Voice For Liberty

Month: September 2009

  • Articles of Interest

    Van Jones, Jay Leno, smoking in Kansas, Obama’s health care speech.

  • Not all birds are equal, it seems

    Recently ExxonMobil plead guilty to killing 85 birds. It paid $600,000 in fines and fees. An Oregon electric utility paid $1.4 million in fines for killing 232s eagle that had come into contact with poorly-designed power lines. Wind energy producers, however, can kill with impunity.

  • Health care reform threatens anesthesiology, patients

    While doctors aren’t the only source of information we should use when considering health care reform, they are on the front lines of providing care, and so their insights are valuable. Recently, Ronald Dworkin contributed An Anesthesiologist’s Take on Health-Care Reform to the Wall Street Journal. He makes some good observations on doctors in general,…

  • More Wichita travel on tap

    At tomorrow’s meeting of the Wichita City Council, approval of more council member travel is on the agenda.

  • Janet Miller’s junket should be canceled

    At a time the City of Wichita is under severe budget pressure, shouldn’t unnecessary travel be the first place the city looks to save money?

  • Health Czar, interrupted

    The Sam Adams Alliance presents another humorous look at health care reform in American. The first, Health rations and you, was very popular on YouTube. Now: “After months of Americans happily sacrificing for the Health Administration Bureau, Health Czar O’Brien holds his first press conference, ready to answer the tough questions.”

  • Cable television, but no paint?

    Here’s my question: If someone can afford cable television — that’s where the city’s channel 7 appears — can’t they buy their own paint?

  • Death goes to Washington

    Wichita activist Wendy Aylworth has taken her cause, Morticians for National Health Care to Washington. This group, a tongue-in-cheek preview of the future Wendy believes we face under ObamaCare, seeks to inject a little humor and satire into the debate over health care reform.

  • Goyle holds campaign kick-off event in Old Town

    In front of a crowd of enthusiastic supporters at the Pumphouse in Old Town Wichita, Kansas House of Representatives member Raj Goyle held a kick-off event for his campaign for the United States Congress. In his brief remarks, Goyle said that after receiving his education out-of-state, he — unlike many young people — came back…

  • Downtown Wichita proposals not available to citizens

    As part of Wichita’s downtown revitalization effort, city leaders decided to hire a planning firm. Four firms have been selected as finalists, and a committee is in the process of evaluating their proposals. Whether or not you think this planning process is wise — and I happen to think it is not — it seems…

  • It’s a slow, slow news day

    Is there no substantive news to cover in Wichita? One of the top stores in the headline rotation at KAKE TV’s website has the headline “Girls Burned By Hot Coffee.”

  • American Liberty Tour stop added in Salina

    It’s coming to Kansas City, and now a stop has been added in Salina.