Category Archives: Blogs

There Goes The Testimony Some folks on the political right got very excited this week with news that Hunter Biden would be testifying as part of a possible impeachment case members of the House are bu...

McCarthy's Revenge It was announced yesterday that California congressman and former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy not only would not run for re-election in 2024...but that he was resigning from...

Missing from the Stage Apparently some of the Republican candidates for president will be quote-unquote debating in Alabama tonight. I use quotes because these encounters to date have been worthless i...

How Soon They Forget Yesterday in this space we discussed a Morning Consult poll released last month showing that Gov. Kim Reynolds' approval ratings was 49 percent, but her disapproval rating was 47 ...

Popularity Contest As we get closer to Iowa's presidential precinct caucuses, you're going to hear a lot of claims...many of which won't make sense when put next to other claims. They'll be so differe...

The First to All 99 There's a lot of ceremony that's been attached to a Ron DeSantis presidential rally in Newton tomorrow. There was a special media advisory, list of speakers including Iowa's govern...

Thirty-Two Thousand That's the estimated number of babies born in this country since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade that otherwise would have had their l...

It's All Timing We're barely six weeks away from the first-in-the-nation Iowa presidential precinct caucuses, and as always, timing is everything. Those who peaked at the time of the old August Iowa S...

Holiday Hypocrisy The problem with those who tell us what to do and how to live is that everything they've said or done falls flat when their hypocrisy is exposed. Witness three examples from this pas...

Seven Weeks Away For those of you counting, the Iowa first-in-the-nation presidential precinct caucuses will be held seven weeks from today, on Monday, January 15, 2024. In between then and now, we'll...