Forty thousand people were killed in shootings last year amid a growing number of suicides involving firearms, CDC reveals
Stealth Warfare
Each year, in the middle of January, the federal government issues updated Poverty Level Guidelines. Based on census and other data from the prior year, the guidelines follow a traditional (yet flawed)formula traceable back to the early 1960’s. For example, Read More …
Missouri November 2018 General Revenue Report Documents 9% Slide
Looking at the revenue categories, Individual Income Tax receipts slid 7.1% for the month while sales tax collections did came in 5%lower for the month (but up $2.5% for the year). Corporate receipts were up but they’re too small a piece of the puzzle to move the grand total.
Life in Oakville
You see, in Trump’s America we don’t need to respect the beliefs of “those people.” Jews or blacks or Hispanics or Muslims or foreign-born folks will never be “true Americans.” Just shout “MERRY CHRISTMAS” in their face and demand that they listen. Oakville, like America, only supports traditional Christian values…including letting kids die without medical care.
Remembering Bush The First
Eulogies mostly highlight the warm and fuzzy parts of life, not the transgressions nor bad choices.
Still, public memories of former President George Herbert Walker
Bush (a.k.a. 41) appear determined to ignore major character weaknesses…
The Fearful Among Us
What I do believe is that a sizeable number of our neighbors – mostly white men, like me – feel threatened by change and have become radicalized by hate ‘for a good cause.’ They see themselves as the true defenders of the right way, their ‘white men know best’ imagining of America.