We all know that war is rough on the body and the mind. But what is the status of the mental health of our troops overseas, and what is the US doing about it? As it turns out, pretty much nothing:
* Overall, the number of soldiers who killed themselves last year almost doubled from the [...]
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I’m not always the most aware when it comes to local issues, and Dave has me beat on posts period, especially on the local level. So I bring what I do have to the table through national issues that often slip through the cracks. In this case, I wish to discuss the United States and [...]
I speak of this story quite often, as it was one of my great moments in high school when Lee Terry came to visit. I’d had a previous discourse with Nancy Thompson, one of the most fantastic and truly caring politicians I had ever known, to whom I had addressed several questions. A few of [...]
The nation has embraced a new word into its modern lingo, absorbing it into an ever-growing list of coined phrases. That word is “Bushism,” which is so prolific in use that it now even has its own Wikipedia entry, which defines Bushism thusly:
“A Bushism is any of a number of peculiar words, phrases, pronunciations, semantic [...]
This is my first blog post. I’m not sure I really even should post, since I got the access as the tech chair… But hey, why not?
The Get Out The Vote (GOTV) initiative has begun and gone into momentum with the UNO College Democrats. Our goals are to ID and register voters and [...]
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