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Keystone pipeline makes strange bedfellows

Omaha World-Herald: What do Gov. Dave Heineman, al-Jazeera and Alec Baldwin have in common? All three are thorns in the side of a controversial oil pipeline that a Canadian company wants to run down middle America. The fact that Heineman, a cautious conservative, has anything in common with Baldwin, a liberal actor and firebrand, underscores the strange mix of political bedfellows thrown together by the pipeline debate. On this issue, Democratic-leaning labor unions, which want to build the Keystone XL pipeline,...