“Eating at Armands yesterday: Former Sen Jim Talent grabbing a table and a plate and go to town on the salad bar. He likes cottage cheese and Hawaiian pizza. It’s pretend healthy.”Read more…

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Looks like Mr. Talent’s prediction of a WMD attack by 2013 may occur sooner than he thought. From: “Erich ‘Mancow’ Muller is reporting 40 to 50 Al Qaeda members have died from black plague in Algeria. Now we know Al Qaeda has a WMD that will be hard to detect when it’s brought into the […]

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TownHall.com: “In Missouri, former Sen. Jim Talent is at the top of most Republican lists to keep Bond’s seat in the GOP column.” Read more… Politico: “And after having traveled with a bum knee that required security checks, [McCaskill] said she’s not anxious for “extra love pats” to come back. Read more… CNN: “Democratic Sen. […]

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Attorney and blogger Graf Shepherd scored an exclusive interview with former Senator Jim Talent. Talent co-chairs the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism. (Wow! That’s a mouthful!) Looks like Gregg Keller and Mr. Talent understand the growing influence of bloggers and the new media. From GrafShepherd.com  In an interview […]

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Hat tip: Talk News Radio Service Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism co-chair Jim Talent says that it would be easier for terrorists to obtain a biological weapon than a nuclear weapon, and that a biological weapon may prove to be more dangerous since it could be used more […]

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As Congress spends $700 billion here, and $25 billion over there for bailouts to stimulate the economy, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is proposing that another $500 billion go directly to taxpayers in the form of stimulus checks. Former Senator Jim Talent suggests that President-elect Obama may attempt to stimulate the economy with military spending to […]

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Via DesMoinesRegister.com By Jim Talent As candidates for the presidency continue to spar over how best to address our country’s economic issues, the war in Iraq and health care, they must not ignore an equally critical question: How do we achieve energy independence? The good news story on the energy front during the last few […]

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By Jim Talent If you ask a foreign policy question of a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, ultimately he would say that the question is above his paygrade. Defense policy is subordinate to foreign policy, in the sense that the military does the tasks it is directed to do to advance the policies […]

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Secretary of Labor Jim Talent? From CQ: An articulate proponent of the core conservative belief that more federal authority over domestic programs should be handed to the states, he sought refuge at the Heritage Foundation as a senior fellow after losing his Senate seat in 2006 by 2 percentage points to Democrat Claire McCaskill. That […]

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