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I love Iowa pork, but I hate Washington pork. At a time when our country is fighting so hard to …
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I love Iowa pork, but I hate Washington pork. At a time when our country is fighting so hard to …
Self delusion is an amazing thing to behold! Three examples … 1. President Biden said his Afghanistan exit was an …
Gaza is a small sliver of land between Israel and the Mediterranean Sea, with a tiny slice of land bordering …
Just as we know it won’t be long before Iowa weather changes, we can always count on it not being …
The images of Sept. 11, 2001 are etched in our minds. But we need to be more concerned with what …
A recent letter criticized the appearance of front yards of a number of homes in Cedar Rapids. I plead guilty! …
Pints & Politics
A lighthearted look at Iowa political news from The Gazette's opinion desk.
During the 2020 primary with the late Bobby Schilling, Mariannette Miller-Meeks was heartless. She took an extremist right turn away …
Last week, as my granddaughters returned to school with no guarantee that their classmates will be responsibly masked, I thought …
Andrew Boettger, the chair of the Iowa Board of Parole, has set a goal of reducing the prison population by …
President Joe Biden made the right choice. After 20 years, the war in Afghanistan, the longest war in American history, …
How different nationalities respond to screw-ups. The British resign in disgrace. But Americans spin it to pad their resume’s. It’s …
When a person repeats something, she may be trying to convince herself that she believes what she’s saying. Gov. Kim …
It must drive Gov. Kim Reynolds and the Legislature crazy that the mainstream media refuses to highlight their efforts to …
I have no original thoughts, no ideas about Afghanistan. I have only profound ambivalence about how much we accomplished with …
