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Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 07/03/2009
By Thomas J. Morgan PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A strain of the fungus that caused the Irish potato famine of the 1840s is on the loose in Rhode Island and is damaging potato and tomato crops. The state Department of Environmental Management's Division of Agriculture Friday advised gardeners, farmers and commercial growers that an outbreak of Late Blight , scientific name Phytopthora infestans, should be countered...
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Information Dissemination (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Did you check out the line up in July Proceedings yet? Did you read the article published by Michele Flournoy and Shawn Brimley yet? Is Tom Ricks right or wrong with this comment ? Pretty near the top they quote Alfred T. Mahan, which seasoned Pentagoners know is a sign that the Navy is getting teed up to get hit long. (This is like when Gorby would quote Lenin, or Marc Antony would praise Julius...
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Fanblogs.com (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
The Sporting News came out yesterday with an article ranking the top 10 non-conference schedules and individual games for the upcoming season. As you may recall, Georgia was last year's winner in the OOC schedule category, and not much has changed for this year: The Schedules: 1. Georgia: at Oklahoma State, Arizona State, Tennessee Tech, at Georgia Tech 2. Virginia Tech: vs. Alabama (Atlanta), Marshall,...
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Multibillionaire Warren Buffett has the answer for the sleepless investor — stuff the money in the mattress. Just make sure it’s the Nervous Nellie, a new mattress set designed by and made exclusively for Nebraska Furniture Mart.
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BloggingBaby.com (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Filed under: In the news , Single parenting Gary Staton dropped off his 9 children last September under Nebraska's Safe Haven law. He still feels it was the right decision. Photo: Jeff Beiermann, The World-Herald Safe Haven laws have been passed in all 50 states since 1999, as a way "for mothers in crisis to relinquish their babies to designated locations and keep them protected and provided...
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WriteChic Press (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Glitter Graphics Ladies, when see eyes that vacant staring back at you, RUN the fuck away!!! Gary Staton is making news again for his mad parenting skillz. The father of nine dumped his children (ages 1-17) off at a hospital in Omaha after his wife died in 2007. Staton inspired Nebraska legislators to get [...]
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Little Green Footballs (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
As we’ve noted previously, in addition to all his other wonderful attributes, “the great Patrick J. Buchanan” (Sean Hannity’s introduction for him) is a creationist . And he has one of those “creationism checklist” articles now running at all the conservative websites (TownHall, WorldNetDaily, HumanEvents), in which he blames Charles Darwin for the majority of the...
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VDARE.com: Blog Articles (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
First Amendment expert Eugene Volokh writes Anti-Defamation League Regional Director Asserts That “Freedom of Speech Does Not Extend to Racist Groups”: That’s the view of Alan Potash, the ADL’s regional director for Nebraska, Iowa, and Kansas. Pretty appalling, it seems to me — simply false as a statement of current free speech law (which it sounds like [...]
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PrawfsBlawg (Free subscription) | 06/29/2009
Dan asked for initial thoughts on Ricci. I have not had a chance read it, but here are a few initial comments on the procedure and politics of the decision, piling on earlier comments from Media Matters and from Jonathan Adler. First: Appellate courts get reversed; that's why we have a three-tiered judiciary (two in Nebraska) and appellate review. Reversal does not mean Judge Sotomayor was "wrong"...
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Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 06/28/2009
A lawsuit by a Nebraska inmate serving time for his girlfriend's murder, blaming a widely prescribed antidepressant for influencing his behavior, echoes similar claims in other cases.
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kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 06/28/2009
A lawsuit by a Nebraska inmate serving time for his girlfriend's murder, blaming a widely prescribed antidepressant for influencing his behavior, echoes similar claims in other cases.
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Itinerant Whatever (Free subscription) | 06/28/2009
I've been struggling for a long time as to how to write this post. I only spent eleven months in Omaha, but lots of things changed in my life there. But this isn't supposed to be completely about me. Rather just my recommendations on things to see and do in the places I've been. So what is there to do in Omaha? A surprising amount. I should be chided for not having gone to more of the museum while...
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PointOfLaw Forum (Free subscription) | 06/27/2009
June 19, www.naag.org, "Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning Elected NAAG President": Colorado Springs, Colo.--Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning was unanimously elected yesterday by the members of the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) to become the Association's 102nd president. "Attorneys...
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Legal Profession Blog (Free subscription) | 06/26/2009
The Ponca Tribe of Nebraska ("Tribe") filed a motion to intervene in an appeal in a child custody matter in a case involving two children who are members of the Tribe. The lower court denied the motion because it was...
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Heismanpundit (Free subscription) | 06/26/2009
So many Heisman winners are well-known to us, but what about the runners-up? Here’s the list of the all-time 2nd-place Heisman finishers. Lots of big names, but quite a few we probably don’t remember: 1935–Monk Meyer, Army 1936–Sam Francis, Nebraska 1937–Byron White, Colorado 1938–Marshall Goldberg, Pittsburgh 1939–Tom Harmon, Michigan 1940–John Kimbrough,...
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tvr123 | 02/04/2009
Tmj Diagnosis Treatment Exposed Most of us can go through our entire lives without giving much thought to the smaller parts of our bodies that we use all the time. One of these parts is the temporomandibular joint (or TMJ) or the joint that helps your ...
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