Category Archives: Blogs

Security First It is traditional, in the wake of tragic assassinations in the 1960s, for the major party presidential and vice presidential candidates to receive Secret Service protection for the four...

Name That Tune There were many news stories, both large and small, that came out of last Friday's Republican Party of Iowa Lincoln Dinner. One of them, however, slipped right past my attention and I w...

Selling Candidates If you thought advertising and advertising spending tied to the 2024 election would be going down...well, let's face it...no one thought that. The global marketing services network ...

Rainmaker When I was fresh out of law school, I was hired as an associate attorney by a three-member firm, all partners. I was responsible for developing my own client base, often through court appoin...

Still the Barn This past Friday, the Republican Party of Iowa held its annual Lincoln Dinner at the downtown convention center in Des Moines. Every four years, when there's an open seat on the GOP sid...

Under the Golden Dome The Legislative Services Agency operates in the State Capitol building in Des Moines, designed to help draft bills and coordinate the overall legislative process in a non-partisa...

Deal or No Deal Speculation ran rampant about whether a federal judge would go along with the plea agreement reached in the Hunter Biden tax and guns cases. Turns out it didn't even get that far, beca...

Don't Mess With My Morning Coffee I'm old enough to remember when coffee came in a can...not a plastic container, not in a recloseable bag...but a real metal can complete with sharp edges. Back then, ...

The One Percenters We are about six months away from Iowa's first-in-the-nation presidential precinct caucuses, and a field of more than a dozen candidates is elbowing each other for your attention on...

Networking We've heard from some of you over the past few days, suggesting we re-evaluate our relationship with Fox News Radio in light of news discussed Friday on the Glenn Beck and Todd Starnes show...