Action Alert
Please contact your member of the Iowa House in support of legislation requiring schools to show students a video on fetal development. SF 175 has passed the Senate by a bipartisan vote of 31-13. The…
Read More
Greatest love songs ever: #47 “Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You”
By Tom Quiner The songwriting team of Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio wrote songs that delighted we Baby Boomers for more than four decades. Younger generations became acquainted with this talented songwriting duo with the…
Read More
Iowa abortions plummet by a third
Laws matter. Iowa’s abortion rate dropped by 32% in 2023 according to data released by Iowa Health and Human Services. Their new report, 2023 Vital Statistics of Iowa, January, 2025 reported that abortions dropped by…
Read More
Greatest love songs ever: #48 “And I Love Her”
By Tom Quiner Renown British novelist, Kingsley Amis, once drolly observed: “Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.” This obvious truth is belied by the radical replacement of the nice by the nasty in popular…
Read More
Top ten religious movies for Lent 2025
By TOM QUINER As far as I’m concerned, there are three types of religious movies: Biblical/Religious narratives. Movies about faith and inspiration. Movies that aren’t about faith and inspiration, but really are, without coming right…
Read More
Defining Normalcy Down
Representative Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) held a silly little placard (above) at the President’s address to Congress last week. It said, “This is not normal.” She has a point. Normalcy has changed. On the Republican side,…
Read More
Bonus Blogpost: Deborah’s Theme
By Tom Quiner I experienced a magical moment at the Chris Botti jazz concert at Hoyt Sherman last night. The jazz trumpeter played Ennio Morricone’s tender piece, “Deborah’s Theme,” from the 1984 gangster film, “Once…
Read More
Greatest love songs ever: #49 “Unforgettable”
By Tom Quiner Seldom has a love song gotten more bang for the buck out of its spare lyric. Irving Gordon wrote”Unforgettable” in 1951 with two brief verses and a terse refrain. But when you…
Read More
Who are happier: liberal or conservative women?
New York Times best-selling author, psychologist, and doctor, Leonard Sax, spoke at the first annual Forge Conference last Saturday in downtown Des Moines. He presented a sobering picture of the unhappy state of girls…
Read More
Greatest love songs ever: #50 “Stormy Weather”
By Tom Quiner “Don’t know why, There’s no sun up in the sky, Stormy weather, Since my man and I ain’t together, Keeps raining all the time.” These are some of the most memorable opening…
Read More