Two Museums to See

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December, 2019 Lincoln – Two remarkable museum additions in Lincoln and Seward invite the public to see the past and consider the future. ...

Sea Duty, USS Arlington (AGMR-2)

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December, 2019 Lincoln –  Previously I posted a memoir blog about my first U.S. Navy sea duty, on USS Rainier (AE-5) , 1966-68.  My second...

Fireworks Between House and DeVos at Hearing

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December, 2019 Washington – There were figurative fireworks at the House Education and Labor Committee's hearing last week on predator...

More Student Loan Hearings

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December, 2019 Washington –  On December 12th, Secretary Betsy DeVos will testify before the full House Committee on Education and Labor. ...

The Day of Infamy

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December, 2019 Washington – It has now been seventy-eight years since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.  In 1967, twenty-six years afte...

Rural America Must Be Contested

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November, 2019 Washington –  Where do Democrats get their counterproductive and sometimes downright foolish ideas about how to win nationa...

Censure, Now

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November, 2019 Washington –  In the matter of the impeachment of the president, too many House options under consideration lead to increas...

Elder Abuse: "There Oughta Be a Law"

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November, 2019 Washington -- Two years ago, on the death of George Garner, the Shepherd of Accokeek, I wrote that one of his regrets  was ...

Who's Conservative, Who's Not

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November, 2019 Washington – Attorney General William Barr, in a provocative speech to the Federalist Society , said voters put President T...

Tall Orders for an Admiral

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November, 2019 Lincoln – The NU Regents have selected retired Vice Admiral Walter E. Carter, Jr., to be the next president of the Universi...