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Author Archives: Paul Deaton
Veterans Condemn Trump’s ‘Zero Tolerance’ Immigration Policy
Veterans For Peace strongly condemns Trump’s ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policy, the imprisonment of children, and criminalization of undocumented immigrants. Our immigration laws and enforcement tactics have long been at a crisis point and we are now witnessing even more draconian … Continue reading
Posted in Immigration, Veterans
Tagged families belong together, Immigration, veterans, Veterans for Peace
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There Is A Family Dairy Farm Crisis
Things are bad when the coop sends the suicide hotline number with the milk payment. Milk prices are currently about $15 per hundred weight while cost of production at family farms is more than $22 per hundred weight. Like so … Continue reading
Posted in Farming
Tagged Dairy farming, farming, politics, sustainability
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Morning Coffee, Climate Change And The 2018 Midterms
I first drank coffee in the Army… on top of a hill… during the dead of winter… from a mermite can. Steam rising from the lid proved irresistible when ambient temperatures were below zero and we had just slept on … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 Election Campaign, Environment
Tagged #coffee, #iapolitics, ActOnClimate, climate change
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Preserve The Iran Deal
The 45th president doesn’t like the Iran Deal. He campaigned against it. He begrudgingly certified Iran’s compliance with it after his inauguration. As additional 90-day certification periods passed, he didn’t. Neither did he move to end it. With the installation … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Nuclear Abolition
Tagged Diplomacy with Iran, Iran Deal, JCPOA, nuclear abolition
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Politics and Real Zach Wahls
2018 will be an amazing year for Democrats, win or lose. Even so, I’ve been slow to engage, that is, until Zach Wahls announced his campaign for State Senate District 37. First I said no politics until after the June … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 Election Campaign
Tagged #iapolitics, #SD37, Bob Dvorsky, Iowa Democratic candidates 2018, Iowa politics, Janice Weiner, Zach Wahls
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It’s Not The Women, It’s The Men
Some of my friends and acquaintances are women who carry handguns. I’m not worried about getting shot by my lunch partner. I also don’t feel more secure knowing she has a handgun in her purse. It used to be a … Continue reading
Posted in gun control, gun safety
Tagged gun control, gun culture, men and guns, social responsibility, women and guns
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Grit Alone Won’t Protect Local Food Systems
The marketplace of home vegetable gardens, community supported agriculture, farmers markets, road side vegetable stands, restaurants, retail interests and direct farm sales hasn’t coalesced into a sustainable local food system, and may not. One should never doubt the resilience of … Continue reading
Posted in Farming, Local Food
Tagged farming, Local food, sustainability
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Hope Is Alive In House District 82
What seems most important about last night’s Iowa House District 82 special election to replace Curt Hanson is Democrat Phil Miller won in a post-Tom Harkin era. Iowa no longer has a Democratic U.S. Senator able to travel most counties, … Continue reading
An Energy Revolution
A recent article at Nuclear News reminds us the world is on the cusp of an energy revolution. “The cost of renewables like solar and cell batteries for electric vehicles are making the carbon-based economy obsolete, with the turning point … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Energy
Tagged Act On Climate, climate change, coal fired power plants, energy, global warming, Morgan Stanley, Paris Agreement, renewable energy, sustainabiilty
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