Was this really from last night?

from the Lincoln Journal Star

I got a kick out of this quote from Andrew Sullivan on Friday:

Every time you think: nah, they can’t say this with a straight face, they can’t actually pretend - in January 2009 - that the Bush Republicans were adept at fiscal discipline for the past eight years, can they? … not after doubling the national debt, not after raising spending more swiftly than LBJ or FDR, not after a surplus became deficits of trillions of dollars as far as the eye can see, they can’t say that, can they? … you realize - yes they can!

from the Omaha Reader
1/15 UPDATE: I learned last night that The Reader decided not to run this cartoon.

from The Reader’s coverage: (story not online) now posted

“As a business decision, the Omaha World-Herald does not print same-sex marriage announcements,” company spokesperson Joel Long told The Reader. He said the company’s decision is not based on Nebraska’s law banning gay marriage or a specific corporate policy. “We decided we’re not going to do it.”

from the Lincoln Journal Star

from the Lincoln Journal Star

It was fun thinking about which characters to use for Flood, Bruning and Heineman.

Commentary on the public release of WWE steroid testimony is doing the rounds, including Marc Ambinder @ the Atlantic and Michael Scherer @ Swampland and Ambinder again.

But to get the full effect, and hours of entertainment, check out the full supply of testimony released last week from the House Oversight committee. You get interviews with Vince McMahon (122 pages of Vince, with a testy exchange at the end where Vince refuses to answer whether or not he’s ever taken performance enhancing drugs), Linda McMahon, Stephanie McMahon (source of the “Hulk Hogan was a terrible wrestler” quote), TNA President Dixie Carter, various doctors and more. It’s an interesting look into what the world of wrestling is and the world that promoters pretend it is.

from the Lincoln Journal Star

from the Omaha Reader

Don Walton reported on an idea being floated around by Nebraska Republicans in his Monday column:

Because Washington County already is in the 1st District and bounds Douglas County on the north, why not extend the 1st District boundaries southward and snatch Omaha’s 1st and 2nd Wards?

Move north Omaha’s African-American voters into the Lincoln district to balance population among the House districts, thus avoiding the alternative prospect of considering separation of Bellevue and Offutt Air Force Base from the Omaha district.

Kyle has some further discussion on the proposal over at New Nebraska Network.

Nate Silver has had two great posts today detailing the Senate recount in Minnesota. “Did the Wall Street Journal fire their fact checkers?” takes a look at the facts behind many of the Republican talking points circulating about this race, and “The good news for Coleman” outlines what the Coleman camp is banking their strategy on. Buried in that second post was this gem:

Defeated Presidential candidates sometimes have nine lives, but defeated Senatorial candidates rarely do, and in his career running for statewide office, Coleman has lost to a professional wrestler, beaten a dead guy, and then tied a comedian.

Nebraska cartooning legend Paul Fell has created a new email service — The Daily Felltoon. Subscribers to the service receive a new cartoon in their inbox each business day.

As more newspapers and magazines face growing pressures on their finances, they’ve often made the decision to eliminate high-quality content, including the work of cartoonists. This not only leads to a generally lower quality print product, but it keeps readers from being able to enjoy a more light-hearted view of political and social issues that face everyone, regardless of their political persuasion.

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