POPULAR PROGRESSIVE - REDUX

What do you get when you mix
a Populist with a Progressive?

POPULAR PROGRESSIVE - REDUX

What do you get when you mix
a Populist with a Progressive?

Saturday, April 16

Hold These Untruths to Be Self-Evident

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As has been widely reported, Arizona Senator John Kyl was caught in a bald-faced lie about the amount of funding that goes toward abortion s...
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Monday, March 14

Hard Times in the Heartland of Plenty

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Wisconsin killed collective bargaining, Iowa, Indiana, and Ohio are lined up to try to do the same. Michigan is asserting state rights over ...
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Tuesday, March 1

The Way We War

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While parts of the world seem hell-bent on democratizing themselves, here in the land of the free and the home of the brave, we are marching...
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Friday, February 11

Michael Wright to Bow Out

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Iowa City Council member Michael Wright is not seeking to run for re-election when he completes his term which ends in January 2012. Citing ...
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Friday, February 4

Civility 101: Talking with Yale Cohn

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In case you are interested in what I do with my spare time, here is an example. Yale Cohn is a local media guy who has a talk show on the hi...
Wednesday, February 2

Heaven Frozen Over?

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Iowa has a real problem and it is not same-sex couples with marriage licenses. Iowa's problem is that it has a legislature that is willi...
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Tuesday, January 4

Semi-Popular Progressive

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Happy Belated New Year. After 4 years and a month of commenting on politics, progressive and otherwise, I am continuing my last year trend o...
Wednesday, December 22

The DADT Dipsydoodle

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I, like a lot of other people were captivated by the Don't Ask/Don't Tell debate that raged in Congress for most of the lame duck se...
Friday, December 10

So Long to the Resilient Elizabeth Edwards

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In 2008, while my wife was falling in love with Barack Obama and what she thought he represented, I was thinking about campaigning for John ...
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Tuesday, November 16

Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! In Search of Cooperative Creationism

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Who is responsible for job creation? According to the voters a couple of weeks back, the Republican Party, as they seated quite a few of the...
Monday, November 8

Smart START and DADT Distractions

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When Congress returns to Washington in the lameduck session, it is expected that the Democrat Senate majority will to try to push through th...
Wednesday, November 3

Mid-Term Elections: Aftermath Edition

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As expected, it was a good night to be a Republican candidate for state office, an incumbent running for re-election for Congress from Iowa,...
Monday, November 1

What I Think Will Happen in Iowa on Tuesday

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Prognostication is subject to a lot of skepticism, and rightly so, particularly if there are based on mostly conjecture and a little bit of ...
Sunday, October 31

A Crazy Thought: Sanity Should Prevail

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While watching Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity," I was struck by attention paid to the idea that many people are fed up...
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Monday, October 25

Early Voting Report

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If turnout at the local HyVee grocery store is any indicator, turnout for the mid-term election is going to be much higher than anticipated....
Thursday, October 21

Weighing in on a Local Issue: Yes to 21 or No to 19

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Several years ago I ran for the city council in Iowa City. At the time I did not support invoking a 21-only ordinance for being in a bar aft...

Waiting on the "Declaration" of Independents

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In July I got an email from the Democratic Party to complete a survey. They ask if I was a Democrat. I honestly had to reread the Iowa 2010 ...
Thursday, October 14

Something for the Rankin File

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Time magazine mentions Jeanette Pickering Rankin as a top ten political prodigy. My public school education failed to fill me in on the ama...
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Friday, October 8

United Oui Stand

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Attention all foreigners. You may not have been aware, but both major US political parties in our country are now blaming you for everything...
Tuesday, October 5

Fall Back Plan for the Future

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As some of you may have noted, the Popular Progressive blog has been quiet in the last few months. This was wholly unintentional, but it is ...
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