Category Archives: Blogs

Don't Believe Any Poll I could just stop there...don't believe any poll...but you probably wonder why. First, national polls suggesting who is ahead in the popular vote are worthless because we don't ...

99 Days And It's All Different There are now 99 days until the November general election. What an amazing two weeks or so in history. Not sure I'll live long enough for the full truth to come out abou...

A Once Proud City When I was growing up, I always wanted to visit Washington, D.C. - maybe even work there some day. The capital of our country, its majestic buildings, the history...pretty impressive...

Pay Your Bills...If You Can The news outlet The Hill notes that a recent CNN poll shows that nearly 40 percent of adults in the U.S. are constantly or frequently worried that their family's income won...

Talking Back One of my law school professors in the 1980s was Nicholas Johnson, a member of the Federal Communications Commission from 1966 to 1973. He was the author of a book, "How to Talk Back to Y...

Hope You're Happy President Joe Biden has dropped out of the 2024 president race. Republicans, hope you're happy. From a political standpoint, you peaked too soon. Better to have pushed the "Joe can't...

Convention Review The Republican National Convention concluded last Thursday night. Plenty of opinions have been tossed around all weekend, as is usual...enhanced by news of the change in the Democrat...

Not The Convention They Planned   The Republican National Convention wrapped up late last night, following an acceptance speech by Donald Trump that was a record 92 minutes long...nearly 20 minut...

Not A Good Enough Reason The list of elected Democrats who are calling for President Biden to withdraw from the 2024 race continues to grow. An odd point about that is their reason. More on that in a ...

Legislation by the Numbers   It's been a few months since the Iowa General Assembly's 2024 session came to a close and now we have the annual Legislative Services Agency's "summary in brief" repo...