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Author Archives: Dave Bradley
Sunday Funday: Bellicose, Blustering Buffoon Edition
Here is a little something from many of our pasts. The administration wants to return to the 1950s in so many ways. Here is one that seems appropriate for what’s going on today. 9 minutes of memories. Sorry we couldn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Humor
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Who Really Owns American Farmland
“We’re used to thinking of escalating rents as an urban problem, something suffered mostly by the citizens of booming cities. So when city people look out over a farm—whether they see corn stalks, or long rows of fruit bushes, or … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Farming
Tagged corporate agriculture, Food Security, resources
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Union Recertification Begins Next Month In Iowa
The massive and in my mind catastrophic overhaul had a clause meant to drive a wedge between state workers in Iowa. Built out of the Republican playbook of “divide and conquer” the clause that puts the recertification of a union … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Labor, union busting
Tagged Americans For Prosperity, Branstad/Reynolds administration, economic inequality, recertification
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August 6th, 1965 – Lyndon Johnson Signs The Voting Rights Act.
video – 49 minutes The rapidity and disdain with which the current administration and Republican led states across the country are working to strip voting rights from citizens conjures up memories of the Jim Crow days of the the long … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Iowa Voters, voter suppression, voting rights
Tagged Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Sunday Funday: Lammas Edition
Earlier this past week on the pagan calendar the feast of Lammas was celebrated. From wicca.com: At Lammas, sometimes called Lughnasadh, it’s time to celebrate the first harvest of the year, and recognize that the hot summer days will soon … Continue reading
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Branstad Leaves Reynolds Holding The Bag
In what had to be one of the great escapes in recent political history in this state, Terry Branstad royally screwed things up and then left for the relative quiet of China. Branstad has made a very successful career of … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Budget
Tagged busted budget, Kim Reynolds, medicaid privatization, roads
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Joni: You Make Us Squeal With Laughter
Senator Ernst is out with another attempt to divert attention from the real issues of the day and possibly act as a stalking horse for the next issue Republicans want to make into the NEXT BIG ISSUE. It looks like … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Joni Ernst, Social Security
Tagged CFPB, make 'em squeal, misleading statistics
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Fill In The Blanks
Often pictures convey complex thoughts much better and quicker than words ever can. Not only that, nearly every one who views a pictorial presentation takes away a different meaning: Beginning with Teddy Roosevelt it has been over 100 years. … Continue reading
Posted in Affordable Care Act, Blog for Iowa, Charles Grassley, Joni Ernst, Koch Brothers
Tagged death panel, FDR, Republican wealth care, Truman
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Sunday Funday: Beautiful, Wonderful Edition
I feel like a certain current president and have decided to only work one day this week and the jet off to one of my palatial estates. So the quiz may be skewed a bit to the early part of … Continue reading
Posted in Blog for Iowa, Humor
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Cut Congressional Health Insurance If Our Health Care is Cut!
Bravo, Congressmember Loebsack! Email from Congress member Dave Loebsack concerning the pending legislation to dramatically slash access to healthcare in this country: Thursday, July 27, 2017 “If members of Congress vote to take healthcare coverage from millions of Americans, then they … Continue reading
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