06/05/25
Donald Trump got it half right about the recent omnibus tax-plus-everything else bill that the U.S. House passed on Tuesday last week. It’s big, but it ain’t beautiful. The bill [...]
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Posted June 05, 2025in Morain
Posted May 22, 2025in Morain
05/22/25
Have you ever heard someone refer to an “emolument” in a context other than the U.S. Constitution? Probably not. The word is somewhat archaic, and rarely appears other than as [...]
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Posted May 15, 2025in Morain
05/15/25
The Trump tax cuts, enacted in 2017, are due to expire at the end of this calendar year, 2025. The new 2025-26 federal fiscal year doesn’t kick in until this [...]
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Posted May 08, 2025in Morain
05/08/25
The deeper one dives into history, the more nuanced and complicated it seems. The nuances are all-important, though, because they enrich our understanding of human nature and of why things [...]
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Posted April 24, 2025in Morain
04/24/25
Iowa’s senior U.S. Senator, Republican Chuck Grassley, met with more than 50 of us from the Jefferson area here last Thursday morning. Unlike most Republican members of Congress these days, [...]
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Posted April 17, 2025in Morain
04/17/25
It’s called “collective punishment” when an entire group or community is sanctioned for an act of one member, or a few of them. It’s a form of bullying. The punished [...]
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Posted April 10, 2025in Morain
04/10/25
Rarely, if ever, has Iowa’s congressional delegation found itself situated to alter the course of America’s economy. But right now it can, and one of the six in the delegation [...]
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Posted April 03, 2025in Morain
04/03/25
There are few comparisons—maybe none—in American history to what President Donald Trump proposes for takeover of Greenland by the United States. Trump refuses to rule out military conquest of the [...]
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Posted March 06, 2025in Morain
03/06/2025
The word “peace,” like many words, carries a number of meanings. Sometimes it’s convenient to choose one of them. U.S. President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy use “peace” to describe [...]
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Posted January 30, 2025in Morain
01/30/25
This year marks the centennial of the notorious Scopes trial. The trial played out in 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee, and addressed the question whether a state could ban the teaching [...]
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