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Cryoablation spells relief

Friday, Nov. 7 probably was the best day I’ve had in two years of bad news. I rode shotgun as Dolores drove me home from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, seemingly free of prostate cancer following an innovative procedure not readily available in our Byzantine health care system. A radiologist, Dr. Daniel Adamo, on Nov. 4 froze out my tumors in an out-patient procedure that lasted a couple hours. The operation, called cryoablation, was done while I was in a live magnetic resonance imaging session, so needles shooting frigid gas could be precisely targeted at the tumors. Multiple ...

We’re here, we’re annoyed and we’re not gonna take it anymore

I’m forming a new political party. No offense intended to the two major ones we already have, but they stink. OK, well, if I’m being honest, some offense was intended. Currently, we’re at “invading Venezuela to distract attention from the Epstein files” levels of incompetence, so a bit of change seems warranted. I’m going to call my party The Nuisance Liberation Front, and you’re welcome to join. We’re not going to tackle any hot-button social topics — you can go somewhere else if you want action on wedge issues. We’re dealing only with the stuff everyone ...

Voting to end the Dems’ shutdown and reopen the government

On Nov. 12, I voted to end the Democrat shutdown and reopen the federal government. For 43 days, Democrats forced our troops, border patrol agents, and Air Traffic Controllers to work without pay and hurt our farmers during harvest season to push their out-of-touch agenda. This political stunt ...

Truly a gift that keeps on giving

We’ve all seen that commercial around this time of year. The person runs out to their driveway to see their gift of a new car is there – resplendent with a giant red bow. Talk about a wow factor (and someone with way more of a holiday gift budget than me!) But, what if the gift you ...

What makes things affordable?

Affordability. It’s the word on everybody’s lips. Ever since self-described socialist Zohran Mamdani became the frontrunner in the New York City mayoral election by saying the word “affordability” with talismanic regularity, we have been told that the key to modern politics is that word’s repetition. Say “affordability,” and watch your polls rise. And yet the world becomes ever more unaffordable. Why? Because there is, in the end, only one way to make things more affordable: to reduce prices. And there are only two ways to reduce prices: to reduce demand, or to ...

A look at Iowa’s 2025 school bond referendums

Forty-three Iowa school districts held bond referendums Tuesday. According to unofficial results from the Iowa Secretary of State’s Office, 18 passed, 15 had a majority in favor but not the required 60 percent supermajority, and 10 failed to reach 50 percent. The middle category has five ...