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Bernie Sanders Needs a Shot of Dignity Aug. 15, 2019
I have never been a big fan of Bernie Sanders. His authoritarian tendencies and aggressive attacks o... Read More
The War Against Warming: Why We Must Fight Apr. 02, 2019
Even after Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and Poland, a strong pacifist movement in Britain opposed a... Read More
The Argument Chuck Schumer Doesn't Have the Courage to Make Oct. 10, 2018
Someone awakening from a 50-year coma around the time that Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his ret... Read More
Is Ethanol Cronyism on the Ropes? May. 03, 2018
While then-candidate Donald Trump did participate in the usual campaign ritual of bending knee to Io... Read More
Pressure Builds for Trump to Change Federal Ethanol Mandate Jan. 13, 2018
WASHINGTON — On the campaign trail, candidate Donald Trump embraced the federal mandate for et... Read More
Democrats, Don't Blame the Voters Who Are Not Racist Sep. 30, 2017
One of the great fringe benefits of working around American politics during the past 10 American pre... Read More
A Humble Model for Democratic Politicians in Small-Town Iowa Jun. 06, 2017
WEST POINT, Iowa — It takes less than five minutes to discover that family, public service and... Read More
Promised Land Lost May. 30, 2017
FORT MADISON, IOWA — Only ghosts and shadows haunt the empty halls of Sheaffer Pens, the oneti... Read More
Cracking the Code of Campaign-Speak Feb. 06, 2016
"Do you ever get the feeling," asked humorist Robert Orben, "that the only reason we have elections ... Read More
Hillary Trudging to Antarctica Feb. 05, 2016
Hillary Clinton's long hard slog to the White House shall soon rival Ernest Shackleton's Endurance e... Read More
The Remainderman Feb. 05, 2016
Donald Trump won more votes in the Iowa caucuses than any Republican candidate in history. Impressi... Read More
Sources, Methods and Lives Feb. 04, 2016
This has not been a good week for Hillary Clinton. She prevailed over Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Iow... Read More
Cruz, Rubio and God Feb. 04, 2016
If you attend a Republican presidential event on the campaign trail, you may come to wonder if you m... Read More
Establishment Stumbles Out of the Gate in Iowa Feb. 04, 2016
As the presidential campaigns shift from Iowa to New Hampshire and its Tuesday primary election, a m... Read More
Iowa Reminds: Have Faith in the Voters Feb. 04, 2016
Iowa was like a rainstorm that cleared away some of the nasty pollution clogging the air. Those last... Read More
Only One Thing Can Keep Donald Trump From Ultimate Victory: Donald Trump Feb. 03, 2016
They hate him; they really hate him. Donald Trump is not the golden boy he thought he was. He though... Read More
After Iowa Feb. 02, 2016
Senator Ted Cruz's upset victory against Donald Trump has robbed "The Donald" of his stock answer to... Read More
After Iowa Feb. 02, 2016
What's going on in this country right now, as exemplified in our current politics and the results in... Read More
Vote Cruz in Iowa as if the Republic Depends on It Jan. 29, 2016
I keep hearing from supporters of other GOP candidates that Ted Cruz can't win the general election ... Read More
