Missouriana

*Before Missourians invest their tax money in a new stadium for the St. Louis Cardinals, they may want to speculate what the team will be like without Mark McGwire.

*Many Americans never believed the old adage that any boy could grow up to become President until Al Gore and George W. Bush showed up.

*The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the right of citizens to sue their HMO’s, which could create an unhealthy epidemic of unemployed, desperate and hungry lawyers.

*Census Bureau officials estimate Missouri has gained more than 330,000 new residents in the past decade, with most of them to be found driving on our crowded Interstate highways.

*To be Politically Correct these days, citizens must be native Americans whose ancestors burned the Confederate flag and marched on Washington to protest Bibles at inaugurations.

*The U.S. won’t be rid of the fear of unemployment until we find immediate job opportunities for all the candidates running for County Sheriff.

*Most of us are afraid of big-government bureaucracy until we learn how inefficient and incompetent it really is.