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06.25.2009 6:32 pm

They want us to be distracted

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

 

Am I the only one who finds it ridiculous that in light of all the problems we as a country and a world face, we are still fiercely debating the comments of a comedian? People should really take two steps…

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06.17.2009 5:14 pm

I don’t think our children will enjoy the same freedom we’ve had

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I recently listened to a good portion of Obama’s Cairo speech along with some commentaries on it.  My comments are not actually for Liberal Democrats, because they are pure lemmings, and are essentially beyond all hope short of an act…

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06.08.2009 6:29 pm

We could use some digging, too

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I’ve been reading about the problems that politicians are having in England. Cheating on expenses, using government facilities to excess and lying about it. Is it possible that we could borrow the people who made this public and have them…

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04.27.2009 5:33 pm

Politicians: The rich get richer (and so do we)

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Congratulations to the Post-Dispatch on the good story about how people buy our politicians and
get tax credits.Our politicians sell there souls to a large benefactor and then give the benefactor
large tax breaks, Then when they need the taxes they gave…

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04.15.2009 7:06 pm

Cynical politicians, cynical voters: Will America survive

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Are Americans who are critical of politicians really cynics? Can politicians, whose stock-in-trade is the pedaling of hypocrisy, effectively run our governments? Will the American model of democracy survive? Or has hypocrisy so eroded our republic that we are now…

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03.30.2009 5:01 pm

Why such silence on state’s refusal to expand Medicaid?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

By refusing to expand Medicaid coverage to an approximate 35,000 low income Missourians, “pro-life” Republicans in the Missouri Legislature have continued their campaign against the poor, the disenfranchised and the most vulnerable among our citizenry. They have adamantly, and in…

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03.23.2009 5:49 pm

More fall-out from rush to pass stimulus bill

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Once more we see more fallout from the the ill-advised rush to produce a so-called stimulus bill.

When Congressman Russ Carnahan gave his “state of the District address” at the Affton firehouse, it was clear that he was absolutely clueless. He…

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03.12.2009 4:39 pm

Limbaugh proves that in politics, perception is reality

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I really have to laugh when I read about those-Republicans and Democrats alike-who feel that conservative political commentator Rush Limbaugh has been anointed as the new de facto spokesperson for the Republican Party. However, after the laughter has subsided, what…

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03.12.2009 4:24 pm

Fortune-teller: Bristol Palin and modern politics

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

I am officially applying for the job of fortune-teller or prognosticator for the Post-Dispatch. For my credentials I offer the fact that within a week of the news that Palin’s unmarried daughter was pregnant but that she and the father…

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03.10.2009 5:24 pm

U.S. politicians and appointees are pathetic

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Read this on Sunday:

GENEVA
U.S. wants to ‘reset’ that ‘peregruzka’ button

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton presented Russian Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov with a red plastic button emblazoned with the word “reset” in English and the Russian word “peregruzka.”…

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