It’s Christmas week, and we’re overdue in setting the mood. Let’s kick it off with this very cool rendition of carols, all played on Apple iPads and iPhones. If you’re an owner / user of these gadgets, it’s very impressive to see, if not, it’s likely amazing. All of the instruments used were available through [...]
Wikileaks’ Julian Assange is exemplifying the meaning of the word irony lately. While on the one hand asserting the right to leak information about anything and everything, Assange himself has requested certain information about himself be kept private and, through his attorneys, expressed outrage about…leaks. In a story in The Australian, an Assange attorney was [...]
By Shelli Dawdy GiN is frequently at odds with the Lincoln Journal Star’s editorial board, but for once we agree. Nebraska’s municipalities, counties, and the State simply cannot afford the status quo regarding how public employees’ salaries and benefits are determined. In an editorial published December 16, Lincoln Journal Star cited the recent raises granted [...]
It’s becoming clearer and clearer that the 17th Amendment‘s passage in 1913 in conjunction with other changes, tipped the scale of power too heavily in the direction of Federal government. States lost much of their influence on Congress, since prior to that, Legislatures elected representatives to the United States Senate. The people were both represented [...]
By Shelli Dawdy This is a continuation from yesterday’s article about the Tax Cut Compromise. If Democrats’ want to play class warfare, perhaps the debate should include such vivid examples of where this kind of rhetoric can ultimately lead if it is allowed to stand unchallenged. In Soviet Russia, upper-middle class peasants known as kulaks [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]