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retired in West Liberty

Sunday Funday: Monuments Edition

Think about this one: On one hand this administrations working to cut back on national monument areas that were declared so by previous presidents. On the other hand this administration, in the person of the current president, is publicly declaring … Continue reading

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Monsanto: Harvest Of Power

Listening to American Public Radio’s Marketplace is kind of an accidental habit with me. It is on at 6:30PM locally which is a time I seem to usually choose as a wash up time. Since that is an area of … Continue reading

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For Final Summer of Citizenship Weekend, “Join In” at 3rd District workshop in Atlantic or Join Me for Events in Webster City, Lohrville, Steamboat Rock & Grinnell

Coming off Phil Miller’s big special election win in Iowa House District 82 in southeast Iowa, there is still time to join in, reach out, and speak up over the final weekend of the Summer of Citizenship.  Iowa’s Third Congressional … Continue reading

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A Good Suggestion From The Onion

Thanks to the Onion for this picture and story The week has been so intense, I need a little relief. So we turn to the Onion  for its no-nonsense view of the world: Nation Begs Disaffected Youth Gravitating Toward Neo-Nazism To … Continue reading

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Gerrymandering Author At Prairie Lights Wednesday

The two videos were posted on youtube in June of 2016. They are about 30 minutes in length in total August 23, 2017(Wednesday) – 7:00pm at Prairie Lights in downtown Iowa City, Salon editor-in-chief David Daley will read from Ratf**ked, Why Your Vote Doesn’t Count. … Continue reading

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Sunday Funday: Special Prayer Edition

Dear Lord, We believe that our president has offended you grievously by supporting those who would hurt your children. Lord, we need a sign from you. If our president has offended you by his actions, please give our country a … Continue reading

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Question

“Question” by the Moody Blues” One of the pieces that seems to be missing in the stories I have been able to find concerning Iowa’s continuing starvation of our education system is how this fits in with the history of … Continue reading

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Charlottesville: The Outward Manifestations Of Race In America

I will try to make this to the point. What happened in Charlottesville was the pot that had been boiling beneath the surface finally bubbling over so that we can really see that there is a problem. Will America be … Continue reading

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Comment On Charlottesville

very short scene of the march in Charlottesville yesterday (8/12/2017) Watching the events unfold yesterday there were two thoughts that kept cropping up in my mind. The first was of my late Father-In-Law. Like so many of his day as … Continue reading

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Employers Used to Believe in the Power of Aggregate Demand, What Happened?

From the Thom Hartmann Show Thursday: Thom discusses the change in America’s business community from being good corporate citizens who saw their employees as assets to today’s atmosphere where corporations exploit whatever they can.  Thom speaks with guest Rick Wartzman … Continue reading

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