From University News: By Joshua Seiden When Ward Connerly enters a room, one can expect spirited discourse and possibly some flaring tempers. “Without question, racial discrimination and slavery and Jim Crow were wrong, but you can’t unring the bell,” he told the University News during a recent visit to UMKC. “You can’t go back and […]

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First i would like to thank my lord and savior for not liking the other nominees. Seriously anyone who thanks the lord for an award i just want to punch in the face, as if the Lord doesn’t have anything better to do than make sure your huge bloated ego gets stroked. So instead thanks […]

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MPN: When attorney general candidate Chris Koster left the Cass County Prosecutor’s office to become the first Republican state senator in his district in half a century, he was replaced by Democrat Teresa Hensley. In 2004 Koster defeated Democratic candidate Larry Snider by a 2-to-1 margin for the state senate seat, a stunning defeat in […]

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Pornography. Adult businesses. Flesh peddlers. Erotic entertainment. Whatever you want to call sexually-based materials and businesses, they are controversial and increasingly under the scrutiny of activist groups and government. Leading the effort to have adult businesses indicted and charged with crimes is the National Coalition for the Protection of Children and Families. The organization’s director […]

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The Show-Me Institute has released a policy study about the abuses of eminent domain when used for private profit in Missouri. Although many government officials believe that eminent domain is necessary for comprehensive development projects that will help stimulate the economy, the study focused on how eminent domain often hurts economic development by creating economic […]

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washingtonpost.com’s Politics Blog: Missouri: As usual when it comes to Missouri politics, Kansas City Star political correspondent Steve Kraske gets it right. Kraske wrote in a recent column that Gov. Matt Blunt’s (R) re-election chances hinge on whether he lets a 2005 decision to cut Medicaid rolls in order to close a $1 billion budget […]

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“The story was about a civilian truck driver that went over to Iraq to do his part and to help get out of some financial hardships here at home. And after seeing some of his buddies die and others get ambused he had enough and he came back home. He really struggled with his emotions […]

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National efforts to pursue criminal charges against businesses that sell pornography and other sexual materials are seeing results in the Kansas City area and at least one organization says it wants to fight back. The National Coalition for the Protection of Children and Families-Kansas City branch has petitioned several Prosecuting Attorneys, some in Missouri, to […]

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Student sues over racial slur Graduate student Barbara Franks, liberal arts, has filed a lawsuit against the University of Missouri (UM) and the UM Board of Curators, alleging discrimination on the basis of race, sex and retaliation.While employed in the Work Study Program in October 2006, Franks alleges her supervisor, Janet Carnett, administrative manager in […]

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The Associated Press should be embarrassed at using such a misleading headline to describe KC Parks Board member Frances Semler’s position on Illegal immigration. It’s funny how the word illegal never seems to make it into stories or headlines dealing with – illegal aliens. The St. Louis Post Dispatch should be equally embarrased. This is […]

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