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• Presidential Campaign/Candidate, Now Officeholder Quote of the Day

  

  That was then. "We’re going to have insurance for everybody. There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can’t pay for it, you don’t get it. That’s not... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2017 SOCIETY

• Quote of the Day -- On Donald Trump and the Republican Party and How Scary and...

  

  From David Clow, from Facebook today: "What Trump made unmistakable is that the GOP needs to live in fear of its base. Policy and numbers are unimportant, as... Read more

  Posted on 24 June 2017 SOCIETY

• Republicans' "Wealthcare" Bill Is Just More Class Warfare

  

  It needs to be said, pointed out and emphasized just what this new AHCA, "Trumpcare" is, at its heart. It is, at its core, not concerned with heath care... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2017 SOCIETY

• Mounting Opposition to the Republicans' Obscene "Trumpcare"

  

  I've been heartened this morning over what I've seen out in the world today of opposition already to this monstrous "wealthcare" bill the Republicans created.... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2017 SOCIETY

• Republicans, Their AHCA, Aka "Trumpcare", at Last

  

  Cut health insurance coverage for 23 million Americans? Slash Medicaid? Make it harder for the elderly to get health insurance? Make it harder for the disabled... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2017 SOCIETY

• Eric Greitens' and the Republicans' Missouri

  

  With our new, "pretty boy" Governor Eric Greitens and his Republican pals in Jefferson City having had a special session so they could rule further on womens'... Read more

  Posted on 22 June 2017 SOCIETY

• The Heat Isn't Just the Southwest US

  

  I think the news that it's hitting 120 degrees in Phoenix today and being so hot all over the Southwest US is getting around. That seems clear. What isn't also... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2017 SOCIETY

• Senator Roy Blunt Is Lying To Missourians and America About Health Care Today

  Senator Blunt, one of our two Senators here in Missouri, posted on Facebook today. What he posted is not just a lie but it makes me angry. What he wrote:... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2017 SOCIETY

• Hope for the Left, In Spite of Yesterday's Loss

  

  Okay, sure, Jon Ossoff lost yesterday against Republican Karen Handel in Georgia's 6th District. You wouldn't think anyone in this nation could say, publicly, i... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2017 SOCIETY

• If Someone Like Trump Can Do It, This Guy Should, Too

  

  It would be fantastic if Democrats would start running candidates like this guy and end up winning. Links: Meet Randy Bryce: The 'Iron Stache' coming for Paul... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2017 SOCIETY

• Sh*t Republicans Say

  

  Forgive the suggestion of the expletive in the title today. It's taken from a theme, a meme, if you will, people have been using for the last year or two at... Read more

  Posted on 21 June 2017 SOCIETY

• Republicans and Closed Government

  

  First this President, now the Republican Congress, too, show how closed and aloof and distant Republican government out of both houses of Congress and this Whit... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2017 SOCIETY

• Turns Out It Is the Heat After All

  

  Have you seen what's going on this week, just now, in the Southwest? The weather? The temperatures and forecasts? American Just Cancelled 43 Flights to Phoenix... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2017 SOCIETY

• Next Up? That Andrew Jackson Statue Downtown

  

  Think about this. Last weekend, writer, reporter Steve Kraske, of the Kansas City Star and KCUR, the local NPR station, penned an article in the Saturday paper... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2017 SOCIETY

• Another Great Idea and Proposal From the Star

  

  First it was Steve Kraske's idea about renaming the J.C. Nichols fountain, in last Saturday's paper, and now this. Editorial: End the aggravation of... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2017 SOCIETY

• The Kansas Economic Experiment--and Hopefully, Lessons--Still Very Much in the...

  

  The very, very failed Republican Party, Governor Sam Brownback "trickle down", "supply side economics" experiment they tried on Kansas from 2012 until just... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2017 SOCIETY

• Steve Kraske and the Really Excellent Proposal

  

  He asked and they printed it yesterday. Steve Kraske: Kansas City should confront racist past and rename J.C. Nichols fountain Nichols was all about enduring... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2017 SOCIETY

• Advertisement In Today's NYT All Kansans and Right Wingers and Americans Should...

  

  There is a terrific, important, even, paid advertisement in today's New York Times on page 2 of the Review section from the President of the American... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2017 SOCIETY

• "Small Government", Republican, Right Wing Governor Goes After State's Women

  

  Here we go again. Yet one more Right Winger, another Republican who runs and ran on the promise of "small government" and lower spending but what's he do? Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2017 SOCIETY

• Do You Know the Source of Father's Day?

  

  A woman, Sonora Smart Dodd came up with the idea of a Father's Day and celebrating fathers. It was in 1910 out in what was then the far, rather undeveloped... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2017 SOCIETY