Category Archives: 2018 Election Campaign

Watching Grassley Lead The Ford “Hearing”

So I am writing this a couple days ahead of time. However, I can’t help but comment on Grassley’s handling of the Ford “hearing” and the whole general tone of their Kavanaugh rush through Grassley’s committee. Pretty obvious the plan … Continue reading

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Who Is James Buchanan And Why Should We Care?

I stumbled on an incredible thread on Democratic Underground  Friday morning. The thread on DU was a thread reader app of a very long thread originally posted on Twitter by poster putinsclown. In this thread putinsclown exposes economist James Buchanan … Continue reading

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Sunday Funday: Chuck The Victim Edition Chuck the Victim: (1 minute) Poor Chuck. A woman gets nearly raped and killed and Chuck is the victim. As was the attempted rapist. Hardly anyone ever thinks of the feelings of the overprivileged. … Continue reading

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Older Voters Leaving The Republican Party

“Believe them when they say they are coming after Medicare and Social Security.” Several articles around the internet in the past weeks indicate that older Americans are finally starting to understand that the Republican Party is in no way acting … Continue reading

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For Farmers, Not Farm Bureau

We must give a nod of thanks to the Pulitzer committee for giving the 2017 award for editorial writing to Art Cullen of the Storm Lake Times. Since then we try to make it a practice of checking in with Mr. … Continue reading

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One Unspoken Reason To Vote This Fall

And a Good Reason To Vote For Democrats This Fall Once Neil Gorsuch was in place filling the SCOTUS chair that was stolen from Merrick Garland in 2016,  Radical Republicans were now fully in charge of all branches of the … Continue reading

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Help me call Steve King out to debate!

(email from JD Scholten – IA-04) It’s been one week since I issued a debate challenge to Steve King. He responded by saying he wouldn’t debate me because, as he put it, “there’s not a clear division on issues.” If … Continue reading

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Don’t Forget: Progress Iowa’s Annual Corn Feed Tomorrow

  http://www.ProgressIowa.org For Immediate Release: September 12, 2018 Contact: Matt Sinovic, (515) 423-0133 SUNDAY: 4th Annual Progress Iowa Corn Feed at 12:30 PM Bondurant, Iowa – The 4th annual Progress Iowa Corn Feed will take place this Sunday, September 16th … Continue reading

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Poor Kim! Why Does Everybody Pick On Her?

When you finally reached that magic age to vote did anybody pull you aside and give you some advice on voting that sounded like this: “When you look the candidates over, be sure to pick the one who never takes … Continue reading

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ICYMI: An Amazing Speech By Obama

  For those who may have missed this. President Barack Obama gave an amazing speech Friday at the University of Illinois. Obama appears about 5 minutes into the video. The speech is about an hour.

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