Constitution Daily Archive

With the campaigns just around the corner and candidates coming out of the woodwork, it is pretty easy to focus on the candidates and not so much on the issues. For some candidates that mindset works well, for others, the issues is where there victories will come. Either way, for the people, if ... Full story

Seriously, with all the stuff happening at the state and national level, in government and the economy, are we screwed? We currently have unemployment at 9.4% and climbing. The average American holds over $9,000 in credit card debt alone. That isn’t counting the car, the house, student loans, medical expenses, ... Full story

After reading about the straw poll being conducted by this website and Steve Deace, I thought about writing an article about how biased the straw poll would be with Steve Deace being a part of it. I decided against writing anything about it at the time because I have a lot of respect ... Full story

Government Motors isn’t a bit better since Obama took them over. Taxpayers have dumped over $50 billion into GM in the past few months with only negative results. In today’s world, $50 billion often gets overlooked but that comes out to around $30,000 per Iowa taxpayer. Some would think that isn’t too bad to save a company but the $50 billion ... Full story

After listening to Bob Vander Plaats, and those espousing an Executive Order, one would think a new governor issuing an Executive Order to, as Deace would say, “enforce the law on the books,” would be the easiest way to regain traditional marriage. Since it hasn’t been covered by anyone other than Deace, I thought I’d take a look at that option ... Full story

Right now, excluding Deace, we have two Republicans trying to gain attention by disagreeing with other Republicans. Normally, we have a moderate going on IPTV or talking to newspapers about how our Party needs to move to the left to garner the support of the middle. Now we have a very conservative man ... Full story

A few months ago, before Rush Limbaugh started claiming he wanted Obama to fail, I wrote an article on how I wanted Barack Obama’s policies to fail. From socialism to abortion and everything in between, I had no qualms about wanting Obama to fail. Until now. Yesterday’s news of North ... Full story

In today’s Des Moines Register, Congressman Steve King offered his thoughts on the gay marriage issue in Iowa. He briefly summed up what got us to where we are today and what we can do to re-redefine marriage as the exclusive union of one man and one woman. We all ... Full story

Obama made his pick to replace Justice Souter and as we all expected, he picked a liberal. Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor, a self described judicial activist and first Hispanic picked to serve on the Supreme Court, will be brought to the Senate for confirmation. The Senate has the next four months to confirm ... Full story

With Bill Northey hiring political operatives Tim Moran and Marcus Branstad, speculation of Northey running for governor is at an all time high. Since none of us really know his true plans and can only speculate, I thought I’d take a look at what a Northey for Governor effort would mean for Bob ... Full story