MISSOURIANA

The prospect of reducing the U.S. deficit is matched only by the lack of politicians who can achieve it.

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Proving he's not a sore loser, Pat Buchanan says he'll endorse George Bush at the GOP convention. Pat plans to go on an immediate diet so he can eat his words in Houston.

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If he doesn't make the presidential cut, Bill Clinton could always organize seminars and teach smokers how not to inhale.

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You're really not an old-timer unless you can remember when Missouri's present $10 billion budget was only half a million bucks.

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We wonder if the politicians who are about to vote a concealed weapons law realize they are arming their severest critics: the voters of Missouri.

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Term limitation laws may come and go, but nothing stops Missouri legislators who resign and turn the job over to their kids.

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Missouri really does have a nonpartisan court plan. When we have Republican governors we have Republican judges, and if we ever again have a Democratic governor, we'll have Democratic judges.

By Jack Stapleton Jr.