Last night, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) filed cloture on the nomination of John “Jack” McConnell, a controversial Rhode Island trial lawyer, to be a district judge. A cloture vote on his nomination could come as early as Wednesday this week. When President Obama sent his nomination to the Senate last year, The Wall […]

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“When it was announced that Hitler had died, my grandmother commented: “The Devil has a companion.” Thanks to our heroic American special operations forces, the Devil has yet another companion.” — Former Sen. Jim Talent Read more… Related: KMOX.com: Kit Bond Was Among First To Know of bin Laden Hunt Video: Show Your Thanks to World […]

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Despite my reservations for using East St. Louis Board of Elections registration data, it is all that I have at this time. They claim that we have 22,459 registered voters and this means that 14.4% of all registered voters used the absentee ballot. Looking closer, we see that 42.4% of all voters participating (7,649), or […]

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Hat tip:showmeinstitute The Missouri Senate Jobs, Economic Development and Local Government Committee heard testimony from the public about the proposed “Aerotropolis” subsidy bill. Show-Me Institute policy analysts Audrey Spalding and Christine Harbin were on hand to deliver their own impressions of the problems with the proposed legislation. They were, in fact, the lone opposing witnesses […]

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Word is circulating out of Jefferson City that Gov. Nixon is going to make life really bad for St. Louis Democrat State Representatives Penny Hubbard and Jamilah “Lil’ Niecey” Nasheed . The DINOS (Democrats In Name Only) have taken plenty of flack from their party and their allies in the media ever since we exposed […]

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The Washington Post (and almost every other news outlet) reports today, “Osama bin Laden, the long-hunted al-Qaeda leader and chief architect of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, was killed by U.S. forces Sunday in what officials described as a surgical raid on his luxury hideout in Pakistan. In a rare […]

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