Dead Voters Still Registered In St. Louis City and County – Some May Have Voted In Primary

By: Brian Simpson (Diary)  |  November 3rd at 10:30 PM  | 

KSDK News in St. Louis, MO is reporting: Dead voters still registered By Leisa Zigman, I-Team Reporter KSDK — The push to register voters for this year’s presidential election is breaking records all over the country. A record-setting 4,205,774 registered voters are on the books in Missouri. That number includes over 340,000 first time voters. But are they all legal? Using high tech computer software, | Read More »

Woman Commits Vote Fraud in Florida

By: Brian Simpson (Diary)  |  November 2nd at 09:52 PM  | 

Warren Throckmorton has found evidence that a New Yorker has illegally voted in Florida: To summarize, Ms. Appleton has been FL for 6 weeks, says she voted in FL, but plans to return “home” to NY a day or so after the election. According to this link and this one, Ms. Appleton’s residency is open to question.

Vote Fraud Squad and the Voter Integrity Project [Contest]

By: Brian Simpson (Diary)  |  November 1st at 07:22 PM  | 

I want to bring your attention to a very valuable website: VoteFraudSquad.com. Vote Fraud Squad is the blog for the Voter Integrity Project – a project of the Sam Adams Alliance. The Voter Integrity Project features an army of bloggers from across the nation tasked with the mission to root out stories of vote fraud or vote suppression. [Note: In the interest of full disclosure, | Read More »

Vote Fraud Squad and the Voter Integrity Project [Contest]

By: Brian Simpson (Diary)  |  November 1st at 07:22 PM  | 

I want to bring your attention to a very valuable website: VoteFraudSquad.com. Vote Fraud Squad is the blog for the Voter Integrity Project – a project of the Sam Adams Alliance. The Voter Integrity Project features an army of bloggers from across the nation tasked with the mission to root out stories of vote fraud or vote suppression. [Note: In the interest of full disclosure, | Read More »

MO-06: Graves Shows Massive Lead Over Barnes

By: Brian Simpson (Diary)  |  October 30th at 12:54 PM  | 

SurveyUSA has Sam Graves (R) leading Kay Barnes (D) by a commanding 54-36%. Graves (the incumbent) looks to be cruising to re-election. In an election for US House of Representatives in Missouri’s 6th Congressional District today, 10/29/08, six days till votes are counted, incumbent Republican Sam Graves defeats Democratic challenger Kay Barnes 54% to 36%, according to a SurveyUSA poll conducted for KCTV-TV in Kansas | Read More »

More Voters Registered Than Adults In Some Missouri Counties

By: Brian Simpson (Diary)  |  October 30th at 12:34 PM  | 

The Kansas City Star is reporting that more than a dozen counties in Missouri have more registered voters than they have adults. This is a phenomenon that we have seen across the country as state after state has failed to properly manage it’s voter rolls. More than a dozen Missouri counties have more registered voters on their rolls than they do voting age adults. Topping | Read More »

Arm Yourself for the Health Care Debate

By: Brian Simpson (Diary)  |  October 28th at 11:07 AM  | 

The health care issue is set to be one of the most important issues in the next four years if the rhetoric coming from both sides is to be believed. (I question whether it really be. Remember Social Security in 2000. We’ve done a great job on that in the last eight years.) Here is a cornucopia of information that you can use to arm | Read More »

Who Needs ACORN When You Can Do It Yourself

By: Brian Simpson (Diary)  |  October 27th at 08:17 PM  | 

The Obama/Biden campaign has been extremely proud of the get out the vote organization that they have created. I haven’t seen any actual numbers, but I’m certain that they have been pushing for new voter registration just like ACORN. So, to no real surprise, they are having the same problems as ACORN: Rich Chrismer, the St. Charles County elections director, says his office last week | Read More »

The Rich Do Not Benefit Disproportionately

By: Brian Simpson (Diary)  |  October 26th at 01:43 PM  | 

As many of you know, I often guest on AOL Political Machine blogger Tommy Christopher‘s Blog Talk Radio program Unusable Signal. Tommy has been making a claim for a while now that the rich benefit disproportionately from the government. He has made this claim yet again in a blog entitled “I’m Tommy the Elitist”.Therefore he says that they should pay more in taxes, their “fair | Read More »

Missouri Ballot Initiatives

By: Brian Simpson (Diary)  |  October 20th at 09:47 PM  | 

This November 4 there are many other issues on the ballots beside who the next President is going to be. There are countless other politicians up for election (U.S. Senators, U.S. Congressman, Governors, etc.). Many states also have ballot initiatives to consder. Missouri is one of those states. Five ballot initiatives will be on your plate in two weeks. Below is a run down of | Read More »

Senator Obama Isn’t Serious About Social Security Reform

By: Brian Simpson (Diary)  |  October 18th at 02:42 PM  | 

Ask any economist and many of the politicians and those that pay attention on the right what they say is the single biggest problem facing this country. The answer will likely be the unfunded liabilities of the federal government’s entitlement programs of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Serious action needs to be taken now to keep those three programs from swallowing the entirety of the | Read More »

Another Victim of Credit Card Fraud Linked to Obama Campaign

By: Brian Simpson (Diary)  |  October 16th at 09:53 PM  | 

Yesterday the right side of the blogosphere was abuzz with the news that a Kansas City couple discovered a charge of $2,300 that was fraudulently made to the Obama campaign. Steve and Rachel Larman say a strange credit card charge appeared on their statement this month — a $2300 donation to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. The Larman’s say they don’t want this to be about | Read More »

Get This Man A Commercial for the Campaign STAT

By: Brian Simpson (Diary)  |  October 8th at 12:55 PM  | 

Former Senator Peter Fitzgerald(R-IL) is out campaigning for Senator John McCain. He is the man that Senator Obama replaced in the U.S. Senate. They also served together in the Illinois legislature. From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Political Fix blog: He noted that Obama’s political mentor is a Chicago powerbroker, state Senate President Emil Jones. He suggested that Obama’s sponsorship of ethics legislation while in the | Read More »

MO-GOV: Hulshof Gets a Much Needed Boost

By: Brian Simpson (Diary)  |  October 4th at 09:11 PM  | 

Republican candidate Kenny Hulshof has been badly trailing Democrat candidate Jay Nixon for the entire campaign season. Nixon started the season with a considerable advantage following a bitterly contested Republican primary between Hulshof and State Treasurer Sarah Steelman. Since the repeal of Missouri’s campaign finance law restricting contributions, Nixon has continued his fund raising advantage. He has collected $3.3 million in large sized contributions (those | Read More »

Obama/Biden Continue to Lie About McCain Health Plan

By: Brian Simpson (Diary)  |  October 4th at 08:27 PM  | 

At the debate on Thursday night between Senator Joe Biden and Governor Sarah Palin, Senator Biden made this claim about the McCain health care plan to offer a $5,000 refundable tax credit: You know how John McCain pays for his $5,000 tax credit you’re going to get, a family will get? He taxes as income every one of you out there, every one of you | Read More »

Seeing Russia From Alaska

By: Brian Simpson (Diary)  |  September 20th at 02:20 PM  | 

Have you ever played the Telephone Game? You pass a phrase on from person to person eventually winding up with the phrase being told to the person who started it. By the time the message gets back to the person it usually barely resembles the original. Such is the case with Palin’s “quote” about seeing Russia from her back yard. Ann Althouse links to this | Read More »

MO-02: Do You Know Who You Are Running Against?

By: Brian Simpson (Diary)  |  September 19th at 03:57 PM  | 

Because Democrat Bill Haas doesn’t seem to. He’s airing an ad on local radio station KTRS. In the ad he attacks Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Last I checked his opponent was Congressman Todd Aiken. He hits Palin on the Bridge to Nowhere. He uses a line reminiscent of the one that has been used on Rudy Giuliani. He says that “a noun, a verb and | Read More »

Obama: No, I Didn’t Interfere With That Agreement, I Interfered With a Different One

By: Brian Simpson (Diary)  |  September 17th at 09:24 AM  | 

Amir Taheri broke the news the other day that Senator Obama tried to delay an agreement on the troop levels in Iraq. This brought up the question of “Did Obama violate the Logan Act?”. As I stated the other day, Obama’s clearest defense of the Logan Act would be to claim that he was under the authority of the State Department (a highly dubious outcome). | Read More »

Obama and the Logan Act

By: Brian Simpson (Diary)  |  September 15th at 11:00 PM  | 

The Charges In the September 15th edition of the New York Post, Amir Taheri reports that Senator Obama attempted to influence the Iraqi government with regard to the troop withdrawals from Iraq. According to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Obama made his demand for delay a key theme of his discussions with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad in July. “He asked why we were not prepared | Read More »

A Sea of Red In St. Louis

By: Brian Simpson (Diary)  |  September 1st at 02:23 PM  | 

On Sunday I had the opportunity to attend the McCain/Palin Road to the Convention Rally in O’Fallon, MO (just west of St. Louis and we call everything around here St. Louis). This was my first political rally that I had ever attended. I was already pretty excited for the rally earlier in the week because of the newness. When I stopped by the local Victory | Read More »