Missouri is one of few states that taxes families living below the poverty level, a new report shows. Our income tax brackets were established in 1931 and have not been adjusted since.
Ike [...]
Missouri is one of few states that taxes families living below the poverty level, a new report shows. Our income tax brackets were established in 1931 and have not been adjusted since.
Ike [...]
Officials are telling The Associated Press that AARP - the seniors' lobby - will endorse the health care overhaul bill that House Democrats are preparing to take to the floor.
Officials with knowledge of the group's decision told The Associate Press on Wednesday that the' [...]
Researchers who deal in cold numbers rather than warming climates believe the "significant benefits from curbing greenhouse-gas emissions would [...]
Update: In a story about this same topic, the Star's David Goldstein writes that "Republicans are feeling pretty nervous - about their own voters."
The chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee has promised that the [...]
The Daily Show has been especially good this week.
[...]In a new campaign blog post, Roy Blunt says he "had hoped" politics would not be inserted into the H1N1 vaccine issue, and accuses the evil libruls of doing so.
For those of you who didn't sleep through last week, you may recall that Roy Blunt was "the first' [...]
Because another few days would have made a huge difference:
House Republican leaders were furious that their healthcare reform alternative was leaked to the media on Tuesday.
After months of delays in the release of the bill, Republicans were playing defense on Tuesday after the measure was being e-mailed around Capitol [...]
Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer released a list of reasons why he opposes the House Democrats' health care plan yesterday. It's a pretty standard list of Republican talking points: laughable claims from the insurance industry-owned Lewin Group (Blaine calls them "on-partisan actuaries"), bureaucrats are bad, anything "government-run" is bad, etc.
The first' [...]
Because if there's any group of folks who know how to reign in health care costs, it's insurance companies. And if they're any place to find reasonable information, it's the opinion section of the Wall Street Journal.
The White House responded to the WellPoint study two' [...]
It's Sesame Street's 40th birthday, and that seems like a good enough reason to post one of my favorite political-ish Sesame Street clips:
[...].Sean, Tom the Turkey, Sherman Potter, General Content, penrose, Jane Whitesides
