Project Vote Smart is a non-partisan group dedicated to providing voters with basic information on issues and candidate’s positions for all elective offices from the president down to the state legislature.

They also send out a “Political Courage Test” to all candidates,…

In America, we look at places such as Iraq and Yugoslavia in horror and wonder. How can neighbors, who live in the same communities for years, suddenly rise up and kill each other?

So, it’s disturbing to realize that Americans may…

Findsolar.com has a neat solar calculator that shows how well a solar-powered residential electrical system would work in your area.

According to the calculator, St. Louis has a “good” rating for residential solar energy — 4.859 kWh/sq-m/day, to be exact.

According to…

The Brookings Institution’s Gregg Easterbrook, writing in the Wall Street Journal, has a thought-provoking piece today:

Democratic attacks on Mr. McCain and Republican attacks on Mr. Obama both seek to punish impermissibly positive thoughts. At a time when there exists a…

Our friends at the Springfield News-Leader report that outgoing House Speaker Rod Jetton is shopping for a frame to display our May 18 editorial, “The sad legacy of the Jetton era.”

“I thought it was great,” the paper’s Jefferson City…

Medicaid is like a parachute for thousands of Missouri and Illinois families: Most of the time, they don’t need it. But when the economy slows down, nothing else will take its place.

It plays the same role for economically hard…

Speaking of bad bills, if ever there were a candidate for a quiet killing, it’s Senate Bill 1172. It legalizes the manufacture of silencers for firearms.
Yup, silencers — those suppressors that screw into the barrel of a weapon to…

We Americans love freedom. And education. When it comes to education, we especially love “academic freedom.” Who could be opposed to that?

That helps explain why “academic freedom” has become the latest fig leaf for anti-evolutionists. The latest example is…

Sixty-eight million years ago, Tyrannosaurus rex ruled the roost. It was the largest and most fearsome predator ever to thunder across the ancient Earth. Even today in the safety of a museum, coming face-to-kneecap with T. rex inspires awe —…