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In July 2011, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican who serves as ranking member on the Judiciary Committee, recorded and posted the following video regarding the upcoming reauthorization of the 1994 Violence Against Women Act (VAWA): At that time, at least based on this weekly address, Grassley was concerned about oversight and accountability in [...]

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; … ~ Rudyard Kipling, opening stanza from the poem “If” It’s unusual to read a book and simultaneously have a [...]

Sharron Angle, a Nevada Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, told conservative radio entertainer Bill Manders that she cannot and will not accept abortion under any circumstances, specifically stating that women who are victims of rape and incest should not be allowed to access an abortion. From a press release by the Nevada State Democratic Party: [...]

Iowa Rep. Deborah Berry, a Democrat from Waterloo, provides great closing remarks on SF 2357, a bill that seeks to prevent domestic violence. The House has passed the bill, which is now in the Iowa Senate.

A 30-year-old Urbandale woman who served three tours in Iraq as member of the Iowa Air National Guard is dead this week, believed to have been gunned down by her estranged husband in his Des Moines apartment. Tereseann Lynch, according to police reports, was believed to have been abducted Wednesday from a mall nearby and [...]

Some of you may remember a vibrant young military wife and mother who traveled from Fort Hood to campaign for then-Sen. Joe Biden during 2008 caucuses. I was honored to have an opportunity to interview Carissa Picard, and have been even further blessed by our long-distance friendship. When I first heard the news today about [...]

The folks at RH Reality Check have set up a petition on act.ly to request the powers-that-be at eBay to remove an auction item because the description advocates for violence against abortion providers. “… God takes the position that ALL who kill the innocent need to be killed. …” Monies potentially gathered from the auction [...]

A couple of press releases — one from U.S. Rep. Leonard Boswell (Iowa-3rd) and the other from U.S. Rep. Dave Loebsack (Iowa-2nd) — arrived in my e-mail box yesterday and deserve a note here. Loebsack has co-sponsored a U.S. House resolution in support of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, while Boswell has introduced the Armed Forces [...]

I have this thing about traditions. That is, I’m not one of those individuals who will follow a tradition because It has “always been done that way.” This story from Newsweek is one of the primary reasons why: One day, when Sila Folow was an 8-year-old girl living in Mali, four elderly women held her [...]

A Des Moines man phoned emergency services at 5:15 a.m. this morning to let them know that he had accidentally beaten his girlfriend to death. KCCI reporter Keri Gavin said police have told her the body of a woman was found at the scene in the back of a pickup truck. The truck is parked [...]