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Some politically incorrect parenting tips to make sure you don't end up with a Miley Cyrus wannabe in your family......

Mitt Romney has edged back into the lead in Missouri. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that Romney earns the support of 48% of Likely Missouri Voters, while President Obama picks up 45% of the vote. Four percent (4%) like another candidate in the race, and three percent (3%) are undecided.

The fallout appears to linger in the Missouri Senate race, with incumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill still holding a six-point lead over Republican challenger Todd Akin. But the race is tightening.

The America Family Association has organized ten powerful economic graphs that put financial facts and figures into visual form. Sometimes you can quote economic statistics to people until you are blue in the face and it won’t do any good, but when those same people see charts and pictures suddenly it all sinks in. As you examine the economic charts below, pay special attention to what has been happening to the U.S. economy over the last 30 or 40 years.

The world grain inventories were already depleted from truly terrible weather in 2010. Now we are seeing even worse weather so far this year. China is experiencing its worst drought in 50 years. The government says this weather is decimating a major grain belt, and it is leaving livestock without water. Fish farms have been ruined. Who knows the long term effects? More than 4.3M people are having trouble finding drinking water. Actually this last is a much bigger problem throughout China, which has a long term drinking water problem. The Chinese have released extra water from the Three Gorges...

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that 54% believe that the U.S. is indeed the nation with liberty and justice for all. A third (34%) disagree while 11% are not sure.

In one of the world's worst slums, Cite Soleil, a school named after the daughter of Ohio Sen. Mike DeWine aspires to nourish and educate (Snip) PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti | Tucked into the western edge of this capital city is a slum so wretched and so dangerous it is strictly off-limits to U.S. government personnel. More from this series Valley missionaries continue to return to Haiti Aid workers find themselves preparing children for a future that may never come Haitians have learned to put their trust in the hands of the Lord The name, ironically, means "City of the Sun." "Nobody...

I'm just throwing out a topic for discussion concerning the online poll AOL has been conducting for the last few months. They restart this poll every few weeks with the average number of respondents reaching around 3-400,000 votes before it is restarted. I would think there has been over 2 million votes so far. John McCain has held a significant lead in this poll throughout. My questions: Does anyone know why these numbers would be consistently this lopsided for McCain? Is AOL a hotbed of Republicanism? The number of respondents are too large for the poll to be manipulated for...

I'm just throwing out a topic for discussion concerning the online poll AOL has been conducting for the last few months. They restart this poll every few weeks with the average number of respondents reaching around 3-400,000 votes before it is restarted. I would think there has been over 2 million votes so far. John McCain has held a significant lead in this poll throughout. My questions: Does anyone know why these numbers would be consistently this lopsided for McCain? Is AOL a hotbed of Republicanism? The number of respondents are too large for the poll to be manipulated for...

Just returned from the McCain/Palin rally in O'Fallon Mo a suburb of St louis. Key points: Crowd twice as large as expected. Very excited even though it was very hot and humid. Very mixed crowd, snap shot of middle America. Many young people there(don't bet on Obama locking up the youth vote). Sarah Palin got the biggest reception(crowd was really excited about her especially the women). People were still hanging around after the rally was over. Palin is not only exciting the base, she is bringing the people out. Very good rally.

I see in the paper that the U.S. Department of Education laid out $750,000 for a study that shows that going to art museums and looking at art is good for schoolchildren, which I would have been happy to tell them for, say, $500 and a nice lunch. I also have some thoughts about the defecatory habits of bears, if the Forestry Service is interested. If the government is paying large sums of money to have the obvious pointed out, then I am your man. Ask me about this war and I'll tell you for free. I grew up the...

Talent pulls even with McCaskill in Senate race By Jo Mannies POST-DISPATCH POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT 09/02/2006 Claire McCaskill and Jim Talent U.S. Sen. Jim Talent's deluge of ad spending apparently has paid off. The latest Research 2000 poll for the Post-Dispatch and KMOV-TV (Channel 4) found that Talent, R-Mo., has chipped away the edge held by his Democratic rival, state Auditor Claire McCaskill. With a little more than two months left before Election Day, the two are in a statistical dead heat. The Maryland-based firm's latest poll of 800 likely voters, conducted Monday through Thursday, found that 47 percent backed McCaskill...

Mo. remains key battleground By Jo Mannies Post-Dispatch Political Correspondent 07/23/2004 Missourians are nervous - about the war in Iraq, about the potential for more terrorism, about the economy and about the direction America is headed. And that means this battleground state will truly be a battle in the presidential race this November, a new statewide poll suggests.

Independent groups outspend Bush in campaign advertising By Jo Mannies Post-Dispatch Political Correspondent 03/14/2004 For every one of President George W. Bush's ads that you're seeing on St. Louis television stations, chances are you'll catch at least two ads from those out to defeat him. And most of those anti-Bush spots aren't coming from John Kerry, his likely Democratic challenger. They're the work of two independent groups - The Media Fund and the MoveOn.org Voter Fund - which, for the moment, appear to be spending more money locally than the president. Over the past two weeks, for example, records show...

Finding the truth "The investigation into just how memos written for Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee ended up in the hands of Senate Republicans and the media is not likely to be resolved once the official investigation into how they were leaked is completed," Peter Roff writes. "The matter has helped further inflame the already heated passions on both sides of the aisle. Those allied with the Democrats want blood, implying that the memos were stolen or obtained through computer hacking. Many of those normally allied with the Republicans argue that how they were obtained is less important than...

Defense & Foreign Affairs Daily December 2, 2002 Iraqi Leadership Moves Discreetly To Conflict Locations Exclusive. By Yossef Bodansky, Senior Analyst, GIS (Global Information System). Several key strategic developments took place in Iraq while the US was celebrating its Thanksgiving long weekend. First, Iraqi Pres. Saddam Hussein suddenly left Baghdad to move to a fortified hiding place somewhere on the outskirts of Al-Habbaniyah (50 miles north-west of Baghdad), along with Latif Nasif Jasim; Ahmad Habbushi, and élite forces from the Army and the Air Force. Concurrently, Pres. Saddam’s son and heir, Qusay, along with Taha Yassin Ramadan, Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri,...

Seattle Post-Intelligencer November 26, 2002 Half Of Americans Don't Want Their Kids To Be Soldiers, Survey Says By Thomas Hargrove and Guido H. Stempel III, Scripps Howard News Service Most Americans don't want their children to grow up to be soldiers. Half of those asked in a national survey of 1,001 adults conducted by Scripps Howard News Service and Ohio University said "no" when asked if they would like to see their son or daughter "enter a military career." Forty-two percent said they would recommend a military career for a child; 8 percent were uncertain. "The most privileged and educated...

Defense & Foreign Affairs Daily November 8, 2002 Iraqi War Planning And Strategy Show Detailed Preparations For A Geographically Wide And Multi-Layered Conflict The following analysis is based on extensive reporting from sensitive regional sources of proven reliability. Exclusive. Analysis. By Yossef Bodansky, GIS/Defense & Foreign Affairs Senior Editor In early November 2002, it became apparent from sources and actions undertaken in Baghdad that the Iraqi Government of Pres. Saddam Hussein was convinced that the war with the US was both imminent and inevitable. Indeed, Saddam Hussein conducted both secret as well as highly-publicized meetings with the Iraqi High Command...

Preparations Indicate US Readiness For Conflict With Iraq, Initiated By Air War, Starting Late November 2002 Analysis. By Gregory R. Copley, Editor, GIS (Global Information System), with input from field reports. The framework, timing, political and military doctrine for the US-led attack on Iraq is taking shape, with the prospect of Coalition air assaults being ready to begin against Iraqi targets in about the third week of November 2002 — before the end of the Muslim month of Ramadan — and with formal Coalition ground force insertion possibly occurring at the beginning of January 2003. Coalition special forces — US,...

European Stars and Stripes October 23, 2002 Officials Silent On Quarter Cav Deployment By Jon R. Anderson, Stars and Stripes CAMP BONDSTEEL, Kosovo — Soldiers with 1st Infantry Division’s 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry Regiment were abruptly told this week they would not deploy to Kosovo for peacekeeping duties. 1st Infantry Division officials in Kosovo said they could not comment on the change, while a spokesman for V Corps, the division’s parent headquarters, referred all questions to U.S. European Command. A EUCOM spokesman, however, said he could not comment on the change, referring all questions back to V Corps. NATO officials...