Category Archives: Blogs

Explosive Response I know I'm supposed to temper my reaction to the news that the Israeli intelligence folks blew up a bunch of pagers and walkie-talkies belonging to Hezbollah members. The explosions...

Stuffing the Ballot Box We have another reason to visit our booth at the National Cattle Congress Fair in Waterloo this year...thanks to a suggestion from Fair management, we have the KXEL Kandidate K...

Once Was Too Much   The systemic failures that led Donald Trump to be shot in Pennsylvania-with one supporter killed and two more injured-were unthinkable then and now. Surely such a thing would ...

The Numbers Shift   In the wake of yesterday being National Voter Registration Day, it seems appropriate to look at the most current voter registration totals in Iowa. And there has been a shift ...

Honoring the Document   Today is Constitution Day...which was established by Congress 20 years ago to recognize this date, September 17, when the delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Phi...

Lesser Evil Pope Francis weighed in on the U.S. presidential race late last week, and did not seem impressed with the choices Americans have this cycle. During a news conference while his plane was re...

Surprise Prior to the Biden-Trump debate in June, I said here that you could tell if one side or the other thought things went badly based upon a campaign's reaction in the immediate aftermath. For ex...

Taking the Bait   Lots of folks on the political right have bemoaned the fact that the deck was stacked against Donald Trump in Tuesday's debate.   "Three against one," they cry, saying the ...

Remembering Where You Were When   There are, fortunately, few incidents in a person's life when they distinctly remember circumstances...where they were when something happened. For many, over th...

Fighting Words   Think back to Saturday, July 13th of this year. Donald Trump was the target of an assassination attempt in Pennsylvania. As he was being led off the stage for treatment for the b...