Nebraska Political Blogwire

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• By The Numbers: What Health Care Reform Means For The People Of Nebraska

  —New Nebraska Network

  The benefits of the health care reform bill expected to be voted on this weekend by the House of Representatives are clear.  For starters, the bill would be the largest health care-related tax cut in U.S. history by providing tax credits for middle class families and small businesses to help [...]
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  Posted: March 19, 2010, 2:47am EDT
  

• "A Regime that Survived through Myth and Fear"

  —artdiamondblog.com

  
  
  (p. 4) It's an old Soviet joke.
  
  

  Three Russians are in the gulag. The first one says, "What are you in for?"

  The second one replies, "I called Zbarsky a revolutionary."

  "That's funny," the first one says. "I called Zbarsky a counterrevolutionary."

  "That's funny," the third one [...]

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  Posted: March 19, 2010, 2:01am EDT
  by Art Diamond

• Zagorsk

  —RedStateEclectic

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  Unforgettable - my visit to Zagorsk in 1981. Enjoy the music, which reflects the unique, inescapably deep and authentic spirituality of (the worshiping people at) the monastery.

  
  

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  Posted: March 18, 2010, 9:11pm EDT
  by Georg Thomas

• Your Brother's Keeper?

  —RedStateEclectic

  

  
  

  The Founders said you have a right to pursue your own happiness. Obama says you have a moral duty to serve mine.

  According to the American ideal, men are not their brother’s keeper–we are independent individuals with inalienable rights to support our own lives and happiness [...]

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  Posted: March 18, 2010, 7:01pm EDT
  by Georg Thomas

• Who Should Be Allowed To Disable Your Car?

  —RedStateEclectic

  DALLAS — A man fired from a Texas auto dealership used an Internet service to remotely disable ignitions and set off car horns of more than 100 vehicles sold at his old workplace, police said Wednesday.

  […] "He caused these customers, now victims, to miss work," Austin police spokeswoman [...]

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  Posted: March 18, 2010, 9:04am EDT
  by Eric Parks