Congress and "Crisis Point" in Public Higher Education

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February, 2020 Washington – This month, New America released Stephen Burd's latest work, "Crisis Point: How Enrollment Management...

The Coming National Breakups, 2021-2025

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February, 2020 Washington – Barring some unforeseen stroke of good fortune, the months and years immediately ahead look grim around the gl...

Remedies for Three Democratic Blunders (Part II)

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February, 2020 Washington – In the previous post, I identified three huge mistakes by Democrats since 2016.  They were truly unforced err...

Three Huge Democratic Blunders (Part I)

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February, 2020 Washington – Since 2016 I have seen, sometimes close-up, three colossal blunders by national Democratic leaders. First: H...

Sasse's Impeachment Trial Votes

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February, 2020 Lincoln – It's good to see former congressman John Cavanaugh weigh in against Senator Ben Sasse's tortured rational...

Tunisia, 1971

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February, 2020 Washington – Forty-nine years ago last month, a small group of Germans and I flew from Stuttgart to North Africa to see Nab...

Navy Shore Duty in Stuttgart, Germany

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February, 2020 Lincoln –  Time once again to look back a half-century. In 1969, after my two-and-a-half years of sea duty on USS Rainier...

Drilling Down on $22.3 Million of Student Loan Fraud

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February, 2020 Washington –  In an earlier post, I noted that while Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos was illegally collecting approxima...

More on Disappearing Birds

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January, 2020 Lincoln – Last year I wrote a blog on disappearing birds .  It drew many hits and several readers commented to me personally...

Jim Lehrer in the 1970s

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January, 2020 Lincoln – News of Jim Lehrer's passing makes me recall a visit he made to Lincoln.  It was the early 1970s; the Nebraska...