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Mitt at the Olive Garden

By now, you've probably seen Marilyn Hagerty's viral review of the Grand Forks, North Dakota, Olive Garden. Here's Mitt Romney's review of the same restaurant. It was only a few years ago that we got an Outback Steakhouse in Ankeny. It was kind of a bi... »

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Invasion Of The Paul People

It's a Ron Paul world, and we all just live in it. The Story County Republican convention was a longer affair than Tara's convention, because of a phenomenon I call, "invasion of the Paul people!" To review: the Iowa caucus is basically a statewide str... »

Convention Day!

Today is the day of our county party  conventions here in Iowa. Jeff is at the Story County Republican Convention, and I am at the Story County Democratic Convention. He reports that half of the delegates at his convention are there for Ron Paul. At mi... »

38 degrees and mostly sunny

Campaign staffers have been carefully monitoring the weather forecasts for the past week, hoping that the unseasonably warm winter we have been experiencing here in Iowa would continue through caucus night.  Today's forecast calls for mostly sunny skie... »

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Mitt Romney Will Be Our Next President

I saw the next President of the United States last night. Mitt Romney.I attended an event in this blog's hometown of Ames last night featuring stump speeches by Mitt and his wife, Ann. They were greeted by a wildly enthusiastic crowd of between 200 and... »

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What ELSE is happening in Nevada, Iowa, right now

Just getting a National Organization for Marriage robocall against Ron Paul here at the office (on our office line?  at 5:20 p.m?).  In the call, the recorded voice tells me that the National Organization for Marriage organized the successful effort to... »

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A Legendary Awesomeness: Zelda

I've always had a great affection for the "Zelda" series of video games for Nintendo. My son Logan is now 16, and he and I have played all of the Zelda games in all their incarnations across all the Nintendo platforms. Much like my son grew up with the... »

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