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September 2010

Sep 5 Can the Democrats Avoid a Disaster this November?

By Steffen Schmidt 

Sep 5 The Great Jobs Depression Worsens, and the Choice Ahead Grows Starker

By Robert Reich 

Sep 4 Positive Effects of Hurricanes

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Sep 4 On Economy, Democrats Face a Lack of Unity and Time

By Jackie Calmes 

Sep 3 New York Poll Finds Wariness About Muslim Center

By Michael Barbaro and Marjorie Connely

 

Sep 3 Israeli and Palestinian Peace Talks

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

 

August 2010

Aug 29 Former RNC Chairman Comes Out

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Aug 29 For Obama, Steep Learning Curve as Chief in Time of War

By Peter Baker 

Aug 28 The Democrats in November 2016 (or later)

By Steffen Schmidt 

Aug 27 Mosque At Ground Zero

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Aug 25 Worlds Biggest Traffic Jam

By Steffen Schmidt 

Aug 24 Bad Government Bureaucrats

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt                                            

Aug 15 Did The USA Do It Wrong; The Germans Right?

By Steffen Schmidt 

Aug 8 Mass Holes In The Roads

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Aug 6 The GOP Finds Another Wedge Issue

By Eleanor Clift 

Aug 3 Angle: The Press Should 'Ask The Questions We Want To Answer' (VIDEO)

By Sam Stein 

 

July 2010

Jul 28 Americans Are Generous, Kind and Caring

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jul 26 Race and Politics

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jul 23 Save or Spend? How do We Fix the U.S. Economy?

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jul 13 Illegal Immigration: Is it the Explosive Political Issue for November 2010?

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jul 10 The Politics of Food and Fuel

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jul 10 Fishing Boats Photo Exhibit

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jul 5 Who Will Win the November Elections?

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jul 5 Alternative View: “Pretty Good” Choices to Deal with the Mess We’re In

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jul 2 Happy News From Afghanistan! Ya Gotta Be Kidding!

By Steffen Schmidt 

 

June 2010

Jun 28 Raw Video - Jammin' in Seattle

With Steffen Schmidt 

Jun 27 Don’t Criticize The Boss If He’s The President

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Jun 26 Economic Crisis: Is the European Analogy Valid?

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jun 25 Americans and Europeans are Different

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jun 22 Tugboat Annie

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jun 22 Generals and Politicians: The Dangerous Chain of Command Problem

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jun 19 Don’t Stop all Children from Working

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jun 17 British Politics - The "New" Labor Party

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Jun 15 The British Labor Party Opposition: An Interesting Bunch of Blokes and Bloquettes

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jun 13 BP Oil Disaster: The View From Britain

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jun 13 Obama in the UK: Things Are Not Going Well

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jun 2 Honest Compromise Necessary for Immigration Reform

By Ashley Cruseturner 

 

May 2010

May 31 Coastal Issues and Problems

Video by Steffen Schmidt 

May 31 Compassionate Government? You Betcha!

By Steffen Schmidt 

May 31 Fishing Boats Photo Exhibit

By Steffen Schmidt 

May 26 Why We Don’t Believe the Experts Anymore

By Steffen Schmidt 

May 26 Can The Europeans Afford It?

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

May 26 Steffen's music video of the week
May 24 How We Have Been Wrecking the Oceans for 200 Years

By Steffen Schmidt 

May 24 Oh No! Europe Doesn’t Work Either!

By Steffen Schmidt 

May 22 My Oil Spill Op Ed Piece is Making my Life a Living (e-mail) Hell

By Steffen Schmidt 

May 20 Comments on Primary Election

Commentary by Steffen Schmidt  

May 20 What Happened on Primary “Super Tuesday?”

By Steffen Schmidt 

May 18 Who Are These Fellas?

By Steffen Schmidt 

May 16 Health Care Reform and Politics – Everyone is Ticked Off!

By Steffen Schmidt 

May 14 Identity Theft Security Project

Video by Steffen Schmidt 

May 12 Oil Spill Shakes Up Federal Agency

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

May 12 No Protestants on the Supreme Court

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

May 8 The British Elections and a Hung Parliament

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

May 8 New Poll Shows Surprises in Iowa's Governor's Race

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

May 6 What The Greek Economic Crisis Means For The American Economy

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

May 2 What Obama Will Look for in His Supreme Court Appointment

By Steffen Schmidt 

May 1 Illegal Immigration and American Hypocrisy

By Steffen Schmidt 

 

April 2010

Apr 30 Healthcare Reform Forum: Ethics, Anger, Justice, Access

By Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 27 Lessons from the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

By Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 27 Problems With Immigration Law

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 27 Why we won't be hearing "Drill Baby Drill" in the near future

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 26 The Media and Politics

Video Interview of John Barron by Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 25 What are the Democrats Chances in the 2010 Elections?

By Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 21 The Urgent Need to Secure Loose Nukes

Michael Krull and Arnie Arnesen 

Apr 20 Volcano Eruption Teaches Us New Lessons

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 20 Governor Culver Under Investigation for Casino Money

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 19 The British General Election, 2010: Does the Campaign Matter

Geoffrey Pridham, University of Bristol, UK  

Apr 19 Now for Something Completely Unexpected: Eyjafjallajökull

By Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 18 Iowa Civic Culture

By Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 18 Iowa Interest Groups

Video by Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 18 Public Opinion in Iowa

Video by Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 18 Iowa Supreme Court and Civil Liberties

Video by Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 14 The Urgent Need to Secure Loose Nukes

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 14 Factors Likely to be Considered in Nominating the Next Supreme Court Justice

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 12 Once Upon a Time Supreme Court Nominations Were the President’s Choice

By Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 8 Michael Steele RNC Scandal

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 8 Iowa GOP Governors Race Getting Interesting

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 7 Amaya appointed to Commission on Presidential Scholars

By Steffen Schmidt  

Apr 5 The Movie “Brazil” and the Future of the U.S.

By Steffen Schmidt 

Apr 5 A Fair-Minded View of the Progressive Impulse

By Ashley Cruseturner 

Apr 1 The Run Up to the 2012 Iowa Caucuses

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

 

March 2010

Mar 31 Interesting New Iowa Laws

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 31 Mitt Romney’s Back in Town

By Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 31 Reality Check: Obama's New Oil Drilling Plans

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 26 Violence As a Means of Politics

By Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 25 Regulating Finances and Giving Consumers More Rights

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 25 Healthcare Reform and the Future of the GOP

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 24 Now That Healthcare Is Passed What Should the GOP Do?

By Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 22 Why Should You Care About Healthcare Reform?

By Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 19 Healthcare is Broken: Why should I Care?

By Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 17 The Clinton Strategy That We Almost Forgot: Confrontation

By Ashley Cruseturner 

Mar 16 The Iowa Courts

By Steffen Schmidt

Mar 10 Rick Perry: Taming the Tea Party

By Ashley Cruseturner 

Mar 9 Iowa's Foreign Policy

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 9 Upcoming Gubernatorial Debates

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 8 Should Iowa Have a Constitutional Convention?

By Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 6 Politics and Health Care

Iowa Hospital Association Keynote Speech by Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 5 Information Breaches and Internet Security

Video interviews by Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 4 Negligence in Protecting Iowa’s Critical Infrastructure

By Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 3 Gun Control and the Supreme Court: The Debate Grows

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 3 Politicians Should Avoid Funny Headgear: A Case Study

Video Commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Mar 2 News Update: Looting in Chile

By Steffen Schmidt 

 

February 2010

Feb 28 Iowa Caucuses Podcasts

By Steffen Schmidt 

Feb 28 Earthquakes I have known

By Steffen Schmidt 

Feb 26 The Democrats Can Make Good Politics out of Healthcare reform: If they Are Smart Enough

By Steffen Schmidt  

Feb 26 Operation Twenty Twelve

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Feb 26 Political Scandals: Late Breaking Updates

By Steffen Schmidt 

Feb 23 Healthcare May Be “Manifest Destiny” for this President and Congress

By Ashley Cruseturner 

Feb 22 Ron Paul and The Tea Baggers Seriously Challenge the GOP Establishment

By Steffen Schmidt 

Feb 21 Do Not Count Out this President

By Ashley Cruseturner 

Feb 18 Does Iowa Need Health Care Reform? Senator Jack Hatch Says "Yes"

Interview by Steffen Schmidt 

Feb 18 What is the Tea Party?

Video commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Feb 18 Will Senator John McCain be Tea Bagged?

Video commentary by Steffen Schmidt 

Feb 18 Representative Paul Shomshor on Iowa's Future

Interview by Steffen Schmidt 

Feb 16 Arnie Arnesen discusses changing the NH constitution on WGBH radio in Boston

 Arnie Arnesen via Callie Crossley Show

Feb 16 Comments on Sen. Bayh announcing he will not seek reelection

Video by Steffen Schmidt 

Feb 15 Rewriting History

By Steffen Schmidt 

Feb 11 We Need an Honest Diagnosis Regarding Health Care

By Ashley Cruseturner 

Feb 5 Interview with Republican Candidate for Governor Rod Roberts

 Interview by Stan Brewer

Feb 4 My Breakfast With Strong Women

By Steffen Schmidt  

Feb 3 Cyber Challenges

 By Steffen Schmidt

Feb 3 Are the Two Major Parties Too Lost to Right this Ship?

By Ashley Cruseturner 

Feb 2 Why the stimulus didn't create more jobs

Video by Steffen Schmidt 

Feb 1 Do we need a health care reform plan for Iowa?

Video by Steffen Schmidt 

 

January 2010

Jan 29 Is America in Crisis?

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jan 28 State of the Union Speech Analysis

 By Steffen Schmidt

Jan 28 Obama's State of Union Address Light on Specifics

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jan 28 Purchase a winner

By Steven Adams

Jan 26 State of the Union Prequel

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jan 23 Obama Healthcare - Share Your Comments

By Steffen SChmidt 

Jan 22 Dr. Politics Video: Massachusetts Senate Race

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jan 22 Supreme Court Rules Corporations Are People Too

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jan 21 The Grim Choices for Obama and Americans

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jan 20 Why The Republicans Won the “Ted Kennedy” Massachusetts Senate Seat

By Steffen Schmidt   

Jan 18 Dr. Politics Video: Reflections on America

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jan 15 American Policy, Moral Values, and The Tragedy in Haiti

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jan 14 Iowa Gov. Chet Culver’s State of the State 2010

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jan 14 Dr. Politics commentary on the book, Game Change

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jan 14 Dr. Politics Video Commentary on Gov. Culver's State of the State Address

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jan 10 Worthless Computer Systems, Federal Contracting and American Security

By Steffen Schmidt 

Jan 7 Leveraging the Internet for Your Benefit: Five Ideas for Community Newspapers, Newsletters, and Community Nonprofit Groups

By Steffen Schmidt 

 
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