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By Emily Geiger The thing that I’ve found more disturbing than Letterman’s comments about the Palin family are some of the comments I’ve seen on national blogs over the last few days. Not only have some people been supportive of Letterman’s comments, they’ve taken those disgusting words even further. Why is it that whenever a man disagrees with a woman, he resorts to calling her a slut? ... Full story

With the campaigns just around the corner and candidates coming out of the woodwork, it is pretty easy to focus on the candidates and not so much on the issues. For some candidates that mindset works well, for others, the issues is where there victories will come. Either way, for the people, if ... Full story

By Emily Geiger I find it funny that when conservative women start treading on men’s turf, it’s liberals who start attacking in a highly sexist manner. The latest in this ongoing saga involves some hugely inappropriate comments made by David Letterman about Sarah Palin… and her 14-year-old daughter. Letterman’s recent comments have included a statement that Palin was in New York shopping to perfect her “slutty stewardess look.” ... Full story

Seriously, with all the stuff happening at the state and national level, in government and the economy, are we screwed? We currently have unemployment at 9.4% and climbing. The average American holds over $9,000 in credit card debt alone. That isn’t counting the car, the house, student loans, medical expenses, ... Full story

Mike Huckabee is set to attend ABI’s Annual Conference today, and then headline an event for Bob Vander Plaats. It will be interesting to see what he has to say at the ABI Conference, but we all know what to expect at the Vander Plaats event. I don’t know if the Vander Plaats event is called ... Full story

This Thursday, The Iowa Republican and Deace in the Afternoon will partner in a gubernatorial straw poll. There has been a lot of comments on the partnership, so I want to take this opportunity to clear a few things up. The purpose of partnering with Steve Deace is simple; he has a large radio audience, one ... Full story

By Emily Geiger I got an interesting email from a mole, I mean, friend of mine. It seems that Steve King is lending his name and voice to phone calls being made to Iowa residents from the National Organization for Marriage. My mole/friend says he/she didn’t get the exact wording, but the following is a pretty close representation of the call script. The calls are ... Full story

After reading about the straw poll being conducted by this website and Steve Deace, I thought about writing an article about how biased the straw poll would be with Steve Deace being a part of it. I decided against writing anything about it at the time because I have a lot of respect ... Full story

My story about Doug Gross finally finding a gubernatorial candidate pushed my piece on Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s visit to Iowa back a day. This would have been up sooner but I couldn’t get on the site, so I just bellied up to the bar at Al’s Whisper’s Saloon and got my morning off ... Full story

When you are trying to figure out what Doug Gross is up to, one should never stray too far from the tree. The tree in this case is Marvin Pomerantz who passed away last year, but the apple in Doug’s eye is none other than Teresa Wahlert, the COO of Mid-American Group, the company which Pomerantz built. Pomerantz obviously thought highly enough of ... Full story