Category Archives: 2020 election campaign

Amy Klobuchar: From The Heartland

Posted on June 9, 2019 by Dave Bradley

NBC News, MSNBC and Telemundo will host the first 2020 presidential primary debate in June of 2019. This is the twelfth in a series of BFIA’s coverage and commentary of the announcement speeches by the declared Democratic candidates for president … Continue reading →

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Courts Becoming Republican Power Centers

Posted on June 8, 2019 by Dave Bradley

Thanks to a case decided by the Iowa Supreme Court and a couple of cases on the docket for decisions this month for the SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the US)  we can see why Republicans have put so much emphasis … Continue reading →

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Bernie Sanders: Fighting For Every Citizen

Posted on June 2, 2019 by Dave Bradley

NBC News, MSNBC and Telemundo will host the first 2020 presidential primary debate in June of 2019. This is the tenth in a series of BFIA’s coverage and commentary of the announcement speeches by the declared Democratic candidates for president … Continue reading →

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Show Trials Coming?

Posted on June 1, 2019 by Dave Bradley

We never know who exactly is the person to watch to try to see which way the wind in blowing in Dear Leader’s administration. Cabinet secretaries have announced policy only to have their announcements cut off at the knees the … Continue reading →

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Marianne Williamson: Something Different

Posted on May 26, 2019 by Dave Bradley

  NBC News, MSNBC and Telemundo will host the first 2020 presidential primary debate in June of 2019. This is the ninth in a series of BFIA’s coverage and commentary of the announcement speeches by the declared Democratic candidates for president … Continue reading →

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Redo on Samantha Bee’s History of “Pro-Life”

Posted on May 25, 2019 by Dave Bradley

Last week we had the insane passage of copycat laws around the country with the express purpose of the de facto stoppage of legal abortions. Iowa, which was once a national leader in things like education and non-partisan selection of … Continue reading →

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Government Waste Joni Should Target

Posted on May 25, 2019 by Dave Bradley

Just got another of Joni Ernst’s comical “Make ‘Em Squeal” missives. I honestly wonder if she ever reads them herself. Well at least this month she took aim at everybody’s go-to punching bag for “showing-you-are-serious-about-waste-and-fraud” the Pentagon. By golly, you … Continue reading →

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Julian Castro: Community At The Core

Posted on May 19, 2019 by Dave Bradley

  NBC News, MSNBC and Telemundo will host the first 2020 presidential primary debate in June of 2019. This is the seventh in a series of BFIA’s coverage and commentary of the announcement speeches by the declared Democratic candidates for … Continue reading →

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Sunday Funday: Uterine Support System Edition

Posted on May 19, 2019 by Dave Bradley

Sam Bee teaches sex education to senators: (10 minutes) Women will now be reclassified (hat tip to Mike Lukovich for this term) as “Uterine Support Systems.”  It is certainly too bad that humor can’t get through to the Trumpist Party … Continue reading →

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Rita Hart Running In Ia-02

Posted on May 18, 2019 by Dave Bradley

Some exciting news in the old email bag Tuesday – former state senator and lieutenant governor candidate in the Fred Hubbell campaign last fall – Rita Hart – has announced that she will be a candidate to replace the retiring … Continue reading →

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