One of the fun things sports writers do is try to predict the winners and scores of upcoming games, from high school through the pros. For special “look-at-us-we’re important” bonus points, they create lists of “Top” teams and rank them, both pre-season and weekly. Sports writers have some kind of genetic ...

How the National Rifle Association and the Iowa Legislature are threatening Iowa wildlife. by Walter Brasch Iowa, which gave us the carnival known as the Iowa Straw Poll and artery-clogging Deep Fried Butter, will unleash another health problem, beginning Sept. 1. The Iowa legislature last year approved a dove hunting season, the first ...

Between the scam that is the Tea Party and the scam that is the modern GOP, Walter Brasch writes, there's not a sliver of light to be found. by Walter Brasch The Tea Party, mutant spawn of the Republicans, held their spineless parents and the nation hostage during the debt ceiling crisis, ...