“Missouri” on The Daily Caller

President Barack Obama’s high school commencement speech in the tornado-stricken town of Joplin, Mo., pushed a sharply ideological message and included partisan jabs and a call for military-style community action during crises. (more)

While some of radio host Rush Limbaugh’s opponents have called for more civilized discourse, the Missouri chapter of the National Organization for Women spent Monday voicing its displeasure at Limbaugh with toilet paper — or a lack of it. (more)

Despite the uproar against conservative radio giant Rush Limbaugh for his choice of words last week when referring to a 30-year-old contraception advocate, the Missouri State Capitol will be honoring Limbaugh with a bust of his likeness in the Hall of Famous Missourians. (more)

Missouri lawmakers are feeling embarrassed. And well they should be. The representatives of the Show-Me State were shown up in a knavish way (worthy of foolscaps) when they called a statewide election and nobody came. (more)

On Tuesday night, Rick Santorum swept, winning all three contests in Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado, and pulling ahead of Mitt Romney in the number of states won. But will it do him much good moving forward? (more)

JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri (AP) — Rick Santorum has won the Missouri Republican primary, a nonbinding election that carries bragging rights but does not award any delegates in the race for the presidential nomination. (more)

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum‘s presidential campaign is seeing a significant resurgence in the polls for the first time since his Iowa caucus win in early January. (more)

After former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty bashed Rick Santorum’s record Monday on behalf of Mitt Romney, the Santorum campaign went after both men, reviving Pawlenty’s “Obamneycare” attack on Romney from July. (more)

Coming off weeks of alternately attacking Newt Gingrich and President Barack Obama, the Romney campaign switched gears on Monday and came out swinging against former Sen. Rick Santorum, who looks to be Romney’s toughest competition in the three primary contests on Tuesday. (more)

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Keiton Page tried to explain to his Oklahoma State teammates the sensation of fans rushing the Gallagher-Iba Arena court to celebrate a big upset. (more)

On MSNBC’s “Daily Rundown” Wednesday morning, Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill told host Chuck Todd that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid should turn down his rhetoric and work with Republicans to solve the payroll tax impasse. (more)

1.) You got to know when to Holder, know when to fold ‘er — If Eric Holder thought he could stonewall his way through the Fast and Furious debacle, things just got tougher. TheDC’s Matthew Boyle reports: “Attorney General Eric Holder’s tenure in the Obama administration may be coming to an end. At least eight members of Congress have now called on Holder to resign over the growing Operation Fast and Furious scandal. Republican Reps. Vicky Hartzler of Missouri, John Mica of Florida, Quico Canseco of Texas and Gus Bilirakis of Florida each told The Daily Caller on Thursday that they believe Holder should step down now. The number of members of Congress calling for Holder to end his career in government because of Fast and Furious is now eight, a number which has doubled in one day. Previously, Republican Reps. Joe Walsh of Illinois, Raul Labrador of Idaho, Blake Farenthold of Texas and Paul Gosar of Arizona called on Holder to resign… Holder avoided talking openly about Operation Fast and Furious for months until Gosar told The Daily Caller that administration officials responsible for the program could be considered ‘accessories to murder.’ The attorney general finally opened up, citing Gosar’s comments to TheDC as the reason for his first-ever unsolicited disclosure about the controversial program.” You’re welcome, America. In other Fast and Furious news, the White House has been claiming that National Security Staffer Kevin O’Reilly is “on assignment for the State Department in Iraq and unavailable” to answer questions about what he knew and when he knew it. But as PJ Media just discovered, O’Reilly is reachable after all. Or at least he was until he disconnected his phone number. Paging Darrell Issa… (more)

PHOENIX (AP) — A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the suspect in the Tucson shooting rampage can be returned to a Missouri prison facility where he will undergo more treatment to try to make him mentally fit to stand trial. (more)

On a brief campaign jaunt to St. Louis, President Obama appeared Tuesday night at a $25,000-per-plate fundraising event hosted by an influential Democrat whose green energy firm benefited from a $107 million federal tax credit under the president’s economic stimulus plan. Tom Carnahan’s company, Wind Development Group received the money to develop wind power in Missouri. (more)

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — As they prepare lesson plans for fall, teachers across Missouri have an extra chore before the new school year begins: purging their Facebook friend lists to comply with a new state law that limits their contact with students on social networks. (more)

TUSCALOOSA, Alabama — Like many University of Alabama students, Emily Fuller fled Tuscaloosa after the April 27 tornadoes to go back to her hometown. (more)

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