IOWA FIELD HOCKEY SWEEPS ACC CHALLENGE

Capital "C" Congratulations to Lisa Celluci and the Hawkeye field hockey team.  Iowa's 11th ranked women opened the season big time.  Went on the road and dropped 7th ranked Wake Forest in Winston-Salem.  A come from behind win in sudden death OT.  First year Hawkeye Meg Tebben tied the score with 51:34 on the clock.  Another first year Hawk, Reine van Hoof scored the winning goal 15 minutes later at the 66:46 mark.  The box score was impressive.  Iowa out shot the Deacs 13-7, dominated with 3-0 penalty corners, and only needed 2 save's to Wake's 8.  Four Hawks played their first game in this impressive road win.

Still in North Carolina, Iowa upset the 2nd ranked North Carolina Tar Heels the day after downing the Deacons.  The Hawkeye defense does what Hawkeye defenses do, domination.  Iowa's outstanding goal keeper Abby Johnson had nine saves.  The Hawks Frederique van Cleef tied the game in the third quarter, after Iowa trailed for nearly 16 minutes, and had never led.  Rachel Herbine scored the winning goal three minutes later.  Iowa's D dug in and held its lead until the final gun, the Kirk Ferentz MO to fans of Iowa football.

Frederique van Cleef was named Big Ten Co-Offensive Player of the Week today.  The Hawks should shoot up the polls after two top ten road wins.  Reine van Hoof was named Big Ten Freshman of the Week.  Update tomorrow.

The Hawks have their home opener this Friday at 3:30.  Playing 1-0 Lehigh.  Lehigh defeated Long Island University last Friday.  

As always  GO HAWKS!

BREAKING NEWS - LIVE US HITTING KHARG ISLAND

 A great source of Iranian action at Tousi TV.  Strongly recommend.  Tousi will be uploading live video soon.

GREAT NEWS -- WILD BISON & ELK ARE BACK IN IOWA!

These majestic creatures are worth preserving.  The Neal Smith refuge is really Iowa's best tourist destination.

AFFORDABILITY? DEM/COMS PLEASE???

Remember when?  This chart should be going out every day on every GOP social media platform.  

The Biden years saw record high prices of everything.  Remember when GOPns said Obamacare would fail, cost a fortune and drive up medical prices?  Who was right?

Remember when GOPns said the Green New Deal would cost a fortune and raise the price of everything?  Who was right?

Remember when the GOPNs said the Inflation Reduction Act would cost a fortune and increase inflation?  Who was right?

IT'S THE COST OF LIVING, STUPID

The Owl does not like paraphrasing Democrats, especially hateful, hideous creatures like James Carville.  Judging from the commercials unceasingly interrupting the Owl's viewing preferences it appears cost of living is 2026's proverbial "THE ISSUE".

This map is our commercial.

This is our candidate speaking:

Every Democrat/Socialist state has a higher cost of living than Iowa.  Voting Democrat/Socialist will make Iowa less affordable.  Voting Democrat/Socialist increases the cost of living.  California is nearly 60% more expensive than Iowa.  New York is 40% more expensive than Iowa.  Even Illinois is 5.6% more expensive.  That's nearly twice the national inflation rate.  That's Biden like inflation in a state just across the Mississippi, but a state run by Democrat/Socialists.  Iowa is already the  3rd most affordable state in the entire United States.  Can Iowans afford to double our state's inflation and pay more for gas, food, medicine, more for everything?  

Every candidate can say those 106 words in under 30 seconds, speaking emotively.  Let's just get to the point and stop talking about missed votes.

GOOD NEWS -- GAS PRICES FALL AGAIN

 More good news. Gas prices have fallen again.   Iowa is below the national average.  Affordability is an issue.  Voting Democrat raises gas prices.

The national average is incredibly skewed by the fantastic cost of case in heavily populated Blue States.   Nearly $6 per gallon in California.

The cost of fuel is 20% lower under the Joe Biden/Democrat "Inflation Reduction Act" gas markets.  In June of 2022, with Biden and Democrats controlling congress gas, at $5.0165 and diesel at $5.8159 were the most expensive in history.  California still has higher prices than the national historical highs.

CAEL - WINTER ANOTHER GREAT HAWKEYE STORY

Great story of a local Waukee kid who walked on at Iowa looks like the starter at center for Iowa.  Iowa is known for putting centers in the NFL.  Cael Winter - fire off the line and knock 'em on their butts.

OBAMA, METAPHOR & IRONY

Nothing says metaphor and irony like a school that adopted Barack Obama as its name is now closed because of infectious mold and rats.

GREAT NEWS: DEMOCRATS WILL NOT WIN THE SENATE

Great news from the latest consensus of polls.  The most likely result is another 53-47 GOP Senate.  That's a Republican Senate majority without Cassidy, Thillis, McConnell and Cornyn.  Those were four votes for Thune as majority leader.  All four GOP replacements are Trump endorsed.  All four will be enormous improvements over the Republicans they replace.  The Democrat/Communist Party will likely flip North Carolina and the GOPn/MAGA Party will likely flip Michigan.

The best news.  Based on history, this consensus of polls probably skews between 6-9% skews for Dem/Coms.  If polling history is as reliably biased as it has been, the GOP candidates will pick up 3%-5% more of the vote than polls show the day before the election.  If that trend prevails there will be two or three more GOP pickups, most likely Georgia, New Hampshire and North Carolina.  All three of those Republicans will be far more supportive of the Trump Agenda than their GOP or Dem/Com predecessors.

Good news to start the week.

JEREMY HECKLINSKI - HAWKEYE'S FUTURE AT QB?

The Owl flew by this analysis while flying in Hawkeye airspace.  The Hecklinski love is starting to demonstrate a trend. 

 

AUGUST 23 UPDATE - DEMOCRAT POLLING SERVICE CAUGHT RIGGING POLL FOR MONEY

The Owl just discovered major story about the major Democrat polling service The Public Sentiment Institute ("TPSI") rigging a poll to exaggerate an anti-Trump candidate's numbers.  The clear purpose was to exaggerate a minor candidate's appeal against Trump endorsed Byron Donalds.  TPSI has always skewed Dem/Com, and apparently will reveal fake polls for money. Now, TPSI has been caught.  The fallout is just starting but TPSI is being banned by polling aggregators.

DEMOCRATS & POLLING PROPAGANDA

The Owl has spent a great deal of time analyzing polling bias among the traditional polling services.  Like so many previously respectable public institutions, political polling has largely become mere propaganda for the Democrat/Communist revolution.

Quantus Insights, an admittedly right leaning private polling service did a deep analysis of polling data over the last ten years. The reader should note Quantus has been among the most accurate of polling services in the same period. Quantus found that the media and academic polling shows a consistent and growing Democrat skew. Other analysis found the skew peaks in the summer, after Memorial Day and before Labor Day.

The margins of error have grown every cycle.  All politically interested Iowans know the 26% error in the Gannett/Des Moines Register poll in 2024.  The DMR poll has always displayed preposterous bias and skewed results, well known to Iowans.  The historical problem is the DMR is no longer an outlier but the norm.  

Quantas found a distinct break with the past Democrat skewing began in 2016.  The major media and academic polling simply no longer samples voters most likely to vote Republican.

What this implies is staggering: polling isn’t merely wrong at the margins—it’s faulty at the foundations. The information being gathered no longer precisely reflects the universe it's attempting to measure. It's like the thermometer's stopped gauging the room and began gauging only the individuals nearest it.

The errors were not random, but systemically eliminated Republicans in particular states. Apropos 2026, the media and academic polling wildly exaggerated Democrat leads in Iowa, North Carolina and Maine. Differentials with actual results showed double digit skews. The GOP skews in the same time frames, especially in Wisconsin, Nevada and Arizona averaged .07% error. The Republican skew was not only tiny but in states where massive voter fraud appeared.

Another direct hit on public polling was the revelation that recent Democrat primaries involved fabricated polls showing DSA candidates with large advantages that disappeared, or did they?

GETTING TO KNOW ROB SAND CLOSE CHURCHES BLAME TRUMP

The Owl picked this up from X today.  All the way back in 2020 Rob Sand, Democrat/Communist candidate for governor of Iowa wanted to close churches and justified it as the Christian thing to do.  Sand's argument in this video is classic Dem/Com Orwellian double speak.  Probably learned that at Brown.

Strangely, no video has surfaced of Sand wanting to shut down BLM/Antifa riots, not even the little riots in Des Moines.

This guy would have forced nursing homes to accept Covid patients, like Andrew Cuomo and justified it as civil rights.   

DEMOCRATS, TIRES & DEATH

The state of California's massive taxation and regulation of gasoline and blend mixtures eventually and inevitably reduced driving miles in California.  Reduced driving lead to a reduction in tax revenue from California's exorbitant gas and fuel prices. 

California is as crazy Democrat/Communist as it gets in the United States.  California is a state that intentionally creates widespread drought and insufficient water to fill reservoirs near Los Angeles, leaving an area notorious for wild and devastating fires insufficient water to fuel Los Angles' fire pipes and hydrants.  Unsurprisingly California leads the nation in outward bound migration to other states.

Now, in response to the lost gas and fuel tax revenue, California is taxing tires and wildly regulating the tires that can be sold and used in California.  The new regulations will eliminate 70% of the tires used in California.  The unspoken collateral damage, the new taxes will need new public employees to implement the new regulations and taxes leading to a need for even more taxes to pay the new publicly employed regulators.

Increasing taxes and regulations will lead to more outward migration and fewer tire sales, also reducing the tax base and creating a need for more taxes on the remaining tax payers.  This is the death spiral of the Dem/Com regulatory state.  

P.S.  The Owl draws your attention to the second hyperlink-9 of the 10 states people leave are Dem/Com states.

THE DOWNFALL OF THE CLINTON/COMEY CONSPIRACY?

The historically evil James Comey is about to meet Thomas Hobson and Hobson's Choice.

The Owl opines that Comey's wife and possibly daughter (less likely) are teetering on the brink of indictment for the secret kill Trump message.  The proof against Comey and his wife is now overwhelming. All but the most blind partisan lawyers that have seen the published documents know proof of guilt far beyond a reasonable doubt exists; e.g. writing a book in which a charismatic character triggers an assassination of the American president through secret signals or staging an alibi with his wife two minutes before posting "8647".   Every adult knows 86ing means to kill something, as in kill an order, kill a deal, kill an alliance.  In addition to working on the alibi it appears Mrs. Comey misled the FBI about her involvement in the 8647 caper.  The multiple attempted assassinations after the message shows the message to be far more real than an abstraction.

This has not brought the Owl quite the personal joy to be expected for personal reasons.  Comey will be presented with a choice that he has presented many times to many people.  Rat out Hillary and the other fake Russia conspirators or the FBI will destroy you and your family.  Such a tactic is simply part of FBI culture.

The only real remaining question, will Comey try and balls it out and risk the family on a gamble that his genius will outwit everyone and save his family.  Comey's case is not in New York or Washington D.C., but North Carolina, rural North Carolina.  No guarantee of 12 Democrat jurors.  A man with no honor is about to be tested with the one thing he might possibly cherish more than self preservation. 

GETTING TO KNOW ROB SAND...COVID NAZI

The Owl feels like he's been in the tree too long.  Just saw an article about Rob Sand that really tells you more than his duplicitous personal history, his "male" modeling, and his "evil billionaire" in laws that dump toxic animal waste in the Iowa water table.  We know Sand has been unwilling to audit the fraudulent use of state funds by Iowa City, much less the Iowa DHS and the myriad of funds that disappear into that zero gravity environment.  We know Sand tried to circumvent Iowa's tort settlement fund and force the University of Iowa to pay settlements out of the Athletic Department's budget; because the Ferentz's are well known Republicans.  Then again, why would Sand care about Iowa, Iowa State or UNI when he is just another Ivy League snob?

The Owl didn't know Sand was a Covid Nazi.  Sand tried to obtain HIPPA personal health data back in 2020?  The vindictive nasty little man admitted his office did not need the information for any legitimate function, Sand just wanted this highly private health information because Sand felt he could legally obtain the HIPPA information.  Sand didn't just want Iowan's information, Sand was part of a larger Democrat/Communist conspiracy to steal highly sensitive healthcare information around the country.  

What possible reason could have existed for a state auditor's acquisition of personal health information if not some future malevolent use?  If this phony cosplaying Ed Gein would abuse his power as state Auditor, what the hell would he do with the power as Governor?

Sand has been running the Sherrill/Spangler campaign where he sounds moderate but his actions sound more like his donors, Pritzker, Newsom and Epstein Islander Reid Hoffman.  Sand has coopted Republican issues but it looks more like another Democrat billionaire for rules for everyone but himself.  

DEMOCRAT COMMUNIST VOTER DATABASE BIG LIE

The Democrats, even before they became communists, spent decades flooding voter lists with illegal voters. The whole motor voter registration process is a vehicle for voting fraud in states that issue driver licenses to foreigner regardless of legal status. Same day registration furthers fraudulent voting; a cheating voter can simply appear and register before anyone has an opportunity to confirm that voter's eligibility. This process is turbocharged in places like California where no voter ID is required. A fraudulent voter, or an imposter using the fraudulent voters name can appear vote in a different precinct throughout the day, and then repeat the process by mailing fraudulent ballots between whatever hour the polls close and midnight.  The Democrat/Communist 

This is no longer theory. Although investigations of alien voting fraud are in their infancy the Democrat/Communist Party has been caught red handed. An audit of New Jersey disclosed approximately 6,600 illegal aliens are registered to vote. New Jersey governor Mikie Sherrill initially claimed a "glitch" in the motor voter software. The software vendor responded and Sherrill shifted her argument. Sherrill now claims that she will conceal the identities of the illegal aliens to protect the illegal aliens' privacy and protect the illegal aliens from deportation by ICE. I guess that means the Dem/Com's claims that no illegal aliens are voting were false, and obviously lies.

Sherrill's argument has three other problems. First, voting registration data is public information. States and counties sell the voting lists to both parties in every election year. Second, Social Security information isn't private or secret when the federal government requests such data. The reason is obvious, the federal government issues the data. The only reason to conceal the names and social security numbers is to prevent the FEC and Justice Department from cross checking the names against the social security numbers, thus identifying the fraudulent registrations.

Sherill's refusal is not just dirty politics, it is criminal. Any non-citizen voting in federal elections is a variety of federal crimes. The act of voting is expressly criminal. Other federal crimes include false claims of citizenship is a separate crime. Concealing the alien status constitutes criminal fraud under federal law. Sherrill and any person acting under her direction that conceals the illegally registered illegal aliens is aiding and abetting the other crimes, also criminal.

The plot thickens. Not doubt scared by the federal pressure and the New Jersey, Pennsylvania conducted a review of that state's voting rolls. The net result was a Dem/Com loss of 30,000 illegally registered voters. Here's the surprise, most of those lost voters were in Philadelphia, a Dem/Com bastion of fraud and corruption.

Does anyone think New Jersey and Pennsylvania are Blue State outliers?

THE DEMOCRAT/COMMUNISTS ARE INSANE

 Everyone needs to just see a couple of videos to know how far left the Democrat/Communists have become.

DSA Cochair on Fox in her own words.

Wisconsin Gubernatorial Candidate in her own words.

Pack the Supreme Court.

A DSA convention.

Ancient Dem/Coms for open borders.  Younger Dem/Coms for open borders.

There is a reason people are fleeing Blue states.  Most expensive, worst crime, worst education, worst poverty are really not supposed to be aspirational.

Iowa Democrats Big Cancer Lie.

No doubt many of you have seen the Democrat/Communist attack ads blaming Ashley Hinson, Zach Lahn and Republicans for Iowa cancer rates. This cancer falsehood is a quintessential example of the Big Lie agitation propaganda tactic. Every radical totalitarian regime in history employs this tactic.

The single most significant elevating effect on cancer is age. Fifty four percent of all cancer diagnoses occur between ages 55 and 74. Another 19% occur in 75-84. The sum is 73% of all cancer diagnosis hit people leaving middle age and becoming old.

Ag chemicals, like the kinds sold by Rob Sand's billionaire wife, are closely linked to the incidents of cancer in a given population. Sand's wife and family own the Lauridsen Group, a billion dollar ag chemical manufacturer. Under Sand's wife the Lauridsen Group has dumped animal waste into Iowa's water system and has been fined and subject to further investigation

Essentia Protein Solutions is a subsidiary of The Lauridsen Group with a plant in central Iowa which produces powders and other protein products out of animal byproducts. The plant was fined $8,000 in 2026 and faced repeated issues with releasing blood and processing waste into the rural town of Lytton’s wastewater system in part due to issues with its processing waste lagoon. Rob Sand’s campaign did not respond to Sentient’s request for comment.

The reader will note Lauridsen's massive livestock confinements area are major polluters. Of course, the same article also exposes Lauridsen's support for Dem/Com and Republican candidates. It looks like they decided to simply acquire a governor by marriage. Lauridsen has already spent $11.5 million on Sand's campaign.

The Big Lie is particularly false about Zach Lahn. Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds has already proposed $100 million plan to test and remedy chemical pollution of Iowa's water pollution. Lahn ran a MAHA campaign in the primary and the Democrats just stole the issue, albeit without providing any action the Dem/Coms propose to solve the problem. Unlike both Governor Reynolds and candidate Lahn, Sand has displayed no understanding of the ag chemical problem and procvided absolutely no solutions.

The Medicaid cut half of the Big Lie is even more preposterous. The Medicaid reductions only began on January 1, 2026 so seven months ago. The total reductions to date have been only 1% of the national Medicaid budgets. Cancer rates could not be affected in seven months. A 1% reduction does not even reduce spending below the amount of Medicaid Fraud.  The cuts have had no effects in Iowa.

The Owl encourages Republicans to start exposing the Dem/Coms Big Lie about the GOP causing cancer. Expose their lies or suffer the same fate Governor Nussle suffered in 2006 when Republicans conceded the then mere Democrats fetal stem cell lies.

GREAT PR FOR IOWA'S McKENNA WOLICZKO

All credit to Hawkeyes Wire for breaking this story.  Iowa freshmen McKenna Woliczko working the Panni card biz at the WNBA All Star weekend.  A great chance for McKenna to make connections and raise her profile.  That PR should translate into a little recruiting cache.

TRUMP'S NEW WORLD ORDER & THE END OF FOREVER MIDDLE EASTERN WARS

President Trump's foreign policy is mindlessly attacked by the "experts." Those would be the same experts that immersed the United States in the strange world of Middle Eastern politics, business and warfare.  Nothing worked the way the experts said it would; the end of one war always brought the beginning of another.  The one constant was the Terror Theocracy in Iran.  They funded the militias and terrorists in pursuit of their official and daily repeated official policy of Death to Israel and Death to America.

The same critics shackled America to a corpse.  After the Soviet Union fell Western Europe no longer had an existential threat along the Eastern European borders.  That was almost 40 years ago.  Europe became weaker and more feckless every year.  By the time of President Trump's first term Europe had demonstrably lost the will to even defend themselves.  All of the passing decades saw European military strength deteriorate in a linear relationship to Europe's loss of self esteem and cultural integrity.  The United States spent billions of dollars every year to protect Europe from a ghost.  The Europeans knew Russia was no threat because the Western Europeans bought as many petro products as possible from Russia.  Russia used the Euros to build the weapons the Russians have used in their fruitless war in Ukraine.

President Trump saw a different world, a world based in postmodern realities and not a mystical history.  General then President Eisenhower, General Marshall, General Bradley and the masterminds that won World War 2 thought the European engagement and NATO would last 10 years, not 80.  President Trump saw the need to return American focus to the United States and our hemisphere, as was the American historic foreign policy.

President Trump's vision, evidenced in the Abraham accords and the decoupling from NATO and other international organizations and trading groups is refocus on American prosperity and hemispheric realignment.  President Trump created the space for other regions to create their own environments.  The Board of Peace was one such tool of regional self determination.  Now the major Islamic powers are coming together to create their own multilateral group to police the Middle East and the oil game. 

No change could have happened had President Trump followed his last six predecessors and stood by as Iran became more powerful.  Iran has attacked every country it was able to attack.  President Trump is grinding that regime into dust.  Hamas has surrendered and Gaza has been turned over to regional interests.  Hezbollah can no longer receive money or arms from Iran and no safe haven in Syria.  Israel and Lebanon are now engaged in direct negotiations for the first time in decades.  The Houthis in Yemen are now facing a mobilized Saudi Arabia on one side and the military power of Egypt on the other.  Iran can no longer provide money or munitions.  How long will the Houthis last?

The Trump policy has refocused the United States on our Hemisphere.  Venezuela is no longer a safe haven and bank for anti American governments in the region.  More South and Central American countries are lead by governments that embrace American economic military, diplomatic and economic reorientation on hemispheric partners.  American trade is shifting from European frenemies, Chinese rivals and poverty wage nations as the source of American production.  This is a seismic change in the world.  A new age has begun.  The US is no longer the global police force and American money is no longer designed to create prosperity for everyone but Americans.  Every smart business leader knows that the repetition of failure is insanity but American politicians, academics and talking heads are never accountable for repeating failure.  The "multilateral world" has not proven at all successful for the United States.  Finally American leadership understands the need to end American dependence on imported energy and thus the need to protect the global oil supply.  The Age of Trump has shown the way to new prosperity and peace.  Iran marks the end of American military engagement in the Middle East; Iran is the last bad guy standing.  After forty-seven years of war and 80 years of fruitless priorities the United States is finally looking out for itself and its actual neighbors.