Author Archives: Dave Bradley

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retired in West Liberty

On The Lighter Side 

  There has been simply a torrent news this week from Ukraine to Maralago to continuing good news on the economic front. So it seems like a good time for a certain governor who just never seems to have a … Continue reading →

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AGs Want To Cross State Lines To Prosecute Abortions

Freedom in America? It looks like the extremist Republican MAGA Party has a plan to end that.   Below is the highlights of the Rachel Maddow Show from Monday night. The first highlight is a short synopsis of how the … Continue reading →

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Biden Accomplishments

Even Steve Doocy of Fox says Biden doing well (6 minutes commercial the last 1.5 minutes). President Biden has returned from a highly successful trip to a NATO conference at which NATO countries were surprisingly in agreement on most things … Continue reading →

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Sunday Funday: OTC Birth Control Pills Soon Available Edition

Katie Porter plays JeoparDOD with defense contractors: (4:23) Well here is some really good news at the end of a week that saw Iowa shrink back into controlling women’s bodies like it were the Dark Ages: A birth control pill … Continue reading →

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How Chickens Got Expensive

Remember last winter how the prices of eggs were going through the roof? Remember how the media in this country tried to pass off that super inflation on an outbreak of bird flu months earlier? Remember how a deep dive … Continue reading →

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Iowa Moves To The Early 20th Century

(11 minutes) Iowa took the national spotlight Tuesday. Getting the national spotlight these days usually involve doing something truly outrageous. Frequently these days the national spotlight belongs to Donald Trump’s insane statements or statements from Republicans taking us down to … Continue reading →

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Hot, Hotter, Hottest

(5:54) If for some reason you have been hidden away in a cave here is some news you need to know: Monday was the hottest average day ever on planet earth. That is until Tuesday which was a bit hotter … Continue reading →

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Sunday Funday: More Patriotic Summer Edition

The Revolutionary War Simplified (15 minutes). Found this rather delightful little video and thought some might enjoy it. In an age when outrageous quotes are dropped hourly, I found this Mike Pence quote in a Woodbury county campaign stop jaw … Continue reading →

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More Good Economic News From Biden

Biden delivers economic address in South Carolina (28 minutes) Gets pretty monotonous doesn’t it? Every month there are a series of economic reports that take the temperature of the of the nation’s economic health. Since becoming President, Biden has faced … Continue reading →

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Reynolds Call Special Session To Cut Iowans Rights

Got this email from Progress Iowa Wednesday afternoon July 5th. Certainly the the irony that Independence Day was just the day before was not lost on most of those who received this email: Just when you thought she couldn’t sink … Continue reading →

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