“We have a crisis of confidence in this country because we see every day excesses of people that have more money than people can imagine wanting more money. Greed and selfishness can kill this great democracy and ruin capitalism. We need to have governance to make capitalism work for everybody.” – Dick Gephardt, 2004 Like […]

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Call Sen. Bond and remind him of how you feel–however that might be– at : 202-224-5721. No need to call Republican Claire, she’s a reliable Republican vote. Thank’s MODP for everything you do!

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DCCC chairman Chris Van Hollen is kind of like Paris Hilton: increasingly important but for the dumbest reasons. In today’s Congress Daily (subscription required)we hear more praise for Van Hollen from Democrats so happy to have Mizz Barnes on board for 2008. Are they really that desperate? Is Queen Barnes of KC the best they […]

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The AP is reporting this afternoon that President Bush did not break the law when he recess appointed uber Republican contributor (I swore I’d never use that term) Sam Fox to the ambassadorship of Belgium. What’s Lurch 0-3 against Bush now?

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Antonio French– of Pub Def fame – has been named “best blogger” by St Louis Magazine. Congratulations Antonio and keep on setting the bar higher and higher for the rest of us in the blogosphere to aspire to. Read full story here

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This goes out to the arrogant creature known as “Tom Carlson”: Your treatment of Councilman Doug Burlison at the June 18 Council meeting, was a sad and cretinous deed. Your need to lord it over those who dare disagree with you, Mayor, is a sign that you did indeed make one good decision: To not […]

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Is the Post Dispatch ripping off stories from the Riverfront Times? RFT seems to think so!

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Speaking of stealing story ideas. Monday, we reported that U.S. Attorney Catherine Hanaway will be speaking tomorrow at the Missouri Athletic Club in St. Louis. We posted the story at around 9 a.m. and someone commented on the post at 10:14 a.m. Our site statistics shows that someone from the St. Louis Post Dispatch visited […]

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When we were building this website’s blogroll, we wanted to include every regularly updated political blog in Missouri, regardless of political persuasion. As we recently wrote a reader who was concerned about the Council of Conservative Citizens being on our blogroll, we agonized over that decision but decided to include them. Our purpose for a […]

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Whatever happened to the concept on “no taxation without representation.” By Darren McFadden Howard County Assessor George Frink announced this week that the State Tax Commission has ordered his office to raise his 2007 assessments of all property in the county, particularly commercial property. Frink said the study found that the assessed valuation of commercial […]

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