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Facebook Finds Stimulus Petition Ad Misleading
Read more: Facebook Finds Stimulus Petition Ad MisleadingMy blogger friend Blue Collar Muse reports on a disturbing development at the extremely popular social networking site Facebook. The post FaceBook Drops NoStimulus.com Ad After Complaints explains.
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Essential Government Employees Only
Read more: Essential Government Employees OnlyWhen the weather’s bad with snow or ice, sometimes you’ll hear on morning radio or television news that because of dangerous road conditions “only essential government employees should report to work today.” Wait a minute — does this mean that some government employees are non-essential?
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Kansas Climate Change Group Changes
Read more: Kansas Climate Change Group ChangesIn his piece Separate But Still the Same, climate change alarmist watchdog Paul Chesser writes “A global warming alarmist group that masqueraded for the last few years as an objective consultant for many states announced this week that it has been disowned by its global warming alarmist parents.” This article describes changes made at the…
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Proposition K opponents sometimes misinformed
Read more: Proposition K opponents sometimes misinformedIn public debate, sometimes people don’t let facts or reason get in the way of arguments they want to press. This is the case in some of the comments left to a Wichita Eagle article about Proposition K, an effort to reform property tax appraisals in Kansas.
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In voucher debate, who can we believe?
Read more: In voucher debate, who can we believe?Two articles appearing close together in the same prominent newspaper illustrate the problem in trying to make sense of school choice programs. These articles are Voucher plan would help sponsor, not students (February 4, 2009 Atlanta Journal-Constitution), which is opposed to vouchers, and Will School vouchers improve public education? Yes: New studies show all students’…
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Financial crisis caused by government
Read more: Financial crisis caused by governmentDid the “excesses” of capitalism cause the current financial crisis? First, we really don’t have capitalism in the United States, at least not any reasonable semblance of laissez faire capitalism, as explained in my post The Myth that Laissez Faire Is Responsible for Our Present Crisis, based on the work of Professor George Reisman.
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Be Wary of Government Control of Health Care
Read more: Be Wary of Government Control of Health CareIn Canada, some patients have to travel to the United States for life-saving medical treatment. Patients are also denied to right to pay for their own treatment in Canada, as was the case of a 57-year old man denied a hip replacement operation by the government. The Wall Street Journal article “Too Old” for Hip…
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Kansas minimum wage at issue again
Read more: Kansas minimum wage at issue againIn Kansas, some want the state’s minimum wage to rise to match the federal minimum wage. The Lawrence Journal-World reports on this in its story Lawmakers asked to increase state’s minimum wage.
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Who Makes the Money in Sedgwick County?
Read more: Who Makes the Money in Sedgwick County?Here’s a story sent to me by a friend. A local, newly elected official went to his church late in 2008 in Sedgwick County to pick up some family members. When he went in, he saw two deputy sheriffs and a third person at the information desk in the church’s atrium. This official knew one…
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Wichita Center City TIF Missed Linkage Between “Unrelated” Developers
Read more: Wichita Center City TIF Missed Linkage Between “Unrelated” DevelopersA missed linkage between developers involved in a Wichita tax increment financing (TIF) project means progress should be stopped until all facts are known. In July, 2007, the City of Wichita considered a development plan (the Center City South Redevelopment District) for a tax increment financing (TIF) district in downtown Wichita. The beneficiary of the…
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Wichita Residential Property Tax Relief Requested
Read more: Wichita Residential Property Tax Relief RequestedFollowing are remarks that Wichita businessman Craig Gabel delivered to the February 10, 2009 meeting of the Wichita city council. I think Gabel’s idea has some merit. One thing I don’t quite understand is his proposal for “a credit on each residential property owners’ tax statement.” I will ask him for clarification as to how…
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NoStimulus.com Effort Crosses 200,000 Petitions
Read more: NoStimulus.com Effort Crosses 200,000 PetitionsHere’s a press release from Americans For Prosperity that talks about the tremendous success of the NoStimulus.com website. This site experienced tremendous traffic yesterday and had difficulty staying online. Things are working smoothly now, so I encourage you to visit the site to learn about the stimulus plan. Then, sign the online petition. NoStimulus.com Effort…