Strange! You don’t show up to the debate but you tweet one of your opponents that they’re “doing a great job?” St. Louis businessman John Brunner was the only announced candidate running for US Senate that elected not to attend The Conversation with the Candidates at Branson High School – but that doesn’t mean he [...]

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In a must-read editorial yesterday, The Wall Street Journal writes, “President Obama keeps pushing the (Warren) Buffett rule that nobody making more than $1 million a year should pay less than 30% in taxes. He’d do better by the economy if he adopted a Solyndra Rule, in which no company touting unproven and expensive technology [...]

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Related: Spence’s First Commercial Politico: 2012 governor races Republican Governor Candidate Releases College Transcripts

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At a press conference last Wednesday, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), a key member of Senate Democrats’ leadership, took to the podium to criticize something Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-IN) said in his Republican Address the night before. Gov. Daniels said, “On these evenings, Presidents naturally seek to find the sunny side of our national condition.  But [...]

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One thing you can say for sure, Mr. Dooley sure is loyal (to a fault) to his cronies. Instead of firing these cronies from their plum patronage jobs, he’d rather throw hardworking county employees out into the street who actually do meaningful work for the county. Post Dispatch: County Executive Charlie A. Dooley said Wednesday [...]

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The Democratically controlled United States Senate passed a dubious milestone the other day. Incredibly, 1,000 days has passes since the senate passed a budget. One thousand days folks! That’s almost three years! Can you believe that one of the president’s campaign themes this year will be a “do nothing Congress?” Right there supporting this irresponsibility [...]

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