Shoe pinches on the other foot
Marco Rubio reportedly said that conservatives cannot be hijacked by someone who is not a conservative. That’s really rather rich for a Republican to say considering that the best recent [...]
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Posted March 09, 2016in Your View
Posted March 02, 2016in Your View
Grassley obstructs
Every citizen in the country is fed up with the gridlock in Washington, D.C. That idea is supported by the success of the non-traditional candidates this year. Sen. Charles Grassley [...]
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Posted February 24, 2016in Your View
Grassley betrays his loyalty to the Constitution
Sen. Charles Grassley now claims that President Obama shouldn’t have a hearing on his Supreme Court nominee in the final year of his presidency. Eight years ago, Grassley expressed a [...]
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Posted February 17, 2016in Your View
Business as usual
The Iowa Democratic Caucus ended with a razor-thin margin between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. Bernie wins in New Hampshire in a landslide over Hillary. Yet, as of Feb. 11 [...]
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Posted February 10, 2016in Your View
Caucus confusion
Countless volunteer hours were spent locating caucus sites and calling registered voters to find volunteers to work at the Feb. 1 caucus. If you were one of those who worked [...]
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Posted February 03, 2016in Your View
Poetry or prose?
Hillary Clinton repeated a quote in the Saturday night forum at Drake that best describes the choice Iowa voters made. The quote was, “You campaign in poetry and govern in [...]
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Posted January 27, 2016in Your View
Is Burns for Cruz or against him?
Alas, I’ve recycled my old copies of Cityview. Otherwise I could look up a previous Political Mercury wherein I believe Douglas Burns backed Sen. Ted Cruz, based on Rep. Steve [...]
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Posted January 20, 2016in Your View
Republican candidates are fortune tellers
The Republican presidential candidates have a very important qualification that the news media has failed to report correctly. Many of those candidates have demonstrated the remarkable ability to predict the [...]
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Posted January 13, 2016in Your View
Votes shouldn’t have been a surprise
Civic Skinny seemed surprised by the “no” votes by Congressmen David Young and Steve King as well as Senators Charles Grassley and Joni Ernst to the $1.1 trillion in government [...]
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Posted January 06, 2016in Your View
Answers to the questions
I read the article of the cover-up in Johnston schools (Letters, Dec. 24). The reason the special needs kid was on a regular bus is because most school districts do not [...]
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