Federal government outlays hit an all-time record last month, at $429 billion, 33% higher than the $323 billion in outlays a year ago.
So what's that got to do with student loans?
I just don't seem to use this word as often as I should.
There is no better example that I can think of than Louie Gohmert of Texas, who Charles Pierce calls the Padishah Emperor of the Crazy People.
I'm noticing how much love Macron is getting on some liberal sites just because his ego matches that of Trump. His government was hardly elected on a wave of euphoria, turnout was appalling.
His Jupiter speech and the choice of venue, Versailles, have Napoleonic overtones.
Do you want to see a headline that'll really piss you off?
I'm not talking about a Trump tweet, but something that actually matters.
A lot has been written about the horrific Republican budget and health care plans, and you may already know this stuff, but in case you don't I'd like to do a refresher.
Vicky Hartzler (R-MO), kept her promise of a couple of weeks ago to go after service by transgender people when the Defense budget hit the floor of the House.
Hartzler introduced an amendment intended to ban medical treatment for transgender troops and their families.
Despite cutbacks and financial stress in the industry, the mainstream daily newspaper is still on the job, reporting corruption in public office. For example, here are a few boiled-down summaries of reports that I found over the past month in the local daily I subscribe to.
(The Detroit Free Press, June 14.) The wheels of justice slowly, surely turning ...
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette announced the fourth round of criminal charges in the Flint water crisis. The state charged five persons with involuntary manslaughter in the death of Robert Skidmore by Legionnaire's disease. An outbreak of the waterborne disease, which killed 12 and struck dozens more, followed the switch of the city's water from the Detroit system to the Flint River.
Among those charged are Health and Human Services Director Nick Lyon and former Flint emergency manager Darnell Early. Lyons is accused of failing to alert the public to the outbreak of the disease for a year after he became aware of it. He is also charged with misconduct in office for instructing an official to stop study that would help find the cause of the disease outbreak.
The state also charged Michigan Chief Medical Executive Dr. Eden Wells with obstruction of justice and lying to a police officer. The obstruction of justice charge alleges that Wells threatened to withhold funding for the Flint Area Community Health and Environment Partnership if it did not stop its investigation into the source of the disease outbreak.
This is a first post here for me, but I browse here almost every day. I'm writing about a book, and a battle of reviews on Amazon that, IMO, demonstrates the core truth of the book in question. The book is Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America by Nancy MacLean. She is the William H. Chafe Professor of History and Public Policy at Duke University. I bought it last Saturday, and finished it on Monday morning. It's that good.
