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Duane Eddy, the twangy, Grammy-winning rock guitarist who had Top 10 instrumental hits including “Rebel Rouser” and “Forty Miles of Bad Road” and scored with a version of Henry Mancini’s “Peter Gunn,” died Wednesday of cancer at a hospital in Franklin, TN, his wife Deed Abbate told The Associated Press. He had turned 86 last week. Eddy, who influenced generations of guitar legends including George Harrison, John Fogerty, Bruce Springsteen, Ritchie Blackmore, Mark Knopfler and The Ventures’ Don Wilson, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. Born on April 26, 1938, in Corning, NY, Eddy...

Pombo: Noon It's bedlam at the Tracy soccer field where Pombo stops to watch Rená, his 13-year-old daughter. Nine games are under way simultaneously on a massive expanse of grass that Pombo helped, as a Tracy councilman, convert from a flood basin into fields. Annette Pombo, his wife, is team mom and missing the game is not an option no matter how close the election. And except for two journalists and an aide looking on, the campaign fades into the background for the next hour. Between plays, Pombo, like any parent, loves to talk about his children. Rená, pronounced Renee,...

cartoon by FReeper IPWGOP (aka Linda Eddy)courtesy of www.iowapresidentialwatch.com

  click here for really large version This is an email-able, copyright-ready graphic you can use in emails, on blogs, in flyers, on posters... anything that's noncommercial.

The voter turn-out in Iraq has stunned the world!   click here for really large version This is an email-able, copyright-ready graphic you can use in emails, on blogs, in flyers, on posters... anything that's noncommercial.

January 30, 2005Failed presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry whines about the Iraqi Vote on "Meet The Press"...   click here for really large version This is an email-able, copyright-ready graphic you can use in emails, on blogs, in flyers, on posters... anything that's noncommercial.

Dec. 22, 2004Merry Christmas from IPWHere are a few of the political faces of 2004...   This is an email-able, copyright-ready graphic you can use in emails, on blogs, in flyers, on posters... anything that's noncommercial.

Minneapolis Star Tribune censors IPW cartoonist IowaPresidentialWatch.com’s political cartoonist, Linda Eddy, has been censored by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Eddy distributes her cartoons by email and regularly sends them to the Tribune. Her latest, showing John Kerry during his 1971 Senate testimony, is titled “Silencing Veterans since 1971” and shows an American soldier in Kerry’s hand, his head covered. Tribune Deputy Editorial Page Editor B. James Boyd responded to Eddy’s latest cartoon by banning any future editorials from the artist: “Please take me off your e-mail list. Your latest statements about Kerry are too much. He said no such...

--> IowaPresidentialWatch.com political artist Linda Eddy (IPWGOP) has been selected to exhibit 6 of her works in the upcoming national art exhibit, "Democracy in America" at the University of Arizona Art Museum, Aug. 31 - Nov. 19.She'll be going 'head-to-head' with 2-time Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Szep of the Boston Globe... and 'rubbing artwork shoulders' with works by world-renownRoy Lichtenstein and Norman Rockwell! click here for details 

Dubya and Condi are quite the dynamic duo, IMHO

print this one out and nail it to every tree in America... this guy voted over 350 times to raise our taxes! He's hoodwinked America!! And his campaign promises add up to even more taxes... ARGGGHH!!!special thanks to RightOnTheLeftCoast

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here's a list of weapons systems Kerry has opposed over the years: the B-1 bomber, the B-2, the F-15, the F-14A, the F-14D, the AH-64 Apache helicopter, the AV-8B Harrier jet, the Patriot missile, the Aegis air-defense cruiser, the Trident missile Kerry sought to reduce procurement of the following: the M1 Abrams tank,the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, the Tomahawk cruise missile, the F-16 jet

Happy St. Patick's Day to you wonderful Freepers!!

Mar. 16, 2004: IowaPresidentialWatch.com speculates on who Joe Trippi's been advising since his departure from Howard "I have a Scream" Dean's campaign.