By Bob Priddy St. Louis remains the worst city in the nation for major crimes in the latest figures from the FBI. The rating is based on crimes-per-resident statistics. Read more… Related:  PubDef: (9-21-07) “Crime may have shot up 20% last year, at least $40,000 in cash may have disappeared from the police vault, the […]

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Somebody has been re-reading Karl Marx or the Democratic Party’s platform again. Do people really still talk and think this way in the 21st century? Obviously so. BradSpangler.com: “The ruling class, the political class, use war and statism generally to milk the productive class (the rest of us). Although their politicians compete against each other as gladiators […]

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The Libertarian Guy: “Last night, members of the local Code Pink bunch made a pitch to the Springfield City Council to “oppose military action against Iran without congressional authorization”. Since this would have zero impact on preventing said military action against Iran, it strikes me as a symbolic – and fruitless – publicity stunt. I […]

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For a woman who wants to be Congressman, Kay Barnes certainly stays home a lot. Just last week she skipped her own hastily called lunch with veterans. As it turns out it was supposed to be more of a private chat with a tiny group of hand-picked supporters. Once the press got wind of her […]

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Former politicians Jack Danforth and Christine Todd Whitman are the scheduled “honored Speakers” for an upcoming St. Louis fundraiser for the Republican Leadership Council. The RLC, an organization that was “inspired by a drive to get back to the fundamentals of the Republican Party,”counts as its members such luminaries as former Maryland Lt. Governor Michael […]

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Prime Buzz: Your job in 60 words… Jack Cardetti: I help develop and deliver the Democratic message in Missouri and assist Democratic elected officials and candidates in doing the same. Where did you grow up? What was it like? I grew up in St. James, Missouri, in the foothills of the Ozarks. Phelps County’s political […]

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In last Thursday’s “Political Eye” column in the St. Louis American, Virvus Jones/Chris King are whining like little….well you know what we mean. They are complaining because Rep. Robin Wright Jones didn’t feel obligated to let them know when she was announcing her candidacy for state senate: State Rep. Robin Wright Jones seems to have […]

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As I type this post, the St. Louis Post Dispatch is reporting that United Auto Workers at the General Motors Corp. plant in Wentzville, Mo. and at other factories across the country, are preparing to walk off their jobs and basically cut their own economic throats. General Motors, which is bleeding money like a wound […]

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A bill that Congressman Sam Graves believes will help small businesses get investment capital passed a U.S. House committee Thursday. Mr. Graves, a Northwest Missouri Republican, helped write the Small Business Investment Expansion Act, which now moves to the full House for consideration. Under current law, Mr. Graves pointed out, businesses with financial backing of […]

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The Missouri Political News Service will be following this developing story very closely. Fellow bloggers and lovers of independent media, an assault against one is an assault against us all! From PubDef: On Wednesday we filed a formal counter-notification with YouTube in response to our account being suspended and our more than 500 videos being […]

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