- April 28, 2016
David Burress
Revised April 25, 2016
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This is an opinionated compendium of positions that moderate to progressive candidates
for the Kansas Statehouse might want to consider taking. This piece is intended as a service to
neophyte candidates thinking about how to formulate and articulate their personal platform. It is
in the form of bullet points suitable for a campaign ...
- April 27, 2016
David Burress
Even if this legislature by some miracle reverses Brownback’s witless abolition of income taxes on the bourgeoisie, Brownback’s veto will not be overridden. Nevertheless making the attempt to repeal the tax exemptions for the many thousands of businesses that do not need them is important in order to get all Kansas legislators on the record ...
- April 26, 2016
David Burress
Right wing thinking is especially obtuse about metaphor, in several different ways.
Consider the “right to life,” a wonderful slogan which comes from the most important line in our most important founding document, the Declaration of Independence. In right wing hands the “right to life” does NOT have the literal meanings you would expect: they are ...
- April 26, 2016
David Burress
George Will, a post-modern climate denier, is accusing Democratic Attorney Generals of censorship and authoritarianism because they are suing Exxon-mobile over its climate-change speech.
Actually, they are suing Exxon-mobile for censoring its own scientific research and then lying about it.
In Will’s post-modern universe:
1. It is not “climate change denial” if you merely raise a series of ...
