Author Archives: Dave Bradley

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retired in West Liberty

Sunday Funday: Paying The Consequences Edition

2.5 minutes Safety signs are posted for your benefit and that of those around you. Please pay attention or you will suffer consequences. Why didn’t someone post a sign saying “Voting For Republicans Will Result In Loss Of Freedom And … Continue reading →

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Some Good News From Next Door

Seems like we are swimming in a veritable ocean of bad news on an almost hourly basis. Therefore a story that shows even a small glimmer of sanity must be spotlighted in hopes that whatever caused it to happen is … Continue reading →

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Party Of Death?

Note: US House votes for budget that has deep cuts to Medicaid and Medicare:    “The time is always right to do what is right.” Martin Luther King, Jr. As quickly as the news spread about the massacre in Las Vegas … Continue reading →

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SCOTUS To Hear Case Designed To Gut Unions

Grassley’s Obstruction About To Pay Huge Returns For The Wealthy Thursday morning the Supreme Court agreed to hear Janus v. AFSCME  The SCOTUS has once more agreed to hear a case designed to gut public unions. In 2016 an 8 … Continue reading →

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Sunday Funday: Jane Goodall Appreciation Edition

There are many reasons to appreciate Jane Goodall. Her work studying primates for over 50 years has led to insights into human behavior. In that vein, Goodall made some comparisons between the current president and chimpanzee behavior for the Atlantic … Continue reading →

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From Bruce Bartlett: Tax Cuts Don’t Work

One Of The Designers Of The Gospel Of Tax Cuts Says: It Is Hogwash (25 minutes total for both videos) At the national level, we are about to head into a major debate on the budget. Trump and the radical … Continue reading →

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Destroying Net Neutrality

From: Lucia, FreePress.net  Contact you senators to reject Ajit Pai FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is against Net Neutrality and affordable internet access. What’s he for? Letting a racist media empire get even more reach and power. Now some good news: … Continue reading →

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Why Would The Senate Vote To Kill ACA When No One Wants That To Happen?

7 minutes Just a thought passing though my mind after another day of getting no answer from the Ernst office once again and the usual surly response at the Grassley office. I have a couple questions and some ruminations about … Continue reading →

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RELEASE: REYNOLDS BUDGET CRISIS FORCES IOWA TO BORROW MILLIONS

http://www.ReynoldsBudgetCrisis.com For Immediate Release: September 20, 2017 Contact: Matt Sinovic, (515) 423-0133 REYNOLDS BUDGET CRISIS FORCES IOWA TO BORROW MILLIONS Borrowing $13 million to cover budget shortfall like ‘rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic’ Des Moines, Iowa — Progress Iowa today called on … Continue reading →

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Equifax: This Is A Huge Thing

20 minutes –   Based on the relatively small amount of coverage given by corporate media you would get the impression that the theft of vital information from nearly 60% of adult Americans (see video above) is no big deal. … Continue reading →

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