Do you want armed guards in schools?
It’s the National Rifle Association’s Big Solution. And Iowa Department of Education Director Jason Glass says it’s an idea worth considering. We are talking about armed guards in our schools. [...]
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Posted January 02, 2013in Featured Story, Political Mercury
Posted December 26, 2012in Featured Story, Political Mercury
Rural Caucus chair: State should ban, confiscate semi-automatic guns
State Rep. Dan Muhlbauer, D-Manilla, says Iowa lawmakers should ban semi-automatic guns and “start taking them” from owners who refuse to surrender any illegal firearms through a buy-back program. In [...]
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Posted December 19, 2012in Featured Story, Political Mercury
The deadly silence in America
What the hell is going on in that house? That’s what I thought routinely in Lake Worth, Fla., as I’d hear the cries of kids in the house next to [...]
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Posted December 12, 2012in Featured Story, Political Mercury
Tear down that restroom door!
Back in June of 2007, when then U.S. Sen. Larry Craig, of Idaho, took his infamous wide stance in that Minneapolis airport men’s restroom, much of the discussion centered on [...]
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Posted December 05, 2012in Featured Story, Political Mercury
Selzer: unchurched ‘swung’ Iowa election
The million-dollar question is: What do you do with this information? Featured as a speaker at a TEDxDesMoines event Sunday aimed at women, nationally-respected pollster J. Ann Selzer rolled out [...]
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Posted November 28, 2012in Featured Story, Political Mercury
Vilsack’s political future
Seconds after Christie Vilsack’s seventh and final congressional debate this fall, her husband turned left from his front-row seat in Mason City and said to the writer Chuck Offenburger that [...]
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Posted November 21, 2012in Featured Story, Political Mercury
Annie’s very American smile
There’s more true American spirit in little Annie Nguyen’s smile than in a thousand political proclamations from our November-minded patriots. The politicians running for state and national office tell us [...]
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Posted November 14, 2012in Featured Story, Political Mercury
The Republican reverse Midas Touch with single people
Much GOP hand-wringing in the election post-mortem necessarily centers on the canyon-sized advantage President Obama and the Democrats have with Latino voters. Having spent a good deal of time in [...]
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Posted October 24, 2012in Featured Story, Political Mercury
A White House race without an anti-abortion candidate?
You don’t see it so much in the cities of our state. But in rural western Iowa, the pro-life movement is visible and highly animated. Almost every day for the [...]
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Posted October 17, 2012in Featured Story, Political Mercury
King raises ‘Red Dawn’ specter of tyranny in America
The urgency in Congressman Steve King’s words sent me searching for a 1984 movie I hadn’t seen since, well, 1984 — on VHS. If what the Kiron Republican insisted in [...]
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