edited by: Art Smith,
Iowa Editor
Michael Steele sure knows how to kick himself when he is down. He was one of the subjects of my post recently regarding the recent disappointments in the Republican party; pro-life failures, RINOs, and the Jerry Springer moments in GOP chairman vs talk radio host. I didn't think things could' [...]
Funnel Week at the Iowa Statehouse is nearing the end and Democratic State Senator Matt McCoy has introduced SF 353, "An act creating a religious freedom and civil marriage protection act, providing a repeal, and providing effective dates."
This bill repeals Chapter 595, Code 2009, which currently defines marriage as [...]
And what a week it was. Not only has President Obama promised my tax dollars to abortion seekers outside of the U.S., but now he will be using my money to fund embryonic stem cell research. (He said that he wants "science" to lead his administration and not [...]
It is very disturbing to me to be living in a so-called culture of life but yet a bill that would save lives is not even being allowed out of subcommittee in the Iowa House. What's worse is that Democrats are all for protecting women's health and her [...]
I have head President Obama being labeled by different terms over the course of his presidential run, but I am going to call him something new; a coward. In the racket of announcing his budget he quietly started the process of overturning the conscience rule that protects pro-life medical [...]
Mike Huckabee was one of the first Republicans who was willing to give Barack Obama a chance. He campaigned vigorously for John McCain, but after the votes came in he pledged his respect to Obama and called him "my President." Huckabee also pointed out that he would adamantly oppose [...]
There is an old saying about people who are power hungry or just plain out for themselves: "If you give them an inch, they will take a mile." This reminds me of the Democrats at the Iowa Statehouse and why all Republicans should stand against them. Normally I am not [...]
Kudos to Shawn Hamerlinck
Shawn Hamerlinck is the newly elected Iowa senator for district 42 and was an Iowa Brigade focus candidate. During the senate debate on the $56 million disaster relief bill, Hamerlinck offered the majority of the amendments aimed at cutting government and providing more transparency and accountability [...]
On his FOX News show two weeks ago, Mike Huckabee hit Congress hard by comparing the stimulus package to garbage. On his show this past weekend he takes the subject a bit farther. He pointed out that the bill does not have a name yet, so he proposed one; the [...]
The Des Moines Register had an article yesterday about Iowa Senator Matt McCoy's push for school consolidation in districts with less than 750 students. This is yet another lazy attempt from the Democrats at the Iowa statehouse to fix a problem by making across the board decisions. Do [...]
The incident I have shared below is receiving uproar from both sides of the abortion debate, however, there is something I don't understand. At what point in time in the five feet between the woman's body and the garbage can did this become an outrageous tragedy? When in the small fraction' [...]
Sioux City is the first city council in the nation to defend traditional marriage and put pressure on the state legislature to allow a constitutional amendment to be voted on.
Voting 3-2, the council Monday adopted a resolution supporting the legal definition of marriage as between one man and one [...]
This is the week the stimulus bill heads to the United States Senate. While the goal of this bill is to stimulate the economy in hopes of creating more jobs and helping out hardworking middle America, it is engorged with massive spending on provisions that have nothing to do [...]
This weekend's episode of Huckabee on FOX News exposed to the viewers just how far left President Obama's new agenda was reaching. Mike Huckabee's guest was Liberty Counsel's Matt Staver and together they revealed Obama's plans for the homosexual community and the issue of abortion, which are most likely not [...]
Tomorrow, January 22nd, is the 36th anniversary of the landmark United States Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision. Since then 50 million abortions have been performed and if President Obama makes good on his promise and signs the Freedom of Choice Act, there will be 125,000 more abortions per year. [...]
I know that approximately 73% of you are going to disagree with the title of my post, but I believe that a lot of people in this country have chosen to have short term or selective memory. Sure, I'm embarrassed just like a lot of Americans of what President Bush [...]
I am wondering if President-Elect Barack Obama will govern with his leftist philosophies his first term or wait until he serves a second term. You know, re-election and all. Politicians are always on the campaign trail except for a second term president. Will he sign the Freedom of Choice [...]
I think we are all thankful that the Iowa legislative session has started again and it gives us a chance to focus on Governor Culver and the other Democrats instead of coming to terms that we are going to have a new presence in [...]
While some people were looking forward to the championship BCS bowl game, I was awaiting this weekend's episode of FOX News' Huckabee. One of his guests was Republican columnist, commentator, and author Ann Coulter who was nothing less than brutal to Huckabee in the 2008 presidential primaries.
Ms. Coulter represents what happened quite frequently [...]
Another controversy with Rick Warren and the inauguration has been stirring recently. As the flare-up over him being invited to the invocation blows over, a new grumbling about how he will do the prayer is beginning. Will Warren pray to the God he knows as a Christian and do [...]
At the beginning of the new year, Governor Mike Huckabee and Huck PAC have launched a National Volunteer Team. He is expanded the grassroots work in his PAC and is locating members in every county in every state to assist the endorsed candidates. Huckabee knows that there is a lot at [...]
The news has taken over the national spotlight. Former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack is President-Elect Obama's selection for Secretary of Agriculture. I'm not sure why, but this Pooh Bear picture of Tom has been surfacing on the blogs. It looked vaguely familiar to [...]
One of the things that confused me the most when I started following Mike Huckabee was the Fair Tax that he supports. As time went on, I began to understand it more and more and began to see how much sense it really makes. Just think about it.....no more penalizing [...]
On Monday Chip Saltsman of Tennessee formerly announced his candidacy for RNC chairman. He stated that the first thing he would do as the new chair is "take the members only sign off the country club and throw out the welcome mat." The appearance of Saltsman on the RNC scene demonstrates [...]
It sounds like Republican senators are split on whether or not to support the auto industry bailout. One giant red flag on why they should not is that Congress is not demanding that the United Auto Workers renegotiate labor contracts that are causing the car companies to bankrupt. In fact, Congress [...]
Along with the possibility of a new chairman for the RPI being elected on Saturday, there is another pressing issue for the grassroots coming up on December 9th. In 2007 Polk County Judge Robert Hanson ruled Iowa's Defense of Marriage Act that passed in 1998 as unconstitutional. That has been challenged and [...]
What has surprised me the most about getting involved in politics is it's either all or nothing. One second its calm and the next thing you know, the damn breaks. I think you could apply this to the race for the RPI chairman. We all thought that we had until [...]
Steve Deace from WHO radio out of Des Moines, Iowa, interviewed Governor Mike Huckabee yesterday on his show Deace in the Afternoon. Huckabee was interviewed via cell phone while he was on his Do the Right Thing book tour en route from Alabama to Mississippi. The governor has not been [...]
Doesn't this title remind you of seeing a kid's playhouse with those words on a sign nailed to the front door? You know, it's written in some juvenile scrawl in red marker with the "b" backwards. Can you picture it? The Republicans stole this idea and are using it to [...]
I wasn't planning on posting over the Thanksgiving holiday, but word was received that Mike Huckabee's book Do the Right Thing made the New York Time's Best Seller List. It became official today and his book debuted at #5. Congratulations, Governor!
HARDCOVER NONFICTIONTop 5 at a Glance
1. OUTLIERS, by [...]
In the end of January the Republican National Committee will pick their new chairman. My support goes out to former Tennessee Republian Party Chairman and former Mike Huckabee Campaign Manager, Chip Saltsman. While he headed the Tennessee GOP he handed Al Gore [...]
We are exactly three weeks out from the election and the amount of discussion going on about the future of the Republican party is unbelievable. I don't know about anyone else, but I am all Doug Grossed out. Krusty Konservative and Battleground Iowa have done their various reportings on Gross [...]
What would bring so many Iowans out of their warm houses on a freezing November night? The same thing that inspired them to drag their butts off of their couches on the sub-zero night of January 3rd: their support of Mike Huckabee and conservative values. One would [...]
Today is when Governor Mike Huckabee's anxiously awaited new book Do the Right Thing hits the shelves. Yesterday Time released an article giving a preview of the book that got the blogesphere worked up because it paints Huckabee's book as a way to settle scores with his past rivals and non-supporters. [...]
The Iowa Family Policy Center is a worthy organization to support. It is a non-profit organization dedicated to equipping, empowering and encouraging Iowans to build communities where families are valued and strengthened. This mission of the IFPC is of the utmost importance because the strength of our state and nation [...]
Governor Mike Huckabee never needed Joe the Plumber to get his message across. His whole political career he has been discussing kitchen table topics with the voters and trying to determine what he could do for them as a public servant. He knows that government was not created to take over people's [...]
Today is Veteran's Day. A day in which all veterans should be honored, both living and deceased. The best piece of advice I got growing up is that whenever you see a person in uniform or know that a person has served our country, you should go up to them [...]
