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  • Such nice people

    At Majikthise: ...Eliminationist wags were selling bumper stickers that read "Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8" on Cafe Press. Psalm 109:8 reads: "Let his days be few. Let another take is his office." The next verse is, "Let his children be fatherless And his wife a widow." Followed by, "Let his children" [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 7:08pm EST

  • Republican Angst, Mendacity and Delusion.

    It is instructive to take a look at Roy Blunt's and Cynthia Davis' respondes to H1N1 preparedness. Both Blunt and Davis pay allegiance to a similar conservative credo; yet Davis tells the government no thank you, keep your vaccine, while Blunt  puts on a big show, pointing his little finger' [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 1:52pm EST

  • "A Gentleman's Agreement"?: great moments in radio reporting

    Not. This is the thirty-third post in an ongoing series as we file Missouri Sunshine Law (RSMo 610) requests and investigate the non-renewal of the contract of University of Central Missouri President Aaron Podolefsky. Links to previous coverage are below the fold. BG and MB An unsigned post at the KOKO radio [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 7:31am EST

  • One-term Blunt, the unfavorably remembered

    Public Policy Polling, 763 voters, 11/13-15/2009, (source) Of Missouri's last five elected Governors: John Ashcroft, Mel Carnahan, Bob Holden, Matt Blunt, and Jay Nixon- who do you have the least favorable opinion of? Ashcroft 21% Carnahan 19% Holden 22% Blunt 29% Nixon 10% Now, the poll was a duel between partisans. But amongst Independents, they disliked Holden [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:47pm EST

  • Flowers on November 20th?

    Hard to believe it's Nov. 20th, and we've still got some annuals blooming. There's Mexican Sage: Angel's Trumpet: And Geraniums: I'm not assuming this is evidence of global warming.

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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:17pm EST

  • A Republican sonnet on taxation

    Two weeks ago, I pointed out that Missouri makes some poverty-stricken families pay state income tax. They could do an earned income tax credit (EITC) for anyone below poverty level, as the federal government does, but our legislature prefers to live in 1931, which is when our current tax brackets [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:27am EST

  • "A Gentleman's Agreement"?: raise their voices

    This is the thirty-second post in an ongoing series as we file Missouri Sunshine Law (RSMo 610) requests and investigate the non-renewal of the contract of University of Central Missouri President Aaron Podolefsky. Links to previous coverage are below the fold. BG and MB On Wednesday, November 17th a letter to [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:12am EST

  • The Republican Party's steady descent into madness, Vol. 2

    (soon-to-be infamous image is from Fired Up! Missouri, and the billboard is located near Grain Valley Lafayette County, Missouri) Don't waste your time waiting for Roy Blunt, Chris Roepe (MOGOP Political Director and LafCo native) or Bill Stouffer to condemn this lunacy. It won't happen. This is their base.

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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:25pm EST

  • FDL Action Health Care Update: Thursday (11/19/09)

    Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Thursday, November 19. 1. Jon Walker lays out "eight things wrong with the Senate health care bill," beginning with "Delays Start Until 2014" and including "Nationwide Plans Gutting State Regulation." Definitely a few things that need to be fixed here. 2. Jane [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:12pm EST

  • Stopping climate change is really, really too hard.

    Sen. McCaskill explains why the Senate can't be bothered to do anything about the climate bill: Some senators are skeptical lawmakers will be ready to tackle another huge issue after finishing health care. "After you do one really, really big, really, really hard thing that makes everybody mad, I don't think" [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:41pm EST

  • The Republican Party's steady descent into madness

    Winston Churchill once said "If you're going through hell, keep going". An element of the Republican base and Republican party appear to have accept the advice of "If you're going through hell, go crazy." Public Policy Polling's latest poll found this information: The poll asked this question: "Do you think that Barack" [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:38pm EST

  • Ed Martin and Chris Kelly debate term limits

    At Governor Holden's monthly Pizza and Politics forum Wednesday evening, Ed Martin, the Republican challenging Russ Carnahan next year, and Chris Kelly, a Democratic representative who was elected in Columbia just last year, faced off on the question of term limits. Kelly spoke first. Because he had previously served in the [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:26pm EST

  • "A Gentleman's Agreement"?: a march on a cold and rainy day

    This is the thirty-first post in an ongoing series as we file Missouri Sunshine Law (RSMo 610) requests and investigate the non-renewal of the contract of University of Central Missouri President Aaron Podolefsky. Links to previous coverage are below the fold. BG and MB Students organized a march today which started [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:59pm EST

  • FDL Action Health Care Update: Wednesday (11/18/09)

    Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Wednesday, November 18. 1. Jane Hamsher reports that voting is now open for the Public Option Please (POP) art contest. There are six finalists, vote now! 2. Jon Walker writes that "it seems [Senator Thomas] Carper [D-DE] has completely reinvented (cribbed? copied?)" [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:58pm EST

  • PPP: Robin v. Roy, 11/18/09

    Public Policy Polling, 11/13-15, 769 voters Carnahan (D) 43% Blunt (R) 42% Undecided 15% Blunt 53% Purgason 16% Undecided 31% Carnahan (D) 42% Purgason (R) 35% Undecided 23% More info under the fold Favorable/Unfavorables Obama: 43/52 Carnahan: 40/36 Blunt: 30/38 Purgason: 7/14 Congressional Democrats: 27/58 Congressional Republicans: 21/62 "Next year do you think you will vote...

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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:16pm EST

  • Sierra Club condemns Koster's decison

    On November 14, the Executive Committee of the Missouri Chapter of the Sierra Club passed a resolution condemning Atty Gen Koster's decision to appeal a judge's ruling in the Arrow Rock case. He says he's doing this because it's not up to judges to make legislative decisions.  You can bet a [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:58am EST

  • "A Gentleman's Agreement"?: the new president search consulting contract

    This is the thirtieth post in an ongoing series as we file Missouri Sunshine Law (RSMo 610) requests and investigate the non-renewal of the contract of University of Central Missouri President Aaron Podolefsky. Links to previous coverage are below the fold. BG and MB We had previously asked for a copy [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:04am EST

  • FDL Action Health Care Update: Tuesday (11/17/09)

    Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Tuesday, November 17. 1. Jon Walker reports that a new ABC/Washington Post poll indicates the country "nearly divided" on the overall health care reform effort, but "very high popular support [for] the public option and the employer mandate." Isn't it interesting' [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:42pm EST

  • Denny Hoskins (r) in the 121st District: "You must have been misinformed."

    We were curious about the reported statements about a "tax payment installation plan" and a "balloon payment" in regard to Representative Denny Hoskin's (r - noun, verb, CPA) recent property tax issue. So, we asked office holders in Johnson County if there were any programs, agreements or documentation of such [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 6:42pm EST

  • Jeff Smith sentenced

    As the legislative session ground to its end last spring, Jeff Smith threatened to filibuster the entire budget in the State Senate if Republicans insisted on cutting funds for tax credits for the rehabbing of historic buildings. He prevailed in protecting the program, particularly the smaller projects that make up [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 4:58pm EST

  • Would you forget if somebody gave you a million?

    Roy Blunt is annoyed with the League of Conservation Voters. How dare they air that "stain" TV ad telling the truth about the million Big Oil bucks he's accepted. He called it sneaky tactics: The money you can spend on ads like this are unlimited, so it's an interesting way to [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:14am EST

  • FDL Action Health Care Update: Monday (11/16/09)

    Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Monday, November 16. 1. Jon Walker reports that "HR 3962's Massive Expansion Of Coverage Would Result In Very Small Increase In Health Care Spending." Walker adds, "Despite the Republican talking point, it is not some liberal overreach-this reform bill is extremely" [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:53pm EST

  • Hunger in America: A shocking and disturbing statistic

    One of the books that shaped my outlook and the person I eventually became was Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugnam. A lot of people list that book as one of those that shaped them, but I have yet to meet a person who was affected by it in [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 6:00pm EST

  • Cynthia Davis' Double Standard

    Missouri State Rep. Cynthia Davis' persona has elements of the mid-20th century comedian Gracie Allen, who developed a sweetly stupid comic schtick derived from an earlier vaudeville stereotype, the "Dumb Dora." Unfortunately, as Davis' newsletters often demonstrate, in a political context Dumb Dora's skewed logic is not always funny --' [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 4:24pm EST

  • Denny Hoskins (r) in the 121st District: who is to to blame for all this misfortune?

    Representative Denny Hoskins (r - noun, verb, CPA) at his June 19, 2009 townhall meeting in Knob Noster, Missouri. Uh, we were there, we covered three of his townhalls in the same day, and it was interesting. So what's the big deal? Representative Denny Hoskins (r) in the 121st Legislative District [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 3:54pm EST

  • Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beasties

    Kit Bond wasted no time before joining the Republican attack dogs frothing about the decision to bring Khalid Sheik Mohammed and four of the 9/11 cospirators to New York to stand trial.  Spouting what seems to be the agreed upon Republican rhetorical figure, he characterized the decision as prioritizing "political" [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 10:13pm EST

  • Roy Blunt's expedient outrage

    Judging by a letter from Roy Blunt published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch today (fifth letter down), this erstwhile BushCo cheerleader is working overtime to present himself as the latest David  to take  on the bumbling Goliath of (Democratic-controlled) big government. The slingshot he  hopes will lay the giant low [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 6:10pm EST

  • Passing the Hat: because pursuing an investigative series costs money

    We are onto something here and it is worth chasing, but it is getting down to brass tacks. The problem with launching an investigative series like the one Michael and I have been chasing regarding the failure to renew the contract of UCM President Aaron Podolefsky and what it has [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 5:00pm EST

  • If it comes from chickens, is it guano?

    There's a battle brewing over chicken poop. Jim Turner explained to the board of the Sierra Club in St. Louis the tensions that are building over this ... would you call poop an issue? It seems that our state, with its lax regulations about how much can be applied to the' [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 3:00pm EST

  • "Blaine Burgundy here for Genentech"

    Now, speechifying in law making is not a field where you write your own material. Typically the writers are actual employees or peers. But when a biotech company lobbyist is ghostwriting your speeches, that's a bit different. The New York Times reports that Blaine Luetkemeyer is one of a bipartisan group [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 1:27am EST

  • Hope Whitehead nominated in HD57

    The Democratic Committee Members in HD57 met today to nominate a candidate for the February 2nd special election to replace T. D. El-Amin. Jake Wagman reported on Twitter that the Democratic nominee is lawyer Hope Whitehead. Quick investigation cannot determine the Presidential results in HD57. Other than to say that Obama [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 4:32pm EST

  • A rally of progressives--plus one tea partier

    Some of the St. Louis activists most dedicated on the health care reform issue gathered on a curbside near Lacy Clay's office Friday to thank him for his support of the bill. Oh, and there was one person who wasn't there to thank him. Right wing blogger Sharp Elbows (at' [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 2:21pm EST

  • "A Gentleman's Agreement"? Follow the money and it reveals the timeline

    In this, the twenty-ninth post in an ongoing series as we file Missouri Sunshine Law (RSMo 610) requests and investigate the non-renewal of the contract of University of Central Missouri President Aaron Podolefsky, those of you who have been asking for a timeline finally get what you have been asking [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 7:30am EST

  • FDL Action Health Care Update: Friday (11/13/09)

    Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Friday, November 13. 1. Jane Hamsher writes about a Goldman Sachs evaluation that says the House version of the public option would cause insurance stocks to drop 36% by 2019. Jane concludes, "It's hard to look at this as anything but" [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 7:06pm EST

  • Leading us down the garden path

    Rep. Roy Blunt has been taking it on the chin lately about the contributions he's accepted. USA Today has a chart showing that he has raised more money from lobbyists than any other single legislator. So far this year, he's taken in more than $310,000. We all know what we [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 2:14pm EST

  • "A Gentleman's Agreement"?: the Kansas City Jewish Chronicle

    This is the twenty-eighth post in an ongoing series as we file Missouri Sunshine Law (RSMo 610) requests and investigate the non-renewal of the contract of University of Central Missouri President Aaron Podolefsky. Links to previous coverage are below the fold. BG and MB From a Gentleman's Agreement (1947): "....But I've come'" [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 12:44pm EST

  • I think I was way too nice to Denny Hoskins when I gave him the benefit of the doubt

    And I sure as hell won't make that mistake again. Let's recap, shall we? First it gets out that he is over $20,000 in arrears in property taxes and late penalties that have been piling up since they became delinquent on January 1, 2009 - just days before he was sworn into' [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2009, 11:28am EST

  • FDL Action Health Care Update: Thursday (11/12/09)

    Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Thursday, November 12. 1. Jane Hamsher writes that "Harry Reid says he has a wonderful relationship with the albatross hanging around his neck," aka Joe Lieberman. Personally, I still can't comprehend how Lieberman wasn't booted from the caucus when he not [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 6:21pm EST

  • "A Gentleman's Agreement"?: Garbo speaks!

    This is the twenty-seventh post in an ongoing series as we file Missouri Sunshine Law (RSMo 610) requests and investigate the non-renewal of the contract of University of Central Missouri President Aaron Podolefsky. Links to previous coverage are below the fold. BG and MB The weekly dead trees edition of the [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 2:14pm EST

  • Young Americans for Liberty at Wash U and the Right-Wing Cult of Victimization

    Last week Hotflash reported on some members of the  Young Americans For Liberty (YAL) Chapter at Washington University who were planning to protest communism while commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall on Monday of this week (11/9).  According to the Student Life Newspaper, they built a makeshift prison camp [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 1:26pm EST

  • Tea partying grows. And so does push back.

    I've exercised restraint in not reminding an evangelical Republican acquaintance of mine that in 2005 he informed me that the Democrats would never win another election. He's been gracious enough to congratulate me about Obama's victory, so I've held my tongue. Jim is one of the people Paul Krugman described [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:36am EST

  • Denny Hoskins: Noun, Verb?CPA?

    Oh. My. And I thought Denny Hoskins was having a bad freshman year before the news broke yesterday that he owes over $20,000 in back taxes on properties owned by Hos Properties, LLC, the  rental property business he owns with his brother. I would imagine it is something of a [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 7:48am EST

  • FDL Action Health Care Update: Wednesday (11/11/09)

    Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Wednesday, November 11. 1. Jane Hamsher points us to Kagro's "excellent rundown of what happened on the public option fight," and also why abortion rights activists, with "an existing network of professional lobbyists and policy analysts, plus a multi-million dollar funding" [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 7:15pm EST

  • Is Ike Skelton a member of The Family?

    Nobody was too surprised that Ike Skelton voted for the repressive Stupak-Pitts Amendment which, if it is retained, will do more to impede access to abortion than any other piece of legislation since  Roe v. Wade made abortion legal. Nor was it surprising that Skelton also voted against the Health [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 3:45pm EST

  • Veteran's Day

    McCaskill has a nice YouTube up on Veteran's Day: On another note, I grew up in the South in the Reagan era, in a region that has always paid particular attention to its military heroes and in a political climate where pride in the US military was again pre-eminent. So when [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 3:07pm EST

  • "A Gentleman's Agreement"?: there ought to be a law, part 2

    This is the twenty-sixth post in an ongoing series as we file Missouri Sunshine Law (RSMo 610) requests and investigate the non-renewal of the contract of University of Central Missouri President Aaron Podolefsky. Links to previous coverage are below the fold. BG and MB We were curious about who recommended the [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 9:32pm EST

  • FDL Action Health Care Update: Tuesday (11/10/09)

    Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Tuesday, November 10. 1. Jon Walker warns that the Stupak Amendment "reaches far beyond any of the reporting so far" and could "effectively stop many employer-provided health insurance plans from covering abortions for tens of millions of Americans." Scary stuff, well [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 6:35pm EST

  • White roofs

    If you can ignore all the leaves on the roof, you will notice how white it is. That's because we just had an elastomeric coating applied. It preserves the roof from those tiny cracks that grow into leaks and end up making you call a roofer. The last roof we [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 12:07pm EST

  • McCaskill on Stupak

    Much better: Oppose Stupak.Don't think we should change current law which is no public $ for abortions,but amndmt goes too far limitng private funds too

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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 8:04pm EST

  • FDL Action Health Care Update: Monday (11/9/09)

    Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Monday, November 9. 1. Jon Walker summarizes the passage of health care reform (HR 3962) as "a truly historic moment...[that] will help millions of Americans," but also "at best bittersweet" from a progressive perspective. In the end, this bill "will at" [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 7:34pm EST

  • An angry woman rants about churches, taxes, and the Stupak Amendment

    According to reports, Missouri has made a controversial decision to join South Dakota and West Virginia as the only states that collect sales taxes on the services rendered by yoga studios. Yoga studio owners claim that they should enjoy the same exemption from the sales tax as churches since they [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 5:27pm EST

  • Carnahan and Clay return to St. Louis

    An enthusiastic group of fifteen or twenty people greeted Russ Carnahan as he exited the concourse on his return to St. Louis after the historic vote in the House on HB 3200. A minute later, Lacy Clay strolled out of the same concourse and was delighted to be greeted so [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 4:59pm EST

  • "A Gentleman's Agreement"?: there's gotta be a contract around here somewhere

    This is the twenty-fifth post in an ongoing series as we file Missouri Sunshine Law (RSMo 610) requests and investigate the non-renewal of the contract of University of Central Missouri President Aaron Podolefsky. Links to previous coverage are below the fold. BG and MB We had previously asked for the contract [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 4:57pm EST

  • Sen. McCaskill: the Abortion Prohibition is on the Insurance Plans not on Individuals

    Crossposted with permission from debcoop at Open Left. The original post can be found here. Senator McCaskill is sadly wrong on what the Stupak-Pitts amendment prohibits.  Even if she were right, it would still be a wound to the rights of women in this country. Even if the original Stupak amendment [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 3:42pm EST

  • Wait, you mean that Terms Limits might have a negative effect?

    At least that's a conclusion from the Springfield N-L which glances at the possible cost of the upcoming Wildberger and Wood special elections. Although while the article mentions Louis Ford resigning to give his son an upper-hand, it doesn't mention how much it cost to hold a special election where only' [...]
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    Posted: November 09, 2009, 11:50am EST

  • A reward for being a traitor

    The Stupak-Pitts amendment in the House bans abortion coverage from the health care bill. The only way a woman's policy would cover abortion would be if her premiums were paid for exclusively with private money. Note that only one Missouri Democrat, Ike Skelton, voted for it. Lacy Clay, who is [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 3:29pm EST

  • "A Gentleman's Agreement"?: there ought to be a law

    This is the twenty-fourth post in an ongoing series as we file Missouri Sunshine Law (RSMo 610) requests and investigate the non-renewal of the contract of University of Central Missouri President Aaron Podolefsky. Links to previous coverage are below the fold. BG and MB There is a law. In Missouri the [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 10:58am EST

  • "A Gentleman's Agreement"?: a grade for Accounting 101

    This is the twenty-third post in an ongoing series as we file Missouri Sunshine Law (RSMo 610) requests and investigate the non-renewal of the contract of University of Central Missouri President Aaron Podolefsky. Links to previous coverage are below the fold. BG and MB Uh, that grade would be "epic fail." We [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 5:46pm EST

  • Mad Hatter of the St. Louis Tea Party

    Bill Hennessy, the Mad Hatter of the St. Louis Tea Party, commented on the opening of the new OFA office in South St. Louis: This week, Organizing for America comes to St. Louis, establishing a permanent office from which to monitor and disrupt Tea Party activities. Note to Mad Hatter Hennessy: You [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 4:54pm EST

  • Stalinist health care

    A press release titled "Wash U. Students Build Memorial to Victims of Socialism" landed in my inbox: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The students of Young Americans for Liberty are hosting a rally to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall at NOON on Monday November 9th, 2009, on the [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 4:15pm EST

  • "A Gentleman's Agreement"?: nothing exceeds like excess

    This is the twenty-second post in an ongoing series as we file Missouri Sunshine Law (RSMo 610) requests and investigate the non-renewal of the contract of University of Central Missouri President Aaron Podolefsky. Links to previous coverage are below the fold. BG and MB We've been curious about rumors and a' [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:08pm EST

  • "A Gentleman's Agreement"?: your Friday news dump

    This is the twenty-first post in an ongoing series as we file Missouri Sunshine Law (RSMo 610) requests and investigate the non-renewal of the contract of University of Central Missouri President Aaron Podolefsky. Links to previous coverage are below the fold. BG and MB Your Friday news dump from the office [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 10:14pm EST

  • Missouri Blue Book hullabaloo

    Typically, the announcement of the reproduction of 80+ years of Missouri in online form would go unnoticed by most people who are not somehow thrilled by these events (you know, history enthusiasts and the such). But Kevin Engler, fresh off his heroic stand against litter, is making a stand to [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 10:09pm EST

  • Health insurance profits aren't anemic

    Figures lie and liars, well, you know. Liars in the health insurance industry are going to plenty of trouble to disseminate their latest lying figures. The Post-Dispatch printed them a week ago Monday, in an AP news article. Quick quiz: What do these enterprises have in common? Farm and construction machinery, [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 3:24pm EST

  • "A Gentleman's Agreement"?: nothing succeeds like success

    This is the twentieth post in an ongoing series as we file Missouri Sunshine Law (RSMo 610) requests and investigate the non-renewal of the contract of University of Central Missouri President Aaron Podolefsky. Links to previous coverage are below the fold. BG and MB At the end of 2007, with a [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 12:40pm EST

  • Did your mommy teach you to write thank you notes?

    The House vote on health care legislation, scheduled for Saturday, precedes the Thanksgiving break. HCAN (Health Care for America Now) is urging St. Louisans to turn out and thank the two St. Louis Congressmen who will vote in favor of it: Lacy Clay and Russ Carnahan. Next Monday, Nov. 9, [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 11:19am EST

  • The tipping point

    Like many of you, I had become anesthetized by the overabundance of TV specials on global warming, climate change, or whatever you want to call it.  I figured, at my age, what's to worry about?  I'll be long gone when NY City and Miami are under water.  It's up to' [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:17am EST

  • "A Gentleman's Agreement"?: I heard it on the radio, part 3

    This is the nineteenth post in an ongoing series as we file Missouri Sunshine Law (RSMo 610) requests and investigate the non-renewal of the contract of University of Central Missouri President Aaron Podolefsky. Links to previous coverage are below the fold. BG and MB We heard complaints from individuals on campus [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 8:51pm EST

  • FDL Action Health Care Update: Thursday (11/5/09)

    Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Thursday, November 5. 1. Jon Walker reports on what he correctly calls a "cruel sick joke" - the Republican "health care reform "alternative." Among other things, "It does not ban insurance companies from refusing to cover pre-existing conditions. It guts state [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 6:22pm EST

  • Todd Akin: Tea Party Animal

    Hard to believe that Todd Akin (R-2), is facing a challenge from the right. Not to mention downright scary to even think about what being to the right of Akin entails. Just consider: today, he joined a group of "Party of No" VIPs to welcome the teapartiers who came to [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 5:46pm EST

  • Missouri taxes poverty-stricken families

    To be sure, some states are worse than Missouri about punishing the poor with state income taxes. But we're bad enough: Poor families in Missouri continue to face substantial state income tax liability, according to a new report released today by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.  Single working parents' [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 2:33pm EST

  • News you may have missed (HD27 Special Election in February)

    Ed Wildberger resigned from the Missouri House earlier this week after he was appointed Buchanan County Recorder of Deeds (replacing Karen Higginbotham, who is retiring). {Source} The Special Election is on November February 2nd. The likely Democratic candidate is County Clerk Pat Conway. HD27 is St. Joseph west of I-29 including downtown [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 2:08pm EST

  • A Stain on His Record

    These ads are running in Blunt's and Luetkemeyer's respective districts: The LCV ads show just how big oil companies are thanking Blunt and Luetkemeyer for their "No" votes on the American Clean Energy and Security Act. The script: ANNCR:  There's a stain on Congressman Blunt's record. Big oil and energy interests gave him [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 12:19pm EST

  • Call Ike Skelton

    November 5 is the Kickoff to a National Week of Action on Health Care: Please  call Congress today!  A toll free number is 1-877-323-5246 and write a letter about why health care reform is so important to you! In addition, many national organizations have partnered in the fight for Health Care Reform.   The [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 8:59am EST

  • "A Gentleman's Agreement"?: where everybody knows your name, part 2

    This is the eighteenth post in an ongoing series as we file Missouri Sunshine Law (RSMo 610) requests and investigate the non-renewal of the contract of University of Central Missouri President Aaron Podolefsky. Links to previous coverage are below the fold. BG and MB If they were making a decision to [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 7:19pm EST

  • FDL Action Health Care Update: Wednesday (11/4/09)

    Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Wednesday, November 4. 1. Jon Walker writes that Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) "is actively working to kill the public option with help of Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and, of course, the trigger." As any good Democrat would, of course. (snark) 2. Jane Hamsher [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:53pm EST

  • Will Cap-And-Trade Really Cost too Much? U.S. Economists Don't Think So

    Missouri's Republican politicians are are working overtime to kill cap-and-trade. They insist that taking rational steps to move the U.S. off fossil fuels will cause the economy to crater. Even some Missouri Democrats who ought to know better,  Claire McCaskill, for instance,  voice concern about the economic impact of cap-and-trade [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 4:36pm EST

  • "A Gentleman's Agreement"?: Bond, Stadium Bond

    This is the seventeenth post in an ongoing series as we file Missouri Sunshine Law (RSMo 610) requests and investigate the non-renewal of the contract of University of Central Missouri President Aaron Podolefsky. Links to previous coverage are below the fold. BG and MB From the Warrensburg Daily-Star Journal (note: this [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 2:56pm EST

  • FDL Action Health Care Update: Tuesday (11/3/09)

    Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Tuesday, November 3. 1. Ben Tribbett explains "What Happened in Virginia?" In part, Tribbett blames it on Democratic gubernatorial candidate Creigh Deeds "bashing federal Democratic priorities like "Cap and Trade" and health care reform to appeal to the conservatives that were" [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 5:16pm EST

  • Sue Allen and Cole McNary Try to Poison Cap-and-Trade Discourse

    Few individuals would grudge the costs or inconvenience of childproofing cupboards to protect small children from stored poisons.* Most of us would laugh angrily at anyone who tried to tell us that poison is not really that dangerous when ingested by toddlers, that  it might even be beneficial since repeated [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 1:02pm EST

  • "God hates fags"--according to the Westboro Baptist Church

    Lord knows--and I don't use that phrase in a literal sense--I shouldn't make fun of the folks from Westboro Baptist Church. They traveled all the way from Topeka, Kansas to St. Louis--that's over 400 miles--to deliver a heartfelt message. Of hate. Still, a sane person must mock the sociopaths who [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 10:29am EST

  • Methinks that someone is paying attention!

    As Michael was bolting out the door for rehearsal he called to tell me that he was cited in an article in the Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal: Most tenured faculty favored keeping Podolefsky. Some, including Michael Bersin, seek to connect board members who voted against retention to the athletic department, where they [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 5:07pm EST

  • Penrose On Politics: Pay-N-Play in Jeff City



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    Posted: November 02, 2009, 5:55am EST

  • Handcuff the public option, pull the trigger, and kick it after it goes down

    Claire McCaskill twittering earlier today about the public option: All sound and no fury. CBO estimate in: 2% of Americans would potentially use public option. In case you don't know what she's talking about, she links to this article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch which discusses the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates' [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 10:49pm EST

  • Local Democratic Party Fundraising: an afternoon in Warrensburg

    Even in on "off year" the local party works to establish the funding and infrastructure for the next election cycle. It's an opportunity to sustain connections and hear from candidates already working hard toward that next cycle. And it's a chance to enjoy an afternoon of good company, good food, [...]
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    Posted: November 01, 2009, 8:54pm EST

  • "A Gentleman's Agreement"?: where everybody knows your name

    This is the fifteenth post in an ongoing series as we file Missouri Sunshine Law (RSMo 610) requests and investigate the non-renewal of the contract of University of Central Missouri President Aaron Podolefsky. Links to previous coverage are below the fold. BG and MB At the October 29, 2009 University of [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2009, 7:26pm EDT

  • Ruining rivers--without penalty

    Ken Midkiff of the Sierra Club has a razor tongue when it's called for and the gift of persistence. He has been applying both to an official at EPA 7 and to a couple of bumbling bureaucrats in the Missouri Department of Natural Resources over their failure to enforce penalties [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2009, 7:14pm EDT

  • "A Gentleman's Agreement?": I heard it on the radio, part 2

    This is the fourteenth post in an ongoing series as we file Missouri Sunshine Law (RSMo 610) requests and investigate the non-renewal of the contract of University of Central Missouri President Aaron Podolefsky. Links to previous coverage are below the fold. BG and MB Prompted to delve deeper into the University [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2009, 3:52pm EDT

  • Roy Blunt Offers Tricks but no Treats

    (Revised 11/1/09 to fix broken video link) Rep. Roy Blunt paid a pre-Halloween visit yesterday to Fox News where he hoped to scare the faithful with his take on the House Health Care Bill. Blunt summoned up his personal roster of Halloween horrors: spending tax money on the regular citizens of [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2009, 12:55pm EDT

  • FDL Action Health Care Update: Friday (10/30/09)

    Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Friday, October 30. 1. Jane Hamsher blogs the "Lieberkini." Let's just say, this is appropriate for Halloween, maybe even a creative costume idea if you haven't come up with one yet. Ha. 2. Jon Walker writes that although the "media is making'" [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 7:25pm EDT

  • Old media irony impairment

    Yesterday the Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal prominently featured an item on its editorial page previously published in the Springfield News-Leader: 10/29/2009 1:01:00 PM Sun not shining Editorial Some public bodies across Missouri ... are wrongly handling the way they retreat into closed meetings... Ah, a paean to accountability when it comes to public business. Then, today, the [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 6:14pm EDT

  • Eat your Vegetables Claire!

    First Claire McCaskill wanted to handcuff the public option; now she wants to trigger it or let states opt out, anything to sideline it.  After all, she says, it isn't the main course when it comes to health care reform, just one of the little vegetables on the side.   Remember' [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 1:45pm EDT

  • Disingenuous Democrat Chris Koster

    Attorney General Chris Koster (D?) has definitely decided to pursue an appeal that would negate last year's court decision keeping CAFOs at least two miles from historic sites. At issue is whether or not buffer zones around state parks and historic sites will be created by the legal precedent of [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 12:09pm EDT

  • "A Gentleman's Agreement"?: let's not get cut out of the will, part 2

    This is the twelfth post in an ongoing series as we file Missouri Sunshine Law (RSMo 610) requests and investigate the non-renewal of the contract of University of Central Missouri President Aaron Podolefsky. Links to previous coverage are below the fold. BG and MB Yesterday we received a copy of a [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 7:00am EDT

  • "A Gentleman's Agreement"?: your silence means consent

    This is the eleventh post in an ongoing series as we file Missouri Sunshine Law (RSMo 610) requests and investigate the non-renewal of the contract of University of Central Missouri President Aaron Podolefsky. Links to previous coverage are below the fold. BG A gift from Benoit Wesly and his family from [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 11:00pm EDT

  • FDL Action Health Care Update: Thursday (10/29/09)

    Here are the FDL Action health care reform highlights for Thursday, October 29. 1. Jon Walker writes that by stopping the "robust public option tied to modified Medicare rates," Blue Dog Democrats handed "a huge victory [to] the health insurance industry, hospitals, and PhRMA."  Walker adds, "If I were an insurance" [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 7:00pm EDT

  • A czar by any other name ...

    We noted yesterday that our Republican legislators seem to rely overmuch on rote regurgitation of set scripts with little regard for fact.  One of the examples offered was the inimitable Todd Akin - and he's been at it again. The Wasington Independent reports that Akin harangued the members of the House [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 5:37pm EDT

  • Some dirt for Liz Lauber to use

    Dear Ms. Lauber, may I offer you some information you might find useful in your campaign against Todd Akin for the Republican nomination in CD 2? If you subscribe to the idea that the enemy of your enemy is your friend, you might want to check out Barney Frank's press [...]
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    Posted: October 29, 2009, 3:52pm EDT

  • "A Gentleman's Agreement?": a few more pieces of the puzzle?

    This is the tenth post in an ongoing series as we file Missouri Sunshine Law (RSMo 610) requests and investigate the non-renewal of the contract of University of Central Missouri President Aaron Podolefsky. Links to previous coverage are below the fold. BG & MB We've been curious about the overt hostility' [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 10:00pm EDT

  • Who's Sorry Now, Kit Bond?

    After Todd Akin's recent diatribe - the one in which he trashed the CIA along with the rest of the "big government" bogeymen that worry him so much - we chided his fellow Republicans, including Kit Bond, for their inconsistency.  Bond, if you remember, had gone ballistic when Nancy Pelosi' [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 9:19pm EDT
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