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May 15, 2013 by Lindsey in The Sound

The Insane Clown Posse, not your average ‘Juggalo’ Joe

It’s easy to write-off the Insane Clown Posse. Really easy. I mean, just look at them. There’s the clown makeup, the clothes. Then there’s the whole “Juggalo” lifestyle and the songs about not knowing how magnets work. In short, it’s easy to understand why people would look at ICP as

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May 15, 2013 by Lindsey in Guest Commentary

Ignoring reality: guns in America

Those liberals always seem to be spreading confusion and misinformation about guns. Wayne LaPierre isn’t the only one getting tired of it. All this business about changing laws is ridiculous when criminals have no intention of obeying the law. And what criminal is going to use a weapon obtained through legal methods? Everyone

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May 15, 2013 by Lindsey in Duffy

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May 15, 2013 by Lindsey in Film Review

A killer vacation

“Sightseers” 4 stars Rated R 88 minutes Comedy Starring: Alice Lowe, Eileen Davies, Steve Oram Blacker than the La Brea Tar Pits, director Ben Wheatley’s dark comedy about a couple of serial killer lovebirds is an exquisitely funny movie. Wheatley, the director of British crime dramas “Down Terrace” (2009) and

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May 15, 2013 by Lindsey in Your View

Register’s pandering to youth is ‘desperate’ and ‘laughable’

Take a look at the farmers’ market photos on The Des Moines Register’s website. Like photo coverage of all other local events on the Register’s website, you get the impression the farmers’ market is attended mainly by 20-somethings. I actually did the math, and of the 73 people whose ages

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May 13, 2013 by Lindsey in Featured Story, Iowa Watchdog

Special interests drive Iowa education reforms

DES MOINES – Good intentions aren’t the only driving force behind Iowa’s education reform efforts. State education agencies, special interest groups and for-profit education companies have spent thousands in 2012 and 2013 to hire lobbyists and pad the campaign coffers of lawmakers who sit on key committees. Many of these

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May 09, 2013 by Lindsey in Featured Story, Iowa Watchdog

Lawmakers’ families bring home big perks

DES MOINES – Family members and close friends of Iowa‘s Congressional Delegation benefit from their position, whether it be special one-time funding for an alma mater or hundreds of thousands of dollars paid to one lawmaker’s son for working on his campaign, a review federal records shows. Take for example

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May 08, 2013 by Lindsey in Film Review

Blood feast

“Kiss of the Damned” 3 Stars Rated R 97 minutes Drama Starring: Joséphine de La Baume, Milo Ventimiglia ,Roxane Mesquida Vampires are by definition a retro construct. Living forever means always looking back. The future is merely a continuing cycle of corruption and death. Flesh-and-blood is the only reliable thing

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May 08, 2013 by Lindsey in Guest Commentary

Boston and news coverage — what we bargained for?

News coverage of breaking stories — such as the explosions at the Boston Marathon — are more miss than hit because of two fundamental flaws in such coverage. If you’re puzzled or confused by the breathless on-the-scene commentators, you should be. For one thing, almost everything we know about such

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May 08, 2013 by Lindsey in Joe's Neighborhood

One adult in the room

Remember last Thanksgiving? Here, let me help. That was when your mom questioned your wife’s ability to make cranberry salad and both women marched angrily out of the kitchen. I would not call that a win-win for you. And you remember your sister? She arrived with her husband, which is

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