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Greatest Love Songs Ever: #22 “All the Things You Are”
By Tom Quiner, Board President, Pulse Life Advocates “You are the promised kiss of springtime, that makes the lonely winter seem long.” These romantic words by the legendary Oscar Hammerstein…
Read MoreGreatest Love Songs Ever: #23 “Let’s fall in love”
Hamlet poses the portentous question, “to be or not to be?” in one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. He offers the question in the context of whether to go on living.…
Read MoreSchool shootings and the Baby Olivia bill
In light of the tragic shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis, a question resounds from coast to coast: Why do so many school shootings take place? One…
Read MoreGreatest Love Songs Ever: #24 “Do You Love me?”
By Tom Quiner, Board President, Pulse Life Advocates What IS this thing called love? That’s the question Cole Porter poses in a song by that very title. Sheldon Harnick, lyricist…
Read MoreGreatest Love Songs Ever: #25 “Night and Day”
By Tom Quiner As the saying goes, the cream rises to the top. One of the best American songwriters ever makes his first (but not last) entry onto my list…
Read MoreWhat a 2025 Iowa State Fair!
Once again, Pulse Life Advocates, in conjunction with our allies, Iowa Right to Life, reached thousands of Iowans with a positive pro-life message at the 2025 Iowa State Fair. From…
Read MoreGreatest Love Songs Ever: #26 “Body and Soul”
By Tom Quiner, Pulse Life Advocates Board President “Body and Soul” may be the most sophisticated song musically-speaking on our list of the 52 Greatest Love Songs Ever. It’s a…
Read MoreGreatest Love Songs Ever: #27 “My Funny Valentine”
We live in an era of liposuction, breast augmentation, rhinoplasty, blepharoplasty, and abdominoplasty. Turn on the television and you’ll hear pitches for hair gloss, face serum, cream blush, toner mist,…
Read MoreGreatest love songs ever: #28 “Sweet Caroline”
“The good times never felt so good!” That’s the feeling that washes over young lovers as they bask in the glow of Neil Diamond’s classic 1969 love song, “Sweet Caroline.”…
Read MoreGreatest love songs ever: #29 “Happy Together”
This frothy confection vaulted to number one on the Billboard charts in 1967. “Happy Together” is a simply delightful example of American pop music at its finest. It is…
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