ST. LOUIS • Missouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a federal mandate to purchase health insurance, rebuking President Barack Obama’s administration and giving Republicans their first political victory in a national campaign to overturn the controversial health care law passed by Congress in March. (more)
Missouri voters go to the polls Tuesday for the first-in-the-nation referendum on President Obama’s health care plan. It is likely to give Republicans a chance to brag about the unpopularity of Obamacare, but the vote will be largely symbolic. Courts will eventually decide whether Missouri and other states can legally trump federal law and exempt citizens from the mandate to buy insurance. But sending a signal to Washington will be victory enough for the Republicans and Tea Party activists pushing Proposition C. (more)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — As the shadows lengthened across Phelps Grove Park and the aroma of barbecued ribs wafted through the trees, Roy Blunt glad-handed his way through the Greene County Republican Party’s big pre-primary picnic, just as he has done before every big election since 1972, the year before he won an appointment to his first political office. (more)
Taliban would like to send Wikileaks founder some flowers — Charlie Rangel’s luck just ran out — NYT editorial board doesn’t understand why Obama is doing this — Deficit anxieties freeze Congress —
Weird assemblage of freaks and geeks run Charlie Crist’s campaign — Fifteen years from now, China could own everything (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) – A Senate Democrat says that as many as 6,600 graves at Arlington National Cemetery could be misidentified because managers there didn’t do their job properly. (more)
Jobs are hard to come by. Our economic future is uncertain. Faced with this situation, President Obama and the Democratic controlled Congress have a proposal for the American people: higher taxes and more government spending. Unfortunately, the president and Democrats in Congress have been trying this method, and failing, for the last eighteen months. And it now looks like they will only make matters worse by dramatically raising taxes on all taxpayers in January. (more)
An old military maxim states, “Amateurs think about strategy and professionals think about logistics.” At West Point I taught cadets the U.S. Constitution, which clearly empowers Congress to be active in logistic questions of war. For Afghanistan, Congress must start thinking professionally and ask a tough logistical question — who will pay for the Afghan military once America leaves? (more)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A couple says ignorance about their blindness resulted in their daughter being taken away by the state. (more)
The Obama administration’s nominee to be the next director of national intelligence is expected to face questions from Congress on Tuesday about the expansion of top-secret agencies and contracts, after reports in The Washington Post showing that these efforts have become “so unwieldy and so secretive” that effective oversight is impossible. (more)
Heritage Action for America, the Heritage Foundation’s grassroots advocacy spin-off, is urging congressional leaders to sign on to Iowa Rep. Steve King’s discharge petition, aimed at repealing Obamacare. (more)
Republicans vying for open U.S. Senate seats from Florida to Missouri raised millions more dollars than Democrats in 2010’s second quarter, filings show.
Marco Rubio, the Republican candidate in Florida, brought in more than $4.5 million, his campaign said. His Democratic opponent, Representative Kendrick Meek, raised more than $1 million, according to his website. The independent candidate, Governor Charlie Crist, hasn’t reported yet.
Republicans in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Pennsylvania also out-raised their rivals in the period from April 1 through June 30. A backlash against Democrats, who control Congress and the White House, may be boosting fundraising for Republicans such as Rubio, a former state house speaker.
“The wind is to their back,” Clyde Wilcox, a government professor at Georgetown University in Washington, said regarding the Republicans. Still, he cautioned that the political climate could change before the November elections, and that Democrats are working to make races more about local concerns than national issues.
Full story: Republicans Show Strength in Fundraising for Open Senate Seats – BusinessWeek
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Pres. Obama is the best fundraiser the Dem Party has, but his drawing power is way down from its peak during the ’08 campaign. (more)
A Missouri VA hospital is under fire because it may have exposed more than 1,800 veterans to life-threatening diseases such as hepatitis and HIV. (more)
A Lincoln County, Mo., woman on Tuesday admitted sending threatening letters, a cow’s tongue and the head of a dead opossum to a romantic rival. (more)
The arguments over media bias are not just tiresome – they don’t go far enough. In fact, much of the mainstream media, especially in their opinion pages and talking-head analysis, have crossed the line into propaganda. Where bias reflects a particular way of looking at the world that emphasizes some facts over others, propaganda is an echo-chamber effort to skew facts in order to serve a larger “truth.” (more)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Staring at extinction, the Big 12 is once again in play. (more)
“When the people fear the government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” It’s almost as if Thomas Jefferson could see November 2010 coming. (more)
Police arrested a woman who was high on crack cocaine after she tried to run a man over with her car in Columbia, Mo. After they took her to the station, she used her one phone call to call the man she attacked and scream at him. (more)
GREENWOOD — A 41-year-old man told police that he was trying to pay legal costs related to a Missouri drug conviction by growing marijuana, according to a court affidavit. (more)
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