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President Barack Obama wants to spend the next year talking about economic inequality. Republicans shouldn’t take the bait.

U.S. politicians love to celebrate, not chastise, big-time college athletics.

We don’t know if the editorial board of the New Hampshire Union Leader had to hold its nose and squeeze its eyes shut in order to endorse Newt Gingrich for president this week.

The comparisons have already started — police in Egypt attacking demonstrators with clubs and tear gas, and police in a number of U.S. cities breaking up “Occupy” camps with clubs and tear gas.

Missouri Lawyers Weekly strives to make the Verdicts & Settlements section as comprehensive as possible, reporting on cases from all corners of the state.

Ah, sweet irony. From the West Coast comes the story of an organization that exists to fight intolerance imposing its own form of purity test. And don’t cha know, but a federal judge has stepped right up to the plate to rule that switch hitters can be banned from gay softball.

The congressional supercommittee failed to compromise this week on how to close the country’s multi-trillion-dollar federal budget deficit and, as a result, a series of cuts, totaling $1.2 trillion, will automatically kick in.

Proportionally, the U.S. has four times as many prisoners as Israel, six times more than Canada or China, eight times more than Germany and 13 times more than Japan.

The Zanders have three generations in the pawn business. Kim's father, Rich, ran St. Charles Pawn for 35 years, and Rich's father ran it before him.

I’ve been wondering to what extent the presumed incentives for buying a home — super-low mortgage rates and discounted prices, down by one-third nationwide from their 2006 peak — are being neutralized by the Federal Reserve’s tell-it-all communications policy.

Amazon.com Inc. just released the Kindle Fire, the most serious attempt yet to take on Apple Inc.’s mighty iPad 2. Meanwhile, Barnes & Noble Inc. has shipped the Nook Tablet, which in turn takes aim at Amazon.