By Wink Today’s recommended reading is the autobiography of former U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey, titled ‘When I Was a Young Man’. This book, published in 2002, is NOT the story of ‘how I became a governor/senator/president of a university’. It is a simple telling of him as a young child, up through the end of [...]
By Wink On a Monday night in late June 1936 the KKK burned a cross on the lawn of a family in the tiny town of Minatare, Nebraska. Was it a black family? Nope, there were no blacks in Minatare at that time. There were still plenty of people for the Klan to hate though: [...]
This election has been one of the biggest elections in U.S. history. President-elect Obama managed to take Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Florida, as well as Virginia and even losing by a relatively small margin in Texas. One of the biggest shocks to me, though, was Nebraska’s second district. With 9,000 absentee and early votes left to [...]
