Voice For Liberty

Author: Bob Weeks

  • Speculators selfishly provide a public service

    Speculators are selfish people, acting only to make as much profit as possible for themselves without concern for the welfare of others. By doing so, they provide a valuable public service.

  • Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Friday March 11, 2011

    Today: Owens said to be blocking judicial selection reform; Cabela’s bank; Scott Walker; outsourcing opposed by Kansas state workers; tilting at wind turbines.

  • Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Thursday March 10, 2011

    Today: Kansas 2011 budget; green jobs; America, welfare nation; politics vs. free markets.

  • Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Wednesday March 9, 2011

    Today: Kansas legislature website; Kansas smoking ban; fighting government secrecy; Kansas judicial selection; Kansas Education Liberty Act; what … it’s not about the whales?; Wichita council candidates; Common Sense — Revisited author in Wichita.

  • Arts supporters make case in Kansas Senate committee

    Arts supporters in Kansas make the case that without government funding, arts would wither away. But for many such organizations government support is a small portion of their budgets. Some, like Symphony in the Flint Hills, earn “profits” much larger than their grants from the state, and ought to return their funding to the taxpayers.

  • Cabela’s CID should not be approved in Wichita

    Outdoor retailer Cabela’s will ask the Wichita City Council to create a Community Improvement District (CID) for its benefit. The city should not approve this transfer of taxation — recognized as a public function — to a private entity for its exclusive benefit.

  • Wichita Eagle endorsements out of step with Wichita

    Yesterday’s primary election for Wichita city and school board races revealed a Wichita Eagle editorial board increasingly out of step with voters, who followed several of the board’s recommendations but also voted strongly against several Eagle-endorsed candidates.

  • Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Wednesday March 2, 2011

    Today: Duplication in federal programs found; bureaucrats can’t change the way we drive … but they keep trying; Wednesdays in Wiedemann tonight; Americans for Prosperity website attacked; Kansas presidential primary pitched as economic development; Huelskamp joins Tea Party Caucus; how government works.

  • Charles G. Koch: Why Koch Industries is speaking out

    In today’s Wall Street Journal, Charles G. Koch, who is chairman of the board and CEO of Koch Industries, writes that economic freedom — not government spending and intervention — leads to prosperity and economic well-being for all, even for our poorest citizens.

  • Tea party has nothing on Wisconsin union supporters

    While the political left like to portray tea party protesters as racist neanderthals hell-bent on violent overthrow of the U.S. government, the tea party has nothing on government union members when it comes to protesting. Union leadership can’t bring itself to condemn even the worst excesses of the union protests.

  • Public workers and their pay

    In the controversy over public sector unions and worker pay, the political left argues that government workers are not overpaid. Evidence from California, however, shows that when everything is considered, public sector employees are paid much more than similar private sector workers.

  • Koch critics examined

    Critics of Charles and David Koch allege that the philanthropists have tried to hide their political involvement and contributions over the years. While false, many uncritically believe it. And at the same time, the media gives Koch critics a pass on their lack of transparency.