County government has gotten so desperate for tax dollars that they are taxing cemetery ground this year!
We zoned off about one acre in 1996 for a family cemetery and have not been assessed taxes on the half that is not fenced since - until this year! When I asked the [...]
By Ed Failor, Jr., President of Iowans for Tax Relief
Iowa taxpayers were dealt another crushing blow last week when the non-partisan Legislative Fiscal Services Division announced the state is facing a budget gap totaling more than one billion dollars. This number estimates the amount by which state spending will exceed [...]
It’s been a rough couple months for the president, and what has been perceived in some quarters as hesitation on his part over Afghanistan has added to his problems. When it comes to Afghanistan, just 35% say the president is doing a good or an excellent job while 41% give [...]
The Iowa Electronic Markets has opened a Congressional control prediction market, giving traders the opportunity to predict the party alignment of Congress after next year's mid-term elections.
Three markets are open on the Congressional control market. In two of them, traders can buy and sell contracts that will predict whether the [...]
Mann's Mad Money by Paul Chesser
Since watching the Climategate scandal explode a week before Thanksgiving, debris from the mushroom cloud has rained upon the earth, and there are hints that some folks (other than me and my fellow climate realists) are getting curious about how the alarmists are [...]
Hello. I’m sending a copy of a statement I made earlier today on the Senate floor. I point out the major flaws in the way supporters of Senator Reid’s health care bill are spinning a new analysis of the health care bill’s impact on insurance premiums. It says a lot [...]
Like as for all global warming issues, Paul Chesser is on top of Climategate
What does Senate Environment and Public Works chairwoman (I assume she doesn't want to be called "chairman") Barbara Boxer call Climategate?
"You call it 'Climategate'; I call it 'E-mail-theft-gate,'" she said during a committee meeting.
By Mike Thayer
Johnson County Supervisor Rod Sullivan, a liberal, a cog in the local Democrat machine, loves big government. He thinks government is inherently good, he's even said so!
From one of his blog posts on Sullivan's Salvos he wrote, "... I frequently take this opportunity to [...]
SIOUX CITY, IA. -- Republican candidate for governor Bob Vander Plaats issued the following statement this morning in response to Cedar Rapids businessman Christian Fong’s decision to suspend his candidacy for the 2010 GOP gubernatorial nomination:
“I’ve grown to appreciate Christian’s grace, wit and intelligence during the [...]
DES MOINES, IA. -- Republicans have laid out a detailed agenda for the 2010 legislative session. Republicans have had over $300 million in state savings on the table since last spring and today Leader Paulsen offered more ideas to save taxpayers money. In fact, with only a little over a [...]
The Iowa City and Coralville Police Departments would like to announce an exciting new crime prevention program available to area businesses. The Iowa City and Coralville Crime Free Business Programs are dedicated to improving the relationship between the Iowa City and Coralville business community and its police departments while improving [...]
IOWA CITY, IA. -- A new agenda has been posted for the upcoming meeting of the Public Art Advisory Committee on Thursday, December 03, 2009. The meeting will begin at 3:30 PM ( Lobby Conference Room, City Hall ).
Yesterday, the Iowa state employee union approved the agreement offered by Governor Culver for a short-term employee pay reduction for the next seven months instead of laying off over 750 workers in Iowa.
Ed Failor, Jr., President of Iowans for Tax Relief, said today, "Governor Culver and the state employee unions" [...]
The head of Government Motors (formerly known as General Motors) has *resigned* under pressure from the White House. Translation: He got fired.
Frederick 'Fritz' Henderson was put in place as CEO by Obama back in March after the President fired former CEO Rick Wagoner. Can you say, "In violation of the Constitution?" Yes you can....
So since Obama bought [...]
WHAT: GOP primary race to face liberal Dave Loebsack, current U.S. Congressman representing Iowa's Second District.
WHO #1: Solon native and Cedar Rapids businessman Christopher Reed officially announced his candidacy to face Dave "Pelosi Parrot" Loebshack on November 5th. Reed is holding an event this weekend featuring Former Presidential Candidate Duncan Hunter [...]
MOUNT PLEASANT, IA. -- Is there a problem with health-care in America today? Of course there is! Costs continue to escalate faster than other living costs, not everyone who wants insurance coverage can get it or get it at a price they can afford, and insurance plans – both private and [...]
IOWA CITY, IA. -- A draft version of the CITY STEPS plan for 2011-2015 is now available for public review and comment. CITY STEPS is the comprehensive plan that the City of Iowa City uses as a guide to determine the allocation of resources for housing, employment, and services for [...]
Dr. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, the 2008 Republican nominee in Iowa’s Second Congressional District, will formally announce her candidacy Monday, Nov. 30, for her party’s 2010 nomination and a rematch against Rep. David Loebsack.
Miller-Meeks, an Ottumwa ophthalmologist, will make a series of stops in the 15-county district in eastern and southern Iowa. [...]
By Deborah Thornton
Every card player is familiar with the phrase, “Read ‘em and weep!” proclaimed as the winning player shows his cards and takes the pot. It refers to the risks and hopes of gambling. You have no control over the cards, only the risks you take. Iowa Governor Chet [...]
Why do liberals - claimers of all government is good, proponents of the government must be the first and only solution to all supposed problems - seem to think that the government is some kind of Fortune 500 business with an endless stream of cash?
Such thinking is void of logic [...]
The Iowa City Police Association is hosting its 13th Shop With A Cop event from 7:30 AM to 11:00 AM on Saturday, December 5th, 2009. The event is hosted by the Iowa City Wal-Mart.
After a breakfast break, children selected from the Iowa City area will be [...]
From the staff and all the contributers at the Coralville Courier, have a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving Holiday!
[...]CORALVILLE, IA. -- At approximately 4:30 p.m., what appeared to be a late model Dodge Ram pickup, charcoal in color struck a utility pole in the 400 block of Tenth Avenue.
According to an eye witness, the vehicle was traveling southbound, approaching the lighted intersection at Highway 6 at a high rate of [...]
Republican candidates have extended their lead over Democrats to seven points, their biggest lead since early September, in the latest edition of the Generic Congressional Ballot.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey shows that 44% would vote for their district’s Republican congressional candidate [...]
Seriously folks, why is this considered by many, a good thing?
AS IF the government knows how to run your life better than you do?
Please......
The government has an abysmal track record of being efficient in anything. So how is it that the concept of giving them more of our hard-earned money [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Senator Chuck Grassley said today that he’s asked for information from the Joint Committee on Taxation about which taxpayers would be impacted by the Medicare payroll tax increase in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009.
“If Democratic leaders want to increase [...]
Good comedy is always based in the truth and Saturday Night Live nails Obama and the liberal proposals he's pushing.
[...]Real gross domestic product -- the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States -- increased at an annual rate of 2.8 percent in the third quarter of 2009, (that is, from the second quarter to the third quarter), according to the "second" [...]
This month we bring you our compilations of the spending data from the 2009 session of the Iowa General Assembly that was in session from early January 2009 until April 26, 2009. The second session of the 83rd Iowa General Assembly is scheduled to convene on Monday, January 11, 2010. [...]
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Senator Chuck Grassley today is urging the U.S. Attorney General to fully answer questions about conflicts of interest in detainee policies at the Justice Department. Grassley asked the questions at a November 18 Justice Department oversight hearing.
During the hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Eric [...]
Dear Editor:
I am writing to you to take vigorous public exception to the inflamatory remarks made by Sheriff Lonny Pulkrabek. My criticism is on several levels. They are as follows:
1) Sheriff Pulkrabek objects to the estimated cost of a special election. As the right to vote is central to a [...]
From the Internet, author unknown
Barack Obama is a lawyer Michelle Obama is a lawyer Hillary Clinton is a lawyer Bill Clinton is a lawyer John Edwards is a lawyer Elizabeth Edwards is a lawyerJust 38% of voters now favor the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats. That’s the lowest level of support measured for the plan in nearly two dozen tracking polls conducted since June.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that [...]
UI QuickCare, a walk-in health care clinic offered by UI Health Care, has opened a new location at 1843 Lower Muscatine Road, just north of Sycamore Mall, in Iowa City. Free parking is available at the new site, UI QuickCare - East.
UI QuickCare is available to anyone age 6 [...]
Paul Chesser nails it again.....
CNN Sucks: Climategate Never Happened
The last place cable news network is following the same tack it took on the ACORN scandal, which is, ignore the story that is not only overturning the cart and its apples, but is also crushing them into a pulp [...]
You've read it in newspaper reports, heard it on the radio, perhaps even read it in statutory committee minutes..... According to the Johnson County Auditor's Office, the estimated cost for the upcoming special election for county supervisor is $75,000.
When asked for some details via email on how that 'estimate' was determined,' [...]
With the national debt now topping $12 trillion, the White House estimates that the government’s tab for servicing the debt will exceed $700 billion a year in 2019, up from $202 billion this year, even if annual budget deficits shrink drastically. Other forecasters say the figure could be much higher. [...]
This letter is in response to Lonny Pulkrabek’s November 17, 2009 letter to The Daily Iowan “Special Election A Waste of Money”
I am one of those people that collected signatures to petition for a special election to fill the seat vacated when Larry Meyer passed [...]
Senator Chuck Grassley issued the following comment about his opposition to the motion to proceed to H.R. 3590, the legislative vehicle for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009.
“This proposal is another big government spending plan, and after the bailouts for Wall Street [...]
Despite voter objection, Senate votes 60-39 to push government takeover of health care
In a late Saturday night vote, Harry Reid's 2,074 healthcare reform bill secured the 60 votes needed in the US Senate allowing debate to begin when Senators return on November 30.
Three Democrat senators whose support for the Reid [...]
In his recent spam letters to the editor to newspaper publications in Johnson County, County Sheriff Lonny Pulkrabek tried to influence people and imtimidate others.
The Sheriff of Johnson county made some blatantly false accusations against a law-abiding resident of Johnson County and members of the local Republican party, and he intentionally used his title [...]
Did you know that as a member of the Johnson County Compensation Board, Janelle Rettig recommended that the county's elected officials receive a 3 percent pay raise for fiscal year 2010?
It's true. Despite a sour economy, Rettig voted to spend more of your money. That recommendation took place in January.
Rettig [...]
New York voters aren't very optimistic about the financial solvency of their state, but they're also sending their elected representatives mixed signals. They oppose budget cuts in a couple key areas but are against tax hikes even more.
Read the Rasmussen Reports telephone survey.
Editor's Note: [...]
This is how Democrats represent you and spend your money......
Earlier this year in Connecticut General Assembly budget discussions, House Minority Leader Lawrence F. Cafero Jr., R-Norwalk, pictured standing far right, speaks while colleagues Rep. Barbara Lambert, D-Milford and Rep. Jack F. Hennessy, D-Bridgeport, play solitaire. Note the other [...]
There are some in this country who support a government run heath care system. To those supporters I ask this simple question.
What has the government done that would give you confidence to believe it could run health care?
The funding of Social Security, the post office and the Med's, care' [...]
Johnson County Sheriff Lonny Pulkrabek is certainly annoyed at thousands of his fellow citizens who signed petitions to elect their supervisor. In his letter to the Gazette he didn't identify himself as sheriff as he did when he sent the identical letter to the Daily Iowan and the Press-Citizen. And' [...]
Another great piece by Paul Chesser
What made the ACORN-exposing work of James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles so sensational was that they successfully infiltrated the habitats of the subjects they investigated, and observed their routine behaviors. They didn't have to coerce or pressure the ACORN office workers to say [...]
So Johnson County Sheriff Lonny Pukrabek wrote a letter to the editor filled with false accusations to area papers.
His letter was not factually based, he issued false charges and made bogus [...]
Al Gore, who has made millions of dollars based in lies about global warming, was on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien recently. He was ignorantly attempting to explain geothermal energy, but as usual didn't use facts.
"People think about geothermal energy — when they think about it at all —" [...]
"Some crooks live off of government. Some crooks are in government. But our media wants you to believe that all crooks wear coats and ties, go to work for big corporations or small businesses in tall buildings -- in other words, the boss! They're the only crooks out there." -' [...]
Statement from Bob Anderson, Chairman of the Johnson County Republican Party:
"The untimely death of Larry Meyers, a member of the Johnson County Board of Supervisors, was followed by the appointment of a replacement supervisor by a three person committee consisting of Auditor Tom Slockett (D), Assessor Kim Painter (D), and" [...]
The City Council of the City of Coralville is considering appointments to the following Board and Commissions:
Board of Adjustment (5 year term, 4 positions)
Broadband Telecommunications Commission (3 year term, 4 positions)
Coralville Civil Service Commission (4 year term, 1 position)
Parks & Recreation Commission (3 year term, 2 positions)
Planning & Zoning [...]
A big thank you goes out to Solon resident Lori Cardella and all the others who gave Johnson County voters a voice!
Their determination to get a special election petition signed, delivered, and validated has resulted in a special election being called for on January 19. This overides a very questionable [...]
It's funny that Sheriff Pulkrabek is accusing the Republicans and Lori Cardella of being "tax and spend" simply because we wish to exercise our Constitutional right to vote on elected positions, i.e the County Supervisor vacancy, and over 8,100 other Johnson County voters agree with us. The County Assessor Tom [...]
It is a sad day indeed when a sheriff takes it upon himself to become a partisan.
I suppose Mr. Pulkrabek is used to getting his way on the playground by bullying people into submission. You are a sheriff now, sir, supposedly, a non-partisan position. Your disdain of the right of [...]
By Mike Thayer
In a letter to the editor written to the Daily Iowan, Johnson County Sheriff Lonny Pulkrabek issued false charges against a law abiding county resident.
"How ironic it was to see Lori Cardella and her Republican friends down [...]
Several news agencies are reporting that Recovery.gov, the Obama administration's Web site to track stimulus spending, has been calculating jobs created or *saved* in non-existent congressional districts.
Examples of the website either making things up or just being inept:
The site listed Minnesota receiving $400,000 in stimulus [...]
IOWA CITY, IA. -- City administrative offices at City Hall will be closed Thursday and Friday, November 26 and 27, 2009, in observance of the Thanksgiving Holiday. A schedule of City services is as follows:
IOWA CITY TRANSIT BUSES
Thursday, November 26 will not operate.
Friday, November 27 will run on a Saturday [...]
The party is over folks; put the campaign Kool-Aid away. It doesn’t matter who you voted for. It’s time to pay the fine, go to confession, or beg for mercy. Our nation sits upon the edge of a scalpel.
If any form of this health care fiasco passes all bets are [...]
There have been numerous letters to the editor praising Rep. Loebsack’s support of the health care bill. Courageous? Does the public know that this bill: cuts Medicare by $400 billion? That that there will be 35 million new patients with no new doctors or nurses? That the bill fines the [...]
Higher property taxes and bigger government.
Background:
Of fairly recent note, Rettig was the co-chair for the Citizens For Our Land, Water, Future group that promoted the $20 million Conservation Bond in last year's general election (November '08 for those of you who live in University Heights). That issue authorized county [...]
CORALVILLE, IA. -- City Hall and Police Administrative Offices, along with the Parks, Water, Wastewater, Streets and Sanitation Departments will be closed on Thursday, November 26, 2009 and Friday, November 27, 2009.
The Coralville Public Library will have shortened hours of 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. on [...]
MOUNT PLEASANT, IA. -- Public Interest Institute has recently published “How to ‘Return to Normalcy’ in America: Follow the Example of President Warren G. Harding,” a new POLICY STUDY by Research Analyst John Hendrickson.
In the aftermath of World War I, the U.S. entered into an economic depression that devastated [...]
