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Bush Calls on Congress to Ease Gas Prices
President Bush steps up pressure on Congress to permit offshore oil exploration and help ease high gas prices, in his weekly radio address.
Petraeus: Al Qaeda Could Be Moving Away From Iraq
Gen. David Petraeus tells The Associated Press that Al Qaeda may be considering shifting focus away from Iraq and back into Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Extraordinary Coverage
Keep track of all the latest news from the campaign trail with our special election section.
Gas Tax Holiday Could Become Gas Tax Hike
After the proposal for a summer gas tax holiday tanked following concerns about job losses, lawmakers are quietly talking about raising fuel taxes.
Felons Challenge Gun Laws After Supreme Court Ruling
Felons are challenging federal laws that keep guns out of their hands following the Supreme Court's landmark ruling on the Second Amendment.
Transcript: President Bush's Radio Address
President Bush calls on Congress to allow offshore oil exploration in his weekly radio address.
U.S., Iraq Seek 'General Time Horizon' on Withdrawals
The United States and Iraq have agreed to seek 'a general time horizon' for deeper reductions in American combat troops in Iraq.
Air Force Generals Add Interior Decorating to Resumes
The Air Force is defending plans underway for pricey luxury quarters that can be constructed and inserted into military jetliners, saying they are necessary for official travel for both military and civilian leaders, and end up saving costs.
Kucinich to Probe Md. Monitoring of Antiwar Activists
A House subcommittee will probe circumstances surrounding Maryland State Police's secret monitoring of antiwar activists in 2005 and 2006 using undercover officers.
Rep. John Lewis: Terror Watch List Still Causes Me Trouble
Rep. John Lewis of Atlanta says a mix up on a terrorist watch list is still wreaking havoc on his air travel five years after the problem arose.
Rice: U.S. Still Has Conditions for Negotiating With Iran
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that the United States still has conditions for negotiating with Iran even though the Bush administration is sending a senior diplomat to weekend talks with an Iranian nuclear envoy.
Measure to Name Sewage Plant for Bush Makes Ballot
A San Francisco measure seeking to commemorate President Bush's years in office by slapping his name on a city sewage plant has qualified for the November ballot.
Judge Rules First Guantanamo War Crimes Trial Can Begin
The first war crimes trial at Guantanamo Bay can begin Monday, a federal judge ruled, saying civilian courts should let the military process play out as Congress intended.
Sen. Warner Returns From Hospital Stay Ahead of Schedule
Days after going back into the hospital for adjustments to his pacemaker, U.S. Sen. John Warner is back in the Senate, ahead of schedule.
Gore Calls for Switch to Renewable Power by 2018
Al Gore is challenging the nation to produce every kilowatt of electricity through wind, sun and other Earth-friendly energy sources within 10 years, an audacious goal he hopes the next president will embrace.
Chertoff: Terrorists With EU Passports Pose Threat
European terrorists are trying to enter the United States with European Union passports, and there is no guarantee officials will catch them every time, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Thursday
Congress Wants Gov't OK for Top Pay at Fannie, Freddie
Lawmakers want to require government approval for executive pay packages at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Pelosi: Bush Has Been a 'Total Failure'
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says in an interview that President Bush has been a "total failure."
Tony Snow Funeral Held in Washington
President Bush and the first lady were among a throng of dignitaries, media members and other mourners who gathered Thursday for the funeral of former White House press secretary and FOX News anchor Tony Snow, who died Saturday.
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July 15, 2008
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Did The SEIU Get The Memo?
Posted by: Jon Prouty | 11:25am | Permalink
Why is the SEIU spending $450,000 on an ad buy to boost Jay Nixon’s campaign when everyone and their dog knows Nixon is cheap when it comes to selling out? At last check, Nixon’s going rate for a political sellout was roughly $20,000, which is based on the Ameren scandal and his acceptance of a $20,000 check sourced to his embattled political guru, who drubbed Nixon in a high-profile court case shortly after the donation was made. Apparently, the SEIU believes their objective, the reimplementation of ex-Gov. Holden’s collective bargaining order, is worth the $450,000.
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June 26, 2008
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Missouri’s Law Breaking Attorney General
Posted by: Jonathon Prouty | 10:00am | Permalink
 For the second time in less than a year, Attorney General Jay Nixon, the self-professed “top law enforcement official” in Missouri, has been caught breaking the law. Last year, he was caught misusing his taxpayer funded car and staff for political campaign events, and yesterday he was busted for illegally depositing a $630,000 settlement check into an office trust fund.
Nixon’s latest gaffe should teach his weary handlers an important lesson. Nixon is the MacGyver of political scandal. You can muzzle him, hogtie him, and even hide him from the public, but the fact is that he will always find a way to foil your best-laid plans.
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June 19, 2008
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Change Consumers Can Believe In
Posted by: John Hancock | 10:25am | Permalink
More and more folks are beginning to wonder if the Pelosites running Congress will ever get with the program and realize that record gas prices dictate swift action that may not necessarily gel with their hard-left energy policies. While ANWR has been an almost eternal sticking point between most Republicans and Democrats, a recent editorial in Investor’s Business Daily notes how leading federal- and state-level Republicans who once opposed offshore drilling are changing their views not for political purposes, but because the increasingly dire energy situation dictates it. Hopefully, Pelosi & Co. will soon wake up and realize that the outcry for relief from record gas prices trumps their window dressing policies, which have included taxing already beleaguered consumers and meaningless rhetorical condemnation of OPEC.
Excerpt from the Investor’s Business Daily editorial:
As we've said, Democrats are quite content to send half a trillion dollars annually to despots who are not always friendly. "In effect," McCain said Monday, "our petrodollars are underwriting tyranny, anti-Semitism, the brutal repression of women in the Middle East, and dictators and criminal syndicates in our own hemisphere." And that's the way the Democrats want to keep it.
Maybe we can't drill our way completely out of our energy dilemma, but we can get every drop of domestic oil we can. American oil for American cars, American factories and American jobs: The GOP wants to drill for it; the Democrats don't.
What a simple choice this November.
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June 16, 2008
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WILL & WILL NOT
Posted by: Jon Prouty |1:30pm | Permalink
Presumptive Democrat gubernatorial candidate Jay “Press Hound” Nixon WILL pose for photo-ops with sandbaggers working to prevent flooding along the Mississippi, but he WILL NOT lift a finger for 15 years to help Jefferson County homeowners who have been hammered by the flood of sludge emanating from the Nixon family sewage treatment plant. What a guy!
Ex. Nixon was nowhere to be found when Mary Koeller’s home and pocketbook took a serious hit as a result of pollution problems at the Nixon family sewage treatment plant. Mary Koeller, who lives in the Raintree Plantation subdivision near Hillsboro, says she's had some graphic evidence of the need for a better wastewater treatment system for that growing area. . . . She said that six inches of sewage had backed up recently into the basement of her home on East Vista Drive. "It cost over $7,000 to have the place cleaned up," she said. Compounding the problem was that insurance didn't cover all the costs, and it also will cost more than $20,000 to repair the finished part of the basement, Koeller said. Her story was one of the worst examples of problems that homeowners in Raintree related to officials of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, who conducted the hearing at Jefferson College at Hillsboro. After hearing complaints about sewage discharges into the nearby Galligher Creek, troubles with sewage grinder pumps and the odor coming from the current treatment plant, DNR officials said they would take the comments under consideration and rule on the permit application in a timely manner. About 100 people attended the hearing. (Post-Dispatch, July 11, 2005)
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June 13, 2008
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Waste, Fraud & Abuse
Posted by: Jon Prouty | 10:20am | Permalink
When reform-minded political leaders speak of ridding the government’s burgeoning welfare programs of waste, fraud, and abuse, they are almost always shouted down by defensive, nanny-state Democrats (with the exception of TN Gov. Bredesen) and their liberal advocacy group allies, who consider such programs to be untouchable.
With that recurring exchange in mind, it remains to be seen how Congressional Democrats, particularly a certain ex-Missouri State Auditor/self-described watchdog, will react to the blockbuster story in today’s Washington Post that uncovered evidence of more than $60 billion of Medicare-related fraud per year. Apparently, defrauding the Medicare program is about as easy as stealing candy from a baby or, in this case, the taxpayers. A sacred cow it is not.
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June 9, 2008
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Hot Under The Collar
Posted by: Jonathon Prouty | 9:50am | Permalink
If Jay Nixon’s recent decision to succumb to Republican pressure concerning California’s gay marriage ruling did not sit well with his party’s liberal base, then Claire McCaskill’s decision to side with Kit Bond and other Senate Republicans in opposition to a massive climate change boondoggle, a top priority of liberals, must have put them in a Bobby Knight chair throwing frenzy. Now, what was it McCaskill said during her 2006 Senate campaign to reassure liberals about her views on climate change?
McCaskill’s red meat global warming rhetoric, KC Star, 7/21/2006: “Global warming is a threat that must be taken seriously as well. In Missouri, warmer average temperatures could increase heat-related deaths in the summer months and infection of insect-born diseases, such as West Nile Virus. It will also contribute to droughts and floods that lead to property damage. Over time, these higher temperatures are expected to alter the state's environment - changing the trees in our forests, the fish in our rivers and further reducing the state's vanishing wetlands. For Missouri's many hunters, fishermen and sportsmen, global warming threatens our way of life. The current Administration is still questioning the science of global warming. I believe we must seek innovative and responsible solutions to slow the rate of global warming before it's too late. A big part of addressing global warming is ensuring America's energy independence by investing in clean energy technologies and lessening our reliance on foreign oil.”
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June 3, 2008
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Mum’s The Word On SIF
Posted by: Jonathon Prouty | 12:40pm | Permalink
Despite all the sniping in the Democrat race to replace Attorney General Jay Nixon, none of the contenders have yet to breach the sensitive subject of the Second Injury Fund’s (SIF) looming insolvency, which has transpired on Nixon’s watch. What would Jeff Harris, Margaret Donnelly and Chris Koster do to rectify the SIF? Would they follow in Nixon’s footsteps and use the SIF as a de facto campaign depository for trial lawyer largesse while pretending to ignore its dire financial state, or would they exercise independence and seek to make it fiscally accountable to the small businesses that sustain it?
CHANNELING BILL WEBSTER? The word in the capital is that Nixon has accepted upwards of $250,000 in political donations from lawyers handling SIF claims since he raised the maximum settlement amount from $40,000 to $60,000 in 2001. Ironically, Nixon campaigned for Attorney General in 1992 on a platform that revolved around cleaning up the scandal plagued SIF.
Nixon: “As Attorney General, I will stop political abuses such as the Second Injury Fund scandal, where politically connected lawyers made millions at taxpayers’ expense.” (Lebanon Daily Record, October 26, 1992)
Nixon: “Right now, hundreds of thousands of tax dollars are lining the pockets of politically connected lawyers embroiled in the Second Injury Fund scandal. I will end the corruption and clean house.” (SE Missourian, October 23, 1992)
Nixon noted that he has promised to change the program [SIF] by barring any participating lawyers from contributing to the attorney general’s political campaigns. (P-D, October 22, 1992)
Nixon said he wants to change how the fund operates by barring lawyers from making campaign contributions to the Attorney General ... (AP, October 26, 1992)
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May 28, 2008
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Nixon Settles Discrimination Case
Posted by: John Hancock | 10:00am | Permalink
“State government should be a leader, not a shirker, on issues of discrimination and should not be allowed to treat its employees as second-class citizens.” -Jay Nixon, official press release, 3/1/2001
Last year, Missouri Pulse broke word that Jay Nixon was the target of a discrimination suit filed by Marla Grothoff, a former state lawyer who claimed she was discriminated against because she was a quadriplegic. Yesterday, Nixon, a self-professed ADA champion, settled with Grothoff to the tune of $26,000 to be paid by taxpayers after months of legal wrangling that featured Nixon’s utilization of substantial taxpayer funded resources to handle his defense. However, not even the taxpayer-funded Matlocks and Perry Masons in Nixon’s office could put the kybosh on Nixon receiving the latest in a long line of black eyes that have tainted his tenure as Attorney General.
Link up: Settlement PDF
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