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Does Jim Ward hate trees?
Read more: Does Jim Ward hate trees?The Legislative Forum focused on the budget shortfall and how to deal with it. I was shocked within the first five minutes when, after the panel was introduced, only specific members of the audience were given special recognition. Audience members who were employees of USD 259, the Wichita public school district, were granted time carved…
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What President Obama really believes about coal
Read more: What President Obama really believes about coalI wonder what President Obama really believes about clean coal technology. Or about anything, for that matter.
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Kansas Attorney General to provide training on open records, meetings
Read more: Kansas Attorney General to provide training on open records, meetingsFrom the Kansas Meadowlark. Click on Kansas Attorney General to provide training on Open Records & Open Meetings for details.
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How to create wealth and peace
Read more: How to create wealth and peaceIn this short video, Milton Friedman explains how people — even those who might hate each other — cooperate peacefully through free markets, coordinated by the price system, to make the economy work. In conclusion, he says: “That is why the operation of the free market is so essential not only to promote productive efficiency,…
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Kansas teachers union doublespeak not hard to decode
Read more: Kansas teachers union doublespeak not hard to decodeReading the Kansas National Education Association’s — that’s the teachers union, also known as KNEA — report Under the Dome is becoming an exercise in decoding doublespeak. Today’s issue, which you can read by clicking on Under the Dome Today for April 23, 2009, contains some 417 words that hope for something to happen, without…
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AFP “Flood the Statehouse Day” bus trip from Wichita
Read more: AFP “Flood the Statehouse Day” bus trip from WichitaSome people are asking “what can we do now that the tea party is over?” Here’s an event that’s a good follow-up that will leverage the enthusiasm and energy generated by the tea party protests. This time, it’s at the state level.
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Rasmussen: 51% View Tea Parties Favorably, Political Class Strongly Disagrees
Read more: Rasmussen: 51% View Tea Parties Favorably, Political Class Strongly DisagreesFifty-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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KNEA’s attitude towards Kansas taxpayers
Read more: KNEA’s attitude towards Kansas taxpayersThe Kansas National Education Association — that’s the teachers union — shows again that it has little respect for Kansas taxpayers. The issue of Under the Dome for April 17, 2009 reveals this organization’s appetite for tax revenue is large, and they’re always on the prowl for more.
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Articles of Interest
Read more: Articles of InterestKansas budget, wind power, alternative fuels gone wild, newspaper bailouts, journalism entrepreneurship.
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Final Kansas legislative forum Saturday
Read more: Final Kansas legislative forum SaturdayThe southcentral Kansas legislative delegation will host its final public forum for 2009 on Saturday, April 25. The time is 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. The location is the City of Wichita Water Center, 101 E Pawnee at Broadway.
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Walter Williams on the housing crisis
Read more: Walter Williams on the housing crisisEconomist Walter E. Williams explains the causes of the housing crisis. Then, why would we let these same people who caused the housing crisis take charge of health care? Short and worthwhile viewing.
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Tillman story may leave wrong impression of Wichita tea party
Read more: Tillman story may leave wrong impression of Wichita tea partyThe Wichita Eagle news story Democrat Tillman enters race for 4th District seat may give its readers an incorrect impression of the Wichita tea party protest held on tax day. In the story, the reporter quotes Robert Tillman as saying “Confederate flags (were) flown at the Republican tea party.” The first half of this statement…