by Art Smith
Watch this video a moment: [wp_youtube]Ahg6qcgoay4&hl[/wp_youtube] Now, the video is about watching out for bicyclists while you are driving, but there’s a good correlary. This video demonstrates how easy it is to let someone distract you. It’s the...
by Art Smith
Tonight I attended my first Polk County (Iowa) Republican Central Committee meeting. I have never been at this level of politics (okay, 2008 continues to be a year of firsts for me in local politics), and it was more interesting than I expected. I won’t get into...
by Art Smith
When I attended the Iowa State Republican Convention, one thing that I found odd was the district level meetings that were held on Friday night to select district delegates and alternates to the National Convention, electors to go to Washington if our candidate for...
by Art Smith
Well, I am amazed at how people who are supposed to have a common mission, a common cause, can find themselves so divided. Of course, we’ve had over 232 years of that. What’s really surprising to me is that the Iowa Republican State Convention actually...
by Linda Morgan
From the GateWay Pundit: About BitHead BitHead runs BitsBlog and is an occasional guest writer for The Conservative Reader. You can email BitHead at [email protected]. This special Swamp Stomper Article is cross-posted from BitsBlog. New information reveals that...
by Art Smith
The afternoon of the convention went fairly smoothly. As I mentioned yesterday, we heard the results of the National Committee Man and Woman. I appreciate the way that Stew Iverson kept things moving by inserting speeches at places where there were dead spots because...