these companies need to be strangled to death with the full force of the regulatory state at the soonest opportunity

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Roger Marshall charged his patients 18% annual interest on their unpaid bills. His bakery bill for $678.75 was due six years ago. At 18% interest compounded annually, the total he'd owe would be at least $1,800. Marshall just paid the bakery $1,300—far less than what his patients would owe.

I should add that, thanks to inflation, $678.75 in 2020 would be $873.55 today. So Marshall is only paying double in nominal terms, not in real dollars.

Here's our recent writeup on this shockingly competitive race

Roger Marshall charged his patients 18% annual interest on their unpaid bills. His bakery bill for $678.75 was due six years ago. At 18% interest compounded annually, the total he'd owe would be at least $1,800. Marshall just paid the bakery $1,300—far less than what his patients would owe.

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Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.

Remember Kris Kobach, who spent the 2010s as one of the most prominent far-right figures in the country? Of course you do. Kobach, now Kansas' attorney general, is in a rematch against Democrat Chris Mann, who came close to defeating him in 2022.

This is spot on. Republicans seldom get hit with the same sort of fecklessness rap that so often dogs Democrats because Republicans hate Democrats to their core—and it shows.

how are we still fucking doing this

There was just a _weave_ sitting out there and he just somehow got _caught_ in it

This is a good q! Difficult to answer but we will think on it.

Both the Senate races in South Carolina and Mississippi are attracting late spending. Democrats haven't won a Senate seat in either state in decades, but the political environment gives them what looks like their best opening in the 21st century.

MT Supreme Court may just be the highest Bench Above Replacement Value in the nation