Chris Edwards, director of tax-policy studies at the Cato Institute recently gave, Iowa Governor, Chet Culver an F rating, and a score of 31 which ranked 44th out of 46 Governors. The rating was based on fiscal responsibility while in office.

From the report:

LPIA Chair, Ed Wright recently had his letter regarding Russ Gibson's exclusion from an editorial board published in the Des Moines Register. Gibson is the Libertarian Party of Iowa's candidate for Iowa House District 60.

You can read Ed's letter to the editor here [3].

The summer we should all remember Robert Heinlein, science fiction's Grand Master, who through his books was many things to many people. Of his books he said, the "are and invitation to think-not to believe." Of his work Brian Doherty wrote, "his work appeals to that eternal youthful question: How should you live as you grow into a culture you did not make?" Heinlein left libertarians many useful quotes that have become part of our culture over the years. Only three are printed below.

"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him."

"There ain't no such thing as a free lunch."

"An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life."

The Iowans for Tax Relief [6] are co-hosting with the Iowa Christian Alliance a Presidential Candidates Forum on June 30th in Des Moines. The Iowans for Tax Relief (ITR) has a stated mission [7] of lobbying "for reduced state government spending and lower taxes for all Iowans."

Usually, when politics and science start mixing, I usually want to bang my head with a blunt object when I hear how absolutely asinine the arguments are. However, over at Reason’s Hit and Run blog [9], Ronald Bailey writes intelligently about how neuroscience is confirming Adam Smith’s theory of human morality which he used as the basis for his free market economic theory.

In 2001, state legislators of the Administration and Regulation Appropriations subcommittee requested that the Lottery look for new sources of revenue that would not require a change in statues in order to help balance the State budget. The declining Iowa economy, mimicking the rest of the nation, was clearly impacting the state's tax revenues.

The solution came in the form of TouchPlay devices, which eventually went into testing in April of 2004, bringing in mediocre revenues. It wasn't until August, when testing at 20 gas stations and convenience stores occurred, that the potential was truly realized.

Vote Third Party For A Less Corrupt Government
By Aaron Gott
Iowa State Daily 10.23.2006

Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., has a penchant for congressional pages under the legal age. Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Fla., was caught up in a campaign fundraising scandal. The FBI found $90,000 in Rep. William Jefferson's, D-La., freezer during a corruption probe.

THE LIBERTARIAN PERSPECTIVE
A WEEKLY OP-ED COLUMN BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA

www.ca.lp.org [13]

Where Will the New Jobs Go?

by Joe Cobb

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week that only 51,000 new jobs were created in the United States during September. Labor statistics are always being revised, but this preliminary report is not good news for California. Without a lot more jobs in the future, tax revenue won't grow.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Sports fans know that fair competition requires rules that apply equally to all teams. And as sports scandals involving doping and fixing have shown, fans rightly criticize on sports radio and turn their backs on competitors who cheat.

Appealing to that sense of fairness, Utah Libertarians have placed a full-page advertisement (see portion above) illustrating the unfairness of the two-party system to taxpayers and voters in the 2006 Football Preview published in the Deseret Morning News and Salt Lake Tribune by the Newspaper Agency Corporation.

Author Unknown:
Found at this website [16]

Though it's not exactly humorous, when you think about it:

The Little Red Hen - Modern Version

Once upon a time, on a farm in Texas, there was a little red hen who scratched about the barnyard until she uncovered quite a few grains of wheat.

She called all of her neighbors together and said, "If we plant is wheat, we shall have bread to eat. Who will help me plant it?"

"Not I," said the cow.

"Not I," said the duck.