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OMAHA, Neb. -- A Nebraska Democrat is under fire. Barry Rubin is executive director of the state party and is accused of using a racial slur. Rubin used a Spanish phrase meaning "Uncle Tom" when he wrote about Douglas County Election Commissioner Carlos Castillo in a blog on the Nebraska Democrats Web site. The comment has been removed from the site, but the war of words is not over. "I just kind of stumbled upon it," Castillo said. "(It) was on their Web site last night." Castillo, a Republican, said he was perusing the Democrats' site when he noticed a...

A white powder found on several computer keyboards in the Douglas County Treasurer's Office led to the evacuation of the office for more than an hour Wednesday. The substance turned out to be powdered coffee creamer. Treasurer Julie Haney said the powder was sprinkled on six keyboards used by workers who answer questions over the phone at the downtown office. The first shift of phone operators discovered the powder at 7:30 a.m., she said. Douglas County sheriff's deputies and a hazardous-materials crew were called, and all office workers were evacuatedinto the hallway. The six phone operators were isolated and told ...

The American Civil Liberties Union's Nebraska chapter will sue early next year to force removal of a Ten Commandments monument from a Plattsmouth city park, Executive Director Tim Butz said Wednesday. His comments followed a 7-0 City Council vote Monday to keep the Fraternal Order of Eagles marker in Memorial Park. Butz in July presented city officials with a complaint from an unidentified Plattsmouth resident about the marker, which was paid for by Eagles Aerie No. 365 and placed in 1965. He asked the council that it be taken down, calling it an illegal "establishment of religion" under the First ...

Kearney, Neb. - The power of the presidency is awesome. Denny Houska with the greeting he put on an old corn wagon Thursday near the University of Nebraska at Kearney. The pre-dawn University of Nebraska at Kearney campus was proof of that Thursday morning. Several thousand students defied the stereotype of the late-sleeping, class-skipping undergraduate, rising early to get in line for free tickets to see President Clinton deliver a major policy address today on their campus. "Oh, my gosh! Did they not think we would come?" said Sara Kuebler, a special-education senior from Crete, Neb., after working her way ...

Hello, now you all can read about President Clinton's visit to our state...at least he waited this long... Also, we need your help--scroll down the page and fill in the poll in regards to whether or not Al Gore should concede... http://www.discoveromaha.com/partners/wowt/

Here is the decision, if you want to see if for yourself!

http://news.findlaw.com/cnn/docs/election2000/fsc1121decision.pdf Here's the link for the Supreme Court decision, if we can call it that.

NASHVILLE--If Al Gore '69 fails to win the presidency, he need look no further than his neighbors in Tennessee to wonder what might have been. While Texas Gov. George W. Bush won his home state with 59 percent of the vote, Vice President Gore lost Tennessee--and its 11 badly needed electoral votes--by nearly 80,000 votes. From the appearance of the downtown center in Nashville last Tuesday, it would have been difficult to conceive that Tennessee was not a Gore stronghold and an Electoral College lock. Nashville was transformed into "Gore Central" on election day. On almost every street corner, supporters ...

Can someone please tell me, or e-mail me the link for the interactive ballot where it has Bush's, Gore's and Buchanan's photo, and then takes you through the ballot...making sure that you vote for Gore...it would be GREATLY appreciated!

Bush plan too generous to rich; both candidates should pay attention to needs of poor By THE CRIMSON STAFF Texas Gov. George W. Bush surprised many by his decision to emphasize tax policy in the final weeks of the campaign. After all, the tax issue should be a liability for Bush rather than an asset, representing easy fodder for the attacks of Vice President Al Gore '69. Gore's charges have merit: as a whole, the Bush tax reforms would represent a step backward in the search for a fair and progressive tax policy. Unfortunately, given the current political climate, both ...

JERUSALEM (October 13) - The IDF warned yesterday that it is poised to continue attacking Palestinian targets if developments warrant, after attack helicopters rocketed five Palestinian police sites in the West Bank and Gaza Strip yesterday in retaliation for the brutal lynching and mutilation of two IDF reservists in Ramallah. The IDF was investigating whether a third soldier also was killed in the rampage against the soldiers, who made a wrong turn while heading to their base. The two were identified as Yosef Avrahami of Petah Tikva and Vadim Novesche of Or Akiva. Meanwhile, Lebanese radio and television stations reported ...

Here is the text of a chat with a soilder from Israel's army possibly telling of an attack tomorrow... s: How are you doing? s: ? s: Are you still there? e_r: YES e_r: DID U SEE IT? s: Yes, I just signed up..thanks... e_r: COOL THANKS s: What is new with you? How are you? e_r: IM IN ISRAEL e_r: IM IN THE ARMY s: Really/? e_r: AND TOMOROW IM GONNA GO OPEN UP A CAN OF WHOOP ASS s: I know...I've heard about everything going on...we're praying for you guys... s: What's going on tomorrow? e_r: THE ARABS ...

Vice President Gore's victory in last night's debate was anticipated, given his reputed expertise in debate, but the narrowness of the win was a surprise. Polls taken after the debate by CNN/Time showed that voters felt Governor George W. Bush performed relatively well in the debate, defying the expectations of many. In effect, Gore's mastery of facts and numbers and his control of the tone and topic of the debate was only barely enough to overpower Bush's … something. What exactly did Bush have? Ah, yes -- it's not really what he had or what he did, it's more what ...

Despite the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's recent approval of the abortion pill RU-486, Dartmouth health officials are currently undecided regarding the availability of the drug on campus. RU-486, also known as mifespristone, provides women an alternative to surgical abortion procedures. The drug has already been administered to over 620,000 European women since 1988, when RU-486 was first permitted in France, according to the FDA. Though no discussions have been held on the matter, Dr. Nield Mercer, associate director for Clinical Affairs at the Dick's House Health Center, recognized that additional time would be needed in order to consider the ...

Gore's plan, although modest, is preferable to the partial privatization urged by Bush By THE CRIMSON STAFF Social Security, for years untouchable on the sidelines of American politics, has finally been called into play in this election. Unfortunately, fear of an oncoming collapse has given strength to those who call for speculative, unworkable and possibly very unfortunate changes in the program's fundamentals. Social Security must be patched up through wise economic policy, not through appeals to magical market forces; specifically, investment of social security funds in private securites is not likely to improve the system's finances and would only further ...

Last Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) made the landmark decision to approve RU-486--otherwise known as "mifepristone"--for use in the United States after almost twenty years of deliberation and testing in the midst of roiling controversy. First available in France in 1988, and now used widely across Europe and China, the pill provides an alternative to surgical abortion by chemically inducing miscarriage. Although RU-486 can currently be prescribed only at special clinics and designated hospitals, the drug will soon become available to practitioners across the country. As might be expected, the pro-life camp responded to the announcement with an ...

Did anyone else here that Winifred Skinner was there tonight? That was so funny, and I'm wondering what you all thought!

Students in the inaugural class at Patrick Henry College all have the same major: government. They'll forego sororities, football and federal loans. Instead, their college days will have daily chapel services, a dress code and a rule requiring parental permission before they are allowed to date. It won't be the typical college experience — and that's the point, say several of the 84 students readying for day one of the nation's first college geared toward home-schooled Christians. It's all part of preparing for a life of public service, they say. "The thing that I'm excited about here is people have ...

Last year, I introduced legislation authorizing a Federal Trade Commission study on whether the entertainment industry markets violence to children. The study, released Sept. 11, confirms what many of us have long suspected: That the marketing of violent, adult-rated entertainment to kids is, in the words of FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky, “pervasive and aggressive.” It shows that Hollywood is making a killing off of marketing violence to kids. The problem is not limited to one industry but can be found in virtually every form of entertainment: movies, music and video games. In studying popular music, the FTC report found that ...

*Survey shows the GOP nominee is ahead, 48% to 42%. Women prefer the vice president by 7 points, but the Texas governor has a 22-point lead among males. By RONALD BROWNSTEIN, Times Political Writer WASHINGTON--Overwhelming support among men has powered George W. Bush back ahead in the race for the White House, a new Times Poll has found. Less than six weeks before the Nov. 7 election, the survey finds men and women diverging on their presidential choices to an enormous degree. While women still prefer Vice President Al Gore by 7 percentage points, men give Bush a crushing 22-point ...