Kansas City Streak: Decisions, Money & Wartime Politics
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A discussion on truth, beauty, the American way, humor, intelligence, love, stupidity and where we are today
One person is dead and at least three others are injured after a crash along Interstate 35 near mile marker 286 in Salado, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.Not only is our infrastructure collapsing, as here, but it killed an American and hurt others.
DPS said the person who died was in a pickup truck driving under the bridge when it collapsed. According to the Texas Department of Transportation, around 11 a.m. Thursday, an oversized tractor trailer hit a beam of the FM 2484 overpass bridge that was under construction on I-35. The impact caused several beams to become dislodged and fall onto the roadway.
Rank(1 = least dependent) | State Name | Return on Taxpayer Investment(Category Rank) | Federal Funding as % of State Revenue(Category Rank) | Federal Employees Per Capita(Category Rank) | Number of Civilian Non-Defense Federal Employees per Capita(Category Rank) |
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1 | New Jersey | $0.48 (4) | 26.87% (10) | 0.00382 (5) | 0.00178 (2) |
2 | Delaware | $0.31 (1) | 25.61% (7) | 0.00768 (17) | 0.00194 (3) |
3 | Illinois | $0.45 (3) | 26.41% (8) | 0.00550 (14) | 0.00272 (11) |
4 | Minnesota | $0.54 (7) | 26.88% (11) | 0.00353 (4) | 0.00295 (16) |
5 | Kansas | $0.54 (6) | 25.22% (6) | 0.01460 (37) | 0.00342 (25) |
There are a great deal of people on social media just now, suggesting, if not saying that these legislators who have signed the letter have committed treason by way of our own Logan Act, which states:Organized by freshman Senator Tom Cotton and signed by the chamber's entire party leadership as well as potential 2016 presidential contenders Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, the letter is meant not just to discourage the Iranian regime from signing a deal but also to pressure the White House into giving Congress some authority over the process.“It has come to our attention while observing your nuclear negotiations with our government that you may not fully understand our constitutional system … Anything not approved by Congress is a mere executive agreement,” the senators wrote. “The next president could revoke such an executive agreement with the stroke of a pen and future Congresses could modify the terms of the agreement at any time.”