Last week, 41 Iowa Republicans led by Dawn Pettengill, R-Mount Auburn, signed a petition delivered to the Iowa Department of Human Services. The petition demands that Human Services change its rules on...

So I decided I wanted to run for the Office of Being Mitt Romney. I'm not all that talented or smart, so it seemed like the perfect choice. It would be so much fun to be the Office of Being Mitt Romney....

Mitt Romney wants to improve his troubled standing among Latino voters while saying as little as possible about immigration. Events keep working against him. The Supreme Court's ruling Monday on Arizona's...

If any of you were alive in the past week (and by alive, I mean watched television) then you know about the bus monitor — the one in upstate New York who took a verbal beating from a school bus full...

Just how much should we worry about privacy? Nearly daily incidents demand that we as a society redraw the line between our private lives and our public personas. The "public" is that part of...

Eight of the 30 U.S. Agriculture Department secretaries have ties to Iowa. Three former Agriculture secretaries were born in Iowa, including Mike Johanns (Osage), Henry A. Wallace (near Orient), and Edwin...

On June 15, President Obama used his executive privilege to unilaterally alter the immigration policy. His opponents were furious. They argue that this president has too much power and is therefore bad...

Whether it's deserving or not, the president tends to take the majority of the heat for the nation's poor economy. Many Americans think that the president's policies have a greater effect on our economy...

Americans have never had reliable protection against the ignorance of the Supreme Court. During the past 80 years, Supreme Court justices have routinely rubber-stamped government policies that they grossly...

Yes With all the talks of budget cuts, tuition hikes, and layoffs in recent years, it's clear the University of Iowa could use some more money — to put it simply. As a way to generate more revenue in...

Last week, a bus full of nuns came through Iowa and stopped in front of the office of Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa. The nuns came to publicly protest the Republican House budget because they think it will cause...

President Obama's recent announcement that the federal government will no longer seek to deport the children of illegal immigrants has led to a deluge of discussion that has been equal parts bombastic,...