Month: April 2009
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Wichita-area school superintendents make flawed case
Sunday’s Wichita Eagle contains an op-ed piece by several Wichita-area public school superintendents that calls for the Kansas Legislature to spare K-12 education from budget cuts. The piece starts with a recognition of the importance of education. I don’t think that anyone will disagree with this assertion. From then on, however, there’s little that I…
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Social security believers call in
Two short opinion line blurbs in today’s Wichita Eagle will leave readers who believe what they say with a dangerous belief. Here’s the first: “Social Security is socialism, and guess what? It works.” The second, in part reads “Social Security is not socialism. It is insurance. I paid into it for 47 years before collecting…
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What kind of man was Ludwig von Mises?
What kind of man was Ludwig von Mises? As this unique film shows, Mises (1881-1973) was a man who never stopped fighting for freedom: not when the Nazis burned his books, not when the Left blackballed him at universities, not when it seemed as if statism had won. With courage and genius, he fought big…
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Wichita Chamber of Commerce makes case for interventionism
In a talk to the Wichita Pachyderm Club on Friday April 24, 2009, Bryan S. Derreberry, President and CEO of the Wichita Metro Chamber of Commerce, laid out the case for government management of our area’s economic and community development. The title of the talk was “The Basis for Economic Partner Selection and Collaborative Efforts.”…
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Does Jim Ward hate trees?
The Legislative Forum focused on the budget shortfall and how to deal with it. I was shocked within the first five minutes when, after the panel was introduced, only specific members of the audience were given special recognition. Audience members who were employees of USD 259, the Wichita public school district, were granted time carved…
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What President Obama really believes about coal
I wonder what President Obama really believes about clean coal technology. Or about anything, for that matter.
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Kansas Attorney General to provide training on open records, meetings
From the Kansas Meadowlark. Click on Kansas Attorney General to provide training on Open Records & Open Meetings for details.
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How to create wealth and peace
In this short video, Milton Friedman explains how people — even those who might hate each other — cooperate peacefully through free markets, coordinated by the price system, to make the economy work. In conclusion, he says: “That is why the operation of the free market is so essential not only to promote productive efficiency,…
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Kansas teachers union doublespeak not hard to decode
Reading the Kansas National Education Association’s — that’s the teachers union, also known as KNEA — report Under the Dome is becoming an exercise in decoding doublespeak. Today’s issue, which you can read by clicking on Under the Dome Today for April 23, 2009, contains some 417 words that hope for something to happen, without…
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AFP “Flood the Statehouse Day” bus trip from Wichita
Some people are asking “what can we do now that the tea party is over?” Here’s an event that’s a good follow-up that will leverage the enthusiasm and energy generated by the tea party protests. This time, it’s at the state level.
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Rasmussen: 51% View Tea Parties Favorably, Political Class Strongly Disagrees
Fifty-one percent (51%) of Americans have a favorable view of the “tea parties” held nationwide last week, including 32% who say their view of the events is Very favorable. … While half the nation has a favorable opinion of last Wednesday’s events, the nation’s Political Class has a much dimmer view—just 13% of the political…
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KNEA’s attitude towards Kansas taxpayers
The Kansas National Education Association — that’s the teachers union — shows again that it has little respect for Kansas taxpayers. The issue of Under the Dome for April 17, 2009 reveals this organization’s appetite for tax revenue is large, and they’re always on the prowl for more.