By Craig Robinson Winners: Sarah Palin: Just when you start to think Palin’s time in the political spotlight has come and gone, she shows up to CPAC and brings down the house. Palin’s lunchtime address was the closest thing to Rush Limbaugh’s 2009 CPAC speech that has set the standard for keynote addresses. No offense [...]
Greetings, Happy St. Patrick’s Day and welcome to Kevin’s Korner. A well balanced Irishman has a chip on both shoulders. I’ve got liberal bloggers, Democrat operatives, state legislators, RPI leadership, Paulistinians and Westboro Republicans complaining about this weekly column … Translation: I must be doing something right … The Dems are whining that I sometimes [...]
A new social media outlet designed specifically for the Tea Party has hit the internet. The website, TeaPartyCommunity.com, launched in November. It is practically a carbon copy of Facebook, but exclusive to conservatives. The site has already surpassed 18,000 members, according to a stat counter on the administrator’s page. The creators’ purpose is to unite [...]
By Craig Robinson As Iowa’s six electoral votes have become more critical to the presidential election, televisions, radios, mailboxes, and computer screens in the state have been inundated by political ads. Like it or not, Iowa matters in this election, and the media’s spotlight is once again upon us. The more political activity in Iowa, [...]
By Craig Robinson President Obama didn’t visit the hometown of Meredith Wilson when he was in Iowa last week, but he probably has a better understanding of one of Wilson’s classic tunes from the musical, The Music Man. As many know, the show begins with a tune sung by the town’s people titled Iowa Stubborn. [...]
By Patti Brown President Obama should cut his losses and dump Joe Biden from the ticket not as a ploy to try to win another term in the White House but out of respect for the citizens of the United States and out of concern for our nation’s security. America deserves better. The Vice President’s [...]
By Craig Robinson Many words have been used to describe former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, but maybe the most appropriate is gracious. Palin, along with husband Todd and daughters Willow and Piper, attend Bruce Rastetter’s annual summer party on Saturday night at his rural north-central Iowa home. Rastetter extended an invitation to the Palin’s months [...]