How will health care reform–officially known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)–specifically impact Missouri residents? Nationally, PPACA received a lot of
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Bernie Sanders has good advice for President Obama
In a recent article in the Washington Post, E. J. Dionne asked Senator Bernie Sanders about why President Obama “was in a political pickle.”
Poligraft: News in, money links out
A new info source, powered by the Sunlight Foundation, makes it almost ridiculously easy to see the links between politicians and their money sources.
I screamed at the radio when I heard Rep. Todd Akin say…
Republican incumbent Todd Akin [D-MO] shared 30 minutes of his time with host Don Marsh and listeners of St. Louis Public Radio’s “St. Louis
Friedman: There could be a third party challenge in 2012
The Democratic and Republican parties are bankrupt, or let’s just come out and say it—they’re corrupt. Banks, corporations and the influence of billionaires have
Group fights religious proselytizing at US Air Force Academy
Has “Onward, Christian Soldiers” replaced “Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder” as the official anthem of the US Air Force Academy? Has
Operation Dark Heart joins the censorship “Hall of Futility”
In a novel approach to censorship, the US Department of Defense [DOD] recently bought up the entire 10,000-copy first run of Operation Dark Heart,
Creating jobs, with “more” and “less”
There’s no denying that “shovel-ready” projects, like building new roads, bridges, runways and railroad tracks are good ways to generate new jobs—but they’re not
Racial, ethnic boundaries, city by city: Connect the dots
An “info-nerd” in California has translated data from the US Census Bureau into a map of the racial/ethnic divides in 40 American cities. On