- July 6, 2017
David Burress
Coal mining (after a brief transition)
“Free” financial advisors
Hedge and high-risk funds
Health insurance companies (after a brief transition)
High speed stock market traders
“Investment” mints
Payday loans
Private military arms dealers
Private student loans
Private prisons
Profit-making universities
Telemarketers
State lottery operators
Vulture capitalists
- July 5, 2017
David Burress
Mona Charon criticizes GOP health care evasiveness and then gets evasive.
Charon excoriates the Congressional GOP’s evasiveness from a position at the National Review hard right: “Republicans are not the party of free-market reform anymore (if they ever were).” Then she waxes wroth for a while against the United Kingdom health care system because a Member ...
- June 27, 2017
David Burress
Rural Kansas has the lowest teacher salaries in the U.S.
Conservatives cheer.
Rural Kansas has a high rate of teacher vacancies.
Conservatives shrug: they need to try harder.
Population is shrinking in around 60 rural Kansas counties.
Conservative say it’s caused by high taxes.
- June 20, 2017
David Burress
The tactical goal of terrorism is to terrorize people. It works because, and only because, politicians and newspapers unanimously help it work.
To the best of my knowledge, not one one major newspaper and no one major politician has ever had the courage to stand up after a terrorist gunman killed five people and say:Grow up! ...
