"El Rey, a market specializing in Mexican products that also was a restaurant and sold firearms, was destroyed by a fire days before Christmas." Kyle Werner reporting for the Des Moines Register. Perry, Iowa Interesting combination, Mexican grocery store, Mexican restaurant, and gun store.

Looks like the University of Oklahoma has a new degree program they'll be great at.

North Carolina State Patrol announced seven people lost their lives in the crash of a Cessna Citation 550. Airport staff confirmed one of the individuals on that plane was retired NASCAR driver Greg Biffle. Authorities are not releasing any other victim information pending identification of those.

Forecasters predict snow in the Cedar Rapids area this afternoon and this evening. Part of a narrow snow band stretching across the entire state from northwest to southeast.

I think this ad was meant for married men in Kentucky and Tennessee.

Quote of the Day: "He's like a man with a fork in a world of soup." --Noel Gallagher of Oasis on his brother Liam.

Scope of this winter storm at 7:45 am CST.

Regional road conditions as of 7:30 am, CST.

“At the same time I graduated from Chicago, there were a couple of people graduating from Dartmouth, who had worked at the Dartmouth Review. People may recognize Laura Ingraham, Dinesh D’Souza. They were in this group. And I’ve come to see they were not pro-conservative, they were anti-left."

Marion officials announced implementation of their Winter Storm Parking protocol. All residents need to move their vehicles off city streets until Sunday evening.

Iowa road conditions as of 7:30 pm.

If a phone still works fine, it’s not “device hoarding” to keep using it. It’s common sense.

Thanksgiving should be time spent with loved ones reflecting on gratitude, not picking political fights with your family.

Latest snow accumulation forecast from the National Weather Service for the winter storm expected to affect our area from Friday night through early Sunday morning.

The incompetence in this prosecution is incredible.

"Many learned people seem to feel that the quality of readableness in a book is one which warrants suspicion. Indeed, not a few learned people seem to feel that the fact that a book is interesting is proof that it is shallow." --Teddy Roosevelt to American Historical Assoc., 1912

"The greatest literary historian must of necessity be a master of the science of history, a man who has at his finger-tips all the accumulated facts from the treasure-houses of the dead past. But he must also possess the power to marshal what is dead so that before our eyes it lives again." -TR

I'm at the Democratic nominating convention for Iowa Senate district 16 in West Des Moines. Delegates from the precincts in this district (covering Windsor Heights and parts of Clive and WDM) will nominate a candidate for Dec. 30 special election to replace the late Dem State Senator Claire Celsi.

Honor boxes Moscow, IA

We really need to understand what happened to the bag with 50,000 dollars in cash Homan accepted.

Glad to display Michael Bowling’s yard sign. He is a candidate I support.

I wear the badge of being disliked by ideologues proudly.

Under the category, "Pointless Changes," Apple Watchers report the company will update its MacBook Pro line in 2026 with a touch screen.

Happy Columbus Day to all the Italian-Americans celebrating their heritage today. This is not just a commemoration day in the United States, but many countries in the Americas recognize Columbus' arrival. Enjoy!

The shameless GOP lying about the No Kings gatherings scheduled for next Saturday reveals how deeply hostile much of the Republican Party is to “the right of the people peaceably to assemble.” I look forward to our local No Kings event, and urge my fellow Americans to attend in their communities.

@smerconish.bsky.social Simple question regarding Arab-Israeli peace: Do the Palestinians accept that Israel should exist?

34 Years Ago Today:

This is a question asked on the application for an Air Force Major Command Historian position.

"Christianity has morphed into an identity group, untethered from much Christian teaching. It has become another tribal association jockeying for power and pursuing grievances. The problem is when religions devolve into identitarian movements, bad things happen." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Just a reminder...

Brilliant!

Pete Hegseth exemplifies those former military members whose peak in life occurred at Basic Training graduation.

Picture of killer’s truck at the Mormon Church in Grand Blanc.

Noah catalogued every living animal in pairs and was hyperfocused on boats. Don’t tell me autism started with Tylenol.

Time to ask my elected representatives why they are not providing Congressional oversight.

"They give me only bad publicity or press. I mean, they're getting a license. I would think maybe their license should be taken away." --Convicted Felon Donald Trump Time for letters to my elected officials asking if they support the foundational idea of press freedom in America.

When ancestry.com's DNA test reports a DNA location eastern Europe.

Why yes, yes you are. Glad you recognize that.

Bluegills are fun to catch but WOW is a pumpkinseed a gorgeous change of pace! (Happy to hear dissenting opinions if anyone says green sunfish.)

My kid, every Sunday: “why did you hand this stupid fandom down to me?? Why couldn’t we be Giants fans or something?!? I swear to God; I’m going to become a Titans fan!” You are killing the souls of Chicagoland’s youth, Bears.

Seems fair to me.

Charlie Kirk Show, said during the show he tweeted from his account on August 28th.

Kirk should not be lionized.