Wednesday was a difficult day for The American Independent News Network, which is the larger entity that operates The Iowa Independent. Our chief executive and founder announced two of our sister sites would close and their content would be moved to The American Independent.
A recently introduced bill could have far-reaching impact on the U.S. sugar industry, including American Crystal Sugar, a farmer-owned cooperative that locked out 1,300 Midwest workers on Aug. 1.
The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection Agency says are false.
The Iowa Senate will remain under the control of a slim 26-25 Democratic majority when it reconvenes in January 2012.
Add U.S. Rep. Tom Petri, R-Wis., to the roster of Republicans hedging a bit on whether the party can repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Petri said Republicans don’t have to repeal the health care plan. They could effectively quash it by refusing to fund the initiatives as each one comes before Congress [...]
Yes, this is still happening. Take it away, Lt. Col. Terry Lakin: For the first time in all my years of service to our great nation, and at great peril to my career and future, I am choosing to disobey what I believe are illegal orders, including an order to deploy to Afghanistan for my [...]
Beneath the headlines, press releases, petitions and donation drives that followed Sunday’s historic vote in the U.S. House, lawyers and legislators in opposition to health care reform legislation are less confident that it can be repealed — much less that it can be repealed quickly.
The American Center for Law and Justice is the first conservative legal group (that I’ve seen, at least) to pivot to a full-out repeal campaign.
“Right now, they’re civil, because they think they have a chance of stopping this bill. The reason we don’t have violence in this country like they do in dictatorships is because we have votes, and our leaders listen to their constituents. Now we’re in a situation where the leaders are defying the people!” said U.S Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa.
U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, has recorded a promotional video for the “Take the Town Halls to DC” campaign, promising activists some more results for this bout of lobbying. “These members of Congress cannot reject you if you come here and look them in eye,” says King.
Medicine Hat News, a a daily newspaper published in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada, reports on a speech potential 2012 candidate and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin gave in Calgary, where a folksy monologue took a shocking turn — an admission about how her family received health care.
Skepticism about man-made climate change — once seen as a fairly fringe belief, now a pretty big topic of political debate — is increasingly the norm among Republican voters. A December 2009 Ipsos/McClatchy poll found only 57 percent of GOP voters saying climate change was happening at all, and a 42 percent minority chalking it [...]
After being outmatched by John McCain on national security in the 2008 presidential primary, Mitt Romney hopes to capitalize on the issue in 2012.
What Democrats saw as an opportunity to turn American opinion against Republican obstructionism in the Senate became an opportunity for conservatives to endorse a slowdown of Senate business.
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