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H. Thomas Wells Jr., came to St. Louis earlier this week. He’s a lawyer from Birmingham, Ala., and current president of the American Bar Association, the nation’s largest professional association of lawyers.

Mr. Wells was here for an…

The buzz yesterday was an Associated Press story with the following headline:

Officials: FBI Investigates ACORN for Voter Fraud

The story reads:

The FBI is investigating whether the community activist group ACORN helped foster voter registration fraud around the nation before the presidential…

U.S. Sen. Christopher"Kit" Bond

Thanks to its senior U.S. senator, Republican Christopher S. “Kit” Bond, Missouri earned last-minute inclusion in the national scandal over the Bush administration’s politically motivated firings of U.S. attorneys.

“The Purge,” as it was known when the story broke…

It would be tempting to view the recent stories about the suicide of Army biodefense researcher Bruce Ivins — who was about to be indicted by the FBI for the 2001 anthrax attacks — as long-overdue “closure” to the situation.…

THICKBURGERS AS
HEALTH FOOD

Once upon a time, kiddies, there was no such thing as a 1,420-calorie, 107-fat-gram fast-food hamburger. You couldn’t get a 900-calorie breakfast burrito.

Then came the Hardee’s restaurant chain, originator of what’s been dubbed “fast-food porn,” and the “heart…

The American airline industry puddle-jumps from crisis to crisis. The airlines make a little money when the nation is prosperous, but even slight turbulence in the economy sends the industry into a financial tailspin. The pattern has been repeated time and…