05/18/23
Federal government whistleblowers have a champion in the U.S. Senate: Republican Chuck Grassley of Iowa. We can measure a politician’s sincerity about a specific issue or policy by how consistently [...]
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Posted May 18, 2023in Morain
Posted May 11, 2023in Morain
05/11/23
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”—Lord Acton, 1887 We usually hear this statement when someone wants to make a point about someone else, someone in power. I’m [...]
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Posted May 02, 2023in Morain
05/04/23
The mental health of young people depends to a great extent on how they interact with their peers. At COVID’s height, isolation bred anxiety and its accompanying downsides, like cyberbullying, [...]
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Posted April 27, 2023in Morain
04/27/23
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, OR to the people.” —Tenth Amendment [...]
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Posted April 13, 2023in Morain
04/13/23
How important is it to maintain decorum in a legislative body? And how serious must a disruption of decorum by members be to justify their expulsion from that body? Pundits [...]
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Posted April 06, 2023in Morain
04/06/23
I need to apologize to the Iowa Hawkeye women’s basketball team for jinxing them in the NCAA tournament final game last Sunday. I didn’t wear my Hawkeye sweatshirt. I know, [...]
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Posted March 23, 2023in Morain
03/23/23
One state among the 50 registered an increase in the incidence of cancer in 2022. That would be Iowa. The only one. Only Kentucky ranked ahead of Iowa last year [...]
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Posted March 16, 2023in Morain
03/16/23
Words can convey both meaning and opinion. They therefore can be weaponized, stretched beyond their literal usage, to win favor, or to bully, or to slander. Propagandists know the power [...]
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Posted March 09, 2023in Morain
03/09/23
Americans, as is our wont, continually focus on “the questions of the day.” Some of those issues change over time, but sometimes it takes a long time. And sometimes it’s [...]
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Posted March 02, 2023in Morain
The coffeehouse phenomenon
Most every morning I meet with a group at a coffee shop in Jefferson. It’s informal – anyone who shows up becomes a member for that morning. We number anywhere [...]
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