Editorial #52A Inside the Political Club, March 21, 2019

To paraphrase an old Yogi Berra euphemism: They are so busy there they are not getting anything done anymore. This seems applies to our legislature. There were over a 1000 bills introduced this session, with issue like mountain lions, prairie dogs, gender issues, making more environmental regulations or the bits of outrage when a senator called The American Flag a rag, all debated. This session is half over with less than 1% of all proposals and less than 5% of the time spent on taxes.

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Editorial #53 The Flood March 19, 2019

With the nearly unprecedented natural disaster of last week, the things that are truly important in life are suddenly brought into focus. It is sad that these events have to happen for us all to realizing how precious life is and how things can happen in an instant that completely changes everything.

There is no one to blame as twenty-twenty hindsight is always nearly perfect.

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Editorial #51 On-going Tax Debate March 14, 2019

I have been in the business of listening for my entire career. I have spoken with thousands of people from all over North America as well as Nebraska, from both ends of the political spectrum. These interactions were very helpful, as I waded into the aspect of politics, essentially being on a listening tour for over a decade which doubled as a campaign for Nebraska Legislature.

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Editorial #49 News Papers and Social Media for March 12, 2019

Today we have technological marvels with incredible capabilities giving us solutions to problems we didn’t know we had.
The year I graduated as an engineer, was the last year for anyone to graduate without the use of a handheld calculator during our college career. Every calculation to solve any problem was done with a slide rule, which required us to estimate the answer first.

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Editorial #50 Ongoing Liberal Assault for March 7, 2019

The barrage of liberal laws continues with seemingly endless attempts to pass legislation that undermines our core values of truth, fairness, sustainability and integrity. No one could honestly agree with you if you declared these core values were bad or destructive. They are vital ingredients for a society to have any chance of surviving. The reason why liberal proposals seem objectionable is they always violate one or more of these core values.

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Editorial # 48 Parental Rights, March 5, 2019

When politicians openly support infanticide or illogically deny security issues that are as simple as locking our doors (our border in this case), one must question how we got here and ask: “Is my thinking faulty?”

The only plausible explanation is: something is infecting society with this gloom and doom by allowing all this dysfunctionality to have traction and not be questioned as wrong,

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