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...July 18, 2008, Nebraska became the last state to institute a "safe haven law," decriminalizing the act of abandoning an infant at a state hospital. Only five lines long, the law had one glaring omission - the government never defined an age limit. Since July, 30 children, most of them teens or preteens, have been abandoned at Nebraska hospitals. Four children were even driven from other states and left by their parents. Oddly enough, the law has had no effect on those it attempted to protect: no infants have been abandoned...
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Republican Johanns, raised on an Iowa dairy farm, was elected Nebraska's governor in 1998. He resigned to become President Bush's Secretary of Agriculture in 2005, then resigned that post in 2007 to run for--and win--this Senate seat, vacated by Chuck Hagel...
...current political dialogue. Colorado voted on an amendment that would protect life from the moment of fertilization, as well as one that would ban affirmative action (both failed). California rejected an amendment proposing abortion limits but passed one banning gay marriage. Florida and Arizona, likewise, constitutionally banned gay marriage. Nebraska passed a constitutional ban on affirmative action, and Michigan approved an amendment allowing stem cell research. Arkansas, with a 57 percent majority, made it constitutionally illegal for a gay couple to adopt children. Regardless of your personal beliefs on these issues, Americans, as a people, need to have a conversation...
...While getting up to speed on the complexity of the international challenges he will face, Obama will start filling the senior national-security posts in the new Administration. Candidates for secretary of state are believed to include former U.N. ambassador Richard Holbrooke and Chuck Hagel, a GOP senator from Nebraska who did not seek re-election and has been critical of the war in Iraq. A spokeswoman for John Kerry denied rumors that the Massachusetts senator and failed 2004 presidential nominee was also seeking the job. In the running to serve as Obama's national security adviser are James Steinberg...