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 @ December 18, 2007 # One Comment
Per a press release yesterday from Duncan Hunter’s camp, the House of Representatives passed and sent to the Senate a bill that would strip previously approved funding for the border fence which performed so well in Southern California. The legislation, the Secure Fence Act, was originally authored by Hunter and the portion of the […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ November 23, 2007 # No Comment Yet
The Tennessee ConserVOLiance has completed its first week of existence. I’m happy to report that we have 6 members and we’re posting daily!
The newest news is that The ConserVOLiance has a FaceBook page and we’d love for you to visit and join if you’re a FaceBook member. Or you could become a member […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ November 8, 2007 # One Comment
I tuned in to the cable program, ‘Hispanics Today’, across the weekend just to see what there might be to see. And there was plenty!
The most interesting part was an interview with marketing consultant Lionel Sosa about the group Mexicans and Americans Thinking Together (MATT) on MATT’s proposals for accomplishing their stated goals of […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ October 18, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Last week’s Conservative Leadership Conference 2007 in Reno, NV was a phenomenal time! People from all over the country gathered to learn, to teach, to network and to move the idea of Conservatism forward. Conservablogs.com has posted a story with various reactions to the conference or one of its parts. It was […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ September 17, 2007 # 10 Comments
UPDATE: As the anonymous commenter rather snarkily points out, I learned after posting that the program for non-citizens seeking citizenship via military service applies only to legal immigrants and, possibly, those making requests from another country but not yet present in the US (I’m still looking into that). Thus I was correct that we […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ September 7, 2007 # One Comment
This morning on WWTN’s The Michael DelGiorno Show, Gerard Donovan, a local businessman, announced he was challenging Jim Cooper for the 5th District’s seat in the US House of Representatives.
Applauding Cooper’s public service, Donovan nevertheless observed Cooper was a professional politician, out of touch with the everyday working families in Middle Tennessee. Pointing […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ September 6, 2007 # 7 Comments
At long last, Fred Thompson has announced his candidacy for the Presidency of the United States of America. Many have criticized him for waiting until now to do so; many have suggested he should have been involved in more debates so the American people could find out what he believes; many more are despairing […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ September 3, 2007 # 3 Comments
Author’s Note: At some point after this post was written and posted, a server belch deleted it. I have reposted it but links, comments and trackbacks have been lost. If you had a comment or trackback lost and would like to resubmit it, please feel free to do so. I’d appreciate […]
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Blue Collar Muse @ July 4, 2007 # 6 Comments
I ran across this last night and it’s too good not to pass on. As you know, becoming a naturalized US citizen is a lengthy process. It includes a test. Our friends over at MSNBC put together this little sampling of questions from the test to see how we would do.
I scored […]
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