Should we really be surprised that a federal judge who is a Clinton appointee and former administrative aide to former Congressman Dick “son of a milk truck driver” Gephardt would decide in favor of socialized medicine? Missouri Watchdog: Judge Rodney Sippel slammed the federal courthouse doors in the face of Missourians, Kinder said in a [...]

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  The Washington Post reports today, “Soaring gasoline prices are biting into household incomes and nibbling at Americans’ fuel consumption — and support for President Obama, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll. About six in 10 respondents said they had cut back on driving because of rising fuel prices, and seven in 10 said [...]

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Great editorial today in The Journal on “right to work.” Twenty two states already have right-to-work laws and they’ve tended to outperform the others economically, a fact that has states like Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Minnesota, Maine and New Hampshire working on their own reforms. In Missouri, state senate President pro-tem Rob Mayer has pushed right [...]

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“I really want to thank all of our first responders – our firefighters and EMTs and police officers, many of whom came from neighboring municipalities – to help the victims of these historic storms get their lives back together. I am always inspired by the professionalism and the care these men and women show when [...]

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The Wall Street Journal has an excellent editorial today on the Obama administration’s latest plans to circumvent Congress by implementing parts of the DISCLOSE Act via executive order, which was first uncovered by former FEC Commissioner Hans von Spakovsky last week. The WSJ editors write, “The order would implement parts of last year’s Disclose Act, [...]

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Reporting on President Obama’s appearance at Facebook headquarters in California this week, the AP writes, “Obama said that unless lawmakers get the country’s long-term finances under control, more immediate economic gains could prove difficult. ‘If we don’t have a serious plan to tackle the debt and the deficit, that could actually end up being a [...]

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