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If America wakes up and learns the lesson of the Ft. Hood shooting, that Islam is a violent ideology and is incompatible with military service, then the shooter has done the country a favor, Christian conservative radio host Steve Deace said.

No one who has “sworn allegiance to Islamic ideology” should be allowed to serve in the U.S. armed forces, Christian conservative radio host Steve Deace said during his show on Monday.
In the aftermath of Major Nidal Hasan’s killing spree at Fort Hood in Texas, questions of whether his actions were inspired by religious fervor are [...]

I spent some time today checking up on the Web sites of Iowa political groups to see whether anything has changed, and I came upon something I hadn’t noticed before.

The escalating conflict between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza has directly impacted at least one Iowan already.  Cedar Rapids Imam Ahmed Elkhaldy said he has lost three members of his extended family in Israeli airstrikes.

Ignoring the relatively high concentration of Hispanic people in Marshalltown, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney told a crowd of almost 200 there Friday that “you probably don’t have a lot of immigrants legally” in Iowa.

Marshalltown, which is home to a meatpacking plant operated by Swift and Co., was at the epicenter of a nationwide string [...]