Last night, Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft announced that he has launched an investigation into outgoing Republican Attorney General Josh Hawley, claiming that Hawley hired campaign staffers to run his office while using taxpayer dollars.  Hawley ran for Attorney ...read more

The Republicans don't want you to know what they're doing. "The Silent Treatment" seems to be the new strategy driving the congressional GOP as well as the Trump White House.  And their most loyal disciples don't care. But they should. We'll return to this presently. The strategy ...read more

It's a good thing Hillary Clinton has most of the Obama coalition locked up this year, because after a lot of really hard work regaining the goodwill of voters who were alienated by the intermittent but naked racism of the 2008 campaign, Claire McCaskill ripped at that scab today ...read more

A new report from Sen. Clair McCaskill (D-Mo.) and the Senate Subcommittee on Financial and Contracting Oversight has found that although one in five women experience sexual assault during the course of their college careers, 41% of colleges and universities haven't conducted a ...read more

You've got to give it to Gingrich - the man's ability to leap from astute political timing to disastrous miscalculation is nothing short of astonishing. Gingrich was once the Republican front runner until his fantasies about moon colonies and the enormity of his intellect ...read more

The Daily Banter Headline Grab (via Yahoo! News): Despite the pleadings of top Republicans, from Mitt Romney on down, to drop out of the Missouri Senate race, Rep. Todd Akin has held firm: He is staying in. An important deadline has now passed. Under Missouri election law, if ...read more