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Gallup: Gingrich maintaining grip on new lead

Newt Gingrich is now the candidate of choice for 32% of Republican voters nationwide, his highest level of support this year. The 24% supporting Mitt Romney is his lowest.

Read more at GALLUP.com.

Warren Buffett hypocrisy

"Warren Buffett says the criticism of his secretary is 'ridiculous,' and he wants everybody to leave her alone.  Well, who brought her up?  Who put her up there in the gallery next to Moochelle Obama during the State of the Union rally?  Warren Buffett and Barack Obama!" - Rush Limbaugh

Will Peyton Manning play again?

NFL.com writer Pat Kirwan joins Tim Brando to discuss Jim Irsay's reaction to Peyton's recent interview. Tune in as Kirwan also shares his thoughts on whether Peyton will be able to play again.

Iowans For Tax Relief: Governor Announces Efficiencies

This week Governor Branstad announced $50 million in efficiencies from the Department of Transportation. These efficiencies were originated to help cover the shortfall for road repairs. It is important to note that $33 million of the $50 million in efficiencies will be annual savings and only $17 million will be one time. Iowans for Tax Relief applauds the Governor and the Department of Transportation for working towards these savings, but we are disappointed by legislators that continue to push for a gas tax increase on all Iowans.

Despite the new found savings, Senator Rielly, D-Oskaloosa announced that he would be moving forward with a bill, in the Senate Transportation Committee, to raise the gas tax by 8 to 10 cents. This is more disappointing when considering that the Director of the Department of Transportation, Paul Trombino, stated in a House Transportation committee meeting on Thursday that, “our primary road system is functioning well”.

ITR still believes that this is the absolutely wrong time to raise the gas tax on Iowans, especially, by such a significant amount. We continue to urge legislators to consider the economic consequences such an increase would have on border communities and many hardworking Iowa families.

ITR encourages you to email your legislators to ask them not to raise the gas tax. You can find their e-mail addresses by going to ITR’s Legislator Lookup feature at: http://www.taxrelief.org/legislators.

Newsbusted: Obama goes for huge venue to accept Dem nomination

Americans wanted to hear specifics President Obama's SOTU speech, didn't get any

According to Gallup.com polling data, "Americans would prefer that President Barack Obama use his State of the Union address mainly to make specific proposals for Congress to pass this year, rather than to outline his broad vision for the direction of the country."

So did the President do that?  Did he provide the country specifics, or did he just outline a broad vision?

To read more of Mike Thayer's Yahoo! Contributor Network article, click the link:  http://voices.yahoo.com/americans-wanted-hear-specifics-president-obamas-10881665.html?cat=75

Building your food reserve at 26 cents an item!

By Mike Thayer

Whether you trying to build up a 72-hour emergency supply, a one month supply, or you want to beat inflation or maybe just save some money this week, you can find some great deals right now at HyVee locations in Iowa City/Coralville.

If you can still find a Wednesday edition of the Iowa City DePressed Citizen, HyVee has a coupon sheet in there for eight items for just 26 cents each.  Here's what I bought, with intended use in italics:

• HyVee tomato sauce (canned) - food storage
• Jiffy brand corn muffin mix - food storage
• HyVee macaroni & Cheese - food storage
• HyVee aspirin - medicine storage
• Paper Towels- misc. storage
• Ketchup - money saver
• Sour cream - immediate use
• Bananas - immediate use

Now the items marked for storage (except the paper towels of course) all have expiration dates of March 2013 and beyond, so I'll just rotate those out accordingly when the time approaches.

For a little more than $2, I bought all that stuff.  

Oh, and I bought a one gallon jug of HyVee drinking water for 69 cents.  Remember, one adult needs a gallon of water a day in emergency situations; most of it to drink; some to cook with; some to wash/brush teeth with, that kind of thing.

Last week, I wrote about how to build up your food reserves over time by spending just $1 a day.  That's usually good for the purchase of one item.  Today, by taking advantage of a sale, I got five items I can store for an emergency, for just 26 cents each. 

Related story:  http://coralvillecourier.typepad.com/community/2012/01/building-up-your-food-reserves-for-1-a-day.html

Clayton County Republicans are doing things right

By Mike Thayer

FARMERSBURG, IA. -- I had the priviledge of attending a Clayton County Republican Central Meeting last night and it was truly enjoyable.

The folks of Clayton County know what they're doing!

Attended by about 35 people, the meeting chaired by Denny Hamann was very cordial, informative and productive.  Everything was very polite but relaxed, people asked great questions, nobody talked over each other, answers given by members of the committee were straight forward.  Three members of the Central Committee are also elected officials of the county, all giving nice updates regarding county business to the GOP Central Committee members in attendance.

Being from Coralville and attending several Johnson County Republican Central Committee meetings over the years, what I witnessed last night was refreshing.  In Clayton County, there was no bickering, no whining, no sidetracking on nonsense, and most importantly, no progressive thought!  And here's something else of note:  Clayton County knows how to raise cash.  Their fund balance was surprisingly similar to that of Johnson County's!  That's an indicator of what healthy party production will do for you.

Clayton County is in northeast Iowa and includes towns like Strawberry Point, Elkader and Guttenburg and makes up part of Iowa's First Congressional District. 

Also on the agenda last night were some speakers.

Mike Breitbach, a resident of Strawberry Point is running for a state senate seat (state district 28).  A lot of people have high hopes for this man, more information can be found at his website at:  http://www.friendsforbreitbach.com/

Businessman Rod Blum of Dubuque, is running for Congress, hoping to face off this fall against Democrat incumbent Bruce Braley.  At this time, Blum is the only announced and official GOP candidate and has no competition for the primary race.  A detailed story regarding his comments at the Clayton County meeting is forthcoming.

Lawyer Ben Lange of Independence also spoke to the committee.  Lange ran against Braley and lost in 2010 and is considering another run.  He is currently in Exploratory Committee status, which means he can't actively campaign.  A detailed story regarding his comments is also forthcoming.  You won't want to miss this, it's a follow-up to the related stories here on the Coralville Courier regarding the FEC stated differences between testing the waters and active campaigning.

Again, it was a pleasure to attend this meeting and I look forward to atttending another, as well as others throughout the state.

Our children should be able to rehearse the history of our country

"Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse the history of his own country." -- Noah Webster, On the Education of Youth in America, 1788

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SHOCKER (NOT): King Obama pushes BIG GOVERNMENT answers to all supposed ills

By Mike Thayer

I can sum up King Obama's State of the Union Address in one word:

"Bullshit"

I apologize for the language ladies and gentlemen, but it is what it is.   I call 'em like I see 'em.

The King spoke for about 15 minutes before he could bring himself to say, "The state of the union is getting stronger."

That's a pathetic statement.  Period.  He was hired to fix things, he flat out hasn't.

Here are the King's answers to all supposed ills, it's a rather narrow vision:

Jobs:  More Government

Education:  More Government

Illegal Immigration:  More Government

Energy:  More Government

Infrastructure:  More Government

Housing Market:  More Government

Finance:  More Government

Taxes:  More Government

Health care:  More Government

Deficit/Congressional Business:  More Government

The *need* for bi-partisan government:  More Liberal Government 

Religion/Foreign Policy:  More Government

I am disgusted by how many times I witnessed members of the GOP stand up and applaud the words of King Obama.  In my book that's evidence such people are NOT true Republicans.  If you noticed, the seating has changed.  It used to be that the Democrats sat on one side of the chamber, Republicans on another.  No longer.  In the Obama era.....  This isn't the first SOTU address where both parties are seated amongst each other.  It's done on purpose.  Think about that..... It's television marketing and I can't believe the GOP went along with it.   The King doesn't want anyone asking themselves, "Why aren't the Republicans applauding that?"  I watched as RINOs like Olympia Snow stood and clapped along with Democrats for absolute nonsense.

Did you notice what was missing from the King's speech?

The American individual.  The people that create and achieve, you know, the kind of people that made this country great.  The kind of people our Founding Fathers fostered and created this country for.

I have never been more disgusted by a State of the Union speech in my life and I've been watching these things since Jimmy Carter. 

Obama's Big Government hasn't worked for three years.  AS IF it's going to suddenly start working now?

I can sum up that approach in one word.......