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I am writing in response to the article in the Iowa Standard where it mentions that Speaker Pat Grassley “expects only redistricting to be done during the special session”. Together with many Iowans, I am left with questions and grave concerns. Blanket policies and cookie-cutter health mandates are sweeping the state without concern for our individual bodily autonomy or beliefs. As a member of leadership and Speaker of the house, Pat Grassley, has turned a blind eye to the needs of the people he was elected to represent. As thousands of Iowans are concerned about retaining their jobs (many of...

The rejection by the Iowa State Senate of the first redistricting map submitted by the LSA means that there will be no need for a vote on the plan by the Iowa House of Representatives, where Speaker of the House Pat Grassley, grandson of Chuck Grassley, had come under criticism from Republicans for his unwillingness to publicly reject the first LSA map, as Breitbart News reported Saturday: Speaker of the Iowa House of Representatives Pat Grassley has not yet indicated whether he will support or oppose a redistricting plan submitted by the state’s Legislative Services Agency (LSA) that is favorable...

Since leaving Afghanistan, everyone who was on the gates has their own stories about the horrors they saw. American soldiers and Marines were placed under very strict orders not to interfere with anything that happened outside of the gates. Every inch of the city, right up to the walls, was controlled by the Taliban. The Taliban set up checkpoints on the roads leading to the airport, tightly controlling the movement of people and vehicles to and from the vicinity. We heard reports of all sorts of atrocities committed by the Taliban. I listened to reports about sniper teams observing the...

“A bleak anniversary: Mao the mass murder.” – New York Times So, it is pretty widely accepted that Chairman Mao was a mass murderer. Most Americans, and probably 97 percent of Iowans, would be hesitant to honor Mao Zedong in any sort of way. But then there’s that pesky three percent that none of us can ever really understand. Enter Democrat Andrea Phillips who is running for Iowa House District 37. Late last week it surfaced that Phillips had a statue of Chairman Mao in her home through this Instagram post

Increasing urban diversity in Southern states is complicating Republican efforts to keep the reins of statehouse power and chip away at Democratic control of Congress. Of the 65 counties that turned majority minority since 2010, meaning more than half the population is made up of people of color, over two-thirds are in the South, a Stateline analysis of new census data shows. Thirty-five of those counties voted Republican in the 2020 presidential election, down from 39 in 2012. The four that flipped are Tarrant County, Texas (which includes Fort Worth); Duval County, Florida (which includes Jacksonville); and two counties in...

Now that Dane County Sheriff Kalvin Barrett has proclaimed that jail inmates will be called “residents” from here on out, so as not to stigmatize and dehumanize them, we have a few humble renaming suggestions for him to consider. After all, why stop there? As Rep. Sheila Stubbs said, it’s “critical that we recognize people as decent people and as citizens.” Even people accused of heinous things like battery and sexual assault, apparently. And even those who aren’t, you know, actually citizens.

Russia’s shadow is extending over Afghanistan’s end-game as Moscow fortifies positions in neighboring Central Asian countries to guard against any destabilizing spill-over. While Russia has declared it views the Taliban as a “responsible people”, it’s not taking any strategic chances as Islamic terror and militant groups previously in the shadows rise to the fore amid the new civil war. At the forefront of Russia’s concern is the Islamic State Khorasan (IS-K), the transnational extremist jihadi group’s Afghanistan-based offshoot with links to his mother ISIL organization in the Middle East. While China seeks to drive a wedge between the Taliban and...

Ed Buck, another Clinton, Obama, and Biden friend and Democratic donor is found guilty on nine felony counts. This may lead to a life sentence for Ed Buck. Imagine, another associate of the Trifecta Crime Families caught red-handed. Get ready – they either suspiciously commit suicide, are killed like Seth Rich, or they go to prison. Adam Schiff, who is head of the Senate Intelligent Committee has connections to Ed Buck that seems to parallel the involvement of gay men for sex and drugs.

Compilation of Mark Dice asking people to support what should be outrageous ideas, and it's depressing that people actually agree with them. As he says, he tried to warn us. Heaven help us.

THE DISCOURSE OF VOLUNTARY SERVITUDE is lucidly and coherently structured around a single axiom, a single percipient insight into the nature not only of tyranny, but implicitly of the State apparatus itself. Many medieval writers had attacked tyranny, but La Boétie delves especially deeply into its nature, and into the nature of State rule itself. This fundamental insight was that every tyranny must necessarily be grounded upon general popular acceptance. In short, the bulk of the people themselves, for whatever reason, acquiesce in their own subjection. If this were not the case, no tyranny, indeed no governmental rule, could long...

All five GOP members of Iowa’s congressional delegation voted to certify President Joe Biden’s election on Jan. 6. They actually made history and Iowa unique that day. Only two states have multiple Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives with none voting to object — Iowa and Washington. Washington, of course, doesn’t have any GOP senators, whereas Grassley and Ernst are both Republicans. This means Iowa is the only state in the entire country with multiple Republicans in the U.S. House and U.S. Senate to not have one single congressional representative object to the 2020 Presidential Election. Carlin is actually...

A University of Miami football player was arrested after police say he beat up his pregnant ex-girlfriend during an argument over his new relationship. Avantae Williams, a sophomore safety for the Miami Hurricanes, was arrested Wednesday night and charged with one count of aggravated battery on a pregnant woman. His bond was set at $10,000. The police report states that the two had gotten into an argument over Williams 'being involved with another woman' prior to Williams leaving for football practice. 'When I return from practice you need to be gone,' Williams allegedly told the woman, who is currently 31-weeks...

Dr. Turley discusses Simone Biles and the other woke members of the US women's gymnastics team. He also goes on to discuss why patriotism is important and why being woke leads to losing.

Video at link Jericho Green hits the nail on the head again. This guy is really smart.. except I have no idea why he stays in CA. Only thing, I wish he would clean up his language.

Young North Koreans have been warned they must follow traditional lifestyles and adhere to the country's dialect. The secluded state's official newspaper made the demand in a column as Pyongyang tries to eradicate cultural influences from South Korea. Kim Jong Un's regime is particularly focused on the speaking habits of millennials, with some mimicking their neighbours by referring to their husbands as "oppa" - a term that means "older brother". The Rodong Sinmun newspaper said North Korea's standard language is superior and young people must use it correctly - all while ensuring their clothes, hairstyle, music preferences and dancing styles...

The FDA perspective If you need to get up to speed on the controversy, look here. The approval was based on three studies. 197 patients in a double-blind cohort study looking at increasing doses of aducanumab (Aduhlem). There was a dose-related improvement in both patients’ clinical improvement and reduction in visible Aβplaque (the anatomic biomarker of Alzheimer’s Disease found within the brain). These findings were statistically significant only at the highest dose, 10mg/kg monthly. Two Phase III studies, involving roughly 1650 patients each, both double-blind, placebo-controlled. The first of these showed the same clinical improvement as the previous smaller study...

She liked to mimic her grandmother, so a week ago, Nyiah Courtney got her hair braided. “We twins now,” the smiling 6-year-old told Andrea Courtney. It was one of the last times the two talked. Nyiah was fatally shot Friday night while walking to her nearby home with her mother, father and older sister in the Congress Heights neighborhood of Southeast Washington. Police said the shots came from a gray, four-door sedan passing the commercial corner of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X avenues, striking Nyiah, her mother and four others, among the latest victims in a city struggling...

Three people have been shot outside of a barbershop following an argument between two men in their 40’s allegedly over who came first in a foot race over a month ago. The incident occurred at approximately 3 p.m. on Saturday, July 10, in northeast Houston when the Houston Police Department received a call regarding a shooting involving several victims outside the Mean Kutz barbershop, according to ABC News' Houston station KTRK.

Former President George W. Bush is pitching in to help President Biden celebrate the military's sudden victory in Afghanistan, breaking out his famous 'Mission Accomplished" banner from 18 years ago. "Lookie here what I still had in the attic!" exclaimed an elated President Bush as he dusted off his trusty banner. "Laura said I'd never find it in this mess, but she misunderestimated me once again. They said we couldn't beat Afghanistan, but boy howdy our boys finally showed them evildoers who's boss!" President Biden was reportedly very touched by the kind gesture. He broached the idea of attempting to...

Mark Steyn mocks Hunter's "valuable" art works. This is the funniest thing you will see all week!