The question? How much Federal Public School Funding comes from the Feds? The answer is here and you have to read it for yourself. Not a lot of reading to stymie you. Not terribly difficult. Not even 30 minutes of reading. The first question that comes to my mind? What would happen to schools if […]
God has a plan and Congress does not. November 2024 and the election is over. Rep. Mark Alford, a Lake Winnebago Republican, won a second term in Congress Tuesday, gliding to an easy election win in Missouri’s heavily conservative 4th Congressional District. The Associated Press called the race for Alford at 9:24 p.m. At the […]
The 2024 Election Voting numbers are shown below. I did break down the votes for others so you could see them. A big factor in Trump winning was a smaller turnout in 2024 as compared to 2020. There was a slight increase in voting for others. Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections In 2020, […]
“One point about the Musk firing spree that was barely getting any attention at first is now starting to break through into mainstream media accounts: veterans are hugely overrepresented among federal civil servants, and even more so among probationary employees. They’re getting hit hard by these erratic and needless firings.” So vets are DEI hires? […]
For those of you who may wonder? I am not pirating a Krugman article. I pay for a subscription as well as others which I feature from time to time at Angry Bear. Economist Paul is popular. I like his reads on particular issues, and I know others do also. Angry Bear does have some […]
“Donald Trump plans a $200 million anti-immigrant ad campaign in the US and overseas. . . .Apparently we can’t afford to fully fund medical research at CDC or NIH these days, but we can find a few dollars under the sofa cushions to thank President Trump for closing the border.” We can’t afford Medicaid for […]
Regarding my commentary on the need for ideology, maybe this will help clarify my position. Ideological Purge: DOGE’s Federal Layoffs Especially Target Agencies Perceived as Liberal Two responses to my discussion questioned what are the policies positions. There were specific issues of concern presented. I was not addressing specific policy at all. That these questions […]
“Congress is considering proposals that could change Medicaid financing and eligibility. “Some of these proposed changes could cause millions of people to lose access to care under Medicaid. People without coverage often skip necessary care, leading to worse health outcomes. For people in poor health, the results can be dangerous. “Cuts will put a greater […]
Today’s Republican Party stands back and stands by in case we need to deal with the past. Have for years, now. For no good reason, it has aplenty the dumb as dirt, ignorant as a pig, mean and cruel, and corrupt members of Congress. Kentucky’s First Congressional’s best and brightest says it all. Mostly, they […]
This certainly isn’t pro-life: “The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) is a federal data collection system, run out of CDC, “designed to identify groups of women and infants at high risk for health problems, to monitor changes in health status, and to measure progress towards goals in improving the health of mothers and infants,” […]