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04.17.2009 9:00 pm

The puck stops here for Oshie Fan Guy (or Fan Girl)

Throwing away your vote is a time-honored political tradition (see “Ralph Nader for president”). Who knew it also could be a crime?

Certainly not “Fan Guy,” the anonymous blue-blooded St. Louis Blues fan from O’Fallon, Mo., who — seemingly oblivious to…

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03.09.2009 5:32 pm

Court ruling limits scope of Voting Rights Act

The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected a claim of voting discrimination, sticking with what the Christian Science Monitor calls a “narrow” reading of the Voting Rights Act.

The Los Angeles Times said:

In a 5-4 decision, the court said officials need not consider…

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01.29.2009 9:00 pm

Will the Supreme Court blunt the Voting Rights Act?

Voting rights march in 1965.

Voting rights march in 1965.

When the Rev. Joseph Lowery delivered the benediction at President Barack Obama’s inauguration, he wore the joyful expression of a man vindicated after a lifetime of struggle.

Mr. Lowery, as a Methodist minister in Mobile, Ala., helped…

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10.14.2008 9:03 pm

Wednesday editorial: An election experiment (updated)

2004 Photo By Dawn Majors/Post-Dispatch

2004 Photo By Dawn Majors/Post-Dispatch

Updated below (as of Oct. 15 at 10:45 a.m.)

Thanks to unprecedented interest in this year’s presidential election — and a massive registration effort by labor and community activists on behalf of Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama…

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09.30.2008 3:34 pm

‘So hard to define’: Sarah Palin round-up and misc. news

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin round-up:

Mitt Romney says let her speak. Yep. The same Romney thought to be on the VP short list.

Biden beware.

Conservative columnists are not getting in line. Or rather, they are getting out of line.

But when you knock her…

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08.28.2008 10:33 am

LBJ

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Lyndon B. Johnson

Back in the news.

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