For most of the last 24 hours, the Internet has been abuzz about White House communications boss Anthony Scaramucci's bizarre, curse-filled rant to The New Yorker. Well, it looks like that rant may have knocked...
Oh, holy hilarity.
We are smack dab in the middle of the political ad season, and we are being bombarded by TV spots from both parties. We are supposed to believe that the candidates are serious and...
Jon S. Petersen is the president and co-founder of World Ambassadors, Ltd., a group that offers Christian outreach to international students on college campuses. And he's also one hell of a horny guy.
Petersen recently entered a...
One of the most nauseating moments of the 2016 campaign cycle came when the religious right almost unanimously stood behind Donald Trump when the "Access Hollywood" tape came out. By all rights, hearing Trump caught...
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In recent years, those of us who cut our political teeth during the Clinton years have come to believe that there is a certain element in the Republican base who will not accept a Democratic...
With candidates zipping around the country at record paces to reach as wide an audience as possible, there is an assumption that the costs associated with these events in every town are fully covered. That assumption,...
Hope is fading that the Iowa Legislature can agree on funding statewide water quality programs in the final days before the 2016 session adjourns.
An Iowa Senate subcommittee approved a bill Thursday raising the state sales...
The Todd Becker Foundation (TBF) gave a lecture about drinking and driving to a public school last spring. They charged the school $1,500 for it.
Here's the kicker: the topic may have been secular, but the...
Planned Parenthood has helped thousands of women over the years. This year, Vice President Mike Pence made sure that the organization was defunded. He and his anti-choice cohorts have been trying to defund Planned Parenthood...
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is absolutely unfit to be president. He has alienated every group imaginable. He has tried to appeal to the religious right, though. Most recently, he cited a non-existent law to...
Wednesday evening, as scandal swirled all around him and his lies increased with every tweet, President Trump went to Iowa for one of his patented victory rallies, even though the election was over seven months ago....
We knew that anti-abortion activists were heartless, but not to this extent.
'Good Medicine'
Despite the fact that most abortions occur within the first trimester, lawmakers continue to try and impose 20-week bans. Rep. Shannon Lundgren (R-Iowa)...
You might not think that one member of the House of Representatives could single handedly demolish an entire state's industry, but the famously vile Steve King (R-IA) has managed it.
Congressman King has gained national notoriety...
The dust left from the disastrous Iowa Democratic presidential caucuses is all but settled with Vt. Sen. Bernie Sanders awarded equal pledged delegates as former South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg.
The controversy resulting from the...
The first primary event of the 2020 presidential cycle begins Monday with the Iowa caucus, and Vt. Sen. Bernie Sanders is dominating the field of contenders.
And Donald Trump is nervous.
He admitted as much at a...
Republicans love to tout "local control," "states' rights," and "smaller government."
You've heard the talking points:
"Let the states decide their own gun control laws."
"The federal government is not in the education business."
"It's not the government's job...
President Donald Trump is no stranger to naming bizarre picks to serve in his administration.
Betsy DeVos, his Secretary of Education, made a name for herself trying to destroy Michigan's public education system.
Scott Pruitt, his head...
It happened back in January 2016. We were still in the early days of the presidential campaign, before the first caucus had even taken place.
Candidate Donald Trump was holding a rally at the University of...
An Iowa man claims he’s so allergic to black people that he had to wear a surgical mask in order to punch them.
Andy Benavidez, 47, was arrested on Sunday in Iowa City, Iowa after allegedly telling police...
