close
The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20101027220302/http://www.ldjackson.net/
Latest Story

Arizona citizenship law struck down

Wednesday, October 27, 2010
By LD Jackson
Voter Registration

I wrote yesterday about the ballot questions in Portland, ME and San Francisco that will give legal residents who are non-citizens the right vote in local and state elections. If that wasn’t enough to raise your awareness level, here is something else. Thanks to Steve from America’s Watchtower for alerting me to this story. Arizona is once again in the news, this time for requiring potential voters to show proof of citizenship before they register to vote. No, this is not part of the immigration law that was passed earlier this year, but was instead, part of a bill that was passed by voters in 2004. The  9th Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down the portion of the...
Read more →

Should we give non-citizens the right to vote?

Tuesday, October 26, 2010
By LD Jackson
JOE ROSELL

Just when I thought it couldn’t get any weirder, I have been proven wrong. One of the reasons we have legal immigration is to provide our country with an influx of new people to become citizens. At the same time, those new citizens are given the opportunity to have a better life than they had before, to accomplish things...
Read more →

Tea Party aims to keep up the pressure

Monday, October 25, 2010
By LD Jackson
Tea Party Patriots

During this current election cycle, many people have questioned the goals of the Tea Party and the candidates they are supporting. When voicing our support for the Republican candidates, some of whom have been endorsed by the Tea Party, the main question has been this; what makes us believe these candidates will be any different than the Republicans who...
Read more →

Sunday hunt for links – Whitetail Edition

Sunday, October 24, 2010
By LD Jackson
Whitetail Buck

I have never attempted a themed post containing my favorite links from the previous week, so please bear with me if I don’t get it right the first time. I have seen different bloggers using different themes, but since I am really not into...
Read more →

Political Spending – Public Employees Union goes nuclear

Friday, October 22, 2010
By LD Jackson
Political Spending

On October 9, I published a post entitled Political Spending – Chamber of Commerce Goes to War and in it, I wrote some about the vast amount of money being spent on the upcoming mid-term elections. Much of it has been coming from the...
Read more →

Juan Williams gone from NPR

Thursday, October 21, 2010
By LD Jackson
Juan Williams

I have to be honest, I almost didn’t write this post. My reasoning was that I didn’t want to appear to be jumping on a bandwagon, just to have something to write about. The more I got to thinking about Juan Williams and NPR, the...
Read more →

Obama’s Economic Recovery Payment

Wednesday, October 20, 2010
By LD Jackson
COLA

If this post sounds like I am trying to pile on the President and his party, you will have to forgive me. As I was browsing through the news this morning, as well as other blog posts, I was surprised to see what the...
Read more →

How will the Republicans be different than before?

Tuesday, October 19, 2010
By LD Jackson
GOP Leaders

With the mid-term election looming closer every day, bringing with it the strong possibility of a Republican takeover of the House of Representatives, many questions are being asked. Those questions seem to have one underlying theme; what will the Republicans do if they gain...
Read more →

President Obama’s campaign rhetoric

Monday, October 18, 2010
By LD Jackson
President Obama

If you had any doubts that the mid-term elections were going to be heated and hotly contested, let those doubts be quelled. We are on the verge of the two week mark before the elections and we are seeing signs that the Republican Party...
Read more →

Mid-term elections still a toss-up

Monday, October 18, 2010
By LD Jackson
American Voter

Is it safe to draw a breath yet? I don’t know about my readers, but I am ready for this election season to be over and done with. It seems there it has been more intense than even the 2008 presidential election season and...
Read more →

Stop the bullying

Saturday, October 16, 2010
By LD Jackson
Stop Bullying

This is sure to be another of those “off the beaten path” posts for me. If my readers, will indulge me for a few minutes, allow me to beat a new path into the problem of bullying. I have always been concerned about this...
Read more →

How much deficit is too much?

Friday, October 15, 2010
By LD Jackson
Obama's Deficit

Anyone who follows the workings of our government has probably already been keeping up with the news that I am about to share. For those of you who do not, did you know that the United States is now running a deficit of $1.29...
Read more →

Foreclosure paperwork could cause another housing crisis

Thursday, October 14, 2010
By LD Jackson
Foreclosed Home

This is one post where I may really be in over my head and I will be the first to admit it. I really don’t know a lot about the housing market and how it seems to drive a large portion of our economy....
Read more →

Don’t ask, don’t tell suspended

Wednesday, October 13, 2010
By LD Jackson
Don't ask, Don't tell

Once again, the subject of homosexuals in the military is a hot topic in the news. Earlier this year, U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips issued a ruling, stating that the military policy known as Don’t ask, don’t tell violated the Fifth Amendment rights of service...
Read more →

New York violates MOVE Act – Update

Tuesday, October 12, 2010
By LD Jackson
vote

On Sunday, I wrote about the exclusive report from FOX News that New York is now in violation of the Military and Overseas Voters Empowerment Act (MOVE Act). As of yesterday, New York City and four counties in New York State, Putnam, Erie, Niagara and...
Read more →

Chilean mine rescue nears end

Monday, October 11, 2010
By LD Jackson
Chilean Mine Rescue

Here is another of those good news posts I love to do. It has been 68 days since the main shaft of the San Jose copper and gold mine in the northern Chile desert collapsed, leaving 33 miners trapped underground. From the beginning, there...
Read more →

New York violates MOVE Act

Sunday, October 10, 2010
By LD Jackson
vote

Anyone who knows me and my writings understands one thing. I have complete and total respect for the men and women in our military. My Dad served in WW II, my brother served in the First Gulf War, and they had to make a...
Read more →

Political spending – Chamber of Commerce goes to war

Saturday, October 9, 2010
By LD Jackson
Political Spending

I would be willing to wager a bet that most people who read this post will have no trouble remember a certain Supreme Court ruling from January of this year. In that ruling, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations had the same right to...
Read more →

Site News

Change in comments

Just a quick note to let everyone know that I have made some changes to the comments. No, you are not losing your mind....
Read more →

Daily Popular