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If you listened to President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night then you already know pretty much everything he discussed during a stop this morning at Conveyor Engineering & Manufacturing in Cedar Rapids. Obama was on the road to tout the same economic policies he discussed before Congress — and he maintained much [...]

Peter Orszag, director of the federal Office of Management and Budget, blogged Thursday about the cost of Pres. Barack Obama’s health care reform proposal. Feel free to read the full blog post, but here is an excerpt: … the President has put forward a health plan that would reduce deficits by roughly $100 billion over [...]

To celebrate Presidents Day I selected several old Reader’s Digests to browse for articles on Presidents.  With President Obama just completing his first year as Commander in Chief I found an article I thought appropriate. The following is not the complete article. Reader’s Digest, 1962. pp 53-54 Condensed from Time (January 5, ’62) The Testing [...]

It never pays to insult others.  Sarah Palin was speaking at the Tea Party Convention and made several negative remarks about President Obama using a teleprompter.  It wasn’t too long afterward she was seen with writing on her hand.  So, we’re going to make fun of the President for using the latest technology and we [...]

Ron Corbett is bringing his own, “the one Kay has is too small.”  Yep, he has his own gavel and it’s bigger!  Rick Smith with the Gazette has more of the conversation with the new Mayor here. I am happy that Ron is willing to respond to citizens speaking in public, on the record, to [...]

President Barack Obama carried on the White House tradition of pardoning a Thanksgiving turkey today, sending the bird, “Courage,” off to be grand marshal of a holiday parade. In doing so, he said this: “… You know, there are certain days that remind me of why I ran for this office. And then there are [...]

Here’s your Sunday earworm: Iowa’s own Leslie Hall & LY’s, “How We Go Out, Version 2″ The glittery treasure from Ames was also recently featured on CNN and in Salon. ———- A piece ran last Saturday in the the WaPo that described how the Obama administration is seeking to provide more transparency in U.S. citizen [...]

The Iowa Democratic Party plans to offer a live internet video stream of U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin’s annual steak fry fundraiser that is scheduled for this Sunday in Indianola. Keynote speaker at the event will be the junior U.S. Senator from Minnesota, Al Franken. “We are excited to launch a new way of including our [...]

One of my favorite political cartoonists is R.J. Matson, and here’s his gem about the Obama school speech controversy: There has been a lot written about the school speech and I won’t attempt to rehash it all here. But I do think that the population that has taken the most grief and garnered the least [...]

The often radical anti-abortion group Operation Rescue is targeting a Nebraska doctor, one of the few in the nation that still openly provides late abortion services. Dr. LeRoy Carhart, who was a friend of recently assassinated Dr. George Tiller, performs abortions in his Bellevue clinic — and plans to do so even as protesters converge [...]