Politics
The wisdom of Joe Biden
By Tom Quiner No one expresses liberalism as well as our esteemed vice president, Joe Biden: “Now, people when I say that look at me and say, ‘What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?’ The answer is yes, that’s what I’m telling…
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Obama gives Planned Parenthood money to promote Obamacare
In a free marketplace, here is how insurance works:
Read MorePoliticians’ bait & switch tactics dramatized
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Read MoreCongressional loathing
Why do voters loathe Congress?
Polling consistently shows public disdain for Congress regardless of the party in power.
It seems to me Congress deserves much, but not all, of the scorn so many Americans heap on this hapless institution …
Read MoreThe telemed abortion debate rages in Iowa
“Human life begins at conception, and the fact that different stages are given different names does not mean that some stages are not human …”
Read MoreSeward’s folly
The year was 1867.
Russia’s biggest rival was England. Russia owned a huge chunk of land they called Russian America. It was land that would be difficult to defend in a war with England., whom they had already fought in the Crimean War. England had a base in British Columbia in close proximity to Russian America.
What should Russia do?
Read MoreDoctor says Quiner is full of it
An Iowa City doctor responded forcefully to my essay which appeared in the Des Moines Register last Friday.
Here is Dr. Robert Ashman’s letter which appeared in the morning’s Des Moines Register …
Read MoreWhat a heartless mob
Detractors to my recent essay in the Des Moines Register claim I “hate women” since I oppose webcam abortions:
“I’ve got to wonder at anyone who so hates females that he’d elevate the rights of a fetus over those of a woman.”
I oppose webcam abortions on the ground that they can hurt women, as it did to Holly Patterson, and kill her fetus, which compelling evidence reveals as being a human being. The “hate women” claim is nonsense, of course, and is trotted out by those who are unable to muster a more persuasive argument …
Read MoreThe poverty of the preborn
Joseph was conceived 40 days ago. His parents are worth one billion dollars. Nonetheless, he is poor.
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