Author Archives: Dave Bradley

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retired in West Liberty

Is The Answer To Iowa’s Water Pollution Already Available?

As anyone knows, drainage of farm chemicals into Iowa’s waterways has been one of the most contentious issues in the state in recent years at least if not longer. Farm chemicals that have not been used by the plants in … Continue reading →

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Sunday Funday: Flag And Cross Edition

What Sinclair Lewis is often cited as saying appears to be something neither he nor anyone else ever exactly said. Yet somehow it has been rolled into one of the most famous “quotes” of the 20th century. It goes like … Continue reading →

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Can We Talk About Guns Yet?

There hasn’t been a mass shooting in the US that appears to be worthy of mass media attention in the past three weeks, so IS NOW THE TIME TO TALK ABOUT GUNS? Can we finally get something started before the … Continue reading →

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Impeachable Offenses: Failure To Uphold The Law

http://bradblog.com/?p=12337  start at 4 minutes ends at 22:15. from bradblog: First up, Trump’s recent comments and actions to sabotage American health care are, as I argue, in violation of his sworn oath to “protect and defend the Constitution”, which includes … Continue reading →

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Ernst And Grassley Vote To Cut Medicare And Medicaid

As part of the budget bill passed late Thursday night by the senate Medicare will be cut by a massive $500 billion over the next ten years and Medicaid will be cut by an even more massive $1 Trillion over … Continue reading →

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The Reynolds Budget Crisis Isn’t Going Away

picture credit: Iowa Starting Line From the Iowa Democratic Party Five years ago, our state had a budget surplus of nearly $1 billion dollars, but due to massive special interest tax giveaways by the Reynolds Administration, our state sits with … Continue reading →

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Sunday Funday: If It Weren’t So Serious I’d Laugh Edition

(6.5 minutes) So much of what is going on in politics is so ludicrous that it seems like our daily lives are a script written for Saturday  Night Live or a story from the Onion or from Andy Borowitz. It … Continue reading →

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Dave Loebsack For The People

I feel fortunate to live in a district where the member of congress is more concerned about the needs of the constituents than the whims of the donors with the super deep pockets. The Republican members of the Iowa delegation … Continue reading →

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Free Press, Licensing, Corporations And Net Neutrality

This is the concept of Net Neutrality that is under fire from the current FCC (3 minutes). From 2015: The current president (who, thanks to his own Secretary of State, should be referred to as the Effing Moron) caused quite … Continue reading →

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ICYMI: Ajit Pai Reconfirmed For Five Years

From This Week Tonight from last May 20 minutes Expect An All Out Assault On Internet Neutrality Next From Lucia at FreePress.net: Yesterday (Monday) the Senate reconfirmed Trump’s FCC chairman, Ajit Pai. The 52–41 vote split mostly along party lines, with … Continue reading →

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