- February 15, 2016
David Burress
–In Ferguson the police were tasked with raising money with opportunistic tickets on poor people.
— Lots of small town speed traps have filled the local city hall coffers.
–In Pennsylvania a judge was sentenced to 28 years for selling juveniles to a profit-driven kiddie prison.
–private prisons are suing state governments that don’t provide enough convicts.
–all across ...
- February 15, 2016
David Burress
Kansas Senate President Susan Wagle (R-Wichita) is a long-time opponent of education. Around here, she is most famous for her failed efforts to punish University of Kansas Professor Dennis Daily for the crime of teaching an accurate and highly popular course on human sexuality, circa 2003. Now she is shocked SHOCKED that the Kansas Supreme ...
- February 11, 2016
David Burress
It’s good to get these things on record again once in awhile. 85 Republicans in the Kansas Assembly hate poor people so much that they voted once again not to expand Medicaid to cover 160,000 of them at federal expense. Their lame excuse: they might not have enough votes to back out of the program, ...
- February 11, 2016
David Burress
Radical Republicans used to call their strategy “starve the beast” until they realized that was bad PR. Now we are finding out who exactly they view as the subhuman beasts that deserve to be starved. Today’s Kansas budget adjustments single out the following monsters and goblins for sustenance deprivation:
1. state retirees expecting to draw on ...
