The Wall Street Journal summed up last night’s speech from the president pretty well in an editorial today: “President Obama delivered a State of the Union address Tuesday night that by the account of his own advisers is more campaign document than a plan for governing. He’s running against Republicans in Congress, Reaganomics, wealthy bankers [...]

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The emperor has no clothes? Tomorrow night, President Obama will deliver his State of the Union address to Congress. But Politico writes today that it’s likely to be much more of a campaign speech than a serious attempt to move the country forward. Politico writes, “The most important 2012 campaign event so far — and [...]

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Trying to find any sense in President Obama’s stunning rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline and the 20,000 jobs it would have created, columnist Robert Samuelson writes today, “It isn’t often that a president makes a decision that has no redeeming virtues and — beyond the symbolism — won’t even advance the goals of the [...]

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Hat tip: MODeptofEducation Former Missouri Governor Bob Holden, moderator of the panel discussion “How Missouri Engages the World,” spoke about the importance of international education to help prepare students to live and work in a global society as part of the International Education Summit held on January 9.

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After his decision to deny a permit to allow the Keystone XL pipeline to be built, President Obama is under fire  from newspaper editorials across the country, a number of Democrats in Congress, and even unions. The Wall Street Journal editors write, “The central conflict of the Obama Presidency has been between the jobs and [...]

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It seems that others in and outside of Missouri realize that former Missourian and wife of former state Sen. Jeff Smith is pretty sad when it comes to being a political operative.  Ms. Smith won our “most stupid quote of the day”  back in 2007 and she was also responsible that summer for the Chris [...]

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