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Posted 05/15/12

Arnie Arnesen and Steffen Schmidt

Obesity: Equal Opportunity Misery for Some

Posted 05/15/12

By Dave Swenson

Trying Terrorists in a Court? You Are Kidding, Right?!

Posted 05/12/12

By Steffen Schmidt

Our Heritage of Freedom Must Be Maintained

Posted 05/12/12

By Michael Krull

The Global Class War: The Road to the WTO, Part II

Posted 05/12/12

By Dennis Keith Yergler

Newt is out and Obama scored a direct hit in his trip to Afghanistan

Posted 05/03/12

By Steffen Schmidt

Critical Constituencies 2012

Posted 05/03/12

By Steffen Schmidt

Defaulting on the Intergenerational Compact

Posted 04/27/12

By Dave Swenson

The Global Class War: The Road to the World Trade Organization, Part I

Posted 04/27/12

By Dennis Keith Yergler

Nuns Under Attack

Posted 04/25/12

By Steffen Schmidt

Dr. Politics

Critical Constituencies 2012

By Steffen Schmidt

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Steffen Schmidt is a University Professor of Political Science at Iowa State University and the Chief Political Correspondent for InsiderIowa.com. He is the lead author of the country's most widely adopted introductory college textbook, "American Government and Politics Today." He provides weekly political analysis for The Des Moines Register, and periodically in Spanish for CNN en Español.

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Obesity: Equal Opportunity Misery for Some

By Dave Swenson

A childhood taunt that was mean, though in truth rarely uttered. In my youth, few people, most especially school children, were overweight. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 7 percent of young school children were obese in 1980. The corresponding figure as of the latest National Health Survey is 20 percent. Among teens, the rate grew from 5 percent in 1980 to 18 percent. Childhood obesity rates have tripled or more and are still heading upward. MORE

Dave Swenson is a long-time analyst of Iowa political, social, and economic issues. He is a staff research economist at Iowa State University and a community and regional economics analyst and educator. He also teaches planners (those nefarious agents of totalitarian control) how to do economic things in their profession at both Iowa State University and The University of Iowa.

Michael Krull

Our Heritage of Freedom Must Be Maintained

By Michael Krull

Throughout our history, however, we have had a continual tension between maintaining a limited government with restricted power, and the urge to grow an ever-expanding centralized government with nearly unlimited power. Generally, I classify these two ends of the spectrum freedom (liberty) and statism (subservience, dependence). In my view, we want more freedom and less statism. MORE

Michael Krull is a graduate of Luther College and Iowa State University. He has worked on disaster relief for the State Department, a major Washington, DC public relations and political consulting firm, and is currently working for American Solutions for Winning the Future. He is a member of the Council on Emerging National Security Affairs.

The Attitude by Arnie Arnesen

I am from Taiwan, Obama is from Switzerland and Mitt, Rick and Newt are from Mars

By Arnie Arnesen

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D. Arnie Arnesen is a radio and TV commentator based in New Hampshire. She has lectured at Harvard, Dartmouth, UNH, SNHU, Vermont Law School, St. Olaf and other colleges. She is a former NH Legislator and a former democratic nominee for Governor and Congress. Arnie has been a Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government's Institute of Politics at Harvard and has trainied women who want to run for office throughout the United States and future NH Leaders. You can hear Arnie every Wednesday on Talk of Iowa on IowaPublicRadio.org and every Friday on the Dan Mitchell Show on WKBKam.com. Don't miss Arnie's new radio station Monday - Friday 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. EST streaming live at: nhnewsviewsblues.org WNHN 94.7

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