Category Archives: Jeff Stein

Not As Bad As They Thought You might not believe this, but the amount of political ad spending in the 2022 midterm election was actually less than had been expected. Of course, it was still the most s...

Predictable Result The House committee that has held hearings on aspects of what happened at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, held another public hearing yesterday, at which they said they'd be re...

High Quality We always want high quality...the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the vehicles we drive. Lately, though, we've heard a lot about quality in terms of political candidates. Senate Minorit...

Can't Beat Someone With No One There's a lot of grumbling among Republicans about leadership in the U.S. Congress. They'd love to see someone other than Kentucky's Sen. Mitch McConnell lead the GOP ca...

Reality About a decade ago, a documentary I produced on how Iowa journalists covered war was about to premiere...and we selected the Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown for the premiere , in front of a...

They Did Not Think This Through I launched into a predictable three-part rant last week about Iowa Democrats getting elbowed out of the way from the first in the nation role they have held for a half ...

Another Sign of Something I wear eyeglasses a lot of the time; I need them to read, and my work requires an awful lot of that. Back when I didn't use them as much, I would often see co-workers and fri...

Numbers Keep Changing Didn't see this one coming...Arizona U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema-who was elected in 2018 as a Democrat-announced she had changed her voter registration to independent and would not ...

Prisoner Swap I'm all for protecting U.S. citizens, without question. I'm also for making smart decisions-both personally and from a governmental standpoint. We all fail on that score at times...we ma...

Here Comes The Split The family feud within the national Republican Party is now on full display, between what is in essence the Trump Wing vs. the Non-Trump Wing. A day after a Trump-endorsed candida...