Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

Idiocy never sleeps.

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Here is the final kilometer of Stage 1 of the Arctic Tour of Norway.

John Sullivan sent a link to this interesting essay. It's unfathomable to me that a conservative would prefer Hillary Clinton to Donald Trump. So what explains the NeverTrump movement? It has to be puritanism. Some conservatives (e.g., William Kristol, George Will, Stephen Hayes, Jonah Goldberg, Ben Sasse, Jeff Flake) have a narrow conception of conservatism and cannot support anyone who deviates from it to the slightest degree. They put their own moral purity (virtue signaling) above the very things they profess to believe in. Would Hillary Clinton have nominated Neil Gorsuch? Is that not reason enough to have supported, and to support, Trump?

Here is Kurt Schlichter's latest column.

Only we little people are going to get this problem addressed.

Corporations are the problem. They are too big and too powerful, own too many legislators, handcuff workers with health care benefits (which single-payer would solve), rat-hole money like squirrels do acorns in the fall and are generally devoid of moral principles.

My economics professor convinced me the U.S. economy is driven by consumerism: about 70 percent of the gross national product.

So it is simple. We have to rebuild and expand the middle class.

Those in the middle class buy. The poor cannot buy. Nor can the rich spend all they acquire. Money has to be pushed into the general populace.

A fix is simple. One, end the corporate income tax, and two, insist all corporations pay profits to shareholders as earned (just as LLC and Subchapter S corporations do).

Corporations have piled up trillions of dollars in cash stashed around the world. It is not invested, nor spent, nor used for any useful purpose, except now and then to buy and squash upstarts.

It is going to be an uphill fight all the way.

Ron Platt

Overland Park

Spotted along the bike trail today. Click to enlarge.

Our country & civilians are vulnerable today because @BarackObama did not believe in national missile defense. Let’s never forget that.

— John Bolton (@AmbJohnBolton) August 9, 2017

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