TOPEKA | Kansas lawmakers will debate legislation to make texting while driving a crime when they reconvene next month.
Legislation introduced Tuesday would make texting while driving a crime punishable by jail time. It’s based on a new Utah law, the toughest crackdown on texting while driving in the nation.
The bill [...]
Aschroft-Carnahan finishes second to.....
....drumroll, please....
Check it out.Ashcroft. Carnahan at the 2000 Gem Theater debate
Frédéric Bastiat
My recent op-ed against film tax credits was published as a guest commentary in the Columbia Missourian today! As regular readers of this blog will know, it was also discussed by Steve Walsh on MissouriNet and by David Nicklaus on [...]
Columbia Daily Tribune publisher Hank Waters:
The former House speaker had incurred a lot of criticism for serving as a political consultant to other members of the General Assembly, taking money from them at the same time he was in a position to affect the outcome of [...]
USA Today looks at meat in the National School Lunch Program and finds that it doesn’t compare favorably to the meat in fast food restaurants. The USDA accepts blemished meat that the restaurant chains would reject, and the private companies conduct better tests for bacteria, too.
A professor of medicine [...]
Will citizens get a shield law?
We’re a step closer today after the Senate judiciary committee cleared its version of shield law to allow reporters to protect confidential sources. According to a report published on the Huffington Post:
The bill uses a broad definition of journalists by including bloggers, citizen journalists [...]
VoteVets.org has endorsed Tommy Sowers in his bid for Congress in the 8th Congressional District.VoteVets.org's Political Action Committee says its already helped raise $6,000 for Sowers' challenge to Republican Rep. Jo Ann Emerson."Tommy Sowers is a rare breed – an elite soldier and accomplished scholar,” said'" [...] The Star has just published an anonymous Dear Colleagues letter -- "presumably a Republican state rep," reporter Steve Kraske writes -- demanding that the House GOP caucus find new leaders not named Rod Jetton or Steve Tilley. It begins:
To My Colleagues, (I am withholding my name today so you read [...]
In August, the Directors of Redstate.com endorsed Roy Blunt over Chuck Purgason despite "many" disagreements -- "generally fiscal and earmarks related" – because they were with Blunt "in the fight for freedom." (Read their full endorsement here). The endorsement raised some eyebrows at the time, coming two [...]
Will the public still purchase products promoted by Tarnished Tiger?
A whopping 91 percent say....."you betcha."
As our regular readers will remember, on Nov. 18, the Show-Me Institute published a study that discusses recent research on the impact that charter schools are having on students’ academic achievement. At that time, we sent the study to newspapers across the state, along with an op-ed I [...]
Britain has determined that it can no longer justify paying someone the equivalent of $73,000 a year to monitor UFO reports. It justified the position for the past 50 years, though.
I’m not surprised that the British public kept the UFO office busy for decades. Such is the human imagination, [...]
The Central West End home of David and Becky Nelson overflowed with enthusiastic contributors and well wishers last night for 8th congressional district hopeful Tommy Sowers of Rolla. Among the guests were St. Louis City Democratic Central Committee Chairman Brian Wahby; Chair of the Board of Alderman [...]
The Wall Street Journal reports on the strange predicament of an English village named Stilton:
The bar on producing Stilton cheese here is a curious consequence of EU efforts to protect revered local foods by limiting the geographical area where they can be made.
Here is the ponderous statute. It [...]
There is a warrant for the arrest of former Missouri House speaker Rod Jetton, who is accused of assaulting a woman after what seems to have started off as a consensual S&M encounter.
The Star’s Prime Buzz has the details.
Perhaps the problem is that they chose “Matt Blunt” as their [...]
Former Republican Speaker Rod Jetton apparently established the safe word "green ballons" to stop intercourse with the woman he's charged with assaulting, according to the probable cause statement released by the Scott County Circuit Court Monday.Ky3 News isn't releasing the accuser's name because of the' [...] 
