Blue Collar Muse @ April 27, 2008 # One Comment
As part of my online activism, I participate in a number of forums. One of the most recent is my posting some of my material at Newsvine.com. There are a number of people I know that don’t care for Newsvine as it seems to hold the same opinion so many other social networking […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ April 18, 2008 # One Comment
Susan Crane, the University of Maine at Farmington student who conceived of a social conscience art project which involved putting American flags on the floor in a high traffic hallway of the University’s Student Center and seeing who walked on them and who avoided them, says it was hard to do and was difficult to […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ April 17, 2008 # 5 Comments
I’m not sure where I was but I must have been doing something VERY important. Otherwise I’m pretty sure I would remember where I was when higher education became synonymous with ignorance. Kind of like remembering where you were when we landed on the moon; when Challenger blew up and when Kennedy, Kennedy, […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ April 7, 2008 # 4 Comments
It’s incredibly disheartening to read. But it is anything but surprising. Skip, at Granite Grok, reports that during a recent confab of Democrats a brief lull ensued after all the exciting stuff wound down. After wondering aloud what Mrs. Clinton must have felt while dodging sniper bullets in Bosnia and after […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ March 17, 2008 # No Comment Yet
In discussions of Constitutional interpretation, an interesting concept has turned up in the last few years in the context of a why a position is or is not Constitutional. It’s stated in some form of the idea that “the Constitution is a living document”.
The idea has appeal for a variety of reasons. […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ February 14, 2008 # One Comment
68 Senators voted for it. The President will sign it. Most of the House of Representatives supports it as well. Bi-Partisanship at it’s best is what it sounds like. Except we’re talking about FISA.
And a small group of House Democrats is holding up the process of renewing it. They’re offering […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ January 7, 2008 # 4 Comments
I’ve been writing and thinking about Socialism of late and I realized, while running down a mental rabbit trail, that Socialism only functions if there is a strong, large central government. I’m unaware of any Socialist government that developed naturally. All examples I can think of came about when an existing central government […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ January 6, 2008 # 4 Comments
In an unusual move, I’m simply reprinting an entire article from someone else. I found it to be fascinating and wanted to share it with all of you! The author is Nancy Salvato, a staff writer at The New Media Alliance. Her bio appears at the end of the piece. Enjoy!
What […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ December 7, 2007 # 2 Comments
We used to talk like that when we were ambushed. We used to know the difference between a legitimate disagreement, or even a conflict, and a deliberate, unannounced act of war. We used to have the will to see through to the end what had to be done to ensure the threat that […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ November 20, 2007 # 2 Comments
(EDITOR’S note: this post is also available as a downloadable or online play podcast at The Voice of Liberty Podcast Network. It is in week 3’s podcast.)
My introduction to the contentious world of “Do you or do you not support the troops?” came early in my blogging career. In late May of ‘07, a […]
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