First, the University hires a guy as system president who was fired from Sprint, and now they STILL have a chair in disgraced former Enron CEO Ken Lay’s name. Incredible! By Andrew Denney Graphic/Amy Oslica MU economics professor Joseph Haslag has been appointed as the first Kenneth L. Lay Chair of Economics, the College of […]

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From Rhetorica: Press-Politics Journal The key for me is good reporting in both analysis and opinion writing. The difference is one of intention: opinion should be about changing hearts and minds with knowledge and wisdom; analysis should be about knowledge and wisdom (i.e. organized information embedded in a context and the capacity to know what […]

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By Dudley Sharp Often, the death penalty dialogue gravitates to the subject of innocents at risk of execution. Seldom is a more common problem reviewed. That is, how innocents are more at risk without the death penalty. Living murderers, in prison, after release or escape or after our failures to incarcerate them, are much more […]

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You’ve got to give the homosexual lobby credit. Create sympathy for your cause with the future attorneys and judges of America. The indoctrination starts in kindergarten with the reading of Heather Has Two Mommies, and doesn’t end, even when some of the students enter law school. From University News: (UMKC)  By Elyssa Brogdon Students of […]

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FiredUp’s “Howard Beale” is a riot! “Beale” seems to enjoy exhibiting his incapability to grasp simple political satire. Rather strange for someone engaging in the rough and tumble world of politics by writing for a hyper-partisan political blog. If it wasn’t April fools day, “Beale’s” overblown assessment of Rep Schaaf’s speech would be an indicator […]

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Contact: Mike Ferguson at 816.817.1817 or mike@mikefergusononline.com For Immediate Release Former Democratic Senator Mike Gravel (AK), Former Republican Congressman Bob Barr (GA) to Participate in the Heartland Libertarian Conference Next Weekend. (Kansas City) – Former United States Senator Mike Gravel from Alaska was, up until this week, a Democratic candidate for President. That changed when […]

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From Student Life: (Washington University) By Kat Zhao In light of the shootings at Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University (NIU), students across the nation have assembled in support of policies for concealed carry of guns on college campuses.The group known as Students for Concealed Carry on Campus (SCCC) has garnered more than 18,000 members, […]

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From The Source: This is a car belonging to State Representative Al Liese. According to our sources, the car is often parked in the circle of the capitol building all day long, despite a two hour time limit. Why, you might ask, does a State Representative, who has a spot in the garage, need to […]

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  On Monday March 3rd, All 50 states will receive a grade from the Pew Center on the States, which will measure their performance in serving the public in a range of areas from budget and finance to roads and bridges. The Missouri Political News Service was honored to be invited on a conference call […]

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Sen. Bond pictured here in 1998 with former St. Louis NAACP head Charles Mischeaux JEFFERSON CITY _ Proving once again that Jay Nixon is a political gadfly within his own party, the senior statewide Democrat elected official and gubernatorial candidate has not been granted super delegate status even though he has spent 22 years promoting […]

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