Mr. Iowa Nice talks tweets, life in public eye, with Braley
The “Iowa Nice” guy — he of the snark and snarl, the Internet sensation with the clockmaker’s timing for profanity — talked of being nice. Honestly. For real. Even in [...]
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Posted March 13, 2013in Featured Story, Political Mercury
Posted March 06, 2013in Featured Story, Political Mercury
Movement Man, Republican Dream Girl or a real chance?
Congressman Steve King — not a person one usually associates with Shakespeare in word games — is playing a convincing Hamlet with his teasing and toying over a possible bid [...]
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Posted February 27, 2013in Featured Story, Political Mercury
Can King pass the bully test?
The thing about a bully is, nobody expects the bullied to win the fight — they just want to see some fight. So let’s say you’re on the school bus, [...]
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Posted February 20, 2013in Featured Story, Political Mercury
A Latino pope? And thoughts on shame in the school lunch line
The brilliant actress Maggie Smith of “Downton Abbey” quoted the playwright Noel Coward on “60 Minutes” Sunday night in talking about her advancing age. She’s 78. “It seems like you [...]
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Posted February 13, 2013in Featured Story, Political Mercury
Why the Harkin Institute should be at DMACC’s Carroll campus
Let’s get straight to the point. The Harkin Institute of Public Policy shouldn’t be located anywhere that’s accessible by taking a taxi from an airport. Visitors and researchers should have [...]
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Posted February 06, 2013in Featured Story, Political Mercury
Spacey is genius in breaking the fourth wall
“No one’s a Boy Scout, not even a Boy Scout.” “I hate children. There, I said it.” — “House of Cards” Francis Underwood The just-released, made-for-Netflix political drama “House [...]
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Posted January 30, 2013in Featured Story, Political Mercury
Senate’s ‘Martin and Lewis’ act, and candidates you shouldn’t overlook
Congressman Bruce Braley admitted he had a hard act to follow. Iowa’s two U.S. senators, Tom Harkin and Charles Grassley, who were both sworn into Congress in 1975, celebrated their [...]
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Posted January 23, 2013in Featured Story, Political Mercury
How would Marco Rubio fare in Le Mars?
Will Iowa Republicans in 2013 accept from first-term U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida what they wouldn’t from war-hero, political veteran John McCain in 2008? One could be speaking for [...]
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Posted January 16, 2013in Featured Story, Political Mercury
Bobsledding, popcorn balls and swinging rural Iowa elections
What a delight to chronicle the story of Lillian Braden and her 12 brothers and seven sisters, all biological kids of Jans and Elizabeth Peters, German Lutheran immigrants who settled [...]
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Posted January 09, 2013in Featured Story, Political Mercury
New Iowa senator in defense of home firepower: U.S. ‘only a day or two away in any disaster from having total anarchy’
State Sen.-elect Mark Segebart, a Vail Republican who will represent a wide swath of western Iowa starting next week, says the purpose of the Second Amendment is to empower Americans [...]
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