Category: Politics

  • Here’s what the Wichita Chamber of Commerce could do

    Today’s Wichita Eagle has a story wondering if economic conditions have affected local chambers of commerce. (Has economy affected area chambers?) The context of this, besides the current economic conditions, is the shift of the local chamber of commerce away from promoting free markets, limited government, and capitalism.

  • Activist training to be held in Wichita

    Next Monday (May 18, 2009), American Majority will be holding activist training in Wichita. This group does a great job teaching activists and candidates how to be effective.

  • Articles of Interest

    Wichita school funding, Wichita city property, Kansas campaigns, Great Depression, No Child Left Behind.

  • Wichita tea party covered in East Wichita News

    Cathy Feemster, Managing Editor of East Wichita News, has some great coverage of the Wichita tea party protest on tax day. Click on 2,000 ‘Tea Party’ at Grass Roots Protest for the story.

  • Articles of Interest

    Kansas governors, renewable energy, napping, flying over New York, the Google, banks.

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • Articles of Interest

    Kansas budget, wind power, alternative fuels gone wild, newspaper bailouts, journalism entrepreneurship.

  • 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.”