I wasn’t going to write a second column on the passing of Rush Limbaugh but given the reaction from hostile and snarky individuals — even from…
The man who picked me up at an airport too many years ago to recall the date asked if I had ever heard of a guy named Rush Limbaugh. When I sa…
U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst say Mariannette Miller-Meeks won her election.
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The battle for the majority in the Iowa House of Representatives is not being waged in Iowa alone.
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Mostly missing from the moving and deserved tributes to Sen. John McCain was attention to McCain's gift for self-deprecating humor. When a Gal…
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Is it any of Canada's business whether Saudi women have the right to drive?
WASHINGTON -- How do democratic countries get to the point where they give up on self-rule? Under what circumstances do demagogues capture lar…
CHICAGO -- Everything old eventually becomes new again, and the call to end birthright citizenship is no exception.
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Beginning his joint press conference with Vladimir Putin, President Trump declared that U.S. relations with Russia have "never been worse."
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Twice in the past week Iowa Democrats got to see their half-dozen candidates for governor debate on television.
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The White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner needs to go the way of the typewriter.
The Republican Party wants us to grade Donald Trump on a curve.
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DU QUOIN, Illinois -- Here, in one of the many small towns dotting the southernmost tip of Illinois, what can only be described as rural decay…
"I'll never lie to you."-- Jimmy Carter, the 1976 presidential campaign.
WASHINGTON -- As it turns out, Donald Trump is the hope-and-change president.
Without Virginia, we probably never would have become the United States.