PRESS CONFERENCE: FREE SPEECH ON THE PED MALL Iowa City, IA – On June 1, 2010, Iowa City Council will be considering a third reading to red...

As the Iowa City Council will have one more vote on the extended panhandling ordinance tentatively on June 1st. Fair-minded people should as...

It appears from the conversations and so on that I've had with people who attended the Democratic and Republican Party district conventi...

Image via Wikipedia Dear President Obama, You promised change and you have begun to deliver on that promise. By signing the Health Care bill...

Where we have arrived as a nation is a disdain for the Government we have elected, appointed, and volunteered to be a part of. But really, i...

While out of state in Ohio this past weekend, I felt badly for missing Gov. Culver's visit to the Hamburg Inn for a chat with The People...

While glancing at the mirror the other day, I had the feeling that my hairline and the current state of American politics have a lot in comm...

In my years being involved in the political process, I believed that party membership had it's privileges. However today, I am convinced...

In an elegant show of reasoning and logic, President Barack Obama, with his security team in tow, spoke in front of 3400 West Point cadets ...

With the benefits for Iowa's unemployed expiring, the US Senate continues to quibble over who should qualify for an extension of benefit...

Because of increasing pressure from both the right and left, Congress is in the position of either a public option for health care reform, a...

I've been taking some time away from blogging because, let's face it, problems never really go away and everyone needs a chance to c...

It is hard not to praise Barack Obama for his press conference last night, particularly when you compare him to his immediate predecessor. T...

As the U.S. gears down in Iraq to shift resources to Afghanistan, on Good Friday, 20 year-old Corporal Jason Pautsch, a squadron leader f...

Thinking globally and acting locally has an important meaning as it applies to the water quality in Iowa . According to the U.S. Geological...

With the national unemployment rate reported at 8.3% and states like California, Oregon, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Michigan in th...

Government is necessary, really it is. Can you imagine what life would be like if people did whatever they liked, whenever they liked? Those...

After the Bush years of obfuscation, a unusually somber President Obama should receive high marks for relative candor and a high degree of c...

" America the Beautiful " has gotten a lot of airplay in the last couple of weeks with a dazzling Aretha Franklin singing it at P...