Posted May 11, 2016in Political Mercury
Donald Trump, the bombastic billionaire who has defied convention, confounded expert prediction, and punctured the business of punditry to obsolescence, now has his self-described large hands gripping the Republican presidential nomination. [...]
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Posted May 04, 2016in Political Mercury
Hillary Clinton covered a wide swath of issues — many dealing specifically with rural economic development, opportunities for Iowa small towns — in a 23-minute interview with Political Mercury on [...]
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Posted April 27, 2016in Political Mercury
Yes, Bruce Willis’ character really being dead all along got me in “The Sixth Sense” — and the movie particularly creeped me as I watched it in 1999 during [...]
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Posted April 20, 2016in Political Mercury
So the eager suitor shows up to collect your daughter for a date. He’s earnest and honest about his intentions. The young man (let’s call him Taylor) is clear about [...]
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Posted April 13, 2016in Political Mercury
GOP party platform calls for banning abortion with no exceptions for rape, incest Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, the Iowa caucuses winner who maintains clear-and-convincing Hawkeye State grassroots [...]
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Posted April 06, 2016in Featured Story, Homepage Cover Story, Political Mercury
U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, tells Political Mercury he’s leading efforts on a bill that would allow delegates to carry firearms into the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, in July. Ohio is an open-carry [...]
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Posted April 01, 2016in Political Mercury
Troubled with what he sees as the emasculating effects of the modern university campus — an environment in which terms like “affirmative consent” and “micro-aggressions” increasingly define the gender and racial [...]
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Posted March 23, 2016in Political Mercury
A self-described conservative pro-life Catholic, State Sen. Rick Bertrand, R-Sioux City, says his views and political ideology on a host of defining issues largely reconcile with veteran U.S. Rep. Steve King’s. The trouble, Bertrand says, is that King, a [...]
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Posted March 16, 2016in Political Mercury
Let’s start with Hillary Clinton in her own words. Last summer, during a 23-minute interview, I asked Mrs. Clinton about a potential running mate, should she achieve the historic status as [...]
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Posted March 09, 2016in Political Mercury
Being hanged or drawn and quartered. Surely not relaxed ways to expire. What about being burned alive? I interviewed a man with Lou Gehrig’s disease for a newspaper series a [...]
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