We have completed the fifteenth week of the legislation session, and Tuesday marked the 100th (and final scheduled) day. As predicted and with important work still to be completed, we continue working and are excited to deliver for our constituents and our state. One big victory this week was ...
Tax Day has come and gone…along with the money the IRS took from your paycheck. Even if you paid your taxes on time and in full, you are still subject to the threat of an IRS audit. Meanwhile, fraudsters are treating the national treasury like a personal piggy bank, stealing more than $1 ...
For over four years, Marshalltown and the City Council have watched the old hospital site. Purchased by an out-of-town person who may have had the best of intentions, but eventually allowed the entire campus uptown to depreciate and deteriorate. Because the property was private property, the ...
Grifters piling bounty by exploiting others’ decent passions merit merciless condemnation. As do fake news mongers who enable dirty crimes. An Alabama grand jury considered evidence presented by the government against the Southern Poverty Law Center. The SPLC is alleged to have funneled millions of donor dollars to the very hate groups it claims to fight. Per a DOJ press release, the SPLC “secretly funneled more than $3 million to individuals who’d been associated with violent extremist groups like the KKK, National Socialist Party of America [Nazis], and Aryan ...
Many years ago, I heard a statement that has stayed with me ever since: “Man’s basic spiritual problem is the integrity of the Word of God.” From the opening chapters of Scripture, humanity’s trouble did not begin with violence, injustice, or immorality—it began with a question: “…Did God actually say…?” (Genesis 3:1). Eve inaccurately handled God’s word, which led to her believing the serpent’s lie in verse 4. The consequences were catastrophic. That pattern has never changed. When God’s words are doubted, altered, or subordinated to human opinion...unbelief, ...
In November 1979, I escorted Gov. Robert D. Ray and first lady Billy Ray to the Thai-Cambodian border, where we witnessed thousands of Cambodians who had escaped the Khmer Rouge genocide starving to death. Victims were dying at the rate of 50 to 100 a day, bulldozed into mass graves. After this trip, Gov. Ray started the Iowa SHARES (Iowa Sends Help to Aid Refugees and End Starvation) campaign, which rushed lifesaving food and assistance from the people of Iowa to over 30,000 refugees. Earlier that year, in October 1979, I was one of the 350,000 Iowans to hear Pope John Paul II ...
