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 totally opposite opinion in regard to confirmations during the final year of a president’s term. Here’s Grassley’s statement in 2008,
Read More →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 before the South Carolina primary, Clinton has 394 delegates and super delegates to Sanders’ 42. WHAT??? That’s right, according to
Read More →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 to make the caucuses successful, thank you very much. The unexpected large turnout of those who were not registered Democrats
Read More →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 prose.” Bernie Sanders has become the candidate speaking in a poetry that inspires people to believe the impossible is achievable.
Read More →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 King’s assurances that Cruz was for leveling the playing field for ethanol and oil by reducing or eliminating subsidies to
Read More →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 future. The most recent example was evident in regard to President Obama’s executive orders on guns. Several Republican candidates exhibited
Read More →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 funding for the current fiscal year. He mentioned being “particularly “ surprised by the “no” vote by first-term Young even though
Read More →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 have a bus just for special needs kids, just like most school districts do not have special needs classes. Any
Read More →The Republicans, led by President Bush, whipped Americans into a frenzy of fear following 9/11, leading to a disastrous ground war in Iraq. Many Americans were fooled into war by the use of the manufactured evidence of weapons of mass destruction. Bush’s Iraq War opened a cancerous wound that has
Read More →On Oct. 29, a 15-year-old special needs student (occasional seizures) in the Johnston School District, Christian Suarez, boarded a bus intended for regular students. He assaulted the bus driver both verbally and physically. The school administration has never explained why this student was not on a bus intended for special
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