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(Commentary) Imagine a stage full of Republican presidential candidates standing underneath the national spotlight and agreeing with one another. Better yet, try imagining all of them agreeing with former President Bill Clinton.

CNN and YouTube helped make this scenario a reality Nov. 28 when the two hooked up and hosted a Republican presidential debate. Just two [...]

(Commentary) Apparently a fourth, fifth, or ninth place finish in the Ames Straw Poll doesn’t merit recognition on Fox News, while finishing at the bottom of the fray is worthy of mention – that is if you’re one of the top-tiered, non-participating candidates.

GOP Congressmen Tom Tancredo, Ron Paul and Duncan Hunter couldn’t buy a top-three [...]

[Commentary] The Duncan Hunter folks had to feel something like the kid at the science fair who has the lame exhibit in the corner, next to the door that leads to a septic tank or perhaps a closet full of wrestling shorts the team manager has neglected.

But the Hunter people weren’t taking lightly any dismissive [...]

We’re live here at the Maytag Family Theater at the 2007 Iowa State Fair. Today’s forum is sponsored by DividedWeFail.org, an advocacy effort led by AARP.

Divided We Fail is a group working to “engage the American people, elected officials and the business community to find broad-based, bi-partisan solutions to the most compelling domestic issues facing [...]

The Iowa State Fair opened this morning to a slightly soggy start, but the sun quickly came out and the crowds poured in.
It didn't take long for several Republican presidential candidates to arrive at the fair and begin shaking hands.California Congressman Duncan Hunter was the first to take to the mic at the Des Moines [...]

U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback from Kansas is bringing in the band Kansas, and hoping he won’t be dust in the wind by day’s end. Congressman Duncan Hunter of California has hired an Elvis impersonator. And unlikely Led Zeppelin fan Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, will be playing bass with his own band.
“Take a [...]

Everyone knows that social conservatives will come out in droves on the night of the Iowa caucuses. But a growing group of overlooked foot soldiers in this movement will also shape its outcome without even casting a vote. They can’t—they’re teenagers. But they are being trained to wage the political battles of the future for [...]

Iowa Rep. Steve King was on the short end of a lopsided U.S. House vote Wednesday that bars the U.S. from establishing permanent bases in Iraq.

HR 2929, which would also limit the use of funds to exercise United States economic control of the oil resources of Iraq, passed 399 to 24, with the nays all [...]

In many ways, the members of NICHE would probably just want to be left alone. But they’ve discovered that closing themselves off from the world is not likely to have the effects they might hope for.
NICHE is the Network of Iowa Christian Home Educators, which acts as a clearinghouse for all things Christian home-school-related. The members, [...]

[Commentary] Ron Gunzburger of Politics1 looks at the McCain campaign and hits the coffin nail on the head:
The McCain campaign is essentially finished, but McCain must continue acting like a real candidate until January to qualify for the federal matching funds he needs to pay off the campaign debt and operating costs for the [...]