Category Archives: Jeff Stein

Legal Does Not Mean Right Tomorrow, President Trump will surrender to federal authorities and be arraigned on more than three dozen counts concerning confidential documents and impeding an investigati...

Two for One Democrats don't want Donald Trump to run again as president, because he might well win. Beyond not liking his policies, they're afraid of what some are now spinning as a "retaliation presi...

A More Crowded Field I must concede, I am surprised at the large-and growing-number of Republican presidential candidates in the 2024 field. Donald Trump is the clear frontrunner, and I figured a few ...

The Real Motive Congress held hearings yesterday concerning mandating AM radio in cars. You no doubt have heard that first makers of electric vehicles, then all vehicles, had targeted AM radio for ext...

How Would This Go For You? Let's say that you had run up a bunch of spending on your credit cards. They're totally maxed out, and any repayment plan would take years, decades in fact. So you decide to...

No Time Like The Present It has always seemed to me that if something is a good idea, why not put it into practice right away? Forget "New Year's Resolutions" that have to start on January 1; instead ...

The Expectation Game There are a lot of folks on the political right who are hopping mad about the debt ceiling deal Speaker Kevin McCarthy agreed to. And there are a lot of folks on the political lef...

An Early Start I was on CNN this morning...no, I didn't have the TV on and turned to CNN...I was actually a guest on the "Early Start" program, to talk about the Iowa Caucuses and the overlapping visi...

A Cautionary Tale Journalist Matt Taibbi used to be a favorite of those on the political left, at least when he was a contributing editor to Rolling Stone. Not so much lately, though. Taibbi...whose f...

Takeaways from "Talking Points" We held our first "Iowa Talking Points" program in front of a live audience at Studio5@Mudd in Cedar Falls last Friday. Nearly 100 of you were there, and those who were...