The YouTube audience is currently eating up comments by Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid that burning fossil fuels creates health hazards.

Reid’s comments however were phrased more bluntly than that: “Coal makes us sick,” he said.

That pill isn’t settling…

The campaign of Sen. John McCain announced this morning that Col. Jack Jackson would become the co-chair of McCain’s Missouri campaign.

He retired from active duty in the Marine Corps in 1977, having flown numerous missions and received many medals…

Here’s a little bit from this conference call. Sen. John Warner:

“Let me start back in 1973, I was Secretary of the Navy under Nixon and then Ford and worked with John McCain when he was released from the prison…

We obviously weren’t in Independence for for Sen. Barack Obama’s speech, but here’s a smattering of coverage from other outlets for our loyal Political Fix Readers:

• AP: Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Monday he will never question others’ patriotism during…

Sen. Barack Obama’s remarks from Independence, Mo., as prepared for delivery, are below. It’s obviously a long speech, so you can decide how much you want to read.

One note: Obama appears to be trying to set the tone that no…

In a release just now from the Missouri Republican Party, Gov. Matt Blunt offered this rebuke of criticisms of Sen. John McCain’s record. This stems from remarks made by Gen. Wes Clark, an Obama backer, earlier.

When I was a plebe…

A lot of folks in central Illinois were not happy when the Department of Energy pulled the plug on funding for a massive, cutting edge, carbon capture and sequestration coal plant that had been planned for Mattoon, Ill.

The plant…

Earlier this month the young Democrat and Republican organizations of the St. Louis area held a charity softball game in Soulard. The two groups put aside any differences for a good bit of fun that also raised several thousand dollars…

A small group of war protesters showed up at the Missouri State University student union to protest Sen. John McCain’s support for continuing the war in Iraq. Some of the protesters also rebuked what they considered sabre-rattling with Iran.

While…

After his SpeechRoundtableTownHall, Sen. John McCain sat down with the Post-Dispatch to talk. We didn’t a whole lot of time, but did get to hear a little more Missouri strategy from the senator.

Here are some of the highlights:

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