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FBI Investigating Bachmann Campaign, Including Alleged Sorenson Payments

Posted  May 20th, 2013  by  Kevin Hall

The Federal Bureau of Investigation joins a long line of agencies that are looking into the inner workings, and possible illegal activity, of Michele Bachmann’s 2012 presidential campaign. The Federal Election Commission, Office of Congressional Ethics, Iowa Senate Ethics Committee and Urbandale Police Department are also investigating the campaign. There is also an Iowa lawsuit [...]

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Kevin’s Korner: Team Obama Admits They’re Idiots, Rest of Country Wonders What Took So Long

Posted  May 19th, 2013  by  Kevin Hall

Greetings and welcome to Kevin’s Korner. One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching. At long last, the idiocy, connivery and outright incompetence of the Obama administration is coming to light …  How bad was last week for Barack and his buddies? In an attempt to deflect the torrent [...]

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Legislature on Verge of Passing Biggest Tax Cut in State History, If Gronstal Allows It

Posted  May 17th, 2013  by  Kevin Hall

At long last, the property tax reform that Governor Branstad campaigned on in 2010 and every candidate, on both sides of the aisle, advocated for in 2012 is about to become reality. That is, as long as it passes the Democrat-controlled Iowa Senate. A sweeping tax reform package that legislators believe will provide the biggest [...]

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Bruce Braley Can’t Have It Both Ways

Posted  May 16th, 2013  by  The Iowa Republican

The IRS Targeted The Tea Party & Conservatives Because Washington Democrats Pressured Them To A few years ago Senate Democrats began pressuring the IRS to target many of the conservative groups that the embattled agency now stands accused of doing. In fact, the Senate Democrat majority even threatened to take legislative action against the agency [...]

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Meet Iowa’s Version of Kermit Gosnell: Dr. Jill Meadows

Posted  May 16th, 2013  by  Craig Robinson

Earlier this week, the infamous Philadelphia abortion doctor/butcher was found guilty of hundreds of criminal charges, including three counts of first degree murder for the cutting of the spinal cords of three babies born alive after botched abortions. Last week, we began digging into the various aspects of the larger question of whether the Kermit [...]

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Will IDP Go After Chet Culver Next?

Posted  May 15th, 2013  by  Craig Robinson

On Tuesday, the Iowa Democratic Party filed an ethics complaint against State Auditor Mary Mosiman.  It was her second day on the job. The Iowa Democratic Party contends that Mosiman violated state campaign finance laws when she used funds from her Story County Auditor campaign fund to pay for travel to county Republican conventions in [...]

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Polling Shows Loebsack is an Endangered Incumbent

Today the Archer for Congress campaign released internal polling numbers that demonstrate that Iowa’s “least effective member” Congressman Dave Loebsack’s re-election is in peril. Despite the fact that Congressman Loebs...
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Latham Call for Ending Washington’s Endless Spending Spree

Iowa Congressman Tom Latham renewed his call for Washington to live within its means on Wednesday, a day after voting against a Democrat inspired measure to increase the nation’s debt limit by another $2.4 trillion. The U.S. ...
by The Iowa Republican
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Four ATF Agents Working on Controversial Operation ‘Fast and Furious’ Tell their Story

Agents say DOJ still being untruthful about efforts to let guns ‘walk’ into hands of drug cartels Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Senator ...
by The Iowa Republican
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What “Iowa Values” Will Vilsack Represent for $424,000?

Congressional candidate Christie Vilsack posted an impressive fundraising haul this quarter.  The challenger to Steve King has raised $424,339 since April.  Although FEC filings are not yet available, it is a near certainty t...
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A Way Forward on Healthcare

Written by Will Rogers Over the past few weeks the Obama Administration and Congress have unveiled their plans to overhaul healthcare. However, as the political rhetoric between special interest groups and political parties has...
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Pawlenty Releases New TV Ad

In addition to showing up in towns around the state, Tim Pawlenty will also be showing up on Iowa TV sets soon.  Pawlenty is the first candidate to air a TV ad in Iowa.  The ad will appear on cable systems across the state. T...
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