Finally a Medal of Honor winner receives the award and lives to tell the tale

The list of Medal of Honor recipients is full of awardees who received their award posthumously, as the Medal of Honor itself as described doesn’t easily lend itself to the living [my emphasis]; Sec. 578.4 Medal of Honor. (a) Criteria. The Medal of Honor, established by Joint Resolution of Congress, 12 July 1862 (amended by [...]

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Why Did Attorney General Jon Bruning’s Office Give $50k To Cleaner Greener Lincoln?

By Shelli Dawdy In a very bizarre twist to end this week, I discovered that two seemingly unrelated areas of concern and interest have converged. Immediately following the election, there were two announcements regarding Nebraska’s Senate seat currently held by Ben Nelson, whose term expires in 2012. Governor Heineman announced that he will not be [...]

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Air Traffic Controller Urges Collegues to “Stand Firm” Against Naked Body Scanners, Grope Searches

Naked body scanners and grope searches. An open letter to the Presidents of the Airline Pilots Association, the Association of Professional Flight Attendants and the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. (Letter was addressed and adjusted to th...

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Mayor Beutler: Crafty Politician, Walter Mitty, or Just Going Rogue?

By Shelli Dawdy As I noted yesterday, Lincoln Mayor Chris Beutler held a press conference earlier this week wherein he announced a methane gas drilling project that was just beginning at the Bluffs Road facility. The City’s Public Works department had commenced drilling 60+ wells and installing a piping system to capture methane gas from [...]

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Time To Take the Bite Out of Beutler Before He Implements Cap & Trade in Lincoln

By Shelli Dawdy Just when I thought I could not possibly ever be surprised at what might come out of my television, I was reminded that my brain is simply not wired to conceive of the endless number of nonsensical ideas politicians will attempt to implement while we’re all looking the other way. I really [...]

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