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 Barack
Obama - Nebraska
-  History
-  Law
-  Maine
- 2008
Election
"Obama wins electoral vote in Nebraska." ... "For the first time ever, a blue circle will appear in Nebraska on national electoral maps." ... "[2008 Election Democratic President-Elect] Democrat Barack Obama won the Omaha-based 2nd Congressional District on Friday, scooping up one of the state's five electoral votes." ... "In the process, he made history and shone the spotlight on Nebraska's unusual electoral college system." ... "[Obama's Nebraska campaign director John] Berge said the victory was a tribute to all the work done by staffers and the hundreds of Obama volunteers who manned telephones and walked neighborhoods in the Omaha [Nebraska] metropolitan area." ... "Obama's win will assuredly spark interest in the split electoral system, which only Nebraska and Maine use. All other states are winner-take-all on electoral votes." ... "It was the first time since 1964 that Nebraska has awarded an electoral vote to a Democrat. The state has been reliably Republican since it voted for Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson that year." ... "Obama ignored Nebraska's history this year, sending 16 paid staffers into the 2nd District and opening three offices in Omaha." ... "A 1991 state law allowed Obama to concentrate his efforts on the Omaha area, where Democrats outnumber Republicans." ... "Nebraska is the first state in the modern era to have a split electoral decision." ... "Nebraska and Maine are not, however, the first states to try a split-electoral system, said Randy Adkins, a political scientist at the University of Nebraska at Omaha." -By Robynn Tysver -Herald 
 Political
-  Science
-  Psychology
-  DNA
- Nature
-  Nurture
- Nebraska
"Are you a born conservative (or liberal)? A new study suggests that your political attitudes are wired in from the beginning." ... "It's literally in their DNA." ... "People with strongly conservative views were three times more fearful than staunch liberals after the effects of gender, age, income and education were factored out." ... "Kevin B. Smith, a political science professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a study author, said conservatives were more vigilant to environmental threats, and he speculated that this innate tendency led them to support policies that protect the social order." ... "Fowler said the study added to the growing research suggesting that over millions of years, humans have developed two cognitive styles -- conservative and liberal. Cautious conservatives prevented societies from taking undue risks, while more flexible liberals fostered cooperation." ... ""For the species to survive, you need both," he said." ... "But Jon Krosnick, a political science professor at Stanford University, said it was impossible to draw any conclusions from a study with so few people, all from a small Midwestern town." ... "The study is the latest to challenge the long-standing dogma that upbringing and environmental factors determine political attitudes." -By Denise Gellene -LAtimes
 Sarah
Palin -  Chuck
Hagel -  John
McCain - Nebraska
-  Alaska
-  US-  International
-  Russia
- 2008
Election
"[Republican Senator] Sen. Hagel doubts Palin's ready." ... "[Nebraska Republican Senator] Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska is the nation's most prominent Republican officeholder to publicly question whether Sarah Palin has the experience to serve as president." ... ""She doesn't have any foreign policy credentials," Hagel said Wednesday in an interview. "You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don't know what you can say. You can't say anything."" ... "Palin was elected governor of Alaska in 2006 and before that was the mayor of a small town." ... "The McCain campaign has cited the proximity of Alaska to Russia as evidence of her international experience." ... "Hagel scoffed at that notion." ... ""I think they ought to be just honest about it and stop the nonsense about, 'I look out my window and I see Russia and so therefore I know something about Russia,'" he said. "That kind of thing is insulting to the American people."" ... ""I think it's a stretch to, in any way, to say that she's got the experience to be president of the United States," Hagel said." -By Joseph Morton -World-Herald 
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John
G Roberts
- Samuel
A Alito
- Politics
- History
- Abortion
- Nebraska
- "Precedents
Begin to Fall for Roberts Court." ... "No Supreme
Court nominee could be confirmed these days without paying homage to the
judicial doctrine of “stare decisis,” Latin for “to stand by things decided.”
Yet experienced listeners have learned to take these professions of devotion
to precedent “cum grano salis,” Latin for “with a grain of salt.”" ...
"Both Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.
assured their Senate questioners at their confirmation hearings that they,
too, respected precedent. So why were they on the majority side of a 5-to-4
decision last week declaring that a 45-year-old doctrine excusing people
whose “unique circumstances” prevented them from meeting court filing deadlines
was now “illegitimate”?" ... "It was the second time the Roberts court
had overturned a precedent, and the first in a decision with a divided
vote. It surely will not be the last." ... "So the question is not whether
the Roberts court will overturn more precedents, but how often, by what
standard and in what terms." ... "Sometimes the court overrules cases without
actually saying so. Some argue that this is what happened in April, when
a 5-to-4 majority upheld the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act without
making much effort to reconcile that ruling with a decision in 2000 that
found a nearly identical Nebraska law unconstitutional." -By
Linda Greenhouse -NYTimes
Nebraska
- 
Chuck
Hagel - 2006
Election - "Sen.
Hagel says GOP has lost its way." ... "Republicans
have lost their way when it comes to many core GOP principles and may be
in jeopardy heading into the fall elections, [Nebraska Republican Senator]
Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. says. Hagel, a possible presidential candidate
in 2008, said Sunday that the GOP today is very different party from the
one when he first voted Republican." ... ""First time I voted was in 1968
on top of a tank in the Mekong Delta," said Hagel, a Vietnam veteran. "I
voted a straight Republican ticket. The reason I did is because I believe
in the Republican philosophy of governance. It's not what it used to be.
I don't think it's the same today."" ... "Hagel asked: "Where is the fiscal
responsibility of the party I joined in '68? Where is the international
engagement of the party I joined - fair, free trade, individual responsibility,
not building a bigger government, but building a smaller government?""
... "His frustration does not lead him to think Democrats offer a better
alternative. But Hagel wants to see the GOP return to its basic beliefs."
... ""I think we've lost our way," Hagel said. "And I think the Republicans
are going to be in some jeopardy for that and will be held accountable.""
-By Will Lester -AP
via -MercuryNews
US
- 
Israel
- 
Lebanon
- 
Iran
- 
Syria
- Religion
- 
Military
- Chuck
Hagel - Nebraska
- "Key
Republican breaks with Bush on Mideast: Nebraska's
Sen. Hagel calls for immediate cease-fire." ... "Urging President Bush
to turn all U.S. efforts toward "ending this madness," a leading Republican
senator Monday broke with the Bush administration and called for an immediate
cease-fire in the Mideast." ... ""The sickening slaughter on both sides
must end and it must end now," Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel said. "President
Bush must call for an immediate cease-fire. This madness must stop."" ...
"The Bush administration has refused to call for Israel to halt its attacks
on southern Lebanon, joining Israel in insisting that Hezbollah fighters
must be pushed back from the Israeli-Lebanese border." ... "President Bush
Monday in a speech in Miami Beach, Florida, reiterated his call for a cease-fire
in the Mideast only if it brought a "long-lasting peace" that addressed
Iran and Syria's support for Hezbollah, the Islamic militia that Israel
is targeting. (Full
story)" ... "Hagel said that refusal threatens to isolate the United
States and Israel and harm chances of achieving a long-term peace in the
region." -CNN
Government
- 
Money
- Politics
- 
New
York
- Nebraska
- 
KY
- "Security
Cuts for New York and Washington." ... "After vowing
to steer a greater share of antiterrorism money to the highest-risk communities,
Department of Homeland Security officials on Wednesday announced 2006 grants
that slashed money for New York and Washington 40 percent, while other
cities including Omaha [Nebraska] and Louisville, Ky., got a surge of new
dollars." ... "The release of the 2006 urban area grants, which total $711
million, was immediately condemned by leaders in Washington [DC] and New
York." ... ""When you stop a terrorist, they have a map of New York City
in their pocket," Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York said. "They don't
have a map of any of the other 46 or 45 places."" ... "In Washington, Mayor
Anthony Williams said: "It was very shortsighted for the federal government
to gut our homeland security funding program, even more so because so many
dollars continue to be spent in rural areas that are far less likely to
emerge as targets."" -By Eric Lipton with contributions
by Diane Cardwell -NYTimes
US
Immigration - Law
- Politics
- Food
- 
Workers
- Nebr.
- 
NC
- "Immigration
rallies begin to take toll on US workplace." ...
"Amid calls for a nationwide work stoppage and economic boycott, throngs
of immigration-reform advocates rallied across the U.S. again Monday."
... "Several meatpacking plants either temporarily shut down or operated
on a reduced schedule because of a lack of production-line workers, many
of whom are immigrants." ... "Industry giant Tyson Foods Inc. (TSN) said
some of its facilities, including a plant in Madison, Neb., will be closed,
partly because of the planned rallies and partly because of poor livestock
market conditions." ... "Futures traders and other meat-industry sources
reported that at least two Swift & Co. beef plants were operating at
reduced speeds Monday, apparently because of employee shortages. Also,
a large Smithfield Foods Inc. (SFD) pork plant in North Carolina [NC] wasn't
operating, industry sources said." ... "The full brunt of immigrants' economic
power could be felt May 1. That's when some advocate groups are calling
for a national "Day Without an Immigrant" that could involve millions of
workers taking the day off to show solidarity behind the reform movement."
-By Richard Gibson -MarketWatch
US
- 
Iraq
- Iran
- Military
- Nebraska
- "Republicans
criticize Rice over Bush Mideast policy." ... "Republican
senators criticized the Bush administration Wednesday over its policies
in Iraq, Iran and the Palestinian territories, as Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice's first testimony on Capitol Hill in months exposed her to a tough
grilling from some members of her own party." ... ""I don't see, Madame
Secretary, how things are getting better. I think things are getting worse.
I think they're getting worse in Iraq. I think they're getting worse in
Iran," Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., told Rice as she appeared before the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee." -AP
via -USATODAY
Nebraska
- 
Police
- "Biker
cleared after 128mph chase: A US motorcyclist who
zoomed through Nebraska at over 128mph (205kph) has been cleared of reckless
driving." ... "Judge John Steinheider reluctantly ruled that speed alone
was not enough to prove reckless driving under Nebraska law." ... "Biker
Jacob Carman accelerated away from a traffic policeman after he was clocked
at 82mph (131km/h)." ... "State prosecutors admitted that they could have
won a conviction for speeding, but had opted to pursue a charge of reckless
driving." -BBC
/News
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- 
- Nebraska
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- "Hagel:
Iraq war has destabilized Mideast, resembles Vietnam."
... "A leading Republican senator and decorated Vietnam War veteran said
Sunday the Iraq war has destabilized the Mideast and is looking more like
the Vietnam conflict a generation ago." ... "Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel,
who received two Purple Hearts and other military honors for his service
in Vietnam, reiterated his position that the United States needs to develop
a strategy to leave Iraq." ... "Hagel scoffed at the idea that U.S. troops
could be in Iraq four years from now at levels above 100,000, a contingency
for which the Pentagon is preparing." -AP
via -CNN
Nebraska
- Gay
-
- "Gay
marriage ban in Nebraska voided." ... "A federal
judge Thursday struck down Nebraska's ban on gay marriage." ... "U.S. District
Judge Joseph Bataillon ruled that the measure interferes not only with
the rights of gay couples but also with those of foster parents, adopted
children and people in other arrangements." ... "Bataillon said the ban
“imposes significant burdens on both the expressive and intimate associational
rights” of gays “and creates a significant barrier to the plaintiffs' right
to petition or to participate in the political process.”"
-KansasCity.com
- Nebraska
- Gay
- "Nebraska
Judge Strikes Down Ban on Gay Marriage." ... "A federal
judge in Nebraska has struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage.
He ruled that the amendment to the state constitution -- which defined
marriage as between a man and a woman -- stripped same-sex couples of the
rights that married couples possess, thus treating them unequally." -By
Barbara Bradley Hagerty -NPR
/News
Nebraska
- Gay
- 
- "Judge strikes down
Nebraska gay marriage ban: Ruling says measure interferes
with rights of gays, others." ... "In the first time that a federal judge
has struck down a state constitutional provision limiting marriage to heterosexual
couples, U.S. District Judge Joseph Bataillon on Thursday declared void
a provision of the Nebraska constitution that defined marriage as only
between a man and a woman and that banned same-sex civil unions, domestic
partnerships and other similar relationships." ... "Bataillon declared
in his ruling that under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment
to the U.S. Constitution, Nebraska cannot ban same-sex marriages and civil
unions." ... "The ruling may call into question similar provisions in other
states' constitutions." (1, 2)
-By Tom Curry -MSNBC
Mother's-Day
- Homes
- Florida
- Georgia
- Austin
- 
TX
- 
IL
- Des-Moines
- 
IA
- Connecticut
- Oklahoma
- 
WA
- Nebraska
- Phoenix
- 
AZ
- Virginia
- 
CA
- Utah
- North
Carolina - "Women
helping build homes." ... "Women Build is a partnership
of Habitat for Humanity and the Lowe's chain of home improvement stores.
It is an annual event that gives women a chance to help needy families.
Female crews have built 650 Habitat houses in the United States." ... "[Along
with Pensacola, Florida] Other cities with Mother's Day Women Build projects
are Atlanta [Georgia]; Austin, Texas; Chicago [Illinois]; Des Moines, Iowa;
Hartford, Conn. [Connecticut]; Oklahoma City [Oklahoma]; Olympia, Wash.
[Washington]; Omaha, Neb. [Nebraska]; Phoenix [Arizona]; Richmond, Va [Virginia].;
San Francisco [California]; Salt Lake City [Utah]; Tacoma, Wash. [Washington];
and Winston-Salem, N.C. [North Carolina]" -By Bill
Kaczor -APvia
-NJ.com
- Nebraska
- "Ameritrade
Loses 200,000 Client Files: Ameritrade Loses Backup
Computer Tape Containing Personal Files of 200,000 Current, Former Customers."
... "Leading online discount broker Ameritrade Holding Corp. said Tuesday
it has informed about 200,000 current and former customers that a backup
computer tape containing their personal information has been lost." ...
"The [Nebraska] Omaha-based company mailed the notices to its clients last
week, spokeswoman Donna Kush said." -By
Emily Fredrix -AP
via -ABCNEWS.com
- 
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- "Federal
judges in New York, San Francisco halt abortion ban."
... "With the ink barely dry on legislation banning a controversial abortion
procedure, federal judges in San Francisco and New York yesterday put a
halt to the measure and set the stage for the most important legal tussle
over abortion rights in three decades." ... "The judges found that the
congressional ban on the procedure — known medically as "intact dilation
and extraction" but referred to by opponents as "partial-birth abortion"
— is likely to be unconstitutional because it provides no exceptions for
a woman's health, thus running afoul of a 2000 Supreme Court ruling that
struck down a similar Nebraska statute. President Bush signed the latest
ban into law Wednesday." -By Howard Mintz -Knight
Ridder via -SeattleTimes.NWsource
- 
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- "Federal
Judge Blocks New Abortion Law for Some Doctors."
... "A federal judge in Nebraska on Wednesday blocked a new anti-abortion
law from being enforced against some doctors and their affiliates, minutes
after it was signed by President Bush." ... "Citing constitutional concerns,
U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf issued a temporary restraining order barring
U.S. Attorney John Ashcroft and the Justice Department from enforcing the
new law banning so-called partial birth abortions against four doctors
who practice in or are affiliated with practices in more than a dozen states."-Reuters
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- "Bush
hails military's private sector "outsourcing"." ...
"President Bush on Monday praised an Air Force base with a history of outsourcing
work to the private sector, something he wants to do with nearly half the
nation's federal civilian jobs." ... "Bush saluted saluted Offutt Air Force
Base in Nebraska, where he stopped during his zigzagging odyssey back to
Washington on Sept. 11, 2001." -By Scott Lindlaw
-AP via -Salon
-
- 
- "Biotech
Firm Mishandled Corn in Iowa." ... "The biotechnology
company that mishandled gene-altered corn in Nebraska did the same thing
in Iowa, the government disclosed yesterday." ... "The disclosure raised
new questions about the conduct of ProdiGene Inc., a company in College
Station, Tex., that is now under investigation for allegedly violating
government permits in two states. The ProdiGene matter is proving to be
a black eye for the biotech industry, which has been trying to reassure
the public it can be trusted not to contaminate the food supply." -By
Justin Gillis -WashingtonPost
- Labor_Day
