-
Kansas’ Huelskamp leads in the House
Read more: Kansas’ Huelskamp leads in the HouseU.S. Representative Tim Huelskamp of Kansas speaks on out-of-control federal spending and the deficit.
-
Please feel free to ignore Lou Dobbs
Read more: Please feel free to ignore Lou DobbsTelevision personality Lou Dobbs promotes an economic fallacy: that destruction holds the seeds of economic progress.
-
Speculators selfishly provide a public service
Read more: Speculators selfishly provide a public serviceSpeculators are selfish people, acting only to make as much profit as possible for themselves without concern for the welfare of others. By doing so, they provide a valuable public service.
-
Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Friday March 11, 2011
Read more: Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Friday March 11, 2011Today: Owens said to be blocking judicial selection reform; Cabela’s bank; Scott Walker; outsourcing opposed by Kansas state workers; tilting at wind turbines.
-
Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Thursday March 10, 2011
Read more: Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Thursday March 10, 2011Today: Kansas 2011 budget; green jobs; America, welfare nation; politics vs. free markets.
-
Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Wednesday March 9, 2011
Read more: Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Wednesday March 9, 2011Today: Kansas legislature website; Kansas smoking ban; fighting government secrecy; Kansas judicial selection; Kansas Education Liberty Act; what … it’s not about the whales?; Wichita council candidates; Common Sense — Revisited author in Wichita.
-
Arts supporters make case in Kansas Senate committee
Read more: Arts supporters make case in Kansas Senate committeeArts supporters in Kansas make the case that without government funding, arts would wither away. But for many such organizations government support is a small portion of their budgets. Some, like Symphony in the Flint Hills, earn “profits” much larger than their grants from the state, and ought to return their funding to the taxpayers.
-
Cabela’s CID should not be approved in Wichita
Read more: Cabela’s CID should not be approved in WichitaOutdoor retailer Cabela’s will ask the Wichita City Council to create a Community Improvement District (CID) for its benefit. The city should not approve this transfer of taxation — recognized as a public function — to a private entity for its exclusive benefit.
-
Wichita Eagle endorsements out of step with Wichita
Read more: Wichita Eagle endorsements out of step with WichitaYesterday’s primary election for Wichita city and school board races revealed a Wichita Eagle editorial board increasingly out of step with voters, who followed several of the board’s recommendations but also voted strongly against several Eagle-endorsed candidates.
-
Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Wednesday March 2, 2011
Read more: Kansas and Wichita quick takes: Wednesday March 2, 2011Today: Duplication in federal programs found; bureaucrats can’t change the way we drive … but they keep trying; Wednesdays in Wiedemann tonight; Americans for Prosperity website attacked; Kansas presidential primary pitched as economic development; Huelskamp joins Tea Party Caucus; how government works.
-
Tea party has nothing on Wisconsin union supporters
Read more: Tea party has nothing on Wisconsin union supportersWhile the political left like to portray tea party protesters as racist neanderthals hell-bent on violent overthrow of the U.S. government, the tea party has nothing on government union members when it comes to protesting. Union leadership can’t bring itself to condemn even the worst excesses of the union protests.