Corleone crime family consiglieri Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall) confers with The Don Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) in a scene from The Godfather And the beat goes on! The St. Louis Post Dispatch is reporting today that St. Louis County Executive Dooley’s rewarded his  consiglieri John Temporiti with a patronage job for his son son Mike […]

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Next week will mark a year since Democrats in Congress jammed through a 2,700 page health care spending bill and President Obama signed it into law over the objections of a majority of Americans. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell marked the unfortunate occasion in a speech on the floor this morning. “I’d like to look […]

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“We continue to be a progressive, web-based news source dedicated to monitoring current issues, unveiling hypocrisy, and opining on political happenings in Missouri.” That’s what FiredUp Missouri states in their ‘about’ section, but their actions seem to say otherwise. Not very ‘progressive’ in our opinion to have a tournament consisting of prominent all white politicos […]

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Eighty-five-year-old aldermanic candidate Dolores Sherman of St. Peters, Mo., claims a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper visited her home and gave her the “third degree” without any valid reason. In addition, she suspects the trooper might have been doing it as a favor to someone in her community. Blogger Bob McCarty gives us the rundown. […]

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Rusty can’t be serious? “Leading the charge for change” while charging lobbyists $2,500 for the honor of watching the NCAA tournament with you? For a guy who probably won’t have a congressional district next year, he sure has been holding a lot of fundraisers lately. (here and here) Related: Rasmussen Reports: Generic Congressional Ballot: Republicans […]

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The Wall Street Journal editors wrote Tuesday, “Get a load of this. Some Members of Congress actually think that Congress should have a say in whether or not the government regulates carbon. Some of them even want to have a debate about it first.”  Indeed, yesterday Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell introduced an amendment to […]

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Hat tip: Businessinsider.com

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Hat tip:MONewsHorizon [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/9poN8vxfB5I” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Rasmussen Reports: Only 27% Have Positive View of Government Bailouts

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Former Republican – and now Democrat – attorney general Chris Koster will be in St. Louis tomorrow evening. Koster will be speaking to the latest incarnation of the corrupt ACORN organization. Their new name: Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE). You gotta give it to these people, they are great at acronyms, aren’t they? […]

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The AP reported yesterday, “Senate Republicans on Monday raised the stakes in their showdown with President Barack Obama over trade policy, saying they will block the confirmation of a new Commerce secretary until the administration submits to Congress three pending free trade agreements. “The administration says it is ready to submit the trade agreement with […]

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