Will potential political nominees disappear into the cornfields like the ball players in the movie? Pardon the heresy and excuse the rant, but after the 2018 legislative session, it’s understandable and defensible to [...]
Read More →Antidotes to Trump (and Reynolds) If you seek respite from the madness and despair inflicted by Donald Trump, you’re fortunate to have two “safe houses” within a few hours of Des [...]
Read More →Reason to worry about Iowa’s desertion of longtime values and principles Given the course of the Iowa legislature and the damage it has done to public education and the question [...]
Read More →It’s puzzling that no one has drawn the obvious links between the sinister Grigori Rasputin and his efforts a century ago to save Russian czar-to-be Alexei Romanov and today’s sinister [...]
Read More →Or unhinged and unfit for office? This is the last Donald Trump item this column or CITVYIEW will publish. If you believe that, then you likely agree with Trump’s characterization [...]
Read More →Last January, many of us feared the New Year, what with a person routinely referred to as a liar, sexual predator, egomaniac and worse about to be inaugurated as the [...]
Read More →We have surpluses of grinches and gloom this holiday season, so our stocking stuffers include lumps of coal along with the joys, people and events we rightly cherish. Consider: In the holiday [...]
Read More →Among people to be thankful for this Thanksgiving are Viola Liuzzo, Alberta Jones and Peter Norman. Their lives and deaths testify to the importance and the risks of protests — [...]
Read More →Here are scary stories to tide you over until neighborhood urchins with Halloween riddles visit you at month’s end. 1. The fate of the world may rest in the hands of Donald Trump, [...]
Read More →The nonsense about Fake News is, well, nonsense, hyped by a person characterized by Garrison Keillor as “a vulgar, unstable yo-yo with a toxic ego and an attention-deficit problem…” So [...]
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