Raw politics – update

By James Q. Lynch – The mystery of the skinny-dipper at the hotel where the Iowa delegation has been staying has been solved.
Turns out the naked man in the pool was just making himself at home. Apparently, the dress code is a little more relaxed at home in Sweden.
A Swedish news reporter said he was [...]

Visualize this

By James Q. Lynch – No one could blame Iowa conventioneers if they had trouble following U.S. Rep. Steve King as he described vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin Thursday morning.
First, he talked about how she had “nailed a 10″ and added, “She’s our Shawn Johnson,” referring to the gold medal Olympian from West Des Moines.
Later, [...]

What a small world

By Tim Demuth – Truly one of the highlights of circling around the Republican convention is the all the sort of people that you could never expected to run into.
Today, the man in charge of the security for out hotel, Mr. John Bay, turned out to be a native of Decorah, who knows Bob Bruce [...]