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July 2010

Jul 29 Quotes of the Day

Arnie Arnesen and Michael Krull

Jul 29 Two Decades of a Reasonable Accommodation

By Dave Swenson 

Jul 29 Restaurant Review – “Serving” the Readership of InsiderIowa.com

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jul 28 Americans Are Generous, Kind and Caring

By Steffen Schmidt

 

Jul 28 Is the United States Too Huge and Diverse for a Federal Government as Strong as the One We Have?

Michael Krull and Arnie Arnesen 

Jul 27 Delhi Dam Break/What You Can Do

By Tracey Dormady 

Jul 27 Black Market Underwear and Sunsets

By Todd A. Kruse 

Jul 26 Race and Politics

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jul 26 Remembering John Wooden

By Donald Kaul 

Jul 23 Save or Spend? How do We Fix the U.S. Economy?

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jul 19 Detroit Farm Concept Belongs in the Junkyard

By Donald Kaul 

Jul 15 Smile When You Say That

By Dave Swenson 

Jul 14 No Drama, Not Even Angry

By Donald Kaul 

Jul 13 Illegal Immigration: Is it the Explosive Political Issue for November 2010?

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jul 13 Red & Blue Politics: Cyber Threats to Our National Security

Arnie Arnesen and Michael Krull 

Jul 12 Pain relief through movement

By Jeannine Stein 

Jul 10 The Politics of Food and Fuel

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jul 10 Fishing Boats Photo Exhibit

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jul 8 State Pay versus Private Pay: Who Wins?

By Dave Swenson 

Jul 7 We Need a Government Yard Sale

By Todd A. Kruse 

Jul 5 Who Will Win the November Elections?

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jul 5 We've Got to Get out of There

By Donald Kaul 

Jul 5 Alternative View: “Pretty Good” Choices to Deal with the Mess We’re In

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jul 2 Happy News From Afghanistan! Ya Gotta Be Kidding!

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jul 1 Getting Re-elected: The Great Deficit Cutting Bold Rush

By Dave Swenson 

 

June 2010

Jun 30 Red & Blue Politics: Lobbying In The U.S.

Michael Krull and Arnie Arnesen 

Jun 30 My March of Dimes Theory

By Todd A. Kruse 

Jun 28 Joe Barton's Honest Mistake

By Donald Kaul  

Jun 27 Don’t Criticize The Boss If He’s The President

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Jun 27 Lightning Damage News From Angel Louise

By Ed Kelly 

Jun 27 Raw Video - Jammin' in Seattle

With Steffen Schmidt 

Jun 26 Economic Crisis: Is the European Analogy Valid?

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jun 26 Aroused Cooking and Eating – The Icon Grill in Seattle

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jun 25 Money for Nothing (and Your Checks For Free)

By Dave Swenson 

Jun 25 Americans and Europeans are Different

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jun 25 Harold Hughes saved my life!

By Todd A. Kruse 

Jun 22 Tugboat Annie

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jun 22 Generals and Politicians: The Dangerous Chain of Command Problem

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jun 21 Running on Hot Air

By Donald Kaul 

Jun 19 Don’t Stop all Children from Working

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jun 17 British Politics - The "New" Labor Party

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Jun 16 A 21st Century Prison System

Arnie Arnesen and Michael Krull 

Jun 16 Poaching Jobs

By Dave Swenson 

Jun 16 "It's my party and I'll protest if I want to..."

By Todd A. Kruse 

Jun 15 The British Labor Party Opposition: An Interesting Bunch of Blokes and Bloquettes

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jun 13 BP Oil Disaster: The View From Britain

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jun 13 Obama in the UK: Things Are Not Going Well

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jun 11 Throwing Oranges

By Todd A. Kruse 

Jun 9 A Decade of Incompetence

By Dave Swenson 

Jun 6 Red & Blue Politics: Entitlements in the 21st Century: Reform of Social Security

Michael Krull and Arnie Arnesen 

Jun 5 Stan Getz “Early Autumn” vs. “Ready to Die”

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jun 4 One Election Altered American History for the Worse

By Todd A. Kruse 

Jun 2 Do Yourself a Favor, Rand: Stop Talking

By Donald Kaul 

Jun 2 Honest Compromise Necessary for Immigration Reform

By Ashley Cruseturner 

Jun 2 Good Government Equals a Good Economy

By Dave Swenson 

 

May 2010

May 31 Coastal Issues and Problems

Video by Steffen Schmidt 

May 31 Compassionate Government? You Betcha!

By Steffen Schmidt 

May 27 Thomas Jefferson Was A Home Schooler

By Todd A. Kruse 

May 26 Why We Don't Believe The Experts Anymore

By Steffen Schmidt 

May 26 Can The Europeans Afford It?

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

May 26 Steffen's music video pick of the week
May 24 Oh No! Europe Doesn’t Work Either!

By Steffen Schmidt 

May 24 Academic Diversity on the Supreme Court

By Donald Kaul 

May 23 How We Have Been Wrecking the Oceans for 200 Years

By Steffen Schmidt  

May 22 Red & Blue Politics: The Scourge of Human Trafficking

Arnie Arnesen and Michael Krull 

May 22 My Oil Spill Op Ed Piece is Making my Life a Living (e-mail) Hell

By Steffen Schmidt 

May 22 National Association of Food Carriers

By Todd A. Kruse 

May 22 Wake Me Up When It's June

By Donald Kaul 

May 20 Comments on Primary Election

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

May 20 What Happened on Primary “Super Tuesday?”

By Steffen Schmidt 

May 18 Who Are These Fellas?

By Steffen Schmidt 

May 18 Getting a Room at the Real American Inn

By Dave Swenson 

May 16 Health Care Reform and Politics – Everyone is Ticked Off!

By Steffen Schmidt 

May 14 Identity Theft Security Project

Video by Steffen Schmidt 

May 13 Wilkommen or Buenos Dias Census 2010?

By Todd A. Kruse 

May 12 Oil Spill Shakes Up Federal Agency

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

May 12 No Protestants on the Supreme Court

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

May 12 Banish Bureaucracy…then decide how much government you want

By Jim Chrisinger  

May 11 The Continued Thinning of Rural Iowa

By Dave Swenson 

May 10 What Would Palin Do?

By Donald Kaul 

May 9 Better Value for Tax Dollars: A Law Enforcement Sharing Story

By Jim Chrisinger 

May 8 The British Elections and a Hung Parliament

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

May 8 New Poll Shows Surprises in Iowa's Governor's Race

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

May 7 Who Ate The First Watermelon?

By Todd A. Kruse 

May 6 What The Greek Economic Crisis Means For The American Economy

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

May 5 If You Are Going to Lie, Lie Really Big

By Dave Swenson 

May 4 Red & Blue Politics: What Should U.S. Policy Be For Off-Shore Oil Drilling?

Michael Krull and Arnie Arnesen 

May 4 Economic Crises Increase Private and Public Sector Socialism For The Rich

Siegfried Sutterlin, Ph.D. 

May 3 I Coulda Been a Hedge Fund Manager

By Donald Kaul 

May 2 What Obama Will Look for in His Supreme Court Appointment

By Steffen Schmidt 

May 1 Illegal Immigration and American Hypocrisy

By Steffen Schmidt 

 

April 2010

Apr 30 Healthcare Reform Forum: Ethics, Anger, Justice, Access

By Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 29 A Presidential Visit Brings Attention to a Region in Need

By Dave Swenson 

Apr 29 Raising the Bar

By Todd A. Kruse 

Apr 28 What's So Great About Freedom From Health Care?

By Donald Kaul 

Apr 27 Lessons from the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

By Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 27 Problems With Immigration Law

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 27 Why we won't be hearing "Drill Baby Drill" in the near future

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 26 The Media and Politics

Video Interview of John Barron by Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 25 What are the Democrats Chances in the 2010 Elections?

By Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 22 From Iowa Essays: Drumsticks

By Amy Clark Campbell 

Apr 22 Walking Beans on Earth Day

By Todd Kruse 

Apr 21 Parsing Tea Party Dissent

By Dave Swenson 

Apr 21 Red & Blue Politics: The Urgent Need To Secure Loose Nukes

Michael Krull and Arnie Arnesen 

Apr 20 Volcano Eruption Teaches Us New Lessons

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 20 Gov. Culver Under Investigation for Casino Money

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 19 The British General Election, 2010: Does the Campaign Matter

Geoffrey Pridham, University of Bristol, UK  

Apr 19 Now for Something Completely Unexpected: Eyjafjallajökull

By Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 19 Keep Grant on the $50 Bill

By Donald Kaul 

Apr 19 The Trouble with Tenure

By Scott Cawelti 

Apr 16 How Bob Plunkett Taught Us to Compete

By Todd A. Kruse 

Apr 14 Technology, Time, and Transformation

By Dave Swenson 

Apr 14 The Urgent Need to Secure Loose Nukes

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 14 Factors Likely to be Considered in Nominating the Next Supreme Court Justice

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 13 Evolution of Agriculture

By Todd A. Kruse 

Apr 13 Church’s Sex Abuse Scandal Reflects Deep Flaw

By Donald Kaul 

Apr 12 Once Upon a Time Supreme Court Nominations Were the President’s Choice

By Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 12 Wants, Needs, and Universities

By Scott Cawelti  

Apr 8 Michael Steele RNC Scandal

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 8 Red & Blue Politics: Financial Regulatory Reform

Arnie Arnesen and Michael Krull 

Apr 8 Iowa GOP Governors Race Getting Interesting

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 7 Tax Cutting Our Way to Prosperity

By Dave Swenson 

Apr 7 Amaya appointed to Commission on Presidential Scholars

By Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 6 It’s not Government’s Size, It’s the Stupidity

By Donald Kaul 

Apr 6 From Iowa Essays: Weather

By Amy Clark Campbell 

Apr 5 The Movie “Brazil” and the Future of the U.S.

By Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 5 A Fair-Minded View of the Progressive Impulse

By Ashley Cruseturner 

Apr 1 The Run Up to the 2012 Iowa Caucuses

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

 

March 2010

Mar 31 Reality Check: Obama's New Oil Drilling Plans

Video by Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 31 Interesting New Iowa Laws

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 31 Mitt Romney’s Back in Town

By Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 31 Do You Really Count?

By Dave Swenson 

Mar 30 Eating in Iowa: Prairie Moon Winery

By Jeremy Schweitzer 

Mar 30 From Iowa Essays: Strangers

By Amy Clark 

Mar 29 GOP Obstructionist Antics Signal its Demise

By Donald Kaul 

Mar 28 What Caused The Economic Crisis?

By Siegfried Sutterlin, Ph.D. 

Mar 26 Study offers new insight on how human brain makes moral judgments

From Medical Science News 

Mar 26 Violence As a Means of Politics

By Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 25 VIDEO - The Dodd Bill and Financial Reform

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 25 VIDEO - Healthcare Reform and the Future of the GOP

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 24 Now That Healthcare Is Passed What Should the GOP Do?

By Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 24 The Dubious States’ Rights Dodge on Health Care Reform

By Dave Swenson 

Mar 23 Red & Blue Politics: U.S. Energy Policy

Michael Krull and Arnie Arnesen 

Mar 22 Why Should You Care About Healthcare Reform?

By Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 22 Racism Just Isn’t Funny

By Donald Kaul 

Mar 20 Intellectual and Ethical Bankruptcy Preceded the Economic Crisis

By Siegfried Sutterlin, Ph.D. 

Mar 17 Running Government Like a Business and Other Really Dumb Ideas

By Dave Swenson 

Mar 17 The Clinton Strategy That We Almost Forgot: Confrontation

By Ashley Cruseturner 

Mar 16 Recipe for Fighting the Party of No

By Donald Kaul 

Mar 16 The Iowa Courts

By Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 11 Gambling on Growth

By Dave Swenson 

Mar 10 To Boost the Economy Decentralize Wall Street

By Siegfried Sutterlin, Ph.D. 

Mar 10 Red & Blue Politics: U.S. Environmental Policy

Michael Krull and Arnie Arnesen 

Mar 10 Rick Perry: Taming the Tea Party

By Ashley Cruseturner 

Mar 9 Toyota: Japan’s General Motors

By Donald Kaul 

Mar 9 Iowa's Foreign Policy

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 9 Upcoming Gubernatorial Debates

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 9 Mooncoin

By Amy Clark Campbell 

Mar 8 Should Iowa Have a Constitutional Convention?

By Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 7 (Crumbling) foundation in education

By Casey Wagner 

Mar 6 Politics and Health Care

Iowa Hospital Association Keynote Speech by Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 5 Information Breaches and Internet Security

Video Interviews by Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 4 Negligence in Protecting Iowa’s Critical Infrastructure

By Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 3 Occupational Hazard

By Dave Swenson 

Mar 3 Gun Control and the Supreme Court: The Debate Grows

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 3 Politicians Should Avoid Funny Headgear: A Case Study

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 2 News Update: Looting in Chile

By Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 1 Eating in Iowa: No wine-ing here: Local shops, restaurants offer variety in tastings

By Laura Dillavou 

Mar 1 Don’t Apologize if You’re Sorry about Getting Caught

By Donald Kaul 

 

February 2010

Feb 28 Iowa Caucuses Podcasts

Podcast by Steffen Schmidt 

Feb 28 Earthquakes I have known

By Steffen Schmidt 

Feb 26 Democrats Can Make Good Politics out of Health Care Reform: If They Are Smart Enough

By Steffen Schmidt 

Feb 26 Operation Twenty Twelve

Sponsored by InsiderIowa.com and SEAS LLC 

Feb 26 Political Scandals: Late Breaking Updates

By Steffen Schmidt 

Feb 24 On Jobs, What is the Government to Do?

Arnie Arnesen and Michael Krull  

Feb 24 Pointless Town Trade Wars

By Dave Swenson 

Feb 24 Dealing with the Deficit

By Donald Kaul 

Feb 24 Tet Celebration

By Cristobal Matibag 

Feb 23 Healthcare May Be “Manifest Destiny” for this President and Congress

By Ashley Cruseturner 

Feb 22 Ron Paul and The Tea Baggers Seriously Challenge the GOP Establishment

By Steffen Schmidt 

Feb 22 Virgin Islands Greetings from Ed & Sue Kelly

E-mail from Ed Kelly aboard USSV Angel Louise  

Feb 21 Do Not Count Out this President

By Ashley Cruseturner 

Feb 21 Eating In Iowa: Growing their coffee shop from the ground up

By Laura Dillavou 

Feb 18 Does Iowa Need Health Care Reform? Senator Jack Hatch Says "Yes"

Video interview by Steffen Schmidt 

Feb 18 Will Senator John McCain be Tea Bagged?

Video commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Feb 18 Representative Paul Shomshor on Iowa's Future

Video interview by Steffen Schmidt 

Feb 17 From Iowa Essays: Remnants of the Disappeared

By Amy Clark Campbell 

Feb 16 Comments on Sen. Bayh announcing he will not seek reelection

Video by Steffen Schmidt 

Feb 16 Arnie Arnesen discusses changing the NH constitution on WGBH radio in Boston

Arnie Arnesen via Callie Crossley Show 

Feb 15 Opinion: When the public doesn't need to know

By Steven Adams 

Feb 15 Rewriting History

By Steffen Schmidt 

Feb 15 Palin's Tea Party

By Donald Kaul 

Feb 11 Foreign Aid in the 21st Century: Are Present Systems Adequate?

Michael Krull and Arnie Arnesen 

Feb 11 We Need an Honest Diagnosis Regarding Health Care

By Ashley Cruseturner 

Feb 11 New technology won't prevent more information security breaches

By Mike Ferlazzo 

Feb 10 If they label it, will we eat less?

By Steven Adams 

Feb 9 The Winter of Our Discontent

By Dave Swenson 

Feb 8 Wall Street Gets It

By Donald Kaul 

Feb 7 Eating in Iowa: Treats for your sweet on this Valentine’s Day

By Laura Dillavou 

Feb 5 Interview with Republican Candidate for Iowa Governor Rod Roberts

Interview by Stan Brewer 

Feb 4 My Breakfast With Strong Women

By Steffen Schmidt 

Feb 3 Cyber Challenges

By Steffen Schmidt

Feb 3 Are the Two Major Parties Too Lost to Right this Ship?

By Ashley Cruseturner 

Feb 3 Harvesting Iowa Wind Energy Benefits

By James Strohman 

Feb 2 Why the stimulus didn't create more jobs

Video by Steffen Schmidt 

Feb 2 Next, We’ll Sell Senate Seats to Exxon Mobil and AT&T

By Donald Kaul 

Feb 2 The Kill Bill: Eliminating Film Tax Credits

By Dave Swenson 

Feb 2 Why I Suddenly Became a Football Fan

By Amy Clark Campbell 

Feb 1 Do we need a health care reform plan for Iowa?

Video by Steffen Schmidt 

Feb 1 Eating in Iowa: Score big with game-day hangouts and crowd favorites

By Laura Dillavou 

 

January 2010

Jan 29 Is America in Crisis?

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jan 29 Obama’s Public Rebuttal of Supreme Court

By Ashley Cruseturner 

Jan 28 State of the Union Speech Analysis - a Dr. Politics video

 By Steffen Schmidt

Jan 28 Obama's State of Union Address Light on Specifics

Column by Steffen Schmidt 

Jan 28 Purchase a winner

By Steven Adams 

Jan 27 Red & Blue Politics: Analyzing the Republican Victory in Massachusetts

Arnie Arnesen and Michael Krull 

Jan 26 Three Steps Forward and 1,927 Steps Back

By Dave Swenson 

Jan 25 Peace of Mind Orchestra plays a couple of songs for the Insider Sessions

The Insider Sessions with Erika Iverson 

Jan 25 Massachusetts: The Democrats Blew It

By Donald Kaul  

Jan 25 Eating in Iowa: Take it to Taki for taste and treats

By Laura Dillavou 

Jan 25 ISU political scientists preview Obama's first State of the Union address

By Mike Ferlazzo 

Jan 23 Obama Healthcare - Share Your Comments

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jan 22 Dr. Politics Video: Massachusetts Senate Race

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jan 22 Supreme Court Rules Corporations Are People To

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jan 21 The Grim Choices for Obama and Americans

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jan 20 Why The Republicans Won the “Ted Kennedy” Massachusetts Senate Seat

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jan 19 Race and the Rapture

By Donald Kaul 

Jan 19 Good Banks and Bad Banks

By Dave Swenson 

Jan 19 Matchsticks - from Iowa Essays

By Amy Clark Campbell 

Jan 18 Dr. Politics Video: Reflections on America

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jan 18 Matt Woods and The Thunderbolts play the Blues for The Insider Sessions

 The Insider Sessions with Erika Iverson

Jan 17 Baking brings together tradition, comfort

By Laura Dillavou 

Jan 15 American Policy, Moral Values, and The Tragedy in Haiti

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jan 14 Iowa Gov. Chet Culver’s State of the State 2010

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jan 14 Moberly: A Reunion Story - from Iowa Essays

By Amy Clark Campbell 

Jan 14 Dr. Politics video commentary on the book, Game Change

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jan 14 Dr. Politics Video Commentary on Gov. Culver's State of the State Address

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jan 12 Fly the Unfriendly Skies, if You Dare

By Donald Kaul 

Jan 12 Red & Blue Politics: The States and the Stimulus

Michael Krull and Arnie Arnesen 

Jan 12 Naught for Aught: A Decade of Nothing

By Dave Swenson 

Jan 12 Eating in Iowa: Prairie Moon Winery

By Jeremy Schweitzer 

Jan 11 Family pizza shop serves up variety of Italian favorites

By Laura Dillavou 

Jan 11 Our Weather Extremes – From Iowa Essays

By Paula Poland  

Jan 10 Worthless Computer Systems, Federal Contracting and American Security

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jan 10 In 1982: A Bicycle Trip from Iowa to Alaska - The Conclusion

By Erika Iverson  

Jan 10 Our National Pastime Is Too Brutal

By Donald Kaul 

Jan 8 Economics reports analyze state's R&D tax credits, housing and mental health industry

By Mike Ferlazzo 

Jan 7 From Iowa Essays: The Small Work of Days

By Amy Clark 

Jan 6 The Return on Indifference

By Dave Swenson 

Jan 5 Seasonal Beers

By Laura Dillavou 

Jan 4 No Happily Ever After: Taking Stock of 2009

By Donald Kaul 

Jan 3 Master of the banjo Jon Eric plays for Insider Sessions

The Insider Sessions with Erika Iverson  

 
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