As if we needed them, more reminders continue to pour out about the Trump administration’s abuse of power within the Justice Department and how those efforts were designed to upend not only the outcome of the presidential election, but posed a serious threat to democracy.
Warren Buffett has an effective tax rate of 0.1 percent? Yawn. Elon Musk didn’t pay federal income tax at all in 2018? Okay.
Teaching that slavery is a dark chapter in American history shouldn’t be controversial. And it’s dishonest to pretend that the final chapter was written with the end of the Civil War.
It’s not often that we receive good news out of Topeka regarding tax dollars, but the awarding of a $412,000 grant to the City of Scott City from the Kansas Department of Transportation falls into that category.
Republican senators have managed to outdo themselves in cowardice - which is quite a feat.
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