Deb Fischer has been Nebraska’s U.S. Senator for six years now and is running for a second term. Actually, she's running in the primary seeking the right to run for that second term. She didn't draw a "bye" in the primary, unlike U.S. Representative Jeff Fortenberry. On the contrary, she's being primaried by a total […]
We have uploaded the Statewide Candidate List – the full and official list candidates – released by the Nebraska Secretary of State’s Office on March 9, 2012 (the filing deadline for candidates is March 1, 2012) to our Scribd account. Click the image below to view / download the list from Scribd. If you’re looking… more
I couldn’t miss the front page headline in today’s Lincoln Journal-Star: Kerrey rethinking run for Senate My first reaction was, with the amount of thought he’s apparently giving his decision, the more accurate headline would have been: Kerrey re-re-re-re-rethinking run for Senate Following hot on the heels of my first reaction was the impulse to…
Posted by Shelli Dawdy Why do federal elected officials seem to be impervious to the objections of their constituents, specifically when those objections are voiced in large numbers? That phenomenon was very well illustrated by the drama that reached a crescendo on October 3, 2008. Congress passed the bailout bill (TARP) despite call ratios into [...]
The Obama Administration recently submitted a report on the United States to the United Nation's Human Rights Council for the "Universal Periodic Review". Does the President have the authority to subject the United States to review of an outside entity? Is the President undermining our sovereignty?