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Political factors, as much as military ones, appear to be shaping President Barack Obama’s long-pending decision on the next phase of the U.S. effort in Afghanistan.
Obviously, I am not more knowledgeable about breast cancer than a government-led panel of experts. Yet I know enough to look askance at advice that only women 50 and older get mammograms every two years and those in their 40s skip the test altogether.
On the evening after Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan shot 43 people at the Fort Hood military base, CNN’s "Larry King Live" invited the TV psychologist known chummily as Dr. Phil to help the audience understand what might have motivated Hasan to open fire, killing 12 of his fellow soldiers and one civilian and injuring 30 others. Dr Phil enlightened viewers with pseudo-scientific speculation about how war stress would cause someone to "snap."
It is very important that our children are safe and in homes that provide support and love. It’s a privilege and an honor to recognize the caring families who are choosing to adopt children who are state wards.
Something as sweeping as health care reform, we’re being told, should have bipartisan support. The creation of the interstate highway system did. And the Civil Rights Act. Ditto the Social Security Act of 1935.
Let me confess at the outset, I am a cradle Catholic. Credit or condolences to my parents, please. I have never had insights into the Roman Curia or the upper echelon of Church decision-makers either.
I recently toured the progress of a new project taking place in Beaver City, where a company still fairly new to Nebraska is finishing a new facility and its second expansion project in our state in the last four years.
