DES MOINES – Unemployment benefits set to expire Dec. 31 will continue in next year, keeping 30,000 Iowans from losing benefits, Gov. Chet Culver said Tuesday.
President Barack Obama signed legislation allowing the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program to continue through February. The program provides the unemployed with up to 47 [...]
Nearly 30,000 Iowans will be able to keep their federal unemployment benefits during the first part of 2010.
The Emergency Unemployment Compensation program was scheduled to end Dec. 31, but President Barack Obama signed legislation to extend it.
“This extension is a vital tool for Iowans who are seeking to re-enter the [...]
Some miscellany for your weekend…
UK Guardian: Barack Obama’s speech disappoints and fuels frustration at Copenhagen (HT: Don Suber, who said he should have listened to Palin) The Washington Post: With Nelson on board, health-care bill could pass by Christmas (nice to see politicians can [...]Gov. Chet Culver has launched a new social networking campaign Web site aimed at bringing supporters together around the state.
Culver’s site, my.chetculver.com, is a takeoff on a concept pioneered by Barack Obama’s campaign for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, said Jesse Harris, Culver’s deputy campaign manager. Harris also was [...]
Did anybody have a head scratching moment watching President Barack Obama’s interview with Charlie Gibson? I know Eric Goranson, one of our contributors, said it insulted his intelligence. Do his statements make sense to you? Do his comments reflect common sense? I don’t think so.
How in the world [...]
President Barack Obama has the best intentions with his foreign policy, but his rhetoric “sends signals he’s ambivalent” and could lead enemies of the United States to believe he won’t be “tough-nosed when our national security’s at stake,” U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said Thursday.
“And I think it [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union says it is opposed to federal plans to transfer terrorist suspects from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to a prison at Thomson, Ill.. calling it an “alarming step.”
The administration of President Barack Obama confirmed Tuesday it plans to acquire the mostly vacant Thomson Correctional Center to house [...]
U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley, who represents an Iowa district that borders the Illinois community that will house terrorism suspects from Guantanamo Bay, said today the economic impact of the prison”cannot be overstated.”
Braley, a Democrat, said the decision by President Barack Obama to house the suspects at Thomson, Ill., will create [...]
President Barack Obama and key Illinois elected officials will announce Tuesday that roughly 100 detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will soon be housed at a revamped Thomson Correctional Facility just across the Mississippi River from Iowa.
The plan, which was floated as a possibility in late fall, has already drawn [...]
By Emily Geiger
My, how the mighty have fallen. Not even 12 months into his presidency, and Barack Obama’s approval rating continues to decline.
According to Rasmussen, only 44 percent of Americans approve of Obama’s job performance, and that includes those who “slightly approve.”
A whopping 55% of Americans [...]
America sees right through you.23% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President.
42% Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -19.
Today is the second straight day that Obama's Approval Index rating has fallen to a [...]
The eyes of the world are on Oslo and Copenhagen at the end of this week. President Barack Obama received his Nobel Peace Prize this morning in Oslo, which was applauded by the president’s fans and derided by critics who say Obama hasn’t been [...]
By PETER HUSSMANN
Last week, President Barack Obama hosted a discussion on ways to promote job creation across the country. While the economy is showing some signs of recovery, job creation lags with national unemployment figures hovering at 10 percent, and about 8 percent here in Jasper County.
As an outgrowth of [...]
U.S. Rep. Steve King, R-Kiron, used his Twitter account to report that he has discovered evidence from a White House party that reveals a connection between the Association for Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and President Barack Obama.
At the WH Christmas Ball Monday night, they served ACORN [...]
Some outrageous news from The Hill today, Secretary Hillary Clinton’s 2008 campaign pollster, Mark Penn’s public relations firms received almost $6 million in stimulus money. Also, one of President Barack Obama’s campaign advisors also benefitted from stimulus money, Alexander Bolton reports:
Federal records [...]
An Iowa health care provider is one of 85 community health centers nationwide to receive a significant monetary boost from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, President Barack Obama announced Wednesday.
“… Funding for construction, technology and a medical home demonstration project won’t just save more money, and create [...]
Obama proposed new spending for highway and bridge construction, for small business tax cuts and for retrofitting millions of homes to make them more energy-efficient. He said he wanted to [...]
I’ve been saying ever since he was a long-shot candidate that if anyone thought that Barack Obama was a bleeding-heart liberal then they just weren’t listening. The man is a hard-core centrist. His fine speaking abilities and outgoing personality combined with that centrisim to put many people in mind of [...]
And as Commander-in-Chief, I have determined that it is in our vital national interest to send an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan. After 18 months, our troops will begin to come home. These are the resources that we need [...]
U.S. Senate candidate Bob Krause said today he wants President Barack Obama to “halt the rush for escalation” of American forces in Afghanistan.
He said he feared Obama’s plan could push India and Pakistan closer to war.
Krause, one of several Iowa Democrats seeking his party’s nomination to oppose incumbent Republican Sen. [...]
At least two Iowans will be dining at the White House tonight as Pres. Barack Obama celebrates the visit of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with his administration’s first state dinner.
Iowa Sen. Swati Dandekar, a Democrat from Marion, and her husband, Arvind, a prominent local businessman, traveled to Washington, D.C. [...]
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