubling Truths About TransCanada Pipeline – Nebraska: We Have A Problem

On Tuesday we wrote an article about the TransCanada pipeline issue that has been getting a lot of reads and generated a number of e-mails and phone calls. We even drew the attention of one of the people mentioned, Bold Nebraska’s Jane Kleeb, who stated that she wants to sit down and have coffee. Tuesday’s… more

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Your Mama’s SO Ugly, She’s — DISABLED???

  “THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, [...]

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US Governors Led By Dave Heineman to Pair Up With Chinese July 15

  Nebraskans concerned about U.S. sovereignty and the health of our economy, may want to get in touch with Dave Heineman regarding the upcoming forum explained forum. See the bottom of this article for Governor Heineman’s contact information. Several weeks ago, our friends at OK-SAFE alerted us to the fact that the National Governors Association [...]

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SA@TAC – ‘Extremism’ in Wisconsin

There are many problems with American politics but “extremism” is not one of them. For all the mainstream media’s criticism of the Tea Party being too “extreme” or the GOP supposedly adopting the movement’s “radical” rhetoric and action...

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