Category: Politics
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Articles of Interest
Kansas governors, renewable energy, napping, flying over New York, the Google, banks.
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Why I read The Wall Street Journal
In last Thursday’s edition, a reader wrote a letter explaining why the Wall Street Journal is the most important newspaper in this country. I like it so much I pay to subscribe to both the online version and the “dead tree version,” as their columnist John Fund has described it.
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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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Articles of Interest
Kansas budget, wind power, alternative fuels gone wild, newspaper bailouts, journalism entrepreneurship.
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Stephen Moore: Tea party like “sonic boom”
Speaking at a recent event held by the Sam Adams Alliance, Wall Street Journal editorial board member and economist Stephen Moore told tea party protesters that “the message that you all delivered was heard like a sonic boom in Washington. We’ve never seen anything like it.”
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After the tea party
The tea parties across the nation on tax day were a great start. Now is the time to start taking action. Groups like American Majority exist to help candidates and activists. In particular, American Majority offers quality training events that train the people we need to run for office, or to help run campaigns, or…
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The ABC’s of Virginia Alcohol Law
At the recent Sammies awards presented by the Sam Adams Alliance, a video titled The ABC’s of Virginia Alcohol Law received an award. It’s a funny video. It’s not the most important issue in the world, but it shows us another example of the ways that government get so twisted up in a knot (of…
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Soros watch launched
A new website has been launched to keep track of the activities of George Soros.
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Michelle Malkin on bloggers and tea party reaction
Saturday in Northbrook, Illinois, about 300 people gathered to attend an awards ceremony presented by the Sam Adams Alliance. One of the presenters was Michelle Malkin, who has been at the forefront of blogging for a long time. She’s also been involved in the recent tea party movement. In her remarks (introducing my friend Chad…
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The idiocy of Janeane Garofalo
Were tea party protesters a bunch of racist rednecks who hate having a black man in the White House? I guess it depends on who you talk to. It’s been reported widely for the past few days, so this is sort of old news. But Janeane Garofalo, who in some quarters is considered sage, offered…
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Wichita tea party on Kansas Week
Bob Weeks talks about the Wichita tea party and related issues on the KPTS Television public affairs program Kansas Week on April 17, 2009.
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Wichita tax day tea party a success
Yesterday several thousand Wichitans and folks from all over Kansas met on a windswept field to register their discontent with Washington policies. The crowd heard from some great speakers, some of which you can see at the WichitaLiberty YouTube channel. Citizens had opinions, too. Common themes of frustration included too much spending, pork-barrel spending, and…