Category Archives: gun safety

Gun Violence In America

Guns in America: 16 Charts You Need to See I came across this article from the Reader’s Digest the other day. It is a fairly quick read chock full of statistics that make it very clear just how pervasive guns … Continue reading

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Raskin Takes On The 2nd Amendment

(3:48) Listen as Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland explains the 2nd amendment to Radical Republicans: The 2nd amendment was put in the constitution mostly so that the country would not have to have a standing army. Standing armies in Europe … Continue reading

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Return Iowa To Normalcy

As the J6 Committee hearings roll on there is little question that the then president was the driving force behind an attempt to end our constitutional government in the US after some 230 years. There had been little question before … Continue reading

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Kim Reynolds, How Can You Be So Blind?

Tuesday, Iowa’s current governor, Kim Reynolds, announced that she will use $100 million to create he “Governor’s School Safety Bureau.” This bureau will be involved in distributing funds for a ‘School Safety Improvement Fund’ of up to $50,000 per school … Continue reading

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Money In Politics: The Root Of All Evil

We are in what I often think of as the Patriotic days of summer. From Flag Day on June 14th, when the flag was adopted by the Continental Congress through Juneteenth when all the slaves finally learned they were free … Continue reading

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Issues 

As we look at the upcoming election we ate that there are vast differences between the current two major parties on issues. Actually it should be noted that there is only one party in America today that is running on … Continue reading

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Decapitated

From Lawrence O’Donnell’s program from Wednesday night (16 minutes) Like many of us I have not been sleeping well since the massacre in Uvalde. Perhaps one of the most heinous crimes in American history. Because it was so horrendous it … Continue reading

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Franken Nails Grassley In Campaign Email

Don’t forget that voting ends in the Iowa primaries this coming Tuesday June 7th. For Democrats in Iowa the premiere race is selecting who will be facing Grassley in the midterm election. While most of our races have one candidate, … Continue reading

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Thoughts On The Current Gun Crisis

Sam Bee compendium of gun mass shooting shows: (36 minutes). Not sure when this was on – probably over a year ago. “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” ~ … Continue reading

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I Just Don’t Know What To Say

Does it ever seem like we have been on a merry-go-round for the past 40 years? Slowly picking up speed but constantly going through the same experiences? We seem to learn nothing along the way that will help us turn … Continue reading

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