You are clicking to your enemy
And he doesn’t speak Spanish Never in the annals of human history has a gay man so brilliantly wooed a straight woman. Apple CEO Tim Cook and other forces at [...]
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Posted February 28, 2018in Political Mercury
Posted January 31, 2018in Political Mercury
In Steve King’s Iowa, white women need to be pregnant — like all the time
Hail King and Crania Americana! In the snowy white, diversity-free future Steve King envisions for Iowa, a blonde-haired, milky-skinned paradise parade of pure-bred Caucasians, white women had better get pregnant [...]
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Posted January 03, 2018in Political Mercury
Yes, friendship matters to Iowans, and it’s time for Ernst to go Harry Truman on Trump
Senator Joni Ernst, who has built a formidable friendship with New York Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand, no doubt dodged a question as a politician she desperately wanted (or needed) to answer [...]
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Posted December 06, 2017in Political Mercury
A point and twist on sexual misconduct?
Can Dr. Andy McGuire reconcile Moore bashing, Clinton denial? Dr. Andy McGuire of Des Moines, an Iowa Democrat running for governor in 2018, is quick to believe the women who [...]
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Posted November 01, 2017in Political Mercury
Boots and blue-jeaned into oblivion
Or can Fred Hubbell, the embodiment of the Des Moines establishment, resurrect rural Iowa? Mr. and Mrs. Rural Iowa. Or to put it more directly, my friends and neighbors: I [...]
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Posted October 04, 2017in Political Mercury
A baby bump? Think twice, fetus carrier, says Democratic candidate
J.D. Scholten considers himself generally under the pro-choice rubric as a candidate on the position of abortion. This puts him at odds with staunchly pro-life Congressman Steve King, a Kiron [...]
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Posted September 06, 2017in Political Mercury
Hubbell boasts state-wide experience
Democratic candidate for governor seeks a return home in 2018 bid Fred Hubbell, a scion of a foundational Iowa family, says he wants to see rural Iowa flourish as much [...]
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Posted August 02, 2017in Political Mercury
The Democrats’ great rural Iowa hope?
Can John Norris cut into Republican heavy countryside in governor’s race? The winding Montgomery County roads from Red Oak to the Norris family farm served as something of a time [...]
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Posted July 05, 2017in Political Mercury
Redneck skeet shooting with prizes
The comedian Bill Burr invented another shooting sport should the worlds of Amazon.com, the Goliath of modern e-commerce, collide with the diminished rural regions of the nation for which the [...]
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Posted May 31, 2017in Political Mercury
Democrat Norris spies 1974-like opening
“Testing the waters” with a swing through Iowa Red Oak native John Norris, a former top staffer at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and key figure in Iowa campaigns for [...]
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