Ben Sasse at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference (image courtesy Gage Skidmore, available under a Creative Commons BY-SA license)
When Donald Trump threatened to have NBC taken off the air for supposedly peddling fake news, the criticism came fast and hard. After all, it's hard to see this as anything other than a renewed...
According to Donald Trump and other Republicans, the Keystone XL pipeline is absolutely necessary if the United States plans to become energy independent. But a Nebraska farmer completely wrecked that argument in an interview with...
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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 to a fund for down-ballot candidates. In the wake of Donald Trump's...
Nebraska Senator Bill Kintner, a Republican, is facing calls to resign from Governor Pete Ricketts over an explicit video of Kintner found on his state computer. The video first came to light when Kintner, a...
Every parent in the world knows how quickly an accident can happen. Everyone who has ever tried to keep eyes on a child understands how swiftly a child can move, how unpredictable the world can...
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 board member said that atheists should "go back in their hellhole" because...
The annual World Forum of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) last Sunday was attended by technology moguls and high-ranking Republicans. According to a report by the HuffingtonPost, one of the main topics during the forum...
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 a stable. As it turns out, there will not be any room...
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After losing her husband two years ago, Omaha, Neb., resident Marilynn Jones needed something to do with her hands, but she wanted to feel like she was doing good for others, somehow, too. With 70...
Javohn Templeman, left and Nicholas Bregg, right (image courtesy Raw Story via screengrab from WOWT-TV)
Back in February 2014, a 16-year-old girl from Omaha was drugged and raped by multiple attackers. It appeared to be an open-and-shut case. Police had a witness, as well as DNA evidence linking two of...
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 and preventing the United States from succumbing to Communist subversion. In...
Nebraska shocked the nation earlier this week when it became the first "Red State" in over a decade to repeal the death penalty. Lawmakers in that state voted 30-19 to override a veto by Governor...
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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 penalty is because it saves people's lives." Despite all evidence to the...
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Sylvia Ann Driskell, a woman from Nebraska, has filed a lawsuit and will be representing herself and serving as "ambassador" for the Christian god and Jesus Christ in the case of Driskell v. Homosexuals. Driskell filed...