Tyson Foods’ Secret Recipe for Carving Up Workers’ Comp

https://www.propublica.org/article/tyson-foods-secret-recipe-for-carving-up-workers-comp

DECEMBER 23, 2015.  A company that not just turns its back on their own workers, but viciously turns against them. This is the moral equivalent of the pharmaceutical ceo that artificially jacked up the price overnight of a lifesaving drug by many thousands of percent. How about a justice department investigation into undue influence and corruption charges?

Pay up or go to jail: how a Mississippi town resurrected the debtors' prison

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/21/mississippi-debtors-prison-poverty-lawsuit?

OCTOBER 22, 2015.  Pay up or go to jail: how a Mississippi town resurrected the debtors’ prison

How Texas Teaches History

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/22/opinion/how-texas-teaches-history.html

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Texas 'open-carry' gun bill passes just days after deadly Waco shootout

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/23/texas-open-carry-gun-bill-passes

MAY 23, 2015.  What cause and effect? After the shootout in Waco Texas amongst rival biker gangs, the Texas legislature votes to expand gun rights in the state. Impossible to comprehend. 

Kansas could lose millions for limiting welfare recipients to $25 at ATMs

MAY 18, 2015.  Insane! I was raised to never kick a person who is down (on their luck) but i guess there are others who may have received a different message. Anyway, heartless and stupid to treat welfare recipients (who would ever want to be on welfare?) with such utter contempt.

The people of Kansas and those of likemindedness—shameful!