Author: Bob Weeks

  • What Ray Frederick Forgot to Include about Marcey Gregory

    Editor’s note: the original version of this article contained an error in arithmetic, which has been corrected. In Sunday’s Wichita Eagle, Wichita businessman Ray Frederick wrote a letter supporting Marcey Gregory for the Sedgwick County Commission. In listing her qualifications, he wrote “Gregory is for low taxes.” That doesn’t square with Gregory’s recent actions. On…

  • Wichita Eagle’s Rhonda Holman on Wichita school bond issue

    The Wichita Eagle’s Rhonda Holman, in her recent editorial Business should get off fence on bond, urges voters to get educated about the proposed Wichita School bond issue. It would be helpful if she’d do the same.

  • Steve Moore at AFP Defending the American Dream

    Steve Moore, The Wall Street Journal: Washington created this crisis! We can move towards capitalism or socialism. … Lefties want to socialize this economy. … Liberals love jobs but they hate employers. We’re redefining welfare benefits as tax cuts. … You can not create jobs by taxing small business! … No more bailouts! What harms…

  • Herman Cain at AFP Defending the American Dream Summit

    Herman Cain: Prosperity is less taxes, less spending, and less government. Nancy Pelosi believes that property is a “new direction.” … I have a message for all the liberal kool-aid drinkers: There is no Department of Happy in Washington DC! Prosperity equals the pursuit of happiness, not a guarantee. allenfuller tweeted: “He [Cain’s father] achieved…

  • Fred Barnes at AFP Defending the American Dream Summit

    Fred Barnes remarks: The election is not over. Sarah Palin knows this, but I wish someone would tell John McCain. We need to prepare for the worst. We may face liberal majorities in congress and a liberal president. … The crisis may not ease. … There may be no veto of liberal legislation. A great…

  • Bloggers Row Video from Defending the American Dream

    Video from bloggers row at Americans For Prosperity Defending the American Dream Summit:

  • AFP Defending the American Dream Summit 2008-10-11

    Mayor Steve Lonegan, State Director, AFP-New Jersey, who is an inspirational speaker: The greedy businessman? But what about those who represent us in Washington? The central planners attack productivity and call it greed.

  • Photos from AFP Defending the American Dream Summit

    Photographs taken today at the Americans For Prosperity Defending the American Dream Summit in Washington, DC. I am the photographer, except for one photo in which I am the subject. Click here for the photos at Picasa Web Albums.

  • 1,000 to Protest Attack on Free-Market Principles at U.S. Capitol

    I am one of these people! Amidst Market Unrest, Americans for Prosperity Gathers Citizens to Protest Big-Government Power Grab WASHINGTON – About 1,000 citizens will gather in front of the U.S. Capitol on Friday to participate in a free-market call to arms by the grassroots group Americans for Prosperity (AFP). Amidst market uncertainty, and just…