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Opinion

The truth about Iowa’s book ban

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The Iowa book-ban law is working exactly as planned. Don’t let them tell you any different. This spring, Iowa Republicans passed a law they want you to believe reasonably outlawed smut in the school library. We heard repeatedly that perverts were trying to groom our children, and somebody ...

Privacy versus safe streets: Hard choice

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Ihad a tough argument with a friend who was incensed that our local police had placed traffic cameras at major intersections. He felt that the authorities were running surveillance on innocent citizens. I countered that if police officers sitting in their cars observed drivers going through red ...

Sorry, But Barbie is still a problem

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When I was a little girl, my parents bought me a Barbie — a blonde, blue-eyed doll who I played with for years before I ever met a blond, blue-eyed person. My doll set the standard for beauty — one that was out of reach of a brown-skinned, dark-haired kid whose body type was chubby in ...

Job 12: 24-25

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“He takes away the understanding of the chiefs of the people of the Earth. And makes them wander in a pathless wilderness. They grope in the dark without light. And he makes them stagger like a drunken man.”

Building the border wall and fighting the fentanyl crisis

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President Biden has overseen the worst border crisis in recent memory. Since the beginning of his administration, more than 5.5 million illegal immigrants have crossed our border, and in July alone, illegal border crossings increased by 30%. This has not happened by accident. The Biden ...

An introduction to esports

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Greetings! My name is Nathan Rodemeyer, and I represent one half of the esports programs at Marshalltown Community College, the other half being coach Andrew Goforth. I’d like to take you on a journey and share the story of MCC’s esports programs over the last year. First, I want to ...