09/11/25
Why does Congress even bother to debate an annual budget? Every year members of the federal legislative body spend innumerable hours in committees and on the House and Senate floor [...]
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Posted September 11, 2025in Morain
Posted September 04, 2025in Morain
09/04/25
College football is here once again, and fans are geared up to cheer on their treasured favorite(s). What stokes such ferocious lifetime loyalty to a bunch of guys playing a [...]
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Posted August 28, 2025in Morain
08-28-25
The No Kings Act should be the law of the land A year ago this month, U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York, introduced the No Kings [...]
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Posted August 21, 2025in Morain
08/21/25
American pundits are prone to designate their immediate time period, whenever it happens to be, as a “turning point.” When the political situation balances on a knife’s edge, as it [...]
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Posted August 14, 2025in Morain
08/14/25
The Democratic presidential nomination appears to be wide open today. No shortage of obvious hopefuls, with another batch who are probably mulling it over. More will pop their heads up [...]
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Posted August 07, 2025in Morain
08/07/25
Do elected leaders grow to covet great power once in office, or do they assume power already coveting it? And what about those who resist the siren song of power, [...]
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Posted July 31, 2025in Morain
07/31/25
A FRENCH GAMBLE French President Emmanuel Macron shook up world diplomatic circles last Thursday with his announcement that come September, France will recognize Palestine as an independent nation. How much [...]
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Posted July 24, 2025in Morain
07/24/25
THE BILLIONAIRE SPECTRUM I’ve been thinking lately about wealth. Not mine – I’m woefully short on acquaintance and familiarity with the subject, and that’s not going to change. But as [...]
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Posted July 17, 2025in Morain
07/17/25
The state of Iowa in 2013 approved its “Nutrient Reduction Strategy” for reducing nitrogen and phosphorus runoff into the state’s streams and rivers, and eventually downstream into the Gulf of [...]
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Posted July 10, 2025in Morain
07/10/25
Memory is a tricky thing for older folks. Sometimes we can remember specific people, places, and events from decades earlier, while at the same time we can’t remember much about [...]
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