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Importance of Voting

Have you ever said that your vote doesn’t count?  You probably said this in a moment of  frustration when some seemingly stupid legislation just passed or a government official did something that defied common sense.  It was as if they just ignored your thoughts and your values when they acted. So why should you vote?  Moreover, why should …

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Our Spending Problem, Our Debt Ceiling, and Our Legislature

We’ve all heard the snappy sound bite – “We don’t have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem.”  There is a certain allure, a kind of undeniable wisdom in those words.  Let’s have a look. The President spends money that has been authorized by the Legislative Branch (both the House and the Senate) in …

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The Second Amendment – what were they thinking?

As the Founding Fathers struggled to create the Constitution and what became the Bill of Rights, there were fifty-five brilliant minds at work.  We can only stand in awe of their accomplishments even if we can’t always understand their meaning. Guns, gun ownership, The Second Amendment, mass murder of small children and innocent bystanders have …

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