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Why I read The Wall Street Journal
Read more: Why I read The Wall Street JournalIn 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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South-central Kansas legislative forum touches variety of issues
Read more: South-central Kansas legislative forum touches variety of issuesOn Saturday April 25, 2009, members of the South-central Kansas Legislative Delegation met with citizens at the Wichita Water Center. Nine of the approximately 25 members of the delegation attended.
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Wichita-area school superintendents make flawed case
Read more: Wichita-area school superintendents make flawed caseSunday’s Wichita Eagle contains an op-ed piece by several Wichita-area public school superintendents that calls for the Kansas Legislature to spare K-12 education from budget cuts. The piece starts with a recognition of the importance of education. I don’t think that anyone will disagree with this assertion. From then on, however, there’s little that I…
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Social security believers call in
Read more: Social security believers call inTwo short opinion line blurbs in today’s Wichita Eagle will leave readers who believe what they say with a dangerous belief. Here’s the first: “Social Security is socialism, and guess what? It works.” The second, in part reads “Social Security is not socialism. It is insurance. I paid into it for 47 years before collecting…
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What kind of man was Ludwig von Mises?
Read more: What kind of man was Ludwig von Mises?What kind of man was Ludwig von Mises? As this unique film shows, Mises (1881-1973) was a man who never stopped fighting for freedom: not when the Nazis burned his books, not when the Left blackballed him at universities, not when it seemed as if statism had won. With courage and genius, he fought big…
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Wichita Chamber of Commerce makes case for interventionism
Read more: Wichita Chamber of Commerce makes case for interventionismIn a talk to the Wichita Pachyderm Club on Friday April 24, 2009, Bryan S. Derreberry, President and CEO of the Wichita Metro Chamber of Commerce, laid out the case for government management of our area’s economic and community development. The title of the talk was “The Basis for Economic Partner Selection and Collaborative Efforts.”…
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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.