I know obscenity when I see it...
...and this post crosses the line. Talk about your gratuitous, disturbing content.
View ArticleIRS Collection Division recruiting documentary
Well, not really. It's an outrageously partisan campaign commercial. If you turn the sound off, though, it does look like a Collections Division recruiting piece. Enjoy. (Via Instapundit)Note: I had...
View ArticleI'm Chet Culver, and I approve of this front page
Gee, who do you think the Des Moines Register favors for Governor? Two-thirds of the front page is an unpaid campaign ad for Chet. This is an example of why campaign finance reform is a bad idea....
View ArticleDavenport city government hates its citizens
Only a government that thinks its own citizens are ignorant, untrustworthy peasants could embrace traffic cameras like the City of Davenport has:Davenport police have been using their speed enforcement...
View ArticleA platform for a party of me.
Iowa's Republicans just got stomped from the top of the ticket to the bottom. They got whipped by Chet Culver, which is like losing a foot race to a grandma pushing a walker. It's just so embarrasing,...
View ArticleBorlaug Travelog
Congress today voted to honor Norman Borlaug, the Iowa farmboy who grew up to save millions through improved plant varieties and farm practice. Bobby and I took a little pilgrimage to his boyhood home...
View ArticleMERRY CHRISTMAS!
From Tom Vilsack! What a nice surprise:Presidential candidate Tom Vilsack’s suggestion that ‘‘no one in their right mind’’ would fund an indoor rain forest in Iowa came as a surprise to the project’s...
View ArticleSlowest book review ever
Last summer I was live-blogging Arnold Kling's book "Crisis of Abundance." The project ground to a halt when I lost my copy (long but incoherent and embarrassing story omitted); As a Christmas present...
View ArticleAdam Smith, call your office
"Jane's Law" holds that the party in power - whichever party - is smug and arrogant, while the party out of power is insane. Since winning control of the legislature, Iowa's Democrats are struggling...
View ArticleThe Project Destiny Viral Marketing Initiative
Project Destiny, the initiative to give Central Iowa the higher sales tax everyone is clamoring to pay, seems to be spending its money at an alarming rate. The Des Moines Register has reported that...
View ArticleProject Destiny Viral Marketing 2.0
The blogosphere has not taken up the Project Destiny Viral Marketing Initiative with the gusto we would have expected/ To move this noble cause along, then, another contribution is in order:Featuring...
View ArticleSteadfast for skedaddle
The Democrats who now run Congress - many of whom voted to go to war in Iraq, including Senator Harkin - now want to run away and turn over that country to Al-queda. So how does the Des Moines Register...
View ArticleProject Destiny Viral Marketing #3
Dan Albritton, local labor official, friend of Ramona, and member of the Prairie Meadows board, has been indicted on conspiracy charges related to CIETC. Mr. Albritton is innocent until proven guilty,...
View ArticleProject Destiny Vote is Today!
Destiny: the trap range, I hope.UPDATE, 8:50 p.m.: Dust off the Browning!
View Article200-1 gets you 15-85
You have to hand it to our local chamber of commerce. The Greater Des Moines Partnership, with the backing of the biggest companies in town and a $770,000 war chest - 200 times that of the opposition -...
View ArticleWho says Des Moines Register editorials aren't influential?
The Des Moines Register has declared bottled water an environmental menace. I responded to their stirring cry by immediately making a trip to Sam's Club:They'll take my bottled water when they peel my...
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Liveblogging my caucus. I'm firing up the long dormant blog to liveblog my caucus. Our precinct, West Des Moines 114, has a big turnout and st
View ArticleArticle 7
Now we're listening to speakers from of the candidates. My wife had to register republican to vote here, and it pains her greatly.
View ArticleArticle 6
I don't know why they bother with the speeches. If you are motivated to squander your evening here, you know who you're voting for. 241 people
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