Once upon a time, yet, in my lifetime, there were news anchors that we trusted and news gathering organizations that held the highest principles of journalism craddled to their corporate bosom. The first obligation of American journalism is to the truth because it has been understood, from our very beginning, that the survival of our democracy depends on…
Category: Gary Kroeger
“Your logic is seriously flawed, Captain.”
My shoulders ache. They get that way when I forget to breathe. I forget to breathe when I think too much. I think too much when I’m frustrated. I get frustrated when I talk to people about politics and logic becomes irrelevant in their arguments. Most of the arguments I hear from the anti-Obama voters centers around…
He Said, She Said
When I was married (I’m divorced) one of the most aggravating things that would happen when I had a “beef” is that my wife would counter with, “Yeah, well once you…” and she would then list mistakes I’ve made in the past that may, or may not, be relevant to my complaint, but nevertheless negated any…
District 59 belongs to Bob!
Soon after I moved back to Cedar Falls, I met a guy running for re-election to the State House named Bob Kressig. I was attending a fundraiser for Bruce Braley where Braley announced his candidacy for the House of Representatives, and Bob came up to me and introduced himself (as well as his lovely wife,…
Lean to the left! Lean to the right! Stand up-sit down- fight-fight-fight!
Allow me to illustrate what the right wing means when they talk of the “left wing media bias.” Imagine that Presidents Bush and Obama are standing next to each other while attending an Easter Egg Hunt on the White House lawn. President Obama is in his normal business attire, suit and tie, while President Bush…
Danielson for Real Leadership!
Last Summer I attended a fundraiser for Iowa Senate incumbent and local firefighter, Jeff Danielson. He launched his campaign and as he spoke to the crowd of around 200 supporters he gave a brief history of Iowa congressional activity during his two previous terms. Danielson illustrated a consistent divide between the left side of the…
Is this cup half empty or half full of lazy Americans?
I try very hard to keep my political arguments civil. I have been known to fire back with a little hostility at times in threads that became insulting, but it is never my intention going in to get nasty, quite the opposite actually. I do research, I don’t accept rhetoric from either side at face…
Dear World, First let me apologize for Mitt Romney…
Mitt Romney has centered his message around a very succinct concept: He will never apologize for America. The sentiment is building momentum for his uneven campaign as we inch closer to November and now he’s getting raves from conservatives, who previously eluded him, for his book, “No Apology; The Case For America’s Greatness.” Millions of…
“I pledge allegiance to the flags of the Divided States of America…”
If I were magic, do you know what I would do? Well…there are several things like getting rid of Daylight Savings Time and I’d make Rick Santorum say, “Oops, I farted” every time he mentions how he’s lost his freedoms, but there’s no point going into all of them if I’m going to make the…
True Americans understand the value of debate
I had an interesting experience today. A friend was afraid that she might have missed my latest column in the Waterloo/Cedar Falls Courier (for which I am a new Op-Ed columnist) and so she went to their website and did a “search.” When an article came up, she read it and assumed that it was…