Category: Politics
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Economic freedom leads to better lives for all
Economic freedom, in countries where it is allowed to thrive, leads to better lives for people as measured in a variety of ways. This is true for everyone, especially for poor people.
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Jay Price on Generations: Shifting Thought Over the Decades
You’ve heard about the Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Generation X, and others. Here, Professor Jay Price defines these terms and tells us about the characteristics of each generation
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WichitaLiberty.TV: Initiative and referendum
What recourse do citizens have when elected officials are not responsive? Initiative and referendum are two possibilities.
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Wichita has examples of initiative and referendum
Citizens in Wichita have been busy exercising their rights of initiative and referendum at the municipal level. The Kansas Legislature should grant the same rights to citizens at the state level.
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Sedgwick County elections have an anomaly
A Wichita statistician is thwarted in efforts to obtain data that might explain a strange observation.
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Voter turnout, Wichita primary election, March 3, 2015
The Sedgwick County Election Office reports that for the March 3, 2015 primary election there were 200,371 registered voters in the City of Wichita. 19,605 ballots were cast, for a turnout rate of 9.8 percent. View a map of turnout by precinct below, or click here to open in a new window.
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In Kansas, you may display a political sign in your yard
Kansas law overrides neighborhood covenants that prohibit political yard signs before elections.
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Medicaid found to increase, not decrease, emergency room usage
Those who continue to call for the expansion of Medicaid in Kansas should be aware of this astonishing finding, which contrary to what the conventional wisdom has told us about health care.
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The Overcriminalization of America
Overcriminalization has led to the mass incarceration of those ensnared by our criminal justice system, even though such imprisonment does not always enhance public safety, write Charles G. Koch and Mark V. Holden.