Tag: Nebraska

There is no going back now. Climate change is here, bearing its teeth. We'd better learn to adapt--or perish. Recent floods in the Mid-west are causing climate...

According to the Pew Research Center, nationwide support for the death penalty is at a 40-year low. Twenty years ago, 71 percent of Democrats and...

Susanne Shore, wife of Nebraska's Republican governor Pete Ricketts, is saying #imwithher. She's donated $4,700 to the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign and an additional $1,000...

Nebraska Senator Bill Kintner, a Republican, is facing calls to resign from Governor Pete Ricketts over an explicit video of Kintner found on his...

Right-wing Christian extremism has risen to terrible heights lately. So, what are they mad about now? A school calendar! In Omaha, Nebraska, a county school...

We've all heard the Bible story of Jesus' birth. There was no room at the inns in Bethlehem, so the baby was born in...

In the 1950s, Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) was the face of a witch-hunt in America that was thoroughly committed to rooting out Communist sympathies...

During a 2000 Presidential debate with former Vice-President Al Gore, George W. Bush is quoted as saying, "I think the reason to support the death...

Last week, I told you that Pat McPherson, who represents the Omaha area on the Nebraska State Board of Education, touched off a firestorm...

A member of the Nebraska State Board of Education came under fire late last week when it emerged he operated a right-leaning blog that...

Yesterday, Nebraska Republicans chose Ben Sasse as their nominee in the race to succeed Mike Johanns in the Senate. Sasse rode the endorsement of...

Last Friday in a move that proves for some judges law doesn't matter, only what your pastor has told you, the Nebraska Supreme Court...