The Washington Post takes a look at infighting in Missouri Republican politics and finds it fascinating:

“What adult acts like this?” asked Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a nonprofit watchdog group. “Senators are not spoiled…

The $700 billion financial bailout package passed by the House today and signed into law by President Bush contains a number of “sweeteners” inserted by the Senate. Among them is this one:

SEC. 503. EXEMPTION FROM EXCISE TAX FOR CERTAIN WOODEN…

This video looks a little antique, and it is 40 years old. But it appears from it that Spiro Agnew held a press conference promptly after Richard Nixon named him as his choice for vice…

Army Corps St. John's Bayou-New Madrid Floodway Project

Two posts down, I pointed you to an hour-long video of Princeton economists talking about the troubles on Wall Street.

Here is another long-form item I think is worth your time:

Felix Rohatyn, most famous for…

Thanks to loyal Platformista jjk for passing on his copy of Christopher Buckley’s latest Washington satire, “Supreme Courtship,” which posits that a bowling-loving president with epically low approval rates would nominate a sassy TV judge to the Supreme Court.

I’m a big Buckley…

Eddie’s post on the death of actor/philanthropist Paul Newman reminds me of my small brush with the legendary movie star. I push started his car for him — or tried to, anyway.

At the time, I was a bureau chief for a newspaper in…

Died Friday at age 83.

He was a good and talented man.

Here he is narrating Aaron Copland’s Lincoln Portrait, performed by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in 2005.

According to Nielsen, the presidential candidates’ debate had its highest viewership rating in the St. Louis market.

The New York Times reports that Alan H. Fishman, chief executive officer of Washington Mutual, the Seattle-based bank whose assets were seized by the FDIC and sold to JPMorgan Chase on Thursday, will get a lovely parting gift:

 But the seizure…

After asking that tonight’s “Debate the Debate” party on The Platform be postponed so he could attend a sick cat, Post-Dispatch commentary page editor Eric Mink now has agreed to take part.

Together with John McCain’s decision to un-postpone his campaign and…

Just two weeks ago, the European Center for Nuclear Research unveiled its new Large Hadron Collider — the world’s largest particle accelerator — with great fanfare. We’re betting they wish they bought the extended service plan.

On Tuesday, officials announced that…