The passion for freedom, liberty, and keeping g’ummint out of our private affairs is arguably stronger now than it was in the ’80s. (Note to the radicals pushing abortion bans and other personal-liberty-negating nonsense: your attacks on our freedoms will not prevail!)

The chicken-coop issue of the 2022 election is … CO2 pipelines. Big corporations think of themselves as not only too-big-to-fail but too-big-to-not-get-everything-they-want from their pals in government. In Iowa, pro-CO2 pipeline corporations are discovering opposition to their get-rich-quick scheme is huge.

How huge? Like Osterberg”s campaign in the 1980s, potentially huge enough to impact legislative races this fall. Take Jessica Wiskus of Linn County, whose farm is in the path of the Wolf Pipeline. Not only has the threat of eminent domain made an activist out of Jessica, she’s decided to run for the statehouse this fall. She’s a Democrat, and normally, that seat is one a Democrat couldn’t win — just like the seat Osterberg captured in the 1980s. Continue Reading →