Earlier this week, a top Senate Democrat once again suggested that Democrats are so insistent on tax increases that they’d be willing to let the nation plunge over the fiscal cliff to get them. CNN writes, “Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) says that if Republicans do not agree to let tax cuts expire for Americans making […]

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Speaking on the Senate floor this morning, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell discussed one of the key obstacles to obtaining an agreement to avoid the approaching fiscal cliff. “I believe the two parties can avoid the so-called fiscal cliff. And in the process, I even believe we can agree on a framework for a bipartisan […]

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In an interview with The Wall Street Journal’s Stephen Moore at the end of last week, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell reiterated that in order to get an agreement to avoid the fiscal cliff, there needs to be some leadership from President Obama. “The missing person, the guy who was AWOL in 2011, is still […]

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The Washington Times writes, “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Wednesday that he will try to push through a change to Senate rules that would limit the GOP’s ability to filibuster bills. . . . ‘I think that the rules have been abused and that we’re going to work to change them,’ he told reporters. […]

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Once again, Americans employed in the coal industry are losing jobs thanks in part to federal regulations under the Obama administration.The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports today, “Consol Energy has told officials and workers that it will idle a West Virginia surface mine and lay off approximately 145 employees starting at the end of the year. The […]

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Following President Obama’s claim Monday that the defense sequester is “not something that I’ve proposed” and Obama Chief of Staff Jack Lew trying to claim it was the idea of Republicans in Congress, The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler decided to fact check these assertions today. Kessler writes, “[I]n the final presidential debate, Obama sought to […]

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Last week, The Washington Post reported, “President Obama is prepared to veto legislation to block year-end tax hikes and spending cuts, collectively known as the ‘fiscal cliff,’ unless Republicans bow to his demand to raise tax rates for the wealthy, administration officials said. Freed from the political and economic constraints that have tied his hands […]

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Rachel Higgins is an education writer who profiles regional accreditation agencies in the US. In the tutorial-style article that follows, Higgins provides blog readers with a one-stop resource for both understanding and exploring regional accreditation. Her advice dovetails with information that has been previously provided on Missouri Political News Service about the need for an […]

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Reuters writes today, “U.S. consumer prices rose in September as the cost of gasoline surged, posing a threat to consumers’ spending power although inflation pressures look unlikely to derail the Federal Reserve’s ultra-easy policy path. . . . Most of the increase in consumer prices was due to a sharp rise in gasoline prices, which […]

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Before money laundering and pay to play, there was this: Obamaslawyer.com: In the 1990s, Chris Koster Esq. Was arrested in Callaway County for writing bad checks. Many who have a checkbook for the first time may unintentionally write a bad check, but how many of us do it so often that a warrant is sworn […]

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