Harkin: Attack on food assistance ‘unconscionable’
U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin’s days in the great American food-stamp fight go back to the 1970s, his first years in Congress representing Iowa. “I remember going through all these things [...]
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Posted October 09, 2013in Political Mercury
Posted October 02, 2013in Political Mercury
Target acquired: Branstad up-selling the upstart Ernst
He’s not King Corn around these parts for nothing. Gov. Terry Branstad knows the strings to pull — where, and just how hard. Eschewing the advice of GOP consultants near [...]
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Posted September 25, 2013in Political Mercury
Top Latino congressman: King should keep talking
A veteran Chicago congressman shaping the raging immigration debate says he has a powerful accidental ally in U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa. “Every time he opens his mouth, he helps [...]
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Posted September 18, 2013in Political Mercury
WHO’s Conway: America is ‘laughingstock of the world’
A western Iowa Republican Party fall fundraiser weaved the local and international in a power-punch case for a conservative reshaping of U.S. government at all levels. In a two-hour session [...]
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Posted September 11, 2013in Political Mercury
Franciscan president on King: ‘I pity the poor man’
The president of an order of Catholic sisters with deep influence in western Iowa supports immigration reform with a path to citizenship for the more than 11 million people living [...]
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Posted September 04, 2013in Political Mercury
Moms, it’s your time
Bugs Bunny broke the news. Not the cartoon, but this wonderful plastic transistor radio shaped like the silly rabbit. No trick for this kid. That radio worked. For ball games. [...]
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Posted August 28, 2013in Political Mercury
Will ‘family values’ folks embrace a bare branch?
There’s a term in China and India for men like me and U.S. Senate candidate David Young: bare branches. We’re single, never-married, with no kids — branches on a family [...]
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Posted August 21, 2013in Political Mercury
Deace: Republicans should kill ‘false debate,’ sell ideas to changing nation
Nationally syndicated talk-radio host Steve Deace, an Iowa native who has built a national brand as an in-house critic of the conservative movement, says Democrats are out-gunning Republicans on strategy [...]
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Posted August 14, 2013in Political Mercury
King: Primary source for drug-muling comment dead
In the aftermath of a controversial comment about immigration and drug smuggling, U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, has said he built his words largely on the observations of border-patrol officials [...]
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Posted August 07, 2013in Political Mercury
Scandinavia, Mexico, what’s the difference?
A few days before the furor broke over Congressman Steve King’s intellectual meanderings on cantaloupe-shaped calves and otherwise skinny Mexican kids, U.S. Senate candidate David Young visited with Political Mercury. [...]
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