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.
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.
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.
The Iowa Senate will remain under the control of a slim 26-25 Democratic majority when it reconvenes in January 2012.
Bristol Palin, with parents Sarah and Todd, visited the Mall of America Wednesday for a family book-signing. Award-winning photographer Kathy Easthagen was there to capture these exclusive scenes for The Independent’s network.
The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart appeared as a guest on Fox’s The O’Reilly Factor and ran down his take on the GOP presidential candidates.
While politicians and religious leaders have been outspoken on Republican efforts to put a constitutional amendment barring same-sex marriage on the Minnesota ballot next year, a Senate committee hearing included a little-heard-from voice: that of a young, straight, Republican woman who opposes the measure.
Tim Pawlenty has claimed that Barack Obama is so frightened during foreign policy briefings that the president must wear Depends diapers. He’s quoted Charlie Sheen and Lady Gaga in campaign speeches. And he’s thanked the tea party, a movement backed by billionaires, for “standing up to the ruling class.” But today in Iowa he struck a decidedly more low-key tone, promising that he won’t be the “loudest or craziest” person running for president.
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is taking a little national heat for his courting of young voters with pop-culture references.
The White House will be live streaming President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address. Watch here, starting at 8 p.m. CST; transcript of the address below. CNN will be streaming the speech, along with replies by Republicans Paul Ryan and Michele Bachmann, who is speaking on behalf of the tea party.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, widely considered a likely candidate for president in 2012, signed an executive order Tuesday afternoon directing all agencies in his state to refuse “all discretionary participation” in the federal health care reform law. The order calls the legislation, passed by both houses of Congress and signed by President Barack Obama, “a [...]
President Barack Obama’s comments on the Islamic center planned to be built a few blocks from the site of the Sept. 11 attacks in New York City has again raised the hackles of likely presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty. On Fox News’ Sean Hannity Show Monday night, Pawlenty claimed Obama is playing the role of “law [...]
Update: The “accomplishments” page is now online. An RNC official insists they never removed the page; before publishing this post, I tried to access the site, multiple times and on different browsers, and found the page in question missing. Doug Heye of the RNC says the GOP site was reorganized, so the “Learn” page, where [...]
A few Republican senators, including Chuck Grassley, Lindsey Graham, John McCain, Mitch McConnell and others, have been calling for hearings to discuss the possibility of altering the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution — the one that grants citizenship to children born in the United States even if their parents are in the country illegally. While [...]
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