Archive for January 6th, 2012
Branstad Unveils Legislative Recommendations for Education Reform
Governor Terry Branstad and Lt. Governor Kim Reynolds unveiled their final recommendations on education reform for the Iowa Legislature that convenes next week. This came after having numerous town halls on their education blueprint and adapting to recommendations that they received. Key proposals include: Requiring a 3.0 GPA to gain admission into teacher preparation programs [...]
Gallagher: Social Conservatives Unite Around Santorum
By Maggie Gallagher On Tuesday night in Iowa, he stood before the cheering throngs like a Republican Rocky, or better yet, a latter-day Rudy suddenly lifted above his Notre Dame teammates in a fantastic storybook finish. On Tuesday night, for the first time, Rick Santorum was a contender. And a contender like nobody has yet [...]
Why the Probable Vote Counting Mistakes in Iowa Caucus Don’t Matter
Several claims of discrepancies in vote counting and reporting of the results are surfacing including a error that results in 20 extra votes given to Romney. But it doesn’t matter and here is why. Remember the show Whose Line is it Anyway? The host Drew Carey would always start the show by saying “Welcome to [...]
The Southern Strategy
No Republican candidate for president has won the nomination of the party without winning the South Carolina going back to Ronald Reagan in 1980. With this fact in mind, the candidates attention now turns to South Carolina. This morning (Friday), Mitt Romney and Governor Haley are at the Peanut warehouse in Conway, SC. Newt Gingrich [...]
Take Care When You Suspend Disbelief
I was checking out Walt Mueller’s blog, and he posted an excerpt from Nancy Pearcy’s book, Saving Leonardo: A Call to Resist the Secular Assault on Mind, Morals, and Meaning that I wanted to share here: Beliefs have always shaped history. . . . The (Nazi) gas chambers disproved once for all any misguided notion [...]
Planned Parenthood Ignores Women Who Support Defunding of Abortion-Centered Business
Washington, D.C. – Today the Susan B. Anthony List criticized Planned Parenthood and the presumption that their “Women are Watching” campaign speaks for women in the political process. “Planned Parenthood’s ‘Women are Watching’ campaign is its latest effort to distort the notion of feminine leadership and the role women play in advancing our country’s principles,” [...]
SC General Assembly Needs to Magnify the Constitutional Line Between the Feds and the State
By Ethan Ware Take your pick on when it started, but federal control continues to bleed into state and local affairs in direct contradiction with the Constitution. Some examples are obvious and others more nuanced, but together they are diluting the federalist model by breaking down the checks and balances our nation’s founders set up [...]
The Iowa Caucus Miscount
The certification of the Iowa Caucus vote is underway and already we have disputed results which could alter the results (not that it would take much). KCCI reports: The world’s eyes were on Iowa. But in the quiet town of Moulton, Appanoose County, a caucus of 53 people may just blow up the results. Edward [...]
