Love Those Shriner Cars

Go to a parade of any substance these days and you’re likely to see a Shrine unit driving miniature RVs, miniature Tin Lizzies or full size motorcycles.
Jack Hagar of Postville, a Shrine clown for more than a quarter century featured in today’s Ramblin’ in The Gazette, drives a three-wheeled scooter with the Northeast Iowa Shrine Motor [...]

Postville’s Problem is Our Problem

This week’s raid on the Agriprocessors plant in Postville is a tragedy in more ways than one.
It illustrates the problem with government which looks the other way until — BAM — it’s convenient. Then it lowers the boom.
It illustrates the problem with American labor. Nobody wants to work on the line at a meat processing [...]