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Are you interested in listening to Iraq and Afghanistan veterans share their experiences? Hear what the troops have to say at Winter Soldier 2008.

Videos from Karl Rove’s appearance at the University of Iowa are below the fold, including part of Rove’s talk.

More photos from the event are below the fold.

Speaking at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson made a pitch for himself as a presidential candidate.

He challenged the other Democratic candidates on Iraq when he said: “They’ve decided to stop talking about Iraq. Their campaign strategies have shifted to other issues.  Over the last few debates and on the [...]

Nearly 200 people crowded into a meeting room at the Iowa City Public Library on Monday afternoon to hear Sen. Joe Biden talk about avoiding war with Iran. He quoted from declassified sections of the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) released Monday that said, “Tehran halted their nuclear weapons program in 2003.” Although the NIE [...]

The crowd of 100 people gathered at the Waverly Civic Center Tuesday night was hushed and thoughtful as Delaware Sen. Joe Biden answered an audience member’s question regarding the difference between this run for the White House and his previous bid.
Biden, a long-time member of the United States Senate, made a previous bid for the [...]

Former Iowa Congressman Jim Leach says he is “extremely pessimistic” about U.S. relations with Iran. 

“We’ve administered a policy analogous to the same policy we’ve had towards Cuba, both attitudinally and in effect, of not talking and of basically refusing to deal on a respectful basis,” the head of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government [...]

Oscar Argueta, of Mt. Pleasant, Ia., is the publisher of the Spanish-language newspaper El Heraldo Hispano and a supporter of presidential candidate Mitt Romney.  Argueta was at his candidate’s recent appearance in Washington, Ia.

Following Romney’s short speech, Argueta posed a question on moral values which gave the former Massachusetts governor a chance to talk about [...]

John Edwards ended his campaign day in Dubuque on Sunday, Nov. 11 at a fundraiser for 1st District Representative Bruce Braley.

Earlier in the day the 2004 vice-presidential candidate released his “Plan to Build One America,” which outlined his comprehensive policy in 80 pages.  Download a copy at his website.

He didn’t have to do much convincing [...]

Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards this weekend in Carroll said members of his party in Congress should tie any funding of the war in Iraq to a timetable for complete combat troop withdrawal.

Speaking to a crowd of more than 250 (267 signed in) at the Swan Lake State Park Conservation Education Center, Edwards, a former [...]