Election Results: Who Says Every Vote Does Not Count?

It’s tempting to focus on the historic takeover of the US House by a Republican majority, but we here at GiN march to a different drummer, for the most part at least.  Just as the three most important characteristics of real estate are location, location, location; the three most important characteristics of GiN’s political focus [...]

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Create It: Policy, Prognosticating and Propaganda

"NBIC convergence represents entirely new challenges for scientists, policy makers and business leaders who will have, for the first time, vast new power tools to shape future markets, societies and lifestyles." Continue reading →

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Deserving of Darts? Jeff Fortenberry On Repealing Health Care

By Shelli Dawdy Typically the GiN “Deserving of Darts” feature articles lay out an issue and an assertion is made that some individual is indeed – deserving of a hail of darts. In this instance, I submit to you, the Nebraska citizen, tax payer, and voter, the decision regarding whether or not Nebraska’s First District [...]

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Who Says Voters Do No Try To Inform Themselves? GiN Traffic Way Up

The conventional wisdom of the uninformed, clueless voter is not necessarily true. At least not in Nebraska. We have noticed a very large spike in our traffic numbers on this site since we began posting election related information. Yesterday we hit an all time record, exceeding the number of hits we received on December 21, [...]

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