Category: Politics
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Government-run health care focus of May 24 demonstration
Next Sunday, Wichita-area citizens will have an opportunity to let their fellow citizens and the Obama administration know of the dangers of government control of health care.
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Is it greed when someone else pays?
A letter to the editor in today’s Wichita Eagle under the title “Greed rules” states, in part: “There is no reason that the United States remains the only civilized nation in the world not to have a single-payer health system except that greed rules our country.” I wonder: Is it greed to want someone else…
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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.
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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.
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Articles of Interest
Wichita school funding, Wichita city property, Kansas campaigns, Great Depression, No Child Left Behind.
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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.
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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…