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Posted February 11, 2015in Guest Commentary

Mirror, oh mirror, upon the wall, who is the government, after all?

Some people can’t take a joke.  Like me, for instance — even when the joke is about a faceless government or government agency. And that’s a timely topic now, as [...]

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Posted February 04, 2015in Guest Commentary

A ‘dirty’ deal on those burdensome regulations

By Randy Evans You hear a lot of politicians talking these days about burdensome government regulations. Gov. Terry Branstad is one of them. But a proposed regulation moving through state [...]

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Posted January 21, 2015in Guest Commentary

Straw Poll kept alive by money, press and religious right

Brace yourself: The Iowa Straw Poll, endorsed by the State GOP, will return this summer in its role as a quadrennial horror story. Given how the maligned Poll was brought [...]

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Posted January 14, 2015in Guest Commentary

It’s the fear — not the proof — that’s in the pudding!

In time we’ll likely enjoy the orange pudding, a Christmas gift from one of our daughters. Or maybe, we can have it bronzed as a reminder of the terror-filled age [...]

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Posted May 07, 2014in Guest Commentary

A bad kind of rare

Brain cancer is rare. According to the American Cancer Society, about 1.4 percent of all new primary cases of cancer found annually in the United States are of the brain [...]

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Posted May 15, 2013in Guest Commentary

Ignoring reality: guns in America

Those liberals always seem to be spreading confusion and misinformation about guns. Wayne LaPierre isn’t the only one getting tired of it. All this business about changing laws is ridiculous when criminals [...]

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Posted April 03, 2013in Guest Commentary

Branstad still up to his same old, dirty politics

When my wife and I are among our elderly friends and I begin to tell a story, she often tells me: “You’ve already told them that one.” I agree but [...]

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