Fact Check Friday

The Nebraska Cornhuskers

It's happening! The greatest college football program of all time starts its season tomorrow. Read my fair and balanced (in the actual sense, not the the-network-that-shall-not-be-named sense) sources below which support my bias of the Nebraska Cornhusker's place atop the mountain of college football greatness.

From Matt Brown, a writer without a Nebraska bias, on Nebraska's new coach:

• "Riley's season should be fascinating to watch. His temperament could not be more different from Pelini, as Riley is hailed as one of the biggest nice guys in college football. Not in the sense that he wears fedoras and complains about women not dating him on the internet, but in actually being a kind, functional human being, something we perhaps take for granted."

• Read the whole article: "What a Big Ten writer thinks BYU fans need to know about Nebraska football"

If you want to see bias, take a looksy at Kirk Herbstreit have a little meltdown on air when the '71 Huskers and the '95 Huskers were voted the greatest college football teams of all time in an ESPN poll. 

Check out more coverage of the Husker's at: www.huskermax.com

Iran Treaty: My bias: I don't really care. 

Read a fairly balanced take from someone who does: "Was the Iran Deal Worth It?" from The Atlantic. Excerpts below:

• "I’ve long wanted to support a deal with Iran. Now that an agreement has been struck, I do. But I do so with major reservations."

• "The Obama administration’s decision to focus on Iran’s nuclear program and, to a lesser extent, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict meant that U.S. officials could, and would, do less of other things, and do them less well. Political capital and bandwidth are finite resources. Policymaking is about deciding what to prioritize, particularly when the president and a small coterie of close advisors are pulled in a seemingly endless number of competing directions."

• "Any Iran deal depended on “dissociating” the nuclear issue from everything else, but the problem was that everything else mattered a whole lot, and perhaps just as much."

Health Care Law: 

From U.S. News and World Report: "10 Good Things About Obama Care." Excerpts below:

• Free Medicare preventive services. Health care reform greatly expanded the menu of free preventive services to Medicare consumers.

• Free preventive services to all women. Health insurance plans have added eight women's health benefits because of the law, in areas including breastfeeding, contraception, domestic violence, gestational diabetes, HIV screening and counseling, sexual diseases and wellness visits. These benefits are free, meaning they involve no co-payment or co-insurance, and women don't need to meet their plan deductibles to use these free services.

• New consumer health coverage reports. Consumers have begun receiving a standardized report explaining their health insurance. This seemingly modest accomplishment is actually a big deal. For the first time, different health insurance plans have to present their coverage details in the same format, using the same language. Consumers can now accurately compare different health insurance plans.

There's plenty not to like about the new health care law, but everyone needs to take a chill pill. Back in the old days of the early to mid 2000s, it was worse.  Yeah, yeah... I know my reputation is as a bleeding heart liberal progressive, but I will continue to vote for almost no one with a D or an R next to their names on a ballot. If you think I'm just trying to cherry pick information to support my liberal bias, read "Researcher: 5 Ways Obamacare Has Improved US Health System" from Money Talks News.

That's all for this week. Take some time this weekend to relax, cheer for the Huskers, and enjoy some time with friends and family. If you want to talk  politics and religion, keep it civil and make sure you check your facts.