- April 7, 2017
David Burress
The USDA has made a horrific decision to deregulate a variety of creeping bentgrass genetically modified to be immune to Monsanto’s Roundup (i.e. glyphosate, its active ingredient).
Now let us assume that Monsanto and the seed manufacturer are correct in their claims that:
1. environmental glyphosate is safe for humans (even though it isn’t), and
2. the GMO ...
- April 5, 2017
David Burress
A payday loan company being investigated for fraud tried to protect itself from state-level regulation by merging into a Native American holding company. (States can’t regulate such companies because of tribal sovereign immunity.) However it needed to backdate the protection–which it did by having the payday loan sue the holding company in Kansas courts to ...
- April 4, 2017
David Burress
Trump plans to punish cities and counties that refuse to violate the Constitution. Earlier, he issued an Executive Order to withhold federal grant money from cities that refuse to hold people in jail without warrants based on ICE supposition that they might be deportable–which would amount to kidnapping under color of law. Yesterday the Attorney ...
- April 3, 2017
David Burress
Medicaid expansion has now passed both houses of the Kansas legislature, but with not quite enough votes to withstand the expected veto from Governor Brownback. The biggest issue preventing an override of the veto seems to be the right-wing claim that it is not revenue neutral. In particular, they do agree that taxes on the ...
