MISSOURIANA

If Gov. Ashcroft accepts a federal appointment after his term is up, he'll feel right at home in Washington. There isn't any money there, either.

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Maybe we'd all be better informed if the nation's economists forecast the weather and the meteorologists made the economic predictions.

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President Bush's "new world order" has certainly created plenty of disorder in Iraq.

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The irony is that the U.S. troops who fought in the Persian Gulf war were in less danger than those who live in the nation's capital.

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The Missouri House of Representatives has approved a proposed ethics bill that the state Senate finds objectionable: it has teeth in it.

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One of the reasons Gen. Schwarzkopf has become such a national hero is because all of us overweight Americans can relate to him.