Gov. Tim Kaine

WASHINGTON — Remember 2005, after Democrats got waxed a second straight time in national elections? They held hands in confabs across the land and swore to start speaking in public about religion and their deepest beliefs.

No rising star did it better than Tim…

Carnahan

WASHINGTON — Rep. Russ Carnahan, D-St. Louis, has only seen Republicans delivering big speeches to joint sessions of Congress. Make that one president — George W. Bush.

Watching President Barack Obama tonight was a whole lot different. “It was very different,” Carnahan said…

Truman: No. 5 on presidential ranking

Just in time for President’s Day, Show-Me son Harry S. Truman has been named among the top five best U.S. presidents in history by a panel of experts assembled by the C-SPAN network.

The original Mr. Buck…

WASHINGTON — New White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said that President Barack Obama (do those words sound odd?) arrived for work this morning in the Oval Office at 7:35 am St. Louis time and spent 10 minutes there alone.

During that time, he…

Roy Blunt is pleased at clemency for border guards.

WASHINGTON — Unlike Bill Clinton, George W. Bush is being judicious with pardons.

Indeed, Bush, who intends to fly home to Texas tomorrow about 12:30 St. Louis time, has rejected requests for high-profile pardons for the likes of…

WASHINGTON - The Renaissance Washington Hotel - home this week to much of the Illinois delegation to the presidential inauguration - has a tradition in its “Presidents Sports Bar” of hanging up large framed photographs of the current president engaged…

Bush

President George W. Bush has already begun the tradition of granting pardons on the way out of Washington.

Today, the Justice Department announced the first batch, including a Southeast Missouri farmer who admitted causing the death of several bald eagles.

Leslie Owen Collier of…

An Obama voter registration event in St. Louis

Barack Obama’s last-minute registration push in Missouri has caught the attention of the Los Angeles Times’ Top of the Ticket blog, which suggests that the effort might be more meaningful than anything said in…

And now for something on the lighter side of debate politics — or, at least, the sweeter.

Campus eating spots at Washington University are selling confections to match the contestants in Thursday’s vice-presidential debate: Blue donkey cookies with a frosted “B”…

U.S. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., offered up some sharp criticisms today of the Republican presidential ticket: Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin.

McCaskill asserted that McCain “is a typical politician” who is stooping to spreading lies about his ticket’s record, and that…