IOWA BUDGET NEEDS SPECIAL TREATMENT

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Governor Vilsack is calling another special session for May 28 to resolve the state budget crisis. No doubt Democrats and their mouthpiece, aka the Des Moines Register, will blame the state tax cuts of the late 1990s. Yet, revenues only dipped in 1999, while spending from 1998-2001 was more than double the rate of inflation. In other words, our budget crisis is due to a spending spree, not tax cuts. Which means the Republicans in the Iowa Legislature are exactly right to call for more spending cuts.


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WORLD SERIES OF POKER

I am a big poker fan and player. On Monday, the Big One begins at the World shop Series of Poker (WSOP). This is the $10,000 No-Limit Hold ‘Em Championship. This is the Wimbledon of poker, a grueling five day competition for which the winner will take down in the neighborhood of $2 million. Some of you might remember seeing this on the Discovery Channel a few years ago. (Sadly, Discovery Channel canceled the series that carried it.)

The WSOP is actually a bunch of small events, ranging from buy-ins of $1500 to $5000, leading up to the Big One. It is held each year at Binion’s Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas. You can read about some of the small events at Andy N. S. Glazer’s site. This site is also great if you know next to nothing about poker and would like to learn the basics.

Binion’s coverage of the WSOP is here. You can actually watch a webcast of some of the events.

BAD PROFILE

Ames Tribune has a good editorial on the law enforcement profile of Luke Helder. Demonstrates that profiling is suspect.