Senator Rand Paul Shows His True Colors

By Craig Robinson U.S. Senator Rand Paul turned heads after he returned from Israel in January.  Senator Paul seemed to break from his father’s anti-interventionist position when he said, “any attack on Israel will be treated as an attack on the United States.” Most political pundits viewed the Senator’s trip and the comments that followed [...]

In Support of Israel’s Self Defense

Statement from the Jewish Community Relations Commission of the Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines After repeated warnings to Hamas and its allied terrorist organizations in Gaza that additional rocket attacks on Israeli citizens would no longer be met by half measures, Israel today began a military operation to stop the rocket attacks and to [...]

Catching Up After a Little R&R

I spent most of last week on a camping trip with some family members.  We didn’t leave the state, but I was without cell coverage for most of the week.  Needless to say, I have not been following politics all that closely, and I’m just not getting to all the emails that piled up during [...]