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Is it the return of woke?

After sweeping the swing states and winning the popular vote in 2024, Donald Trump took office with a sense that he occupied the center and had dealt the cultural left a grave blow. Non-aligned or heterodox voices in the podcasting world and media had gravitated toward him, alienated by the ...

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Oil Fluctuations Across Nations As of Friday, Texas Crude Oil was over $101 per barrel, and Brent was trading over $109. Prices rallied due to Middle East tensions, including Strait of Hormuz shipping disruptions, and Houthi strikes near Saudi energy infrastructure. At the same time, though, diesel exports from Russia are on the increase which should help buffer that rally. Cattle Moo-ves in Dry Conditions Live cattle futures finished up 2.12 cents Friday closing at 227.25 cents per pound. Feeder Cattle futures gained 3.5 cents moving to 343.60 cents per pound. Packers bid around $226 ...

Trump's final humiliation of Lindsey Graham

Dear Lindsey, Your body had not long been in the grave when your pal Donald Trump made the anti-Russia legislation that carried your name a nullity. Wondering how you'd feel about this if you were around to see it. The whole point of your last decade of life was the belief (or was it a ...

How Marshalltown could sell a data center to the public

First of all, I am personally against having a Data Center in Marshalltown or Marshall County for numerous reasons. Having said that, I believe city officials will try to ram this down our throats against the will of the majority, no matter what. So I have a proposal. If city officials are bent on having a Data Center, which they say may generate $3.5 million annually in new tax revenue, how about the good citizens of Marshalltown demand that for at least 20 years, every penny of tax money generated from 'a Data Center' goes to paying down our current $80 million outstanding debt. ...

ASK AUGUSTINE

How have our churches failed us? I believe our churches (well okay, not all of them-but most of them) have failed us because too many of our pulpits remain silent when they should be speaking out. Here are just a few examples: Babies are being murdered in the womb and our pulpits are silent. Planned Parenthood kills babies with our tax dollars, and our pulpits are silent. Children’s service agencies separate family members, and our pulpits are silent. Tolerance trumps Truth, and our pulpits are silent. Many say Christians and Muslims worship the same God, and our pulpits ...