Shortly after midnight on July 19, 2005, a shift supervisor at a military cafeteria in Balad, Iraq, hears a loud bang that sounds like a car backfiring and races to the tent where it came from. He looks inside. Private First Class LaVena Johnson, 19, a vegan and an honor-roll student who once dreamed of […]

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This will be our first and last post regarding Congressman Lacy Clay’s pending divorce. We’ve certainly leveled our fair share of criticism at the hapless lawmaker, but delving into the tawdry tabloid journalism that the Post Dispatch wants to engage in is somewhere we’re just not going to go. Is becoming the local version of […]

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Yesterday, as FiredUp Missouri tried to spin us that everybody loves Jay, they must have received a tip that St. Louis Democrat blogger and STL Business Journal columnist Dave Drebes would gives us the real scoop today: “There’s a surprising amount of discontent among St. Louis Democrats when you ask them about Gov. Jay Nixon’s […]

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Democrat hack blog FiredUp Missouri today is blaming “Ron Richard and the Republicans” for the demise of the so called “stimulus” bill yesterday. It seems that other Democrats (elected ones at that!) disagree with that partisan assessment: “Kinder was joined by several African-American legislators from St. Louis. In a letter to Nixon, Rep. Jamilah Nasheed, […]

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Here’s a funny video from St. Louis Tea Party emcee and African American conservative blogger Kevin Jackson. Hat tip: theblacksphere01 [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/X12hmwkVIUI” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]

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“Jay Nixon has never stood up for black people. He’s never done anything positive. He’s always been a coward.” – St. Louis Alderman Charles “Quincy” Troupe “That’s, unfortunately, Jay’s legacy.” –Former Senate Minority Leader Maida Coleman While we’re all for “investing in Missouri’s future” by creating 6,000 high tech summer jobs for high school and […]

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(from l-r) Charles Williams, Boogie D, Joe Williams, Kevin Chavous, Horace Sheffield, Dr. Ben Chavis, State Rep. T.D. El-Amin, Rodney Hubbard, Earl Simms, Ray Cummings, Aaron North, and Demetrious Johnson. From suiteSTL: The Democrats For Education Reform gathered in St. Louis on Saturday at Harris-Stowe State University for a Town Hall Meeting with HOT 104.1. […]

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With the economy shedding jobs at a 600,000 a month clip, and with the confirmation of open borders economic development director Linda Martinez, expect to see more protests like these in inner city St. Louis and Kansas City communities. These protesters are angry about construction work being done in their community by a local firm […]

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As you’ve probably heard by now, longtime St. Louis Post Dispatch columnist Sylvester Brown was let go yesterday for allegedly violating the paper’s “ethics” policy, a policy apparently designed to protect the paper’s independence and credibility. Now that you’ve picked yourself off the floor, let’s examine this a little more closely. Do you also find […]

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Last week, a liberal member of Missouri Matters called for the ACLU to get involved in the MIAC Scandal, specifically, the targeting of Republican State committee member Josh Carter of St. Louis by the FBI and the highway patrol. Blogger Clay Bowler worries that Governor Nixon “will skate.” “I am sad to see the investigation […]

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