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"James Baker on preserving liberty" Speaking in Omaha Saturday, former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker offered these 7 ways citizens can preserve liberty in America: 1. Teach children to love America. 2. Don't grow weary of representative government. 3. Beware of leaders who offer something in exchange for even a little of your freedom. 4. Be civil and demand civility from public servants. 5. Honor the rule of law in your private and public lives. 6. Welcome America's newest citizens. 7. Help the less fortunate in the world and in America.

Judge: Killer has right to child BY LARRY PEIRCE Lincoln Journal Star NEBRASKA CITY - Divorce proceedings usually draw scant public attention, but that can change when they involve the child visitation rights of a woman serving two life terms for a high-profile murder. Though the crowd was smaller, Monday morning's session in Otoe County District Court bore some resemblance to the packed courtrooms that saw Kimberly Faust's conviction and sentencing for two April 2000 murders. But this time, Faust has charged her ex-husband Bruce Faust with civil contempt for not allowing the couple's youngest son, age 6, to ...

Week of August 8 - 14, 2001 How Gay Men Are Remodeling Regular Guys Post-Straight by Chris Nutter In the short-lived CBS sitcom Some of My Best Friends, a straight bridge-and-tunnel guy mistakes "GWM" for Guy With Money in a roommate ad and unwittingly moves in with a gay man. When the straight guy realizes that the Barbra poster on the wall doesn't mean his roommate is Jewish, he goes into shock. But by the second episode, he's learned to play gay, laugh out loud at the femme friend's campy jokes, and even prance around in silky, butt-hugging workout ...

i was going to publish a number of articles from the nla's latest edition, but decided instead to turn you all on to the best (and only) conservative lawyers's association. please check out the current articles on the american family, as well as numerous past articles on abortion and related topics. please note that judge kenneth starr was the keynote speaker at last year's annual convention.

i did not have an oportunity to listen to much of rush today. my wife, however, heard a segment during which a caller inquired about the alternative of using stem cells from umbilical cords. rush professed to know nothing of this option. if the leading conservative talk show host isn't educated on this issue, what chance do we have of stemming the pro-abortion tide trying to justify the use of embryonic stem cells? comments?

Published Sunday July 22, 2001 If It Looks Like a Tart ... Once upon a time, there lived a very wise old woman. Let's just say she was an editorial writer's mother. She had very definite ideas about how people should speak, dress and otherwise comport themselves in public. One of those ideas was that the way a person dressed for a particular event was a statement of how much the person respected the event's host or organizer. This wise old woman wouldn't have bought into the idea that God doesn't care if the Sunday morning congregation is dressed ...

Published Wednesday July 18, 2001 Another Point of View: U.S. Owes Its Blacks BY THE REV. ERVEN MCSWAIN JR. The writer is an Omaha clergyman who has worked with the City Human Relations Department. Mona Charen - "Slavery Paid For in Blood," June 25 column - rightly said that "the question of reparations will not go away." Her column focused on the question of reparations to be paid to Africans born in America. However, her words were duplicitous at best and, worse, lacked clarity,understanding and awareness of the historical plight of black people in the United States. This kind ...

This will be a very short piece. i recall reading that umbilical cords are very fertile sources of stem cells. and, let's recall the fact of millions of births a year in this country, much less the world. shouldn't this negate the need to kill embryos for this purpose?--i.e., can't we use this source of stem cells to avoid the need to kill the innocent? or am i to believe that the real reason for the push for this research is to justify the current genocide--that is, the holocaust of america's current abortion laws? God help us all.

Published Saturday June 9, 2001 A Presidential Pitch BY CHRISTOPHER BURBACH WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER Put the first game of the College World Series in the W column. As in Dubya. And the first pitch? A strike, thrown by President George W. Bush to Stanford catcher Ryan Garko. The catcher sprinted onto the Rosenblatt Stadium infield grass to greet the nation's baseball fan in chief, a house packed with people wearing white and Husker red roared and, a few handshakes later, the College World Series' ultimate doubleheader was under way. Bush stayed for two innings of the Tulane-Stanford game. He spent ...

daughter # 1 will start college in the fall of 2002. i am aiming for a conservative climate for my daughter, a very good student. i told her that my standards eliminate all ivy league schools, as well as other obvious leftist hotbeds (e.g.--u of wisconsin, anything in massachusetts, etc.). our current favorites are gonzaga, catholic university, and rice. i would appreciate any informed opinions. it is a very dangerous world out there, especially at the college level.

Posted May 26th, 2001 2:30 PM Richard Goldstein Why We Should Support the Right to Marry Plurally Love That Dare Not When Mormon fundamentalist Tom Green got busted for bigamy, he must have winced to discover that the Utah American Civil liberrties Union was on his side. The ACLU stands for many things Green would no doubt like to see repressed, but a defendant's attitude has never been the basis of an ACLU position. Still, even for an organization known to take on lost causes, Green's right to have five spouses and raise 29 children in a common household is ...

Published Friday April 6, 2001 Nuts to China's View. Surprising it was to hear, on a local radio talk show, a discussion sensitive to Chinese feelings about the use by the United States of surveillance aircraft over the South China Sea. How tolerant we Americans have become. One participant, implying that the Chinese government has been acting like something other than a band of international outlaws, raised the rhetorical question of how Americans would feel if a Chinese plane were listening to U.S. communications from a similar distance off the American coast. (Judging by the yawns that attended the unmasking ...

Published Thursday April 5, 2001 Officials Seek Visit by Bush During CWS BY RICH KAIPUST WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER College World Series officials would like to put another W. in the CWS. Dennis Poppe, director of championships for the NCAA, said Wednesday there is hope of making George W. Bush the first U.S. president to attend the CWS. The college baseball tournament runs June 8 through 16 at Rosenblatt Stadium. Poppe decided to push for a possible presidential visit after being at the White House last weekend when Bush held a get-together for major league Hall of Fame members. "He indicated ...

Published Sunday March 11, 2001 Michael Kelly: Knock Off the Partisanship BY MICHAEL KELLY WORLD-HERALD COLUMNIST Yes, Hal Daub is a Republican and Mike Fahey a Democrat, but the office of Omaha mayor is officially nonpartisan. Still, their campaigning emphasizes partisanship. I wish they'd knock it off. Voters certainly need to know all they can about the people seeking to lead Omaha's strong-mayor form of government the next four years. Party registration is part of the package. But the framers of the 1957 City Charter made local government nonpartisan for a reason. They wanted the focus on the issues and ...

Women leading way for Democrats January 27, 2001 BY ELLEN R. MALCOLM The 2000 election was historic in many ways. And while it may be remembered for hanging chads, court challenges and protests, there's another story to be told: Women clearly demonstrated they hold the key to victory for Democrats. Democratic female candidates were big winners in November, showing they could win the most closely contested races, and across the country, female voters created the margin of victory for Democratic candidates.

When Political Criticism Sinks Too Low Critics of George W. Bush would do well not to allow their opposition to the new president to curdle into an unhealthy loathing of the man himself. More than a few conservative critics of Bill Clinton made that mistake over the past eight years. There is nothing wrong with sharply attacking Clinton's policy positions as well as his duplicity in trying to cover up his personal failings. Or with questioning his policy for issuing pardons and deploring the petty vandalism committed by his staff members as they turned over the White House to George ...

Courthouse Baby Boom Has Guardian Angel BY JOE DEJKA WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER Some say it's the water or a good economy or just young lawyers in love that brought all the babies to Sarpy County Courthouse employees last year. But for folks who believe in angels and such, the source of the baby boom just as easily lies in the office that keeps track of teen-agers on probation. Down a corridor, past the Alcoholics Anonymous pamphlets, a 74-year-old Polish-Croatian woman with sparkling blue-green eyes copies records to microfilm and shreds rap sheets into tangled strands. But at private moments, ...

Singer Van Morrison and singer/actress Nell Carter are among the entertainers taking part in inauguration festivities for President-elect George W. Bush. Other celebrities include Frasier star Kelsey Grammer, comedian Norm Macdonald, Olympic medalist Marion Jones and bicycling champ Lance Armstrong. Laugh-In producer George Schlatter will produce and direct the opening ceremonies.

FEATURES The Other Political Drama BY MICHAEL WOLFF Think the events in Tallahassee have permanently tarnished American politics -- and the presidency a job no sane person could want? Not on The West Wing, in which Hollywood has reinvented the White House as a place where good (but flawed) people try (and sometimes even succeed) to do their work -- just like an emergency room, say, or a law firm. There's a lesson here -- for the politicians and the people.

Clinton Visit Draws Gripes BY LESLIE REED WORLD-HERALD BUREAU Lincoln - Listeners griping about President Clinton's visit to Nebraska have been lighting up the phone lines to a Kearney radio station this week. "We can't shut it off - it just keeps coming," said Paul Wice, news director and host of KGFW-AM's "Talk of the Town" program. "I haven't had to stoke the fire at all." Wice said some people have yelled at the station's telephone receptionist because they haven't been able to get on the air during the daily two-hour program. Callers to Wice's program, like those to many ...