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Rush Limbaugh And Jesse James—Famous Missourians

Reblogged from The Erstwhile Conservative: A Blog of Repentance: The first I heard that Rush Limbaugh, from Cape Girardeau, Missouri, was picked to go into the Hall of Famous Missourians was when I saw Claire McCaskill on MSNBC on Monday … Continue reading

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Fewer workers caring for more patients at state hospitals

By Dave Ranney, KHI News Service - Feb. 21, 2012 (Editors note: Hourly State Hospital workers haven’t had a pay raise in at least 12 years and most earn less than $28,000 per year. Family insurance coverage costs over $5,000 per year for … Continue reading

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New Kansas Handgun (and alcohol) Laws

Allowing alcohol consumption on state owned hunting grounds…while relaxing the handgun laws? I wonder if this includes the trips to and from “hunting”? At the same time allowing concealed carry WITH “suppressing devices”? Hmmm…. To carry a concealed handgun & … Continue reading

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Runaway Spending Cuts

The people who can least afford it are bearing the brunt of Washington’s austerity. By William A. Collins Slash the budget, That’s our plea; Just don’t cut What’s dear to me. Budget cuts are slippery. What happens when your state cuts … Continue reading

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Shouldn’t Americans repair America’s infrastructure?

by Jim Hightower Listening at last to his inner-FDR, President Obama is going straight at the Know-nothing/Do-nothing Republican Congress. At a recent rally on a bridge connecting Rep. John Boehner’s state of Ohio to Senator Mitch McConnell’s state of Kentucky, … Continue reading

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Got An Idea to Save the Middle-Class?

“Trickle-up” is an accurate description of the present condition. I want to mention “Reaganomics, trickle-down, and public safety, all in the same short post, so let’s talk about a “tipping point” in American history. That point would be when Reagan … Continue reading

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With Poverty on the Rise, this is no Time to Slash the Safety Net

The tea party and its ilk offer us only cold cups of bitter tea while serving up fountains of champagne to the super-rich, Wall Street, and big corporations. By Karen Dolan The increasingly extreme conservative ideology pervading Congress and the tea … Continue reading

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The Party of Death?

From Steve Brodner Take the link at top to go to Steve’s excellent blog! Maybe you can read the text there, which came out too small here.

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So You Think You Can be President?

Likening Social Security to a Ponzi scheme was the least crazy thing Perry said during the recent debate among Republican presidential candidates.  By Donald Kaul  In a country with a functional political system, Rick Perry‘s presidential candidacy would be laughed out … Continue reading

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GOP Extremists

Are these people for real? Rick Perry says Social Security is a “Ponzi scheme” and “monstrous lie.” Michele Bachmann joked that God sent Hurricane Irene to warn against federal spending. Aren’t jokes supposed to be funny? Eric Cantor says disaster … Continue reading

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