Author Archives: Paul Deaton

Biden Remarks Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

Posted on January 5, 2024 by Paul Deaton

On Friday, January 5, 2023, President Joe Biden gave this speech near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania to kick off his re-election campaign. It is worth a listen.

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Electric Cars and Iowa

Posted on December 31, 2023 by Paul Deaton

When we couldn’t get new parts for our 2002 Subaru in 2022, we decided to get a replacement car. First of all, it rots that basic suspension parts are unavailable from the manufacturer of a relatively new and otherwise fine … Continue reading →

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Invisible Hand During The Holidays

Posted on December 30, 2023 by Paul Deaton

Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations is a book seldom read in its entirety. Libertarians underwent multiple iterations of winnowing the more than five hundred fifty pages into something more closely matching their ideological viewpoint. Once, they serialized a conservative … Continue reading →

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Enough Groundwater?

Posted on November 28, 2023 by Paul Deaton

Will the Silurian Aquifer have enough water to support the population that draws from it? Answers to that question are a bit sketchy due to infrequent research into groundwater projections. A 2011 study published by the Iowa Department of Natural … Continue reading →

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Clean Water: Are Iowans Getting What We Paid For?

Posted on November 26, 2023 by Paul Deaton

Editor’s Note: Rep. Chuck Isenhart represents House District 72 in the Iowa legislature. This article is from his constituent newsletter. For more information about Rep. Isenhart, click here. To subscribe directly to his newsletter, click here. More than 75 people … Continue reading →

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COP 28 And Beyond

Posted on November 25, 2023 by Paul Deaton

Ahead of Joe Biden and Xi Jinping’s Nov. 15 meeting at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation conference in San Francisco, the parties pledged to strengthen their cooperation on climate change. The U.S. State Department released a statement detailing areas of agreement. … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Democracy Awakening

Posted on October 23, 2023 by Paul Deaton

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson is a must read for anyone following the contemporary discussion of conflict between the liberal consensus and movement conservatism. If you don’t know what those two things are, … Continue reading →

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32 Officials Call On Miller-Meeks To Avoid Shutdown

Posted on September 29, 2023 by Paul Deaton

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Sept. 29, 2023 Contact: Adam Zabner adam@zabnerforiowa.com  32 District One Elected Officials Call on Rep Miller-Meeks to Avoid a Shutdown First District – As Iowans face the prospect of a government shutdown, 32 elected officials from Iowa’s First … Continue reading →

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Interchange Yet No Bridge

Posted on August 31, 2023 by Paul Deaton

It has been no secret the interchange between Interstates 80 and 380 near Coralville needed improvement. It has long been one of the most crash-prone places in the state of Iowa. Commenced in 2018, the infrastructure project to reconstruct it … Continue reading →

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Remove Trump From Iowa Ballots

Posted on August 30, 2023 by Paul Deaton

Some days I wish the 45th President would settle into retirement and fade away. That doesn’t seem likely. There is, however, a strong case that Trump is disqualified from being on the ballot because of his engagement in the insurrection … Continue reading →

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