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Scandal brewing?

Inside the fight over “the worst pro-corruption bill in Iowa history.”

Republicans in the Iowa House passed a bill Thursday that would limit the state auditor’s ability to get information from state agencies and officials while investigating the potential misuse of taxpayer dollars.

Despite the ongoing war against Islamic terrorists and the need tomeet enduring national security requirements, the defense budget isnot large. By itself, it poses no threat to the overall economy.With the future of free peoples at stake, spending 4 percent of thenational economy for defense is well worth the cost.

Whatever merits one may ascribe to the recently enacted Medicarelaw, it has aggravated, not controlled, rapidly rising Medicarecosts. Its major feature is a massive entitlement expansion, but italso embodies some bad health care policy: There is no need for thefederal government to displace existing drug coverage, pre-empt newprivate-sector options, or accelerate the loss of employer-baseddrug coverage.

The chair of the House Budget Committee, Rep. Jodey Arrington, is calling for a convention of states to pass a balanced budget amendment amid high government spending and record debt.

Paul Kellogg — To students of twentieth-century Russian history, the name Vladimir Il’ich Lenin is a constant, and inevitable, presence. But the name Iulii Osipovich Tsederbaum—better known through the pseudonym “Iulii Martov”—is either entirely absent from view or present only as a mysterious, and often unsavoury, figure.

When: Manheim Township school board action meeting, Dec. 15.