Full disclosure needed
If only the commercials for politicians had to follow the same side effect disclosure rules of pharmaceutical commercials. Instead of “Viagra: It will help men get and keep an erection…” [...]
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Posted August 26, 2015in Your View
Posted August 19, 2015in Your View
The process of poo
Last week’s Locker Room segment (Pitching petrified poo, Aug. 13) quotes Regina Pirtle, Iowa State Fair superintendent of activities at Pioneer Hall, as saying, “don’t worry, these chips have been [...]
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Posted August 12, 2015in Your View
Trump is a rabbit in a track meet
Des Moines Register writer Deb McMahon has harshly (again, as per usual) hammered a conservative in a newspaper. This time it’s The Donald, referring to him, among other things, as [...]
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Posted August 05, 2015in Your View
Pathetic attempts to gain notice
The new Republican candidate strategy is to become even more obnoxious than Donald Trump in order to get media attention. The most savage comments to date came from Gov. Mike [...]
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Posted July 29, 2015in Your View
Obama’s wins have Republicans trembling in confusion
The landmark nuclear agreement with Iran is the latest and perhaps one of the most significant wins by President Obama. He is proving political strategists wrong and rewriting the history [...]
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Posted July 22, 2015in Your View
Smith on Smith
Is anyone else as exasperated as I am with Rick Smith? I highly doubt it in this alternative universe we are currently living in. His take on Iraq is the [...]
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Posted July 15, 2015in Your View
Promises, promises
Civic Skinny keeps readers updated on the “progress” of Gov. Terry Branstad’s promise to create an environment in Iowa that will spawn 200,000 new jobs by 2016. Currently he is [...]
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Posted July 08, 2015in Your View
Dem disappointed in Jindal
OK. So what is a liberal Democrat doing at the rally for Bobby Jindal in Waukee on June 30? I want to see all of the 15-plus candidates in the [...]
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Posted July 01, 2015in Your View
Trump distinguishes himself
We live in a time of stunning transformations. In recent weeks, we’ve seen Bruce Jenner transition from a male Olympic medalist to Caitlyn Jenner, a self-assured woman gracing the cover [...]
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Posted June 24, 2015in Your View
Three rights do make a left
Michael Gartner’s reprinted 2006 tribute to his father (Civic Skinny, June 18) remains timeless and interesting. It got me thinking. While all of us are great-grandsons to someone the second we [...]
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