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Open letter to readers: Today and tomorrow

By Lynda Waddington | 11.17.11

Wednesday was a difficult day for The American Independent News Network, which is the larger entity that operates The Iowa Independent. Our chief executive and founder announced two of our sister sites would close and their content would be moved to The American Independent.

ACS lockout continues; plan emerges to repeal sugar protections

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By Virginia Chamlee | 11.15.11

A recently introduced bill could have far-reaching impact on the U.S. sugar industry, including American Crystal Sugar, a farmer-owned cooperative that locked out 1,300 Midwest workers on Aug. 1.

Cain campaign: Farmers know more about regulations than EPA

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By Andrew Duffelmeyer | 11.15.11

The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection Agency says are false.

Mathis wins, Democrats maintain Senate control

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By Lynda Waddington | 11.08.11

The Iowa Senate will remain under the control of a slim 26-25 Democratic majority when it reconvenes in January 2012.

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PR: Nation should work to address veterans’ challenges

By Press Release Reprints | 11.11.11

BRUCE BRALEY RELEASE — As US involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan ends, it’s more important than ever that our nation works to address the challenges faced by the men and women who fought there.

PR: Honoring veterans, help in hiring

By Press Release Reprints | 11.11.11

CHUCK GRASSLEY RELEASE — A difficult job market is challenging the soldiers, sailors and airmen who have protected America’s interests by serving in the Armed Forces.

PR: In honor of America’s veterans

By Press Release Reprints | 11.11.11

TOM LATHAM RELEASE — No one has done more to secure the freedom enjoyed by every single American than our veterans and those currently serving in the armed services.

PR: Honoring and supporting our nation’s veterans

By Press Release Reprints | 11.11.11

DAVE LOEBSACK RELEASE — Veterans Day is an opportunity to reflect on the service of generations of veterans and to honor the sacrifices they and their families have made so that we may live in peace and freedom here at home.

Olbermann hammers King’s Obama ‘totalitarian’ remarks

By Douglas Burns | 10.29.08 | 12:41 pm

MSNBC commentator Keith Olbermann Tuesday night said U.S. Rep. Steve King’s charge in Sioux City on Saturday that America would slip into a “totalitarian dictatorship” under an Obama administration revealed the Iowa Republican to be among the “least stable” members of Congress.

In a special ‘campaign comment’ at the end of his evening program, Olbermann said King’s comments represent the far-right fringe of his party’s desperate attacks on Obama as a socialist.

Go simpler, like Michelle Bachmann’s only rival for least stable member of the House of Representatives did. Steve King (R-Iowa)  Fifth District, but 17th century.  Warming up a crowd at a high school in Sioux City for Governor Palin on Saturday, King, who amazingly is still let out of the house each day without adult supervision, said of the Obama candidacy:

“When you take a lurch to the left you end up in a totalitarian dictatorship.”

“There’s no freedom to the left. It’s always to our side of the aisle.”

“We choose freedom and liberty.”

Presumably that’s why the congressman’s party was good enough to torture prisoners, eavesdrop on Americans, suspend habeas corpus, demonize dissent, paying news organizations to run favorable stories, and generally come as close to a totalitarian dictatorship as any American president ever has.  To choose freedom and liberty–for Congressman King and invited guests–not for the country.

Iowa Independent first reported King’s comments, which came during an introductory speech for GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin at Sioux City West High School. The comment was referenced Tuesday on Daily Kos and elsewhere.

Comments

  • 10judykading10

    Congressman King continues to amaze and astound with his flights of fancy. What next! His imagination is wild. I am always surprised that he is able to characterize every position but his own in the most negative terms possible. He is far too paranoid for me. No wonder he didn't want to debate with a level-headed person like Rob Hubler. It would only expose King's lapses in lucidity.

  • primus

    Keith Olbermann nailed it, King is Very unstable. He is insane.

  • Netter

    Rabid, foaming at the mouth Olbermann?! Maddow and Olbermann are commentators whose arrogant and narrow-minded opinions are a scourge in MSM. They are the very components in society that drive the right even further right – which is NOT a good thing. So why waste time listening to them?! They don't have anything worthwhile to contribute until they can control their sneering, snarky, disrespectful attitudes. They bring the UGLY out. One of the worst moments Olbermann had really opened my eyes to the hate behind his views. His post VP debate commentary was nothing short of lewd barfing on the interested viewers! It sickened me to watch him and I will never again spend more than one second looking at or listening to him again.

    An excerpt from S. Kurtz's “Wright 101″ –>The adolescent Rites of Passage movement that flowered in the 1990s grew out of the “cultural nationalist” or “Pan-African” thinking popular in radical black circles of the 1960s and 1970s.” (You can find out more if you google “Rites of Passage and Obama” together.) And then take a moment to read the following (an excerpt from Saul Alinsky's Primer for Radicals):

    From Rules for Radicals, Alinsky outlines his strategy in organizing, writing:
    “There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution.”[2] http://latter-rain.com/ltrain/alinski.htm

    Emphasis: They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution. OKAY. Obama has started a revolution. But do YOU understand which kind of revolution it really is: militant black? progressive liberal? ANYTHING other than what we've had? or is he what he claims to be: Christian, pro-America, catalyst for the right kind of change in the Whitehouse?

    How can we KNOW? We can't – we trust, or we don't.

  • primus

    Keith Olbermann nailed it, King is Very unstable. He is insane.

  • Netter

    Rabid, foaming at the mouth Olbermann?! Maddow and Olbermann are commentators whose arrogant and narrow-minded opinions are a scourge in MSM. They are the very components in society that drive the right even further right – which is NOT a good thing. So why waste time listening to them?! They don't have anything worthwhile to contribute until they can control their sneering, snarky, disrespectful attitudes. They bring the UGLY out. One of the worst moments Olbermann had really opened my eyes to the hate behind his views. His post VP debate commentary was nothing short of lewd barfing on the interested viewers! It sickened me to watch him and I will never again spend more than one second looking at or listening to him again.

    An excerpt from S. Kurtz's “Wright 101″ –>The adolescent Rites of Passage movement that flowered in the 1990s grew out of the “cultural nationalist” or “Pan-African” thinking popular in radical black circles of the 1960s and 1970s.” (You can find out more if you google “Rites of Passage and Obama” together.) And then take a moment to read the following (an excerpt from Saul Alinsky's Primer for Radicals):

    From Rules for Radicals, Alinsky outlines his strategy in organizing, writing:
    “There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution.”[2] http://latter-rain.com/ltrain/alinski.htm

    Emphasis: They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution. OKAY. Obama has started a revolution. But do YOU understand which kind of revolution it really is: militant black? progressive liberal? ANYTHING other than what we've had? or is he what he claims to be: Christian, pro-America, catalyst for the right kind of change in the Whitehouse?

    How can we KNOW? We can't – we trust, or we don't.

  • primus

    Keith Olbermann nailed it, King is Very unstable. He is insane.

  • Netter

    Rabid, foaming at the mouth Olbermann?! Maddow and Olbermann are commentators whose arrogant and narrow-minded opinions are a scourge in MSM. They are the very components in society that drive the right even further right – which is NOT a good thing. So why waste time listening to them?! They don't have anything worthwhile to contribute until they can control their sneering, snarky, disrespectful attitudes. They bring the UGLY out. One of the worst moments Olbermann had really opened my eyes to the hate behind his views. His post VP debate commentary was nothing short of lewd barfing on the interested viewers! It sickened me to watch him and I will never again spend more than one second looking at or listening to him again.

    An excerpt from S. Kurtz's “Wright 101″ –>The adolescent Rites of Passage movement that flowered in the 1990s grew out of the “cultural nationalist” or “Pan-African” thinking popular in radical black circles of the 1960s and 1970s.” (You can find out more if you google “Rites of Passage and Obama” together.) And then take a moment to read the following (an excerpt from Saul Alinsky's Primer for Radicals):

    From Rules for Radicals, Alinsky outlines his strategy in organizing, writing:
    “There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution.”[2] http://latter-rain.com/ltrain/alinski.htm

    Emphasis: They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution. OKAY. Obama has started a revolution. But do YOU understand which kind of revolution it really is: militant black? progressive liberal? ANYTHING other than what we've had? or is he what he claims to be: Christian, pro-America, catalyst for the right kind of change in the Whitehouse?

    How can we KNOW? We can't – we trust, or we don't.

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