Category Archives: Jeff Stein

Splitting the Vote The 2020 Democrat caucus and primary season wrapped up quickly...Bernie Sanders kept gaining strength, and all the other candidates were splitting the "not Bernie" vote. So as the S...

We Are Skeptical That's the takeaway from a new poll from The Partnership for Public Service, as reported yesterday by POLITICO. The topline findings of the new poll should be taken as a warning sign ...

Mixed Numbers Lots of data released yesterday tied to the Consumer Price Index numbers for January...and as always, lots of possible interpretations. POLITICO, however, was noteworthy in its lack of o...

More State of the Union Lies Yesterday we made our way through part of a "top ten" list of what Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center called the biggest lies coming from the President at last Tues...

Top Ten State of the Union Lies Last Tuesday, the President delivered his annual State of the Union message to a joint session of Congress. I've already told you I think the whole exercise, as current...

Finally, Something They Agree On You've heard a lot about how the U.S. House is a deeply divided body, with so many factions that it's hard to imagine them agreeing on anything. But yesterday, it happ...

Irrelevance I did not pay much attention...quite little, actually...to Tuesday's State of the Union message and the resultant GOP response. Someone called me out for that, but I pointed out that I do ...

More Money, More Problems The Iowa House yesterday passed a bill authorizing public school funding to increase next academic year by 3 percent. It was immediately signed by the Governor. The state's d...

Staying At The Top There's a saying, something to the effect of it's harder to stay at the top than to get to the top. Reminds me of Iowa Democrats on our 50-year history as the first-in-the-nation ca...

Help With Shopping I'm not really a fan of shopping. I do it because I like to eat, and I don't grow my own food. Yesterday I was at one of the big stores...the one where the employees wear blue vests...