Battleground Iowa Archive

By Emily Geiger So, I know everyone in the mainstream media has taken a vow to only ever talk about U.S. Rep. Steve King in a negative manner, but you have to give the guy credit for being the watchdog of Washington. With that being said, Mr. King had a very interesting press release recently. Guess which Washington politicians received the most money from AIG, ... Full story

By Emily Geiger When the Going Gets Tough, Innocent Babies Die Well, if there’s a bright side to the recession, it’s that the recession is actually good for someone’s business. The bad news is that the business that is booming is the abortion business. There was an AP article online yesterday that was sickening and heartbreaking all at the same time. It recounted various examples ... Full story

By Emily Geiger Plan B… for Kids I wish I could say I was shocked and appalled at this news, but unfortunately, news like this isn’t that shocking anymore, so I guess I’ll have to settle for appalled. A federal judge has now ruled that 17-year-old children should have access to the morning-after pill without a prescription or any medical supervision. So once again, a ... Full story

By Emily Geiger It hasn’t taken long for the Democrats to turn inward and begin eating their own, all in an effort to save the big guy at the top and some of his selected cronies. At first, I thought the fall-guy was going to be Chris Dodd. After all, he is the guy who added the amendment that gave the okay to executive ... Full story

By Emily Geiger I think someone needs to tell the President that he lives in the White House, not Pee Wee’s Playhouse. Seriously, if you didn’t know any better, you’d swear you were watching amateur hour when watching the president make his media rounds. Oh wait, Obama was totally inexperienced and unqualified to be president, so we actually are watching amateur hour… how silly of me ... Full story

By Emily Geiger There was a heart-wrenching article in the Register yesterday about a family that is terrified because the perpetrator who molested their six-year-old little girl is being released from the corrections system. You see, the perpetrator was a fourteen-year-old boy, who is now turning eighteen. He was prosecuted under the juvenile justice system, so he’s aging out of the system and ... Full story

By Emily Geiger When the going gets tough, the media-obsessed go on Leno. Or, at least that’s the version of the saying that the president seems to live by. The economy is in a free-fall, his poll numbers are starting to sink, and people are starting to notice, at least a little. So what does Obama do? He’s doing what he does best… ... Full story

By Emily Geiger Let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start… There is a very interesting article in the Register about how Chester is trying to stick it to the aforementioned Des Moines paper by charging them for legal fees associated with an open records request. The Register wants to get its hands on some government emails that might shed some ... Full story

By Emily Geiger Creston Rape Trial Just about everyone I know was following the Creston Police rape trial pretty closely, and every one of them thought those guys were guilty as sin and was happy with the guilty verdict. I can’t imagine how scary it must have been, not only to be attacked by the people who are supposed to be protecting you, but to not know ... Full story

By Emily Geiger So, I’m in my car last night listening to the radio, and I hear Deace talking to some people who are promoting a bill in the statehouse that is backed by the Gun Owners of America (GOA). Let me preface this conversation by saying that I am a strong advocate of gun rights. However, that conversation, especially some of the comments from ... Full story