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St. Louis Cookie Stand Lawsuit Goes to Court (Update)

July 20th, 2011 · 2 Comments

Remember the story of sisters Caitlin and Abigail Mills, the St. Louis-area girls who were told to close their cookie stand by local bureaucrats who insisted they were violating city ordinances?  Well, the girls — 16 and 14, respectively — are back in the news and headed to court. On Thursday morning, according to attorneys [...]

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Oppressive Government Stifling Free Enterprise

July 14th, 2011 · 1 Comment

By Foster Friess, Guest Blogger Go ahead, close your eyes. Imagine a world where you get scoffed at and labeled a “polar bear killer” for driving a car that gets 50 miles to the gallon. And then imagine a France-like world where Americans work only 35 hours a week, or a Greece-like world where they [...]

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How Many Laws Did You Break Today?

July 6th, 2011 · 2 Comments

“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.” – James Madison, Federalist 62 By Dave Roland, Guest Blogger How many laws did you break [...]

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Should Jo Ann Emerson Run as Independent?

May 3rd, 2010 · 11 Comments

Should U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson follow the same path Florida Gov. Charlie Crist took and opt to run as an independent in her re-election bid for Missouri’s 8th Congressional District seat?  Several factors lead me to believe she should.  For instance: Emerson voted twice for spending hundreds of billions of dollars on the Obama [...]

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Double-Standard at Saint Louis University?

January 24th, 2010 · 7 Comments

Does a double-standard exist at Saint Louis University? Recent events at the Jesuit university might cause you to believe one does. This weekend, SLU’s Muslim Students’ Association hosted a three-day conference, “Saving Our Deen: Living a Muslim life in a not-so Muslim world,” at the school’s Busch Student Center. Part of the conference agenda — [...]

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Union Presence Noted in Photos at Highway K Rally

November 23rd, 2009 · No Comments

A whopping six protesters in favor of government-run health care showed up Saturday to counter anti-socialism protesters during their weekly rally at the intersection of Highways K and N in O’Fallon, Mo. Who was in the small group that was outnumbered 22 to 1 by the folks on the other side of the road?  Who [...]

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Fight Against Planned Parenthood Continues

August 26th, 2009 · No Comments

In a post three days ago, I mentioned good news coming from South Texas in the seemingly-endless fight against Planned Parenthood.  Today, I received more good news in the form of a news release from the folks at the Free Market Foundation which appears below: Nueces County Votes on Potential Planned Parenthood Funding:  Free Market [...]

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