'Paycheck protection' bill filibustered in Missouri Senate, passes anyway

The debate started with a bleep, when Sen. Jamilah Nasheed, D-St. Louis, questioned Republican Sen. Dan Brown of Rolla, the bill's Senate carrier.
"Senator, you know, out of all due respect, this is some bull (expletive)," Nasheed said. Brown disagreed, and Nasheed was chastised for not maintaining decorum.
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Press Corp: High school students build zero-emission 300 mpg electric car

PRESS CORP, 3/4/2011 - A new electric car that can get more than 300 miles per gallon. You read right – three, zero, zero miles per gallon. But this car wasn’t created by any of the major car manufacturers in Japan, Detroit or Germany. It’s the brainchild of students from DeLaSalle Education Center, a high school in Kansas City, Mo. for students who need an alternative to the traditional system. Read more at Press Corp...

These kids give me hope. --bc Read More......

Obama mocks Tea Parties

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Barack Obama: "Those of you who are watching certain news channels on which I'm not very popular, and you see folks waving tea bags around, let me just remind them that I am happy to have a serious conversation about how we are going to cut our health care costs down over the long term, how we are going to stabilize Social Security. But let's not play games and pretend that the reason [for the deficit] is because of the Recovery Act."

brainchild: If this administration rejects and ridicules free-market principles [and the people who believe in these principles] as potential solutions for reducing health care costs, then how is a serious conversation possible? Read More......