Because “balance” is still the priority of cable news and our nation’s punditocracy, any mention of President Bush’s low approval numbers has to be accompanied by the claim that Congeress’s approval numbers are even lower.  I watch cable news all day for my job, and I hear it every day.
Somebody needs to call shenanigans.  Polling [...]

The haircut story once again rears its ugly (but really quite pretty) head in Iowa yet again — this time at an Edwards event in Ft. Dodge.  When will the story go away?
A woman first asked him if he would consider living on the “food stamp diet’ a few members of Congress are trying. He [...]

Today the Clinton campaign in Iowa announced a list of 14 endorsements from state legislators. Among them is State Senator Dennis Black, who lives outside Grinnell and represents the district that includes the city (and Speedway) of Newton.
Just three weeks ago, before my very eyes, Black seemed to endorse Edwards. No, not explicitly [...]

When Register columnist Ken Fuson wrote in 2005, “Perhaps you have not heard of blogs. The name derives from a combination of ‘blather’ and ‘logorrhea’,” he probably did not expect his fair paper to have dozens of bloggers spewing their thoughts through the series of tubes we have constructed while sitting in our underwear watching [...]

So ICE decided that today was a nice day to stop by Swift’s Marshalltown meatpacking plant for a checkup, and they arrested a few folks who missed the first ICE bus back in December.
Ted Sporer credits Matt Whitaker, US Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa, with this success:
Today’s actions, which involve the indictment of [...]

Today’s breaking news story was a real humdinger out of Plymouth County in Northwest Iowa.  The epicenter of it all is the metropolis of Le Mars, Plymouth County seat, as John McCain announced that nine people in that fair city (and FOUR MORE movers and shakers in greater Plymouth County) are now signing on to [...]

No one is willing to say it, because it is hard to believe, but the media built John McCain up starting around 1999, and now they are tearing him down.
It’s a Nietzschean twilight of the idol who was once the GOP front-runner, and you don’t have to be a nihilist — or even an atheist [...]

On a press call today, John Edwards announced bold and strikingly intelligent proposals with the stated goal of food safety. Iowa Independent’s resident agriculturalist, Dien Judge, was on the call.
In a conference call with reporters Tuesday, Edwards called for all authority for federal food safety inspection to be shifted to the Food and [...]

An issue I’ve been doing some thinking about in my position at Iowa Independent has to do with the Republican Party of Iowa’s Ames Straw Poll. It is the RPI’s biggest fund raiser every campaign cycle, and it only raises money because of all the media it gets. Campaigns pay a ton of [...]

The Goracle may not have a smaller carbon footprint than me, but that doesn’t make him a hypocrite.  Iowa Voice, tree-hugging conservationists that they are, have expressed quite a bit of concern for the environmental damage that Live Earth caused.  From yesterday:
1,000 tons of garbage generated…
100,000 trees need to be planted to offset the carbon [...]