Approaching the last 30 days of a very close re-election campaign against Democrat Claire McCaskill, Republican Sen. Jim Talent made his fourth appearance on former Mayor Freeman Bosley, Jr.’s radio show yesterday. This time the subject was Iraq. Talent, who spoke via cell phone on his way to Sunday service at the Cathedral in the Central [...]
Continue reading...Friday, September 29, 2006
The U.S. Senate, by a vote of 65-34, has passed a controversial bill that gives broad authority to President George W. Bush to interpret (or re-interpret) the long-standing Geneva Convention standards on the treatment of prisoners of war as he sees fit. Missouri Senators Kit Bond and Jim Talent, both Republicans, both voted in support [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 13, 2006
Word is that Father Lawrence Biondi, president of St. Louis University, is in Lebanon tonight, holed up in a hotel room while Israel bombs the country. UPDATE: The AP now has the story… “University spokesman Clayton Berry said Biondi has been in frequent contact with the school and is talking with the U.S. Embassy to find [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 30, 2006
We overheard a Lambert Airport official today saying the family ofa Missouri soldier killed in Iraq was forced to wait for hours to accept the body Wednesday because of President George W. Bush’s arrival in St. Louis for a fundraiser for Sen. Jim Talent. At the fundraiser, Bush said “one thing about old Jim Talent, he [...]
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Monday, October 2, 2006
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