A Round Up of St. Louis Tea Party Coverage

I wasn’t able to make it myself, as I was working OT to pay everyone else’s mortgage while I fight to pay my own.  Kudos go out to Bill Hennessy and Dana Loesch who were apparently the big two putting this thing together. St. Louis Arch Tea Party Draws 1,500 Protesters! (Video) – Gateway Pundit [...]

Stimulus Unemployment Benefits Not Worth the Strings

Missouri Lt Gov Peter Kinder explains why accepting the bailout money for unemployment benefits would be a bad idea. h/t Capitol Calling

Et Tu Todd?

Apparently Congressman Todd Akin (MO-02) has given in to the Church of Universal Health Care.  He has decided that the Massachusetts Plan (which is failing spectacularly) is to be the model for health insurance in the entire nation. He and his staff also are working on a bill that he plans to introduce that would [...]

Medical Bankruptcies

President Obama dramtically overstated his case. If what President Obama said were true, there would be approximately 1.05 million health care related bankruptcies in this country every year. However, in 2007 (the last full year for which there is data available, there were a total of only 815,000 non-business bankruptcies nationwide. Moreover, according to a [...]

MO Gov Jay Nixon Doesn’t Care If He Screws Our Kids and Grandkids

h/t Gateway Pundit

Stimulus Bill Explained

This is an email floating around that sums up the stimulus bill perfectly. Shortly after class, an economics student approaches his economics professor and says, “I don’t understand this stimulus bill. Can you explain it to me?” The professor replied, “I don’t have any time to explain it at my office, but if you come [...]

Chicago Tea Party!

I understand from a few reliable sources that this really is in the works.  Stay tuned for details when they get announced.

Stimulus Signed: What’s Next?

The Future of Health Care: Aligning Incentives

All over the country, people (on both the left and the right) are trying to figure out how we are going to solve the problem of health care.  The choices run the gamut from free market solutions to full government take-over of the funding and running of the health system.  What is often forgotten in [...]

Website of the Day:

TheSpendocrats.com is a new project of the NRSC highlighting the waste in the recently passed “stimulus” bill.  Here’s the introductory video: