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Weekend in Iowa–McDonald’s

by Tom Bullington • July 4, 2012 • 0 Comments

Fine dining in Story City! On the road with my mom in Iowa for the weekend. West Des Moines, here we come! –Tom Bullington, National Affairs Correspondent Political analysis–from a car! Campaign in a Car is a discussion of current events, the 2012 presidential election–and analysis of the Republicans, Democrats, and Independent candidates. We feature other issues…

by Shane Lindemoen • January 20, 2012 • 0 Comments

“There is all the difference in the world between the criminal’s avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will.” -Hannah Arendt “The First Amendment is…

by John T. Schmitz • December 31, 2011 • 0 Comments

In my column on 12-16-2011, I reported that I had finally gotten sick and tired of putting up with Wells Fargo and that I was closing my account and moving my money to a local credit union. Well … today I finally did. I encourage all of my readers to go to the Move Your…

by John T. Schmitz • December 30, 2011 • 0 Comments

There are a lot of weird stories in the news today. Sometimes, I guess, things are like that. For instance, a 99-year-old man is divorcing his 96-year-old wife of 77 years because he just discovered that she had an affair in the 1940s; a man in China spent $16,000 on a virtual sword for a…

by John T. Schmitz • December 6, 2011 • 0 Comments

Thousands of people are converging on our nation’s Capitol; those who can’t make it all the way to Washington D.C. are showing up at the doors of their representatives’ local offices for discussions and sit-ins. “We came to tell members of Congress that they should represent the 99 percent not just corporations and the 1…

by John T. Schmitz • November 3, 2011 • 0 Comments

First of all, I’d like to apologize for neglecting my column for the last week. I’d like to think that there are plenty of people out there who have missed me; whether or not that’s true remains to be seen. As I said on October 29, this site is undergoing a transformation of sorts. This…

by John T. Schmitz • October 21, 2011 • 0 Comments

Herman Cain has adjusted his 9-9-9 plan so it would be slightly more palatable to … well … to anyone. Republicans and Democrats alike have called it ludicrous ever since he stole the ill-conceived proposal from a video game; in fact, the only people who thought that it was a good idea were those too…

by John T. Schmitz • September 27, 2011 • 2 Comments

Michele Bachmann doesn’t give a shit that she finished last in the Florida Straw Poll; in fact, she says that the only reason things worked out like they did is because she let her supporters vote for someone else. She actually said that. “We told all of our supporters in Florida that they were free…

by John T. Schmitz • September 20, 2011 • 0 Comments

I finally ordered an electronic cigarette kit from http://www.v2cigs.com/ last night. Hopefully, I’ll be able to use it to replace my chewing tobacco before I develop big holes in my face. The thing has already shipped, so I expect it to arrive within the next couple of days. As soon as it does, I’ll post…

by John T. Schmitz • September 12, 2011 • 0 Comments

I wrote the following column yesterday; by the time I finished it, I was swollen like a toad from too much beer and food, leaving me too lazy to bother publishing it. Better late than never, right? As for today … well … it’s Monday. What else can I say? *** Without a doubt, the…

by John T. Schmitz • September 10, 2011 • 2 Comments

I viewed a pre-screening of the new movie, Contagion, last night in Edina, Minnesota. Despite starring Matt Damon and Kate Winslet, it was pretty good. There aren’t many films released nowadays that are even tolerable, but this one was. I wouldn’t recommend wasting your time seeing it in theatres, but it is worth adding to…

by John T. Schmitz • September 2, 2011 • 0 Comments

I watched Collapse yesterday, a film by Michael C. Ruppert—it was spectacularly informing and I’d like to thank Brent Kyle, who turned me onto it. I posted a link to the film on-line; unfortunately, it was broken. I ended up watching the thing on Netflix’s instant player, but if you’re not a subscriber I’m sure…

by John T. Schmitz • August 19, 2011 • 0 Comments

I have almost finished reading The Great Derangement by Matt Taibbi; it’s good, but not quite as enlightening as Griftopia was. The narrative deals with two seemingly unrelated topics: Christian fundamentalists in the deep south and the 9/11 Truth Movement, which is a group of people with wild theories as to what really happened on…

by John T. Schmitz • August 16, 2011 • 0 Comments

What a weekend; it may have been the first really good weekend that I’ve had this whole miserable summer, which mercifully is drawing to a close. It’s raining outside, my Internet connection is spotty at best, but I have my memories. I haven’t posted anything in a few days because my wife and I took…

by John T. Schmitz • August 13, 2011 • 2 Comments

Iowa is practically bursting with news today. The GOP debate was held last night, with all of the major Republican players attending. Sarah Palin was in Iowa, too—but she is still not a candidate and never will be. She wandered around the Iowa State Fair in a daze for about ninety minutes, telling anyone who…

by John T. Schmitz • August 11, 2011 • 0 Comments

Today is a big day in politics—the Republican hopefuls are debating in Iowa, and I can’t wait to see what they come up with. The so-called “front-runner,” Mitt Romney, has been having all kinds of problems. For one thing, he was heckled mercilessly at the Iowa State Fair today, which reminds me a lot of…

by John T. Schmitz • August 10, 2011 • 0 Comments

The Democrats in Wisconsin got stomped yesterday, only winning two out of six Senate seats that were up for recall—and two of their own seats will be up for recall next week. They only needed three to regain the majority; after next week, it’s conceivable that they will be worse off than when they started.…

by John T. Schmitz • June 25, 2011 • 0 Comments

To me, it doesn’t sound all that amazing, but it is. Governor Mark Dayton has announced that he plans to attend the annual gay and lesbian pride parade in Minneapolis on Sunday—he is the first governor of Minnesota to do so. And why shouldn’t he? He is showing that he supports equal rights for all…