Wishing all the best to Senator Jean Carnahan, co-founder of this fabulous website, and to Congressman Ike Skelton as they celebrate their birthdays today.
Feel free to leave your birthday wishes for the Senator and Congressman in the comments.
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I Got The Float Finished!
Apart from the fine print that reads, "This mailing was prepared published and mailed at taxpayer expense," it's hard to the tell the difference between the messages in Congressman Roy Blunt's most recent taxpayer-financed mailer and the Roy Blunt for Senate campaign's defensive attacks [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ho, ho — hold that holiday thought.
Whatever seasonal spirit resides on Capitol Hill these days has been driven into the shadows by the churlish mood of lawmakers wrestling a last-minute work load and punting a whole other list of difficult issues into next year. Maybe, the thinking [...]
TOPEKA | Kansas lawmakers will debate legislation to make texting while driving a crime when they reconvene next month.
Legislation introduced Tuesday would make texting while driving a crime punishable by jail time. It’s based on a new Utah law, the toughest crackdown on texting while driving in the nation.
The bill [...]
Aschroft-Carnahan finishes second to.....
....drumroll, please....
Check it out.Ashcroft. Carnahan at the 2000 Gem Theater debate
Frédéric Bastiat
My recent op-ed against film tax credits was published as a guest commentary in the Columbia Missourian today! As regular readers of this blog will know, it was also discussed by Steve Walsh on MissouriNet and by David Nicklaus on [...]
Columbia Daily Tribune publisher Hank Waters:
The former House speaker had incurred a lot of criticism for serving as a political consultant to other members of the General Assembly, taking money from them at the same time he was in a position to affect the outcome of [...]
USA Today looks at meat in the National School Lunch Program and finds that it doesn’t compare favorably to the meat in fast food restaurants. The USDA accepts blemished meat that the restaurant chains would reject, and the private companies conduct better tests for bacteria, too.
A professor of medicine [...]
Will citizens get a shield law?
We’re a step closer today after the Senate judiciary committee cleared its version of shield law to allow reporters to protect confidential sources. According to a report published on the Huffington Post:
The bill uses a broad definition of journalists by including bloggers, citizen journalists [...]
VoteVets.org has endorsed Tommy Sowers in his bid for Congress in the 8th Congressional District.VoteVets.org's Political Action Committee says its already helped raise $6,000 for Sowers' challenge to Republican Rep. Jo Ann Emerson."Tommy Sowers is a rare breed – an elite soldier and accomplished scholar,” said'" [...] The Star has just published an anonymous Dear Colleagues letter -- "presumably a Republican state rep," reporter Steve Kraske writes -- demanding that the House GOP caucus find new leaders not named Rod Jetton or Steve Tilley. It begins:
To My Colleagues, (I am withholding my name today so you read [...]
