US president Donald Trump "elevated his political interest above the national interest and demanded foreign interference in an American election," Peter Beinart asserts at The Atlantic. "What's received less attention is what the scandal reveals about Joe Biden: He showed poor judgment because his staff shielded him from hard truths. If that sounds faintly familiar, it's because that same tendency underlay Hillary Clinton's email woes in 2016."

WASHINGTON DC (November 13, 2019) — The Center for Security Policy (CSP) will present a panel discussion featuring Austrian author and free speech champion Elizabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff on Thursday 14, November 2019, 1–2PM EST. Moderated by the Center’s Vice President for Research and Analysis, Clare M.

ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS (November 13, 2019) — Many of the immigrant families that the Jews and Christians in the Quad Cities are supporting through the QC Night to Honor Israel are affected by the rockets being fired by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza. We will continue to closely monitor the situation and provide immediate support if needed.

Come you masters of war/You that build the big guns You that build the death planes/You that build all the bombs You that hide behind walls/You that hide behind desks I just want you to know/I can see through your masks…. You fasten all the triggers/For the others to fire Then you sit back and watch/When the death count gets higher You hide in your mansion/While the young people's blood Flows out of their bodies/And is buried in the mud. — Bob Dylan, “Masters of War”

"Wasting resources, capital, and income on stuff nobody really needs," Charles Hugh Smith wrote in 2017, "is a monumental disaster on multiple fronts. Rather than establish incentives to conserve and invest wisely, our system glorifies waste and the destruction of income and capital, as if burning time, capital, resources, and wealth on stuff nobody needs is strengthening the economy."

ROCK ISLAND, ILLINOIS (November 12, 2019) — Poetry Out Loud, a free high-school program which encourages the nation's youth to learn about great poetry through analysis, memorization, and recitation, is now open to Illinois high school students. This program helps high-school students master public-speaking skills, build self-confidence, learn of their literary heritage, and compete for more than $100,000 in awards.

"If the facts are your side," famed attorney and former law professor Alan Dershowitz instructed his students, "pound the facts into the table. If the law is on your side, pound the law into the table. If neither the facts nor the law are on your side, pound the table." As Republican attacks on the US House of Representatives' impeachment inquiry grow in fury, they more and more resemble the third instruction in Dershowitz's maxim.

The US House of Representatives soberly fulfills its constitutional obligation to investigate alleged wrongdoing by a sitting president, steadily building its case for that president's impeachment. The Deep State schemes to remove a sitting president, trumping up (pun intended) supposed "high crimes and misdemeanors" and gaming a faux-constitutional "impeachment probe" to deny that president due process to which he's entitled.

JOHNSTON, IOWA (November 6, 2019) — Iowa Public Television announced today the launch of its newest online series, The Life Autistic.

DES MOINES, IOWA (November 5, 2019) — On Thursday, November 7, 11:30AM CST, the National Wildlife Federation will host US Armed Services veterans State Representative Brian Meyer and nonprofit leader Jim Mower for a veteran roundtable discussion on how climate change is impacting America’s national security.  

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