Ames Progressive

Update (4/23): You wouldn’t know it from watching the atrocious TV coverage, but it’s looking like Clinton’s Pennsylvania victory is pretty marginal (thanks again to DailyKos).
Update #2 (4/23): Apparently the Pennsylvania secretary of state’s numbers were wrong in the above link. The actual victory looks to be 9.2 percent, 54.6 to 45.4. And while I’m […]

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From Bleeding Heartland, Leonard Boswell’s latest mailer in the 3rd Congressional District primary:
In 2000, Ralph Nader said, “there’s NO difference between Al Gore and George Bush…”
…
Ed Fallon believed him.
Fallon helped elect George Bush
by endorsing and actively
campaigning for Ralph Nader.
Now, Fallon claims he’s a real Democrat we can trust.
With nearly 4,000 of our soldiers killed in […]

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Michael Moore just formally endorsed Barack Obama for president, and his reasoning is pretty spot-on. This paragraph in particular echoes what I see as the greatest potential of an Obama presidency:
There are those who say Obama isn’t ready, or he’s voted wrong on this or that. But that’s looking at the trees and not the […]

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Rupert Murdoch, the billionaire tabloid news tycoon of Fox News fame who just last year bought out Dow Jones and its Wall Street Journal, is now a member of the the board of directors for The Associated Press.

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Governor Chet Culver is set to sign a statewide smoking ban bill into law Tuesday after both houses of the Iowa Legislature voted in favor last Tuesday. House File 2212 is, to put it lightly, a decidedly strict piece of legislation that will outlaw cigarette smoking in bars, restaurants, workplaces, and most other public places […]

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Not too long ago, I stumbled across a few blog entries that pointed to this letter, posted on the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Law’s website, originally sent by Senator Tom Harkin to a constituent.
In the letter, Harkin argues in favor of the war on drugs, employing the typical tough-on-crime banter — drugs […]

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A couple weeks ago John McCain was falsely claiming that Iran was busy training not Shiites but al-Qaeda Sunnis to kill Americans, presumably in another feeble attempt to cave to the powerful anti-intelligence faction of his party and fabricate more nonsense to keep the Middle East blood flowing. He repeated this “mistake” on several occasions, […]

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Preparing the stage for the 2008 Ames Peace Rally. (Photo: Neal Hendrick/The Progressive)
The Ames anti-war community held its annual peace rally against the war in Iraq on Monday — the same day as the release of this month’s issue — to mark its 5th despicable anniversary.
As with the two other peace rallies here I’ve attended, […]

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My Karl Rove experience began Sunday as I walked down the hill toward the Iowa Memorial Union with my eye on a guy across the street carrying a pie in the same direction.Several minutes later I was indoors and shepherded into the protesters’ sectioned-off quarters – “Protesting? Or here for the lecture?” – where a […]

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I’m in Iowa City for Karl Rove’s $40,000 speech at the university tomorrow, paid for courtesy of student activities fees and the private F. Wendell Miller Fund.
Not to be too badly outdone, Iowa State — specifically, the College Republicans, Government of the Student Body, and apparently the World Affairs lectures committee (I must have dozed […]

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