The National Rifle Association will make the override of Senate Bill 656 their top priority in the country this week as the omnibus gun
Author: Willy Kessler
Willy Kessler is a retired librarian who a few years ago relocated to St. Louis. She is alternately delighted and horrified by some of the more gothic aspects of Missouri politics as well as fortified by the persistence of progressives in a reddening state.
Hillary has a progressive view of deficit and national debt. [They’re different, by the way.]
There must be something in the local water that leads Missouri Democrats to wail and figuratively rend their garments over the question of deficits
The truth about the good guys and the bad guys with guns
You know how the NRA types are always telling us that the antidote to a bad guy with a gun is a good guy?
Gun crazy: Senator Roy Blunt edition
We’ve all heard the tragic stories about parents who just look away for one distracted second while disaster strikes their helpless toddler. There’s the
Legislative pickpockets: What 2016 right-wing laws cost MO taxpayers
Paul Waldman described Donald Trump’s “flexibility” in regard to the right-wing gun culture as “a perfect expression of the larger Republican bargain, where the
Trump candidacy threatens MO’s Blunt
Wanna know how lots of GOP politicians feel about their 2016 presidential candidate, Donald Trump? That’s easy. He scares the bejesus out of ’em.
Dispatch from the gun culture
You’ve no doubt heard the refrain that good guys with guns are necessary to protect us all from bad guys with guns. This statement
NFL stadiums vs. the public welfare
Assigned reading for today: Huffpost article on the pros and cons of publicly subsidizing wealthy NFL team owners’ desire for new stadiums. Along with
The Ferguson dilemma: When keeping up appearances is not enough
A recent article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that described the way that the small St. Louis County municipality of Pagedale was condemning inhabited,
Gutting Medicare: Tea Party legacy?
My introduction to the Tea Party involved a Town Hall meeting where several Tea Party seniors were waving signs inscribed “Save our Medicare.” They