Blue Collar Muse @ April 29, 2008 # 2 Comments
I recently wrote a post titled ‘Democrats Disenfranchise Tennessee Voters’. It told of a group of 6 Democrats in the Tennessee House preventing a resolution already passed by the Tennessee Senate from coming out of committee to be voted on by the House with the possibility the issue could make it to the ballot […]
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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 22, 2008 # 6 Comments
Those who remember almost any recent election will likely stop to read that headline again. After all, isn’t it the Democrats who have been making the claim every other year that their voters have been disenfranchised? Isn’t it the other guys that do that sort of thing? The answers are yes and […]
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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 @ March 27, 2008 # 5 Comments
This is one of those stories that makes me immediately think of Glenn Beck and his advice that one wrap their head in duct tape before exposure as it will make the pieces of one’s head easier to find after it explodes. What’s the deal with Oklahoma? First Paul Jacob and now this? […]
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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 @ March 7, 2008 # 4 Comments
In the wake of several University shootings in the US to add to the incidents of violence at high schools around the country, the country finds itself asking whether or not it would be wise to permit weapons on campus.
People who understand that our way of life is governed by the Constitution and not by […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ February 22, 2008 # 3 Comments
There’s an old story about frogs. I hear it’s true although I’ve never tested it. If you toss a frog into boiling water, he’ll do his best to jump out. But it’s said if you put a frog in room temperature water and turn the heat on, the frog will stay there […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ February 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
One of the most vocal, and potentially persuasive arguments for Conservatives to support John McCain is that McCain will be better on SCOTUS appointments. At first blush that might seem to be true.
However, that may be just wishful thinking. Ragnar Danneskjold (OK -ya’ gotta LOVE the name - especially given a couple of […]
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