I was going to render the video I took of the gubernatorial candidates’ speeches at the “Leadership for Iowa” event on Saturday and put it up.  C-Span did it for me so I’ll be lazy.  You can watch all of the Gubernatorial candidate...
Topics: Bob Vander Plaats, Chris Rants, Christian Fong, Iowa 2010 Gubernatorial Race, Jerry Behn, Politics, Republican Party of Iowa, Rod Roberts, Terry Branstad

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I had the opportunity to sit down with Representative Chris Rants (R-Sioux City) over a diet coke at Legends in Pleasant Hill.  Representative Rants first elected to represent Iowa House District 54 (Sioux City and Sergeant Bluff) in 1992 and still...
Topics: 2010 elections, Abortion, Caffeinated Thoughts Interviews, Chris Rants, House District 54, Iowa 2010 Gubernatorial Race, Iowa state budget, Iowa state spending reforms, motivation to run for office, Politics, pro-life legislation, property taxes, Sioux City

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From today’s edition of Canada’s National Post (Picture from Newseum): French President Nicolas Sarkozy to the U.N. Security Council, “President Obama dreams of a world without weapons… but right in front of us two countries are doing the exact...
Topics: Barack Obama, Iranian nuclear program, National Post, Nicolas Sarkozy, nuclear proliferation, Obama naivete, Politics

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Three options under the Obama Health Care plan.  In his speech he talked about those who are “young and healthy” who go without insurance, how it is costing the rest of us money.  In his healthcare address President Obama said:That’s..
Topics: Barack Obama, Economy/Taxes, IRS, John Ensign, Joint Committee on Taxation, Olympia Snowe, Politics, Thomas Barthold

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Ok, not just tires.I was asked by The Des Moines Register to contribute for an “From the Right” Political Blog.  I’ll be blogging there at least three times a week – unique content than here, more Iowa focused.  My co-contributors for...
Topics: Art Smith, Blogging, Chinese tire tariff, Connor Anderson, conservative blogging, Des Moines Register, Economy/Taxes, Graham Gillette, InsiderIowa.com, Iowans for Tax Relief, John Deeth, Katie Koberg, Steffen Schmidt, The Conservative Reader

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