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The Hidden Genius in Obama’s Domestic Agenda By Victor J. Massad June 25, 2009 Victor J, Massad, Ph.D. is a semi-retired professor of marketing & business at a Pennsylvania college. == From the vantage point of one who has studied marketing for many years, I see genius in Obama’s domestic policy. Others may see a convoluted mess of mounting debt, bankrupt car companies, and healthcare on the brink of disaster. Small-minded people are incapable of grasping the complex opportunities and cost-savings that arise when the synergistic effects of seemingly disparate policies are brought into being. That is why we need...

GOP Briefing Room Exclusive Content Why the Rich Will Get Richer Under Obama By Victor J. Massad Victor J, Massad, Ph.D. is a semi-retired professor of marketing & business at a Pennsylvania college. The Google search “spread the wealth around” yields 221 thousand results, nearly all of which discuss then-candidate Barack Obama’s most candid moment in the 2009 presidential election campaign. What Obama said was this: "It's not that I want to punish your success. I just want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they've got a chance for success, too. When you spread the wealth...

Woman admits voter fraud By Robert Patrick ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 03/24/2009 ST. LOUIS – An East St. Louis woman pleaded guilty to a mail fraud charge Tuesday in federal court in St. Louis and admitted submitting false voter registration cards in the lead-up to the last year's elections, federal prosecutors said. Deidra Humphrey, 44, worked for the Missouri Progressive Vote Coalition and submitted false and fraudulent voter registration cards for voters in St. Louis city and county, knowing it was illegal, the U.S. Attorney's office said.

Notable Passings Of 2008 Another year winds down, and I thought it important to list a few of the memorable public characters who passed on this year. Some we loved. Some we didn't know. Some went too soon. Some not soon enough. Some we like and will miss. Others ... not so much. They include: W. Mark Felt, "Deep Throat", Dec. 18W. Mark Felt, the former FBI second-in-command who revealed himself as "Deep Throat" 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the Watergate scandal that toppled a president, died on Dec. 18. He was 95. Van Johnson, actor, Dec....

Drug agents in Peru say they have seized three tons of cocaine mixed into a shipment of guano bound for Spain. A four-month investigation led to the seizure at a warehouse in the capital of Lima, anti-drug police Col. Cesar Cortijo said Monday. Cortijo said the drugs belonged to a trafficking ring that smuggled cocaine out of the country mixed with other products. Four Peruvians and a Colombian were arrested.

James M. Doohan, the actor who played Scotty on the '60s "Star Trek" TV series, has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, his agent confirmed Tuesday. Doohan, 84, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's "within the last couple months," agent Steven Stevens told The Associated Press. He said Doohan is in the beginning stages of the disease, a progressive neurological disorder that afflicted former President Ronald Reagan, who died June 5. Doohan, who lives in the Seattle suburb of Redmond, also has suffered for some time with Parkinson's disease, diabetes and fibrosis, the latter due to chemical exposure during World War II when...

Like countless others before me, who were born American but developed a love for British tradition, culture, and literature, I truly care about what happens not only in the US but in the UK as well. Over these last three years I traveled an average of four times a year to the UK for personal reasons. Each and every time I observed new inroads of decay and dutifully sounded the alarm to family and friends. England, the England that we know and love, is rapidly being destroyed from within by a combination of factors, some of which are planned, and...

There is indeed much truth in the comment that whereas it used to be said “Come to Rhodesia and see the ruins of Zimbabwe”, now it is said “Come to Zimbabwe and see the ruins of Rhodesia”. – Springbok Cyber Club Newsletter, October 2002. Africa is hugely complicated and, sadly, misunderstood. It is an issue that can be argued around in circles, even by those who, like me, were born and bred there and who know Africa for what it really is: - an enigma, a continent of chaos and contradiction. In plain English, one gigantic, ungodly mess! One of...

From his extremely direct, no-punches-pulled speech before an often squirming mass of U.N. General Assembly delegates last Friday, President George W. Bush demonstrably exhibited the qualities of a true leader. The President simultaneously enhanced relations between the United States and the United Nations while keeping the heat and spotlight focused on the very real threat of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Bush continues to stymie his critics by, when needed, issuing an intelligent, forceful, statesmanlike speech, as he did at the United Nations last week. Only those, who have been consuming the junk food rhetoric of the “Bush is dumb” crowd,...

Mark Haim is the director of Mid-Missouri Peaceworks, a nonprofit organization that operates the Peace Nook, a nonprofit store. He has been working for the organization for 17 years and has been a resident of Columbia for 31 years. He can be found protesting U.S. actions in Iraq and Afghanistan every Wednesday afternoon on the corner of Broadway and Providence. Missourian reporter Josh Brodesky talked with Haim last week. What is your motivation to demonstrate each week? Basically, on the very day of the horrible terror crimes of Sept. 11, we came out with a message indicating our profound grief...

News of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s offer to allow UN weapons inspectors back into his country brought cries of joy amongst those who are easily and often fooled – primarily the side of the political spectrum known as “the left”. Only the vacillating left could misinterpret this obvious ploy to buy time as a genuine desire for bona fide weapons inspections to resume. Only the left could believe Hussein would happily and willingly permit the discovery and ultimate removal of weapons of mass destruction from his arsenal – weapons he had spent years amassing and diverting billions of dollars meant...

<p>A 15-year-old boy was critically wounded Wednesday night in University City, police said, as he tried to carjack an off-duty St. Louis police officer's car.</p> <p>The police officer, who was in uniform, fired numerous shots into the automobile as the suspect tried to flee, University City police said.</p>

A computer monitor, laundry detergent boxes, beer bottles, tires and license plates were just a few of the things collected from roadsides and creeks yesterday morning during the sixth annual Clean Up Columbia event. More than 1,000 volunteers fanned out around the city for the annual cleanup, the kickoff of the Worley Street Project and the new North Central Columbia Neighborhood Association project Eighth Street NOW, or Neighbors and Owners Working together.

Crippled by the lagging economy and Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Atlanta's 2001 United Way campaign fell short of its fund-raising goal for the first time in nearly a decade. Instead of meeting its $88 million goal, United Way officials Wednesday said the campaign brought it $80.4 million, $2.1 million less than the previous year's campaign. As a result, United Way will have to reduce its allocations to dozens of local nonprofit organizations, which already had been hard-hit because of the economy and Sept. 11. The last time United Way raised less money than the year before was in 1992, also...

A second-grade teacher stirred debate on the state’s standardized tests last night when she told school board candidates at an election forum that she would flunk Missouri Assessment Program exams. "I’ve taken the test," Emily Stephens said of the fourth-grade social studies exam. "I would have flunked the test. With a master’s degree I would have flunked the test completely." Stephens then asked the candidates why people assume that MAP scores are low because students and teachers aren’t performing. She suggested the test is just too hard. Stephens’ comments came during a forum sponsored by the League of Women Voters...

ONLY those who have spent the last few months sailing solo around the world could have avoided Lord Of The Rings hype. Primary amongst the hype has been the fact that, like so many Maori children, the movie was shot in New Zealand. As a result, the Land Of The Long White Cloud is enjoying somewhat of a renaissance in international circles. This is wholly undeserved, despite LOTR director Peter Jackson’s previous triumph in bringing Kate Winslet’s knockers to the world in Heavenly Creatures. For New Zealand is an unhappy land populated by an unhappy people. With no economy or ...

<p>When Laura Dillard eagerly signed up three years ago for a program that now helps hundreds of St. Louis families pay for private school, she took on a tiny but significant role in one of education's hottest debates. Dillard's four children are among about 1,300 in the city receiving tuition assistance from either the Children's Scholarship Fund or its sister program, the St. Louis School Choice Scholarship Fund. The awards pay up to $1,500 annually for four years for children to attend a private school of their parents' choice.</p>

The world of the American leftist was turned completely upside down in the days following September 11, 2001. You might ask “how so?” The post 09/11 Hollywood finds itself being forced to adapt the new reality by offering pro-American films and entering the fight on the side of Western civilization for change. Instead of ruling atop a promised and much ballyhooed “shadow presidency”, former President Clinton has been swept off the public stage entirely. He finds himself relegated to informing luckless guests at crashed weddings he missed Usama bin-Laden by “just this much”. But the iceberg that punctured the SS ...

FOOD boffins are set to confirm Americans' worst fears about British cuisine - by producing the world's first chips-in-a-can meal. Experts have been trying to turn The Great British Chip into a tinned delicacy for years but have always ended up with something resembling soggy mash potato. Now they believe they have found the winning formula with the $1.50 tins designed specially for lazy single men, which will include culinary delights like 'omelette, chips 'n beans' and 'beef grill 'n chips'.

William Clay Ford Jr. will replace Jacques Nasser as chief executive officer of Ford Motor Co., the Associated Press has learned.company will announce Tuesday that Nasser is leaving the company, said a source familiar with the situation, speaking on condition of anonymity. In addition, Nick Scheele, 57, currently group vice president for North America, is expected to be named Ford's chief operating officer. Scheele recently moved to North America after a brief stint as head of Ford Europe.