ABC News has a must-read story today on the results of the Obama administration’s green energy financing program, titled, “Green Firms Get Fed Cash, Give Execs Bonuses, Fail. ABC reports, “President Obama’s Department of Energy helped finance several green energy companies that later fell into bankruptcy — but not before the firms doled out six-figure […]

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Energy Secretary Steven Chu (“Times Tough For Energy Overhaul,” The Wall Street Journal, 12/12/08) The AP reports today, “The price at the gas pump rose over the weekend and the nationwide average is nearing $3.80 a gallon. Oil is close to $107 per barrel because of tensions tied to Iran’s nuclear program. AAA says the […]

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Eugene Dokes, Navy veteran and small business owner files candidacy for district 70 Republican Eugene Dokes officially filed today as a candidate for the newly redrawn House of Representatives District 70. The district spans from Hazelwood to St. Charles City and includes portions of Bridgeton, Maryland Heights, Creve Coeur, Earth City, Harvester and Cottleville. Dokes […]

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The nanny staters are at it again! This time they want to protect us from the payday loan industry by placing an initiative on the ballot in November to cap interest on these short term loans. Look, we all want to pay the lowest interest we can on our loans, but it’s a fact of […]

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With gas prices spiking again, it’s amazing to watch the lengths to which Democrats will still go to prevent domestic energy production which could help lower prices, promote energy independence, and create jobs. Just yesterday WKBW in Buffalo, NY, reported, “U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer Sunday called on the U.S. State Department to press the […]

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Reacting to President Obama’s speech on energy yesterday, The Wall Street Journal editorializes, “‘The American people aren’t stupid,’ thundered President Obama yesterday in Miami, ridiculing Republicans who are blaming him for rising gasoline prices. Let’s hope he’s right, because not even Forrest Gump could believe the logic of what Mr. Obama is trying to sell. […]

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Obama on McCaskill: “I Just Love Her So”It’s quite instructive to look at the “highlights” of the nearly $1 trillion stimulus passed by the Democrat Congress at the urging of President Obama. Three years after Obama promised, “It’s a plan that will save or create up to 4 million jobs over the next two years” […]

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USA Today reports, “Get ready for another round of pain at the pump: $4 (or higher) gasoline. . . . Prices could spike another 60 cents or more by May. ‘I think it’s going to be a chaotic spring, with huge price increases in some places,’ says Tom Kloza of the Oil Price Information Service. […]

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Strange! You don’t show up to the debate but you tweet one of your opponents that they’re “doing a great job?” St. Louis businessman John Brunner was the only announced candidate running for US Senate that elected not to attend The Conversation with the Candidates at Branson High School – but that doesn’t mean he […]

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